Seeing the awful rise of prices for Baby „oldschool“ pieces (oldschool is only up to 2006, so everything after that technically isn’t oldschool babes) on Lacemarket really made me realize the scalpers moved on from AP OTT Sweet to presumably oldschool 🙄
It doesn’t make that much of a difference for me since I don’t fit into oldschool anyways with my gigantic bust of 96 cm, but it’s just disappointing
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not like, the worst kinda person but definitely one of the most frustrating is like, the guy who really smugly says everything you complain about is nothing new actually
like yes there is value in drawing comparisons to historical similarities, there is value in examining the thread that permeates these things, the common factors and causes
but also its frustrating as hell to complain about like, the current landscape of cinema and how terrible it is and how bad its getting and having someone go "actually 😏 there have always been bad movies and cash grabs 😏" like yea man i fuckin know but theres still almost always unique aspects to the way things manifest in our modern world, things change and you gotta actually reckon with that instead of just copping out with "things have happened before"
consider that maybe people talking about the robbing of attention span from smartphones and tiktok and fuckin whatever are not something to dismiss by goin "lol boomers, people used to read newspapers on the train instead of talking with each other and being in the moment, its all the same" like its not! its just not!
please get less comfortable with dismissing every complaint with essentially "nothing new under the sun"
i really dislike the gimmick-ification of popular jfashions nowadays. Gyaru makeup and lolita fashion being used as one-time gimmick stuff than actual styles people wear in their day to day life. In a lot of anime and manga using gyaru/lolita as one-time character "skins", there is no actual spirit of either, it feels less like "gyaru wearing gyaru makeup" or "lolita wearing lolita fashion" as much as it is "character cosplaying as gyaru" or "character cosplaying as lolita". Same with real life, japanese influencers doing "gyaru cosplay" stuff (don't get me started on the ganguro as halloween makeup videos), a popular jirai influencer advertising a lolita reseller service for those who want to do "lolita cosplay", in fact I've seen many non-lolita influencers accidentally advertise replicas for their one time lolita-try ons. I think something similar is also happening with girly kei, there's not just "jirai girls who happen to wear girly kei" but also cosplayers who specifically wear girly kei in order to look jirai. It seems like there's a growing number of people who try on things not because they like the style but because "they like the character associated with the style". I wonder if this is good or bad though...
Hi i am deeply passionate about subculture.
This is something that has happened with allot of them and often coincides with the decline of the affected subculture with only people who are vary dedicated remaining after it stops being “trendy” so I think it’s very bad when a subculture is appropriated like this
I agree! As much as I'd like to be optimistic and think "oh more people who try it out the more people will join!", I have to admit a lot of them will get tired of the novelty of such subcultures and end up moving to whatever the next trendy "alternative" style is. Not only is it just frustrating for those who are dedicated to such subcultures, but also quite overconsumptive in my opinion as a lot of these styles are incompatible with each other and many would require those following "alt trends" to completely replace their wardrobe every few months (I see this with the shift from jirai girly to sabukaru yamikawaii to mizuiro cyber kei). And the true spirit of some of these subcultures end up getting lost with the increasing amount of people who think "oh if i wear [x] clothes I'll immediately become [x] type person".
the fast-fashionification of fashion subcultures unfortunately. ppl are only here when it's trendy but don't want to stay or put in the effort for the subculture part, they're here to do a couple of viral tiktoks or reels and then move onto unplayable NPC core or tomato girl or whatever will be hot next week. they don't want to invest in quality or a fleshed out look or a wardrobe, they want cheap aliexpress outfits and they want it by Wednesday to make a post and move on. and apps reward this behavior with engagement.
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Navia Nguyen by Ellen von Unwerth for Vogue Italia December 1994
Mami Tomoe 1/8 Scale by Good Smile Company, from Mahou Shoujo Madoka☆Magica
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