Mantua Maketh the Woman

kagetsuki, me, crux. we're not in costume.

for the last time, lolita is not cosplay! (it is also nothing sexual in nature)

just because it doesn't look like conventional clothing, doesn't mean it's a costume. it's a fashion. the JSKs, the OPs, they are dresses. they might have more lace, more frills and more layers than a wedding cake, but they are clothes all the same.

look at western goths. are they cosplaying? no, they aren't. they aren't in costumes. bondage pants, corsets, capes, goggles, hair falls etc. they do not resemble conventional clothing, and yet people recognize them as a fashion/style/subculture.

so why do you people think i cosplay because i dress in lolita? i am not pretending to be someone. i am being myself, and if my dress is a little more frilly than yours, tough. i am living my life by my rules, and i can wear whatever i damn want.

how would you feel, if i asked you if you were a cosplay? "but i'm in a t-shirt and jeans!" you exclaim. well, aren't you cosplaying the generic workaday ippan-jin?

nonsense. the next time you see me prancing about in a floofy dress, look at yourself, and wonder, "am i cosplaying? am i wearing these common clothes because that is what everyone else is wearing, or is it because i truly love wearing it?"