Lifestyle?

I don't wear lolita 7 days a week but my normie and work clothes are also inspired by my gothic and classic lolita style, for example I wear a lot of my moitie blouses with my work uniform. My whole apartment is decorated to suit my lolita aesthetic too. If something isn't in my style it doesn't feel like "me" and I can't relate to people who wear several really different styles. I do hand embroidery, bake a lot and I go to visual kei concerts when I can. If it's something I can't find in lolita style, for example a ski jacket, I just get it in all black. I'm studying children's literature.

what're some good ways to go about implementing my wardrobe aesthetic into my everyday life? i do have a specific clothing aesthetic but sometimes incorporating it into my day-to-day outside my outfits feels like too much

>>9301118
What style do you prefer? Classic and gothic tend to be easier to incorporate into daily wear, sweet is doable but not as much.

I wear lolita almost every single day of my life now since ive started throwing away my normie clothing to fit in more lolita. Only exceptions are work uniforms and other professional type of events.

I live at home so only thing I can do is decorate my room and its super tiny. I am starting to try to decorate it and at least make my wardrobe look nice in the closet. I am awful at decorating though and very lazy. I'd really love to go over the top with it but I have so little room my bed and closet take up 90 percent of it.

I crochet, like to read a lot, love to write, go to a lot of symphonies and broadway shows, but at the same time I also go to punk shows, play card games and like to sit on my ass and play video games all day. I try to stay very close to my lolita comm too, host my own events and keep it alive so I always have others to enjoy the fashion with.

I'm going to school for teaching English, and I plan to teach it as a second language abroad in Japan to fulfill my middle school weeaboo dreams.

>>9301324
Going to punk shows and playing card games fits with the lolita lifestyle imo

>>9300239
I live my life, I have my taste

>>9301324
You sound insufferable and delusional

>>9301324
Get a degree in something useful instead. To teach in Japan you can have a degree in basket-weaving, they don't care.

>>9301324
My brother teaches English in Japan. It's pretty hard, you're gonna be working long hours 6 days a week, and that's IF you get hired.

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>>9300239
i try to wear lolita as often as i can even though my workload gets in the way sometimes. for now i do everything from home so i try to keep my surroundings as cute and sweet lolita-esque as i can--pink walls, main pieces on display, katyusha shelves, plushie collection, etc. this way i can look up from my work and feel a little encouragement from all of the things i like. being hunched over a computer all day isn't cute, but at least i can do it in frills and take my notes on nice stationary

i guess i have hobbies that suit the kind of gentile "lolita aesthetic" like knitting and embroidery. my more normie clothes are all very soft and feminine too and borrow motifs, themes, and colors i wear in lolita.

realistically i know i'll never be able to wear lolita every day because of my field, but i happily compensate with a cute lifestyle and a happy outlook.

I just applied at a bakery for my first lifestyle step
My job right now is not cute at all

I'm not sure If I am a lifestyler but I'm slowly turning into one.

Most of my friends are lolitas. My future plans involve lolita: I want to travel to ~glorious Nipponland~ and earn money to buy brand.
I exercise and take good care of myself to look good in lolita.

But I don't wear lolita everyday. Maybe once a week, tops. I still wear BTSSB everyday, though.

>>9301324
Don't expect to be able to wear lolita much in Japan. On the one day a week you aren't working, it'd be considered really inappropriate to be seen by students wearing alternative fashion (but your colleagues aren't likely to tell you to your face, because you're supposed to work this shit out yourself) so you'd have to do the travel out of town with it in a suitcase thing.

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>>9300239
My room is still work in progress but this sorta shows my "aesthetic" so far

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>>9300239
>What is your aesthetic?
Prefer more of a mori aesthetic for living areas, so I've been slowly integrating as much of that as I can in my place. The color palette I'm working with is pic attached, so I've been trying to shift most of my decor in that direction. So far it's been going pretty well!

>What aspects of your life do you aesthetic-fy?
I wear mori bits and pieces every day for work (shirts, scarves, skirts, accessories - just not as a full mori outfit), and try to wear my otome and lolita wardrobe for weekends and special events. Pretty sure I could probably do a "frilly Friday" sort of thing if I wanted to but the office is too damn cold to be without a jacket so it's sort of pointless.

In terms of activities I draw and write in journals, have succulents I take care of, read a lot, drink tea a lot, play around with an instax-back LC-A, needlefelt, and sew. Hopefully this year I'll finally learn some embroidery and watercolor along with how to ride a bike.

>What does it give you?
It's just super nice to be surrounded by colors and items that make me happy, and to do things that indulge my curiosity.

>>9306166
I feel this so fucking hard.

>>9305079
I'm so jealous of people who can work from home

>>9306196
Is this your room? Because it's pretty darn cute, strongly jealous of the pink walls

>>9301324
You're goals material honestly

>>9305079
You go girl

>>9306134
I hope you got it anon

>>9306154
Live the nihon dream anon, go and buy all the burando you can and be happy

>>9306196
That's a nice aesthetic. Is that your dog/your room? Both are super cute!

>>9306217
>it's just super nice to be surrounded by colors and items that makes me happy
This. It's one of the comfiest feelings ever.

>>9301324
>I live at home

Everyone does. I think you mean "leeching off my parents".

>>9306166
This is why if I ever visit glorious Nippon, I'm not even going to try to not be a cringy (though respectful) gaijin. They're never going to think of me as anything but an outsider anyway so I might as well have fun and wear lolita while I'm at it.

>>9311060
This.
Anyway why care about people you don't know and that don't even know you that you're probably never going to see ever again?

>>9310722
>Implying everyone living with a parent is leaching off of them.

Sorry your parents don't love you

>>9310417
Material? My biggest dream is teaching abroad, what's material about it?

>>9305067
My degree is for teaching high school English, like when I graduate I'll be a certified teacher that could at least teach at any public school. I just also want to go abroad and teach English in Japan, at least for a while

>>9311865
If it's students and coworkers like in anon's teaching scenario, it's not unreasonable to want them to respect you. Weebing out on holiday is one thing but if you're going to live and work somewhere for an extended period of time it helps if the most important people in your daily life don't think you're some kind of degenerate freak.

>>9311903
Anon means you're #goals which is teenagespeak for wanting to be like you.

>>9311910
Oh well now I feel old

>>9311910
As the anon that wants to teach I obviously wouldn't be flaunting around in my Lolita garb just anywhere in Japan. I do keep some normies clothes for a reason. At the same time though I've talked to a few alt fashion people in Japan and haven't heard any issues with them and there jobs, some involving children and some not. I've generally been told that as long as you're not doing something stupid in your clothes it's not really a big deal. Then again it could be that just no one will say anything directly.

I'm obviously not planning to try to wear Lolita to teach in!

>>9311915
Also if it matters I don't wear sweet. I wear classic with lots of browns and creams and floral

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>>9311919
holy shit was it really necessary to make all of these posts separately

>>9311915
>Then again it could be that just no one will say anything directly.
Exactly. Welcome to Japan.

Are you a native English speaker? Because for someone who expects to teach the language, your posts are worded rather awkwardly and you don't seem to know the difference between there and their.

>>9305054
Different fag, but have to ask, why do you think so?
I think this person sounds pretty ok except for the throwing out all normie clothes (because not every circumstance is 100% appropriate for this fashion).

But then again the whole teaching English in Japan thing... I've heard that in Korea and Japan both, people are getting tired of English teachers who don't care about really integrating and learning more of the local language.
And in Japan there's a HUGE reason for you to actually NOT throw out normie clothes because people won't take you seriously everywhere in lolita.

I don't wear Lolita (although strongly admire and own a few brand skirts I mix into Normie-ish fashion) I'm mostly into general j-fashion or Larme and consider myself pretty much a lifestyler of that.
My closet is not exactly cohesive since I like a lot of styles but my room generally reflects that.
Not able to paint my walls pink my husband would have a stroke but I am able to keep the decor as I like it, lots of creams, beiges and pinks as accents, shelves with all my weeb shit like magical girl Wands collectibles/etc. The feel of all our furniture is like that ornate carved Marie Antoinette stuff that also fits into my feminine taste. It's generally just a feminine feel without going overboard as I would if I was single.
It does make me happier though being able to spend time in this room to relax with things around me that I appreciate. As for hobbies I'm not as much a lifestyler in that as I don't fit into one category of fashion as far as I know but I do enjoy playing video games, baking, drawing, DIY , etc so for the most part also just feminine hobbies.
If you're not able to decorate your room exactly how you'd like my best advice is to decorate or buy items that u use every day that also fit into your style- it really makes you feel special every day just using fancy makeup brushes out of a magical girl locket compact or fancy packaged lipstick, or even cute frilly lingerie under your clothes (if that's your style). All these little things that only you know you have/used just end up making you feels that much closer to lifestyler if other ways are not possible for you at the moment.
Sage for semi blog post

>>9311953
I used my phone to post so things get corrected in strange ways.

I assume I do fine though because I get all A's in my classes and on my essays. Although it is very true that when I type online I become a lot more lax if it's not for work.
>>9311954
Well I said I keep my work clothes and professional clothes, but I guess I also should have said I have kept a few more normie dresses with me as well. More so I just threw out most of my pants and t-shirts. I hate pants.

I absolutely do not want to go to Japan purely for weeaboo dreams, maybe it was wrong to add that, but I thought cgl would understand it was an exaggeration. I have been taken Japanese classes for a long time now and go to many of my colleges clubs for meeting and talking to Japanese exchange students. I'm not actually some kid just throwing herself at Japan. I am getting a degree useful in America while hoping to teach in Japan for as many years as they will let me.

>>9311928
No it was not. I was on my phone though and every time I would post my page would update with something new posted. Sorry

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>>9311865
Visiting=/=staying there for months to years as a teacher. I wouldn't want to be seen as unprofessional or have it cause difficulties in forming relationships with my colleagues - you'd be isolated already if you're the only foreigner/foreign teacher and all the other teachers already know each other. My understanding is that teachers generally socialise with each other outside of work and go out for dinner etc. so you don't want to be putting them in the awkward place of not wanting to be seen with you.

>>9311915
If their workplace doesn't know it's fine - like if you're in Tokyo where there are lots of foreigners anyway then one alt-fashion foreigner looks like another. If they are like, the only foreigner in a little town then that's different and it's likely those people who think it's fine are just missing all the subtle social cues telling them it's not. I can't find it on my computer but there were caps of an online Japanese forum where regular people were talking about how teachers 'shouldn't' wear alternative fashion or that they would be very concerned if their child was taught by someone who openly wore it.

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>>9309840
Her name is Bella luna and I painted the walls myself