✶ EGL (Elegant and Gothic Lolita) wardrobe ✶

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About EGL and me

EGL (Elegant, Gothic Lolita) or Lolita is a Japanese fashion and subculture. If you want a comprehensive history of the fashion, I recommend Bay Area Kei's video. The style has numerous substyles and eras. The change in the fashion from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s and the emergence of different styles, such as Gothic Lolita being popularised by Mana from Malice Mizer and his brand Moi-même-Moitié.
I found EGL when I was around 13 as I had already been engaged with Harajuku and J-Fashion online. I thought Decora and Gyaru were really cool, and so I easily found EGL. I think it was Lovley Lor's youtube channel where I saw EGL fully and I was drawn to it but couldn't see myself wearing it at that age. By 2021 I had spent more time looking at EGL and watching wardrobe tours and I did want to wear it. I wanted to wear pretty frilly dresses! I really like wearing a fashion that has "rules". I like that it centres cuteness and modesty and that the creativity of it is within certain guidelines.
In the summer of 2021 I bought my first EGL items which included a skirt, dress, petticoat, blouses and some accessories. My wardrobe is still quite small, partly becuause I have sold multiple main pieces as when I don't love something I will pass it on to fund getting my dream dresses, and partly because it is not something I wear regularly. I would like to focus more on filling out the secondary items in my wardrobe (mainly tops), as well as getting a wider style of items, not just JSKs (jumperskirts). I try to wear ELG at least once a month, but can find it hard especially because I go to uni somewhere "less open" than my home city, and because as a trans guy I find it hard to wear it casually and feel comfortable.
If you want to know more about why I wear EGL and how I feel comfortable in it as a trans guy, then please watch this video! I also sometimes post unboxings and hope to do a wardrobe tour soon.

My Wardrobe

See my Lolibrary closet here for more items! The links in the caption of each item takes you to the Lolibrary listing.

Main Pieces

Tops

For some reason I couldn't edit some of these photos, but I'll take my own pics soon to make them pngs!

Outerwear

Coordinates

Until I upload them, feel free to look through my outfits via my EGL tumblr account!