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This week we had this secret:
http://i.imgur.com/tFfQbnY.png

A few weeks ago we had a similar one that I just can't find, and I'm sure I've seen a couple more in older posts.

What's it with Lolitas and controlling boyfriends?? I get that it's hard to wear a fashion that is so clearly different, not mainstream, and so attention grabbing, it's hard to get your loved ones to accept it. But why do these girls let their boyfriends tell them what to wear, buy them clothes, and just hang their heads and say "okay"? Lolita attracts so many troubled people. I wish these girls would understand what they are doing. It's scary to show oneself as one is, but letting others tell you what to do is such a worse situation.
Sorry for the seemingly pointless rant, but seeing girls being doormats just pisses me off.

EDIT: replaced the wrong link with the right one.
sailor moon
http://egl.livejournal.com/19234929.html
This is a somewhat innocent noob post at first. Just a noob reminding us that they're a special snowflake and proud of it, but this comment made me roll my eyes until they practically fell out of my head.

Yea, um thanks for the warm welcome.... I'm not a troll I came here thinking maybe I MIGHT get some real help putting together my Lolita look because I have been told that people here are nice but..... I guess I did get off on the wrong foot. there isn't really a place for intro posts. I Catch a olt of flack from people who just can't move past my not wanting to have a petti.
All my outfits are casual, I chose that to avoid the petti. But I can't seem to get help from people moving forward. second my ears are a part of me and so is Lolita.but reaction like this tells me I can't be a Fur and Lolita at the same time. I sew, so i make all my own outfits, with this I can devise way to make any of my skirts look fuller with out the petti.

Sorry for not being a toll but Gee ............... Yeah I just started my account today after not haveing a LJ for 8 years, all because I wanted to talk with other Lolita who might help me and didn't know where to start. I'm not a total newbie, I did a lot of research finding out if there were outfits and styles that fit what I wanted before doing it. Butit's hard to get help when people are so rude.


No real drama, I just thought this was classic getoffegl content. 
This post... I just... No words, even.
So... you want to get into lolita, but you can't even find out where to buy a petti and wigs? Uh... ok. Have fun, then.

Seriously? This is exactly why egl has memories and a search function.
sakuranishiarai is a new store-only shopping service with astronomical fees. During the Milky Planet re-release he was offering to buy MP items direct from the store with almost $100 in fees, even admitting that he would be overcharging just to pick up smaller items like socks and headbows. I had even asked him previously about in-store shopping for the MP rerelease until I saw his ridiculous rates on the fb sales comm.

But what takes the cake is this post.
the douchebag carnival saga.Collapse )
10th-May-2013 05:36 pm - Obsessive Liar
Gummy Bear Heaven
Bought a Chess Story Starry Night Angel jsk from her through Lolita Sales in English on Facebook. She kept claiming she was going to/had shipped it but didn't until a month later as soon as I try to get my money back from Paypal.

May 10th, 10pm PST update: aeske, who bought the other jsk from the same sales post/seller, confirmed she also had similar problems with this seller. She will be posting her experiences tomorrow.

May 11th: aeske has posted her experience with this seller. Link here.
As per the suggestion of some users, I have notified an egl comm sales mod. She told me she will be dealing with it soon, so after she has taken appropriate measures I will notify the sales groups on FB.

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10th-May-2013 01:21 pm - EGL lately
Belle smile
Okay maybe I'm late but did anybody else find this post completely bizarre. I know, it's yet another "making my own lolita brand is my ONE AND ONLY DREAM IN THE WORLD yet I don't really know how to sew lolita and haven't done any research, lol" but this one has a little extra flair, much of which is lost in the comment ether because

People are telling me how to use LJ correctly but I would rather put all my replies where no one will see them, thanks

http://egl.livejournal.com/19220556.html?thread=433955148#t433955148
"The reason why I don't want to sew the dresses myself is because I live in a Caravan in the middle of a field, it's awesome but we currently don't have electricity and I don't own a sewing machine or have the space to have my own sewing room yet. Also, I don't trust myself to sew to the standard that say AP dresses are made to because I've never attempted Shirring."
Not even sure to begin on that one. I want to start a blog! But I don't have electricity! Or a computer. Or a camera. I also don't know how to write. I'm not a details person, okay.

"I think I'll start out with just making 50 dresses and see where it goes"
WAT girl no stop, please. People are trying to help you out and save you money. Please listen before you end up with 49 dresses nobody buys.

"You have to pay a months wage for 1 dress"
girl evidently makes $350 in a month but she's going to pay for fabric, materials and labor for FIFTY of the SAME DRESS. Yeah, us "brandwhores" sure are the crazy ones

"I'm trying to put my own spin on lolita and make my brand less Sweet lolita and a bit more Classic or Dolly kei or Vintage in the use of faded lace and darker shades of pink that aren't as sickly as the Sweet lolita pinks."
Wow, nobody else does that. Darker shades of pink? Classic lolita? Stop the madness.

"I've also got 4 kigarumi (sp?) designs but I'm not sure if they are a bit too 'out of the' lolita 'box' for people to want to buy them. They involve prints of renaissance paintings of naked ladies and bone shaped ID tags that dogs wear on their collars amongst other things!"
Okay, that does sound pretty out of the box.

"I also want to have a Tumblr, etsy, Facebook and Instagram all linked to my main website so I maximise free online advertising. Also I'm going to show photos of behind the scenes, like photos of the fashion shoots and the models getting their makeup done or a sneak peak of my next design or the custom tights when they arrive from the manufacturer, stuff like that."
Free online advertising.. for your business... with Facebook? You know, that's so crazy, it might just work. Yet more unique ideas that nobody else is doing! Except you know, everybody does them

"I don't want anyone stealing my ideas or the photos and calling them their own."
Nobody is going to steal your designs gurl, AP you are not. Especially not "rough sketches in pen." replica makers are not that hard up for ideas.

After all that I just have the nagging impression that she thinks she can pay other people to sew these with high quality materials and they will cost like $10 each and fly out of her caravan because her designs are just so brilliant and unique. Because they're aren't 100 other indie brands that have already gone down this road and KNOW what this all costs and what it takes and we can see that in their pricing and the occasional revelation that they have actually lost money on a product. Nope, she's the first one. Or maybe those other indie brands were just stupid and didn't have Facebook pages. I also like the underlying anti-brand sentiment in her comments. Who wants to bet that when she releases her designs and doesn't fill up 100 orders immediately, she'll accuse everybody of being elitist brandwhores who hate creativity?



I also feel for this girl who's dealing with parents that think buying things from someone they don't know, that they can't see or try on, then shipping them overseas, makes sense: http://egl.livejournal.com/19222433.html Did you guys have problems like this when you first started buying lolita? I think my first online order I didn't even bother telling my parents because I thought they would be against it, and just sent some sketchy money order overseas. Somehow, everything went better than expected. Not trying to snark on the girl, it sounds frustrating.

I'm at work so no caps until I get home :
Cast your minds back to 2007. Do you recall a special snowflake? A special snowflake who posted a coordinate to EGL wearing a KStar petticoat as a skirt, and then upon learning that it was in fact a petticoat, not a skirt, promptly flipped her lid, refusing to believe it wasn't a skirt, and flounced? It was posted to getoffegl tagged under epic drama, but sadly only the remnants of this post and her attempts to troll remain. Hilarious times for all those who witnessed it, but if you did not, don't worry! Mallory has made her return in the most drama-prone of all places: /cgl/.

A smack down of epic proportions means caps of epic proportions...Collapse )
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