Another year has come and gone for Lolita land and brands birthed out more prints as usual. So which ones would you kill to own and which ones would you wish to burn? Any themes you want to see and/or go away next year?

My personal picks

( Let's go down memory lane, shall we? )

I never get why anyone would buy such a thing(there are bunch of indie brands which does awesome custom prints, even in custom sizes, clothing patterns are however not protected by law, imagine someone got patent on the idea of a pocket ( Read more... )

I recently spotted a tendency of Sherlock Holmes themed prints.
( Here is some of them I found... )

I decided to make this post when the colorways for AatP's new collection "Ticking Clock ~Gears of Stardust and the Unfound Land" were revealed. Two beautiful shades of blue, a nice purple and then...

( Uh... O_o )

It might be just me, but I have seen a lot tea-prints lately. Not just the rerelease of the IW Tea time OP, but I found sometime ago a Matcha tea swiss roll print! Sadly I can't find it again. So far I see mainly sweet or classic prints. I really love to see a more gothic version.
( see more steamning prints )

So I've recently fallen in love with painting skirt/dresses in lolita fashion and I want to know:
What are your favorite pieces (brand or otherwise) with paintings printed on them?
What artworks do you want to see prints of and/or what are your favorite paintings?
What paintings do you think would make good skirts/ops/jsks?

I never see anyone talking about this (I've seen it like once a loong time ago), so I'm wondering if anyone else is just as annoyed, for lack of a better word, as I am about lolita brands putting crosses on everything now? I understand it for like gothic brands/themes because they take from gothic architecture like elaborate cathedrals and stuff, ( Read more... )

Well another year is coming to an end soon and as usual, brands shot out tons of prints this year. Now it's just a matter of which ones you'd kill to own and which ones you'd avoid like the plague. What did you think of this round of prints? Any themes you'd like to see in the future or want to go away ( Read more... )

Ever spotted a dress that caught your fancy, even thought they're radically outside of what you usually wear? You have zero idea why you love it so much, and it's radically outside your 'safe zone', but you can't get it out of your mind's eye. Perhaps your closet is exclusively black and Mana blue, but Meta's Heart Leopard series hooked its claws ( Read more... )

Okay, so I had an inkling of an idea, but before I take any first steps, I was wondering a few things, specifically about stained glass prints in lolita ( Read more... )