What is the closest brush with 'Death' that the fashion has ever faced?

[lafarat]

Every street fashion comes and goes. There's been many a discussion here and in other annals of the internet about Lolita 'dying' as a fashion, most of them related to down-tics in activity, a store closure, or lulls in releases. I haven't been around the fashion long enough to really remember all those early brushes with death the fashion might

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[totodedum]

YES. I totally concur with this statement. I miss the days when everything was half gothic/half sweet. Now it's almost all pastel and sweet. ;_;

[xxcoldrealityxx]

Having been a member of this community and a dressing in this fashion for over ten years, Ive definitely seen its ups and downs. I would say that the fashion started dying when it started getting more popular in media, but not too much. Then when people started branching out to tumblr and having their own lolita blogs is when it started to evolve into more independently "kawaii". When new branchs of fashion started popping up like cult fairy, nerdy lolita, fairy kei etc (i dont even know, I stopped being active a long time ago) is when it started dying down again, but always picked back up. Im literally only here right now cuz my fb memories had this post that I made 4 years ago, so go ahead and take a read, its kind of similar to what you are talking about
http://egl.livejournal.com/18762403.html#cutid1