My Favourite Things In Oldschool Lolita

This is a simple post, just talking about my favourite things about oldschool, and my favourite pieces, styles, aspects of it etc. There's no real reason for this blog post other than because I fucking love old school lolita and want to gush about how great it is!

• Ringlet wigs (especially with black)
• Gobelin, anything that looks like a grandma sofa
• Especially if it's ugly. Love an ugly gobelin colourway.
• Big ol' lace monsters
• Peeking Blomers
• Hime cut

  

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• That sexy clean EGL
• Carrying teddies and dolls with your coord because it's cute
• And on that note- teddy bear bags
• Velveteen
• Strawberry prints. Cherry prints. Old fruit prints are the best!
• Tiaras

  

• Beautiful detailed lace, whether it's cotton or crocheted, if it has shapes like crosses, flowers, hearts I fuckin love it
• Edgy-ass haircuts (and colours)
• Aprons
• Chunky shoes, clunky shoes. I just love that chonk. 
• Especially 90s ones that are weird shapes, RHS boots, etc
• Screen printed cutsews

 

• That deliciously fuzzy photo/video quality. Despite losing details it just. looks. better!
• Frumpy
• Rectangle headdresses
• Floppy bonnets
• The edgy and sometimes straight up weird photoshoots that appeared in magazines or that lolitas did themselves
• Just lovely construction and silhouettes

 

 

• No headdress at all
• Screen printed dresses & skirts
• Black socks and shoes in a coord with very little black elsewhere
• And Black shoes/bag in an otherwise non-black coord
• Those weird hair extension thingies
• Experimental hair with yarn extensions or feathers

 

• 90s makeup
• Daisies!
• When skirts are shorter and show that leggy
• Coording in a less matchy-matchy way (what might be considered "shoehorning" -incorrectly- today)
• Mostly red coords with pink shoes or mostly pink coords with red shoes
• Resting bitch face

 

• Crown motifs
• On socks, on skirts, on cutsews. on bags, bags shaped like crowns, crown necklaces
• Chokers
• Mid calf socks
• That 1997/98 proto-lolita goodness that had v blurred lines between itself and other experimental Harajuku fashion
• Ties

 

 

 

• Black and white but like in a non boring way (imo)
• 90s hairstylesss
• The good ol frumpy doll aesthetic
• The much more chill attitude, still being a street fashion and in many ways more relaxed
• Basket bags
• Florals in gothic/classic coords with big goffik shoes

 

• No petticoat/minimal petticoat
• Shirred sleeves and michelin man sleeves
• Screen printed tote bags
• Bare shoulders (especially with gloves)
• A good cardigan
• Cute, maiden-like photos

There's just so many things in oldschool that I love! Of course what I listed doesn't encompass all of oldschool, there are definitely things that aren't my favourite and aren't my taste within old school (basically like 5 things I didn't include haha). But all of that and probably some things I forgot to mention, I just love so much!

Most of the things I listed I would consider to come together to be part of my own personal style within oldschool, although not everything. Some of those things I haven't been able to try yet, like a mostly red coord with pink shoes, or the crazy shaped 90s shoes (because they sell for like £200 regardless of condition).

But honestly, I keep saying it but man I just love oldschool. And sometimes when I see certain features I mentioned, it just fills me with joy, and inspires me a lot.

What are some of your favourite things in or about oldschool lolita?