Lolita fashion is awesome! Puffy dresses, cute hair, and lots of ways to coordinate. I have been to ONE local lolita meet-up in 2011, but despite all the rumors regarding how self-centered lolitas can be, I loved everyone of the girls that was at the meet-up. The same can be said about the girls I met at Katsucon couple days ago, although I spent most of my time talking to about three people total, I still had lots of fun socializing and looking at people's coordinates. I think one of the most important thing to do at a lolita meet-up is to be open-minded. If you go in thinking that everyone else is going to judge you because you are not wearing burando, then you will not have a good time. The whole point of going to a meet-up is to make friends, why would you go if you fear judgement?
Anyhow, here are some of the lovely pictures Stu took for us. He was stuck with a fixed lens, so he had to hide in a corner to take pictures XD.
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Stu's self-portrait |
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Me~ |
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Kathryn and Stu |
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Sweet girls |
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More sweet |
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Less sweet but more elegant girls |
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Everyone |
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Heart~ |
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Dawen Huang with his awesome awesome digital camera. |
A collection of all the photos from the lolita meet-up can be found at my flickr account
HERE. Please credit to this blog if you are taking photos to post on other places. Remember, not everyone wants to be identified >.<