Coord: Comfy Gobelin For a Picnic

Dress: MAM Maxicimam Gobelin OP (2001)

Socks: Innocent World

Bag: Metamorphose Temps De Fille

Headdress: Baby, the stars Shine Bright

Parasol: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright

Shoes: Antaina

Accessories: vintage & offbrand

Mimicking Old School Photos

It's no secret I basically want to embody old school. This usually means I try to get a coord shot that at lease vaguely looks like a street snap, as this is pretty easy. But if for some reason I can't get a photo outside, or I just feel like being a bit more adventurous, I like to mimic and take inspiration from old school photos.

This first photo, I actually got taken inside a shopping mall, and I felt like the photo lacked something as it was. I'd been thinking a lot about this one girl who would always photoshop herself onto backgrounds of stately homes and nice gardens in her coord photos, and really wanted to try it out sometime. I decided that this was as good an opportunity as any, and so I gave it a go.

Traditional Lolita Vs Old School Lolita

Ever since we moved away from the era in which old school lolita was simply 'lolita', there has been a fairly stereotyped idea of what old school lolita was. Since the style has become more popular in recent years, this has become particularly clear. And as an ~evil old school purist~, this bothers me a little bit. Not because I hate these coords, because I don't, they're cute and always well put together, I just feel like they aren't old school.

It occurred to me that it might actually be quite beneficial to make the distinction between Old School Lolita and what I call 'Traditional Lolita'. I came across the term in this video where Misako wears a very modern interpretation of old school, but she calls it 'Traditional Lolita'. With this differentiation, people can wear the cute pseudo old school style without diluting or stretching the meaning of Old School Lolita.

Traditional Lolita

I would describe Traditional Lolita as a refined idea of oldschool. As if you have a vague memory of the most obvious features of Old School Lolita, that also fits the current rules and standards. It could even be described as the most typical idea of lolita, it's sort of what a basic and timeless lolita coord looks like. A neatened up idea of oldschool, using more accessible things and modern makeup styling.

A Little Introduction

I thought it would be best to write a little introductory post before anything else, so here we are. Hello there. I'm Ophelia, and I love pretty much everything about Old School Lolita. And so that's what this blog will be about for the most part. I hope to write about my own views on Old School as an oldschooler in 2018, focus on certain aspects of the style/era, as well as post my own coords and perhaps even blog about the occasional non-oldschool thing.

I have a little list of blogs I plan to write and I'm quite excited! I'm also a little bit nervous because I'm not super confident in my writing skills, but perhaps by keeping this blog, I'll improve