Lolita Fears / Worries

[rainedragon]

Something I've been thinking about today because of some discussions going on elsewhere was worries or fears in conjunction to lolita. I think a lot of lolita worry about a lot of different things in regards to the fashion, and so I'm curious what things worry you and what you have done to try to lessen those worries (when possible

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[sweetexpedition]

I worry about coming across as too childish, even at university because I'm an accounting major. Professional images really matter, so I'm not as OTT as I'd like to be.

I'm also afraid of prints running, things breaking or getting dirty when I wear my frills out

[mboarder]

-stuff getting dirty
-people making fun of me
-people touching me (this already happened, which makes the fear a zillion times worse ;))
- being late for the meet I just organized (this is a definite, I haven't even left the house yet because my mom won't get in the car D:

[karahei]

Oh my, you've had people just outright touch your frills? That's awful! Have you had that happen in the street, and is it something you've experience more than once?

I hope you have a lovely time at your meet, and you don't meet any rude people who want to touch your clothing!

[lacemosher]

I've heard of that happening to other lolitas, and I had the same reaction as you. Then it happened to me! >.< I was at a meet, and this woman came up and told me she loved my skirt and asked me if I made it or bought it somewhere. Then she started grabbing it to examine the material and construction, and rather aggressively too... Needless to say, it was very awkward and made me extremely uncomfortable. People don't do that with regular clothes, I wonder why they feel its okay to do that with lolita clothing. So now I can add that worry to my already long list of things to worry about...

Haha, thinking about that experience made me picture a lolita standing in a diorama with a sign posted "Please don't touch the frills." XP

[___ifwinterends]

Why did you let her? If someone ever came within my personal space bubble I would politely tell them to not stand so close and if someone outright touched my clothes I would tell them that it's impolite to touch someone's clothing and that they need to stop. I don't think it would ever get to the point where someone would get close enough to me to touch my clothing, though. I mean, you see when people reach for something and if they reached for me I would take their arm with my hand and say "please don't touch me".

[karahei]

If there's enough room to spin a petticoat you know you've found the perfect restroom size!

[milkteamilk]

staining my blouses with my hair dye! I just don't wear any color other than black for like the first month after dying my hair. I'm really paranoid about it.

[karahei]

Definitely having to go to the restroom, and the impending doom of getting dirt on anything I'm wearing. My friend once spilt a little bit of soup on her VM op, and we had to quickly pour a little bit of water over the stain to stop it from drying out. She even had to leave the meet early, because we were all worried it might stain the op- luckily it came out!