52 Week: What Influences My Lolita Style

I tend to be more influenced by old-fashioned dolls and clothing from history, I think. It's hard for me to really pin-point what influences my lolita style. I've always just liked clothes like this, and before I got into lolita, I was still the type of person who wore long skirts and corsets. Lolita was always that style that I wanted to find and didn't know that I wanted to find it until I did. 

So for the most part, I tend to just find dresses that my younger self would have done nearly anything for the chance to wear. So, that comes out as more of a classic-sweet blend. For the most part. I say I'm influenced by old-fashioned dolls and clothing from various time periods (typically Victorian to Edwardian era) because that's what I was influenced by when I was little. That was what I wanted to wear. So now I'm really just finding dresses that are the sort of thing I've always wanted to wear, and that I know will suit me. That's a big reason why I don't delve into OTT sweet, even though I like it a lot: I just don't think it suits me. Not that it wouldn't look good on my body type or anything like that, just that I think I personally would feel very self-conscious in OTT sweet, in a way that I don't feel in my usual style.