Japanese Tags In Smart Magazine (1997)

Japanese New Wave - Post Punk - Gothic: 1st Selection

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1. 0:00 Aunt Sally - Aunt Sally

2. 6:33 Morio Agata - Submarine

3. 11:50 Kokushoku Elegy - 太陽眼

4. 15:26 D-Day - Memory

5. 19:23 Auto-Mod - Deathtopia

6. 24:40 Pale Cocoon - Brain To Vain

7. 30:09 Phew - Signal

8. 34:41 G-Schmitt - K No Souretsu

9. 41:23 Allergy - Joker

10. 46:35 Zelda - 真暗闇 －ある日の光景－

11. 52:42 Phaidia - Dark Side

12. 57:43 Dendö Marionette - Frozen ・Edge

13. 1:01:02 Mizutama Shobodan - Goblin's Eye

14. 1:03:47 Madame Edwarda - Lorelei

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Kera September 2001, Volume 36.

Mystery lolita-chan in Photo 1, Photo 2 and Photo 3 wear Moitie’s ladder lace op in black x white.

The photographs on the bottom row feature the same lolitas by different photographers.

Sorry for the confusion in labelling. I wish photographers on the bridge asked their subject’s names…

Forever a fav.

‼️Infodump time‼️

HOMOMILITIA is a polish crust/anarchopunk band from the city of Łódź. The band was created in 1991, fully existing till the year 2000. The band consisted of 5 members nicknamed Strzałka, Sucha, Wojtas/Wojti, Zbój and Irek, and for some time Herman and Mopsiu. Their lyrics portrayed views typically seen in the punk scene, considered very radical at the time. Their first album "Twoje ciało-twój wybór" (trans. "Your body-your choice") spoke out about topics of homophobia, discrimination, racism, feminism and abortion.

The lead singer and front man - Wojciech "Wojtas/Wojti" Krawczyk was openly homosexual. He died a year after thier second realise "S/t" (2020) in march of 2021 from covid-19. The band helped spread a bunch of popular phrases used in the punk community to this day.

In june 2022 a tribute record to the band titled "Nic więcej do powiedzenia" (trans. "Nothing more to say") was released. It consisted of 14 tracks, every single one performed by a different band.

I love incorporating things from my non-lolita (punk/goth) closet into punk or gothic or old school lolita. Here are some of my favorites. Most of closet is cheap secondhand finds including the brand pieces (not shown here). Prices converted for reference :D

1. Various thrifted jewelry, most are ~1-2 USD

2. My favorite lace cardigan, i love the raschel lace and how well it goes with old school meta pieces. Thrifted with no tags.

3. Axes femme bag for ~3.50 USD

4. More thrifted accessories

5. And more including my fav Victorian hand belt ~7USD

6. Thrifted suede pumps for ~6USD

7. Thrifted offbrand mary janes for ~3.50USD

8. My Super Lovers bag from a secondhand store!Super spacious. Probably the most expensive thing here ~15USD

9. Local brand skull bag i got at a discount ~5USD

10. Various thrifted belts (<5USD), a chain from a hardware store, handmade can tab chains.

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Would any lolitas mind sharing their favourite offbrand lolita pieces? I want to show that you don’t have to drop a lot of money on brand to have a super cute coord.

Hand-me-down shoes, a vintage blouse, legwear from a lingerie shop, a novelty bag from the children’s section, a jacket that you cut up and repurposed into a skirt, hair accessories from Claires… whatever you have in your wardrobe.

hi! I have a couple of very old brand pieces that aren't on lolibrary. where would you suggest I look to hunt down additional info and maybe add them to the database? thanks!

Hello! I’m very excited by this question.

I have a few suggestions depending on how knowledgeable you are on the item- if you aren’t sure where to start at all you might have some luck with narrowing down the general era or release date of the item judging by its label or wash tag.

Various tag guides have been published- this one by How To Become An Angel on neocities and this one on Raine’s Crimson Reflections blog.

But since you have checked lolibrary and it isn’t there, i’m assuming you have some information already (release year or print name or something along those lines). It’s possible to access old versions of lolita brand’s websites through the wayback machine and adjust the year to suit your best guess. From the homepage you can go to the brand catalogue and see the dresses / jsks / undergarments / ect and see if any have descriptions that will match your mystery item (even if there is no stock photo available). For example:

- Angelic Pretty 2002- present

- BTSSB 2000- present

- Metamorphose 2000- present

- Victorian Maiden 2001- present

- Innocent World 2001- 2004

- Innocent World 2005- present

- MmM 2001- 2010

- Atelier Boz 2001-2003

- Atelier Boz 2004 to 2017

Lolibrary is an extensive database, but it doesn’t cover every single piece in existence. If I haven’t found it on lolibrary and I haven’t found any information on the brand’s original website, I will usually turn to my lolita magazines and see if I can spot the item anywhere. Lolita History is a great resource that most of you are already aware of. It’s great for GLB scans and even other niche publications that have been kindly submitted. You can filter by Keywords to narrow down your search.

All of the advice above is if you are the kind of person that likes to take your time with research and look into the item personally. If you don’t have time for that, i’d just post it on social media and ask if anyone knows anything. U can post it here on tumblr or u can send it to me! There will always be someone happy to help, and if it’s something I can’t do myself I will volunteer to submit it to some senior lolibrarians and see what can be revealed.

Kamijo + Sanaka (Hitomi)

Noir Fleurir | Soushi

Murasaki (on the right) wears Antique Beast’s vampire princess op.

You can’t really see her dress in the bottom photos but I wanted to include them to show how it can be styled