Canned Dogs

The fashion, girl mag, and trend watching blog Elastic reports that the latest issue of the gal fashion magazine Popteen is running a big feature on gothic lolita fashion. The blog author notes that although gal magazines have been running features on princess-style fashion for a while now due to influence from groups such as Liz Lisa, this is probably the first time that gothic lolita fashion was given such a large feature.

The blog author continues saying that gothic lolita fashion was a minority genre within a niche subculture, which was why it has managed to stick around for such a long time without becoming old and outdated. But due to movies such as NANA and Shimotsuma monogatari bringing public attention to the fashion, and the gothic lolita boom with the otaku community, the gothic lolita fashion has become quite mainstream.

And now that it has finally reached the point where gal culture is getting involved in gothic lolita too, the only way to go now is for gothic lolita to get completely spent as a fashion trend, and this is the end of the age of gothic lolita where ideals and soul formed the core of the fashion. Even the well known gothic lolita fashion brand h.NAOTO has joined the Tokyo Collection, it can be expected that gothic lolita will be making steps into mainstream fashion with time.

The author speculates that gothic lolita’s fusion with gal culture might result in a big increase in popularity, but just like the old kurogal fashions (yamanba and kogal), gothic lolita will fade away and be forgotten as one of the weirder fashions styles.

I wanted to add some personal thoughts, but this post got too huge.

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