British Court-Style Clothing in Victorian Age: Gothic Lolita Dresses

There are three basic styles of traditional Lolita dresses, sweet Lolita dresses, school Lolita dresses, and gothic Lolita dresses. Here I‘d like to share you with the specific introduction about the gothic Lolita dresses.

Gothic Lolita Dress, mainly imitating the British court-style clothing in Victorian age, combining the innocence of the Lolita-style and decadent dark of gothic style from two extreme styles, are popular in youth, especially for the women. It had been used rapidly in Japan since 2000. Gothic Lolita dresses are usually very gorgeous belonging to the dark color. The wearers usually have blonde hair, black hair or even white hair, be made up with sick face and black eye shadow. What’s more, they need to wear silver jewelry such as cross, angel feather, devil wings, rose, skull, butterfly, spider and prickly vines, which have special meaning. Besides there are also other elements such as cat, vampire, mother goose story, Alice in wonderland, bloodstains, and antique dolls with injury.


Gothic Lolita dress is a combination of many different styles of image, in addition to the literal girl-like innocence and the dark decadent belonging to gothic style, it also owns the Roman doctrine, metaphysical doctrine, mysticism, supernaturalism, odd strange doctrine, searching for fun, French thought in the end of the century, slash doctrine, classical decadence of 19 century and so on.


Gothic Lolita dress gives you the feeling of a blend of graceful beauty and strange darkness which just like deep sleeping between survival and death with a mysterious terror, feeling of despair.


Pay attention that there is some difference between gothic Lolita dresses and so called gothic style. Gothic Lolita dress emphasizes the dark side and focuses on the performance of "as a girl". Basically, this style rarely uses some elements of "gothic system" word to describe the term because the word “gothic Lolita” simply wants to express "the feeling of the system, the atmosphere ". After hearing so many introductions of the gothic Lolita dress, do you have impulse and courage to buy one?