>>5072003
>no catty high schoolers
Sounds like a dream come true.

>>5072003

You plus size friendly?

/closet Lolita

The Saint Louis MO comm is pretty cool now. There are some people who call themselves lolitas, but aren't. And for a while there was one absolutely bat-shit crazy girl. But, they don't get invited to the meetups anymore.

The itas usually run the animu panels over here since the normal girls have gotten tired of that bullshit. We also don't have any high school brats. The youngest is a senior in uni. But, unfortunately that means the comm is slowly dwindling as people move away for grad school and new jobs.

I should stop being a hermit and going to more meets when I can.

>>5072040

I don't see why not! I was absolutely plus size when I joined, been losing weight so I'm now borderline... But really it's all about whether or not you know how to work with what you've got. I don't think you'll have any probs.

hey hey hey hey. This is spooky timing.

tell me about this one, I just saw her on D_L

>>5072065
She's really sweet. I just got to meet her just recently but she's so knowledgeable about the scene in general and her coords are really cute and inventive!

>>5072065
Good :I
Right- I've always been curious because she has such a massive AP prowess that I didn't know if she was judgmental beeyatch in real life.

anyway, OT, my comm is really inactive and I'm sad about it. like the last meet up was maybe a month and a half ago. how often are you doing stuff?

My comm meets a lot but it has way too many high school itas in it. Huge turn off.

>>5072103

LOL why do people always associate lots of AP with haughty bitch?? idgi, especially when it's the most ubiquitous brand out there...
In all seriousness though, I love the girls in the group, they're all great and we have such a great time together. No complaints at all!

My comm meets pretty infrequently, perhaps 6-8 times a year. We're all oldfags with jobs/bills/second degrees to work on.

>>5072082
this sounds like a shameless selfpost =/ .
Also, i like this girl coords; but i hate when people make post with draws of themselves. Is like... can you be more egocentric???

I sincerely wished there was a Seattle Lolita group but I wouldn't be surprised if we did... and they were what everyone has in their group. The brand whores, the itas and everything else in between.

>>5072065
Her coordinate is cute, but I don't think her hair extension matches her real hair and that bothers me.

>>5072159
Not a selfpost. We all go to an art school, so drawings are pretty much what we do. Can't be helped really, lol

>>5072003
It's funny that you say that because we were just talking about /cgl/ the other night and Elizabeth, the girl in the picture, thought it was just for cosplay. I had the impression that she hadn't ever really explored it.

I know i'm not the only savannah lolita in here, where is the other to concur or deny? Who made this post because I know it wasn't me or Elizabeth?

>>5072159
Haha, isn't the savannah group mostly art school students? What do you expect?

I think her drawing is rather cute

Ooh i see melty mermaid.
THis looks like a really no-fail group. nice job.

>>5072191
Hi there, this is the OP, Whitney.

>>5072169
There should be one? I haven't checked in detail on it, but I know there ought to be a community. I also see Lolitas running around Seattle all the time, so.
Favorite thing ever was when my mother, a bus driver for Sound/Community transit routes came home and went "I SAW ONE OF THOSE CUPCAKE GIRLS TODAY!!"

>>5072224
Whitney which one are you if you dont mind me asking?
you all look very nice :) Is this all of you?
my group is nice too but we arent so active...

>>5072228
aww cute mom.

>>5072228
LOL CUPCAKE GIRLS.

I was walking to the meetup last night and some guy ran me down and asked where the party I was going to was. I told him we were doing a meetup in a public park and he got all disappoint and walked off.

>>5072228

lol that
I see a few when Pride comes around and stuff, and other than the one I used to see in High School (we shared the campus with UWT) so I saw her once or twice.

I need more innnfffooo

>>5072234
I'm the one on the far left with the milky berry dress. This isn't the whole group - We had a last minute meetup last night and this was the only group shot we got. Some of the other girls that showed weren't in it unfortunately. I think the largest meetup we had was in april where we had 18 lolitas, and our FB page has something like 70 fans, so the number of meetup attendees fluctuates a lot. It would be really great if we could get EVERYONE to a meetup once. We have had people come in from surrounding cities too.

oh, you are all so cute.

>>5072264
oh wow, i wonder why this is so surprising to me. i guess i thought savannah was a small city

Ive not been involved in my local comm too much but they are really cool so far. Though we have underage kids, lots of drama, and seems the group is split into lots of little factions who hate each other. Usually just hang out with one girl at a time which is fine for me, get better 1-1 conversations anyways. Just wish the rest of them would start getting along, I don't really get when/why the drama started.

>>5072286
Yeah, I don't think the comm would be nearly as big without the art school in town.

>>5072264
Cant tell if jelly or just a sour bitch.

capcha oxalic cainist... thought it sounded funny

>>5072306
That's too bad, how are the little factions split? age?style? were they groups of friends outside of lolita that just keep to themselves?

>>5072306
Wow. That sounds absolutely horrid.
>>5072310
Ahh, an art school. I bet you guys get accosted by "animu artist" weaboos who adore you.

>>5072334
I think the obnoxious 'animu artist' weeaboos stick to the anime clubs and cosplay clubs? I'm not really sure.

I honestly don't know anything about them, but they look pretty ita, I guess. I can't expect much from this shitty city though.

>>5072311

You mad cause I'm not talking shit about my local comm

>>5072065
Oh, I like Choupinette :) I had no idea she went to art school, I always thought she was in architecture school from talking to her.
Loving everyones outfit, it's really pleasantly surprising to see a whole group of well put together ladies, honestly. I guess that's just coming from me who, on topic, has a really fail community.

>>5072311
Oop, nope, I'm not, because it's totally unrelated.

You could join us. Good or bad is fine.

>>5072373
She's studying urban design or something? It's a major they added after I graduated I think so I'm not sure what it entails, probably city planning or something. Regardless of the major though, everyone has to go through foundations drawing and design classes so there's no surprise she can draw : )

There isn't one.

There was a small anime con at Reno the other month but judging by the Hambeasts looking at the flier I decided not to go.

>>5072373
Not speaking for other schools here but I'm pretty sure SCAD offers a degree in architecture and things like that so the answer is probably both.

>>5072363
Where are you from?

>>5072389
feels bad man

capcha= 2 a
easiest capcha ever

I have been into lolita about about 2 years now and haven't been to a meet-up in my "local" community. Most of them aren't really local for me, because they live a good hour+ away.
They look pretty... awkward. Unfortunately. And I feel I am quite awkward myself, so I don't want to be the one to complete that picture. What do?

>>5072363
Ooh. Scary. I wish this were bigger haha
Do you have it?!

>>5072406

You should go online and ask for critique until you look awesome and got dat swag and show up to their meetup and run the show :D

>>5072406
wow that ia a really hard question to answer... what WOULD you do?
I don't have a comm to speak of really. So i can't give you advice, I'm just curious :9 sorry to lead you on!

>>5072406
Captcha answers: "chains puton"
Add chains to your coord for success.

What I really came here to say was that I liked that cat picture lol

>>5072329
The factions are split mainly by age and areas, as we are spread out amongst lots of little local areas. As far as I am aware they all became friends through Lolita except for 1 or 2, but I’ve not been in the comm for long nor do I go to the big meets so I’m not privy to all the details. I just know whenever there is a big meet drama goes down. It’s a shame because I like them all, just wish they would like each other.
>>5072334
it’s not as bad as it sounds really, just stay away from the centre of it all and its good. The girls are really nice individually; I don’t have any gripes about any of them.

The ones I've met so far are really cool. I've met around 10 girls. The comm used to be dead, but trying to change that. It's hard to centralize a location since Houston is so big and transportation around here is a pain in the ass.

There is no Florida community.
Forever alone. ;__;

>>5072598
That can't be it. I've contacted one or two girls via their LJ comm a while back when I visited FL. I was in Orlando, though, so maybe that's where most of them are?

>>5072598
Go to megacon, theres usually a pretty big loli meetup there, im sure you can find some girls in your area to hang out with later.

chicago community is horrible clique-ish and old.

>>5072395
Rochester NY

>>5072693
They might not be the best-dressed group ever but they're very sweet girls. pic related.

>>5072240
>>5072242
Late response, whoops.

Yeah, my mom keeps forgetting 'Lolita' and just calls them Cupcake Girls. She went on to try to describe an AP dress, in some black colorway. Not sure which one she meant, though.
It's really adorable when I realize that my mom doesn't totally ignore everything I say.

>>5072721
I think they look like they're trying to do what they can with what they have. It can be really tough to make this fashion work when you're overweight. Seems like a lot of the girls need to just work on improving hair and makeup, and that would take them leaps and bounds!

I'm glad to hear they're nice people though. How do the communities work in large cities? That can't be the whole chicago group, can it? Do individual districts of the city have their own groups?

>>5072772
no, that was a private tea party held today. very few events in chicago are open to everyone, it's usually small private events hosted by cliques.

Comms = Cons right?

There's like one in Wisconsin. It sucked when I went to it, fatties and fags everywhere.

>>5072788
No. Comms = communities.
Cons = conventions.

>>5072777
Ah, that's too bad. I always like really big meets, especially when you're just running around town in huge moving masses of frills - the reaction from everyone else is great. Old southern women love us <3

I would love to see a massive meet with 50+ girls. Has anyone here ever participated in something like that?

>>5072777

I'm not in any cliques since I'm pretty new, but even so, I feel pretty satisfied with the number of open events that get posted to the comm LJ. And I've enjoyed all the meetups that I've been to, but maybe I'm just really good at being oblivious to drama around me.

>>5072797

So Anime Communites?

Madison's is shit. Wisconsin's in general Anime/Gaming community is shit.

Fujoshi, landwhales, Narutards. Worst of the worst here.

I've seen tons of fat Lolitas at the Anime Club so I stayed away from it...:X

>>5072808

Lolita communities I'd assumed from the OP. Though I guess anime ones count too.

>>5072807
you don't feel awkward at meets? almost all the girls there are socially retarded and look like they got dressed in the dark :(

>>5072833

Well... uhh... maybe I'm also socially retarded and look like I got dressed in the dark, and just don't know it. But in any case, most of the girls seem reasonably nice, and I usually just introduce myself to a few people who look like they're willing to talk to me, and sort of hang out with them for the meetup. I get to make new friends every time, haha.

I'm a lone loli. Toronto is huge, so I'm sure there are lots of lolitas downtown.
Thing is, toronto is such a bitchy city as it is, I don't know if I'd want to meet them.

>>5072867
Toronto lolitas are all actually really great. The community in general is accepting of all people and styles, and I think you'd really like it, anon.

>>5072875
;_; really?
Are there any toronto-specific comms?
Also, I'm assuming all the meets are downtown? Are there any uptown/midtown?

>>5072861
are you coming to the halloween party?

There are two other lolitas in my city (fairly small Kansas college town) and I've friended them on facebook, but also recently ran into one in a local cafe and recognized her from her profile.

I approached her but I think it was really awkward and I weirded her out and I weirded out my boyfriend who I'd gone to the cafe with and it was uncomfortable for everyone involved and now I'm certain I can never show my face for a meet.

>>5072892

Sadly, I'm not. I already promised to hang out with a bunch of other students from my department that day.

>>5072867
Giiiirrrlll
Toronto comm is great. We have drama, but right now is a good time because there hasn't been anything for a while, and nothing's on the horizon atm.

There are two comms on lj: so_lolita and to_lolita. so_lolita is the main one.

Meets are planned all over. High Park, Ktown, Downtown, w/e w/e
Our next one is for Halloween at Cafe Princess.

>>5072913
NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY
At yonge & finch?
That's actually within my comfort zone (agoraphobia). I'd love to meet everyone if they're chill.

>>5072926
You know what, after rereading my post, maybe I'm not suited to meet other people lol

I....Just...ughhh..

>>5073006
hmm..the guy on the far left is the only redeeming thing about the whole image...

>>5073032

Dude...if you were to meet him..you'd want to kill yourself.

What's the Los Angeles group like?

>>5073032
He looks like some sort of hipster

>>5073006
Black girl standing up looks kinda cute just needs a petti?
Guy up top with the tophat, could use some sort of jabot and a better quality none shiney tophat to pull it off more?
Black girl sat on floor is probably a friend of the group and not i the fashion so ignoring her.
People in the phone booth look a bit mis coorded and messy but its dark in tehre and obscued so will give benefit of doubt.
Girl on floor on far right looks alright, but then again I love rosemelody so bias.
Girl above her on far right...bad makeup bad hair bad outfit (trying to stay away from weight as overweight doesnt nessecarily mean ugly, just likley). Shes not helping herself in anyway at all.
Girl at top right, wtf is goingg on with her knees, is she wearing tight elastics or something? Mismatches random blue glasses and scarf, boring hair.

what matters though, is are they nice people?

vancouver lolitas are amazing

>>5073304
o rly? tell me more.

>>5073304
Moving to Vancouver in a few months. You have no idea how reassuring this is for me, haha.

My local comm is pretty big, mostly college students, a couple of people who work, and the occasional ita. Some people are just a bit too much for me, am one of the oldfags. I am close with a few of the girls, and we meet in cliques. It's fucking annoying when you have a new ita being pushy and asking why you didn't tell them that you were having a private meet with someone. Shit, it's just annoying.

My local group were a bunch of sweet hearts but recently a couple of girls have joined and just open the doors for a buttload of weebs. I don't have a problem with how they dress, it's their piss poor attitude, one in particular makes the most ignorant comments and when people try to be nice and correct her or try to guide her, she flips her god damn shit and accuses everyone of picking on her and singling her out. It's fucking terrible, not to mention she's always bringing up about how her mum hates the fashion and how she has such a hard home life *eye-roll* No1curr.

My comm is split up into like two groups. There was some drama that happened earlier this year and it caused a bunch of friendships to end. For a while they where using /cgl/ to get/bash one another but it seems that its finally died down to the occasional trash talk. personally I don't get involved so going to meetups is rough for those of us who are friends with people where are on both sides of the drama. its more like an awkward feeling when you are around them and they start talking about the other lolitas. It makes planning meetups kinda hard. Personally I just dont go to the meetups any more and do lolita on my own by my self.

image is of our comm before the drama. I kinda wish I could have gone to this meetup but was out of town that weekend.

>>5073389

I'm sick of the bullshit drama too. I'd like everyone to get along, but both sides are being childish and refusing to make amends. Stop pushing blame on someone else, and apologize. Even if the other girls might not accept it, no one's guiltless in the argument.

It sucks because I made friends from one side and therefore feel banned from ever making friends with the other girls. I'd like meetups to not be awkward and to stop the trash talk. It's rude.

I mostly just do lolita and am open to anyone talking to me. Idgaf who you are as long as we have similar interests.

>>5073336
What else is there to say? We all get on well, we're by and large a very well dressed group, and we always have a great time to get together. Many of us are very good friends.

>>5073339
I mean BC, not Washington. So, if you meant the Canadian one, we look forward to having you!

>>5073418
Ikr its childish. it makes me feel banned from them all too. i feel that some of the other girls who where not involved where pushed away from some girls because they where friends with other girls. if that made any sense. I know its a lot of what has to do with the maid cafe and being kicked out or something like that. i really dont know but its been like a year now so i think they just need to agree to disagree and move on. its making it hard on those who want to be friends with both people. no one likes having to chose sides.

last I heard was Crystal vanished or something like that.

The Melbourne community's pretty good. Minimal drama and a core group consistently attends meetups. The Facebook group has 99 members, but I don't recognise half of them. I'm pretty sure most of the unknowns aren't even lolitas, just randoms with a passing fancy for frilly dresses added by their friends.

>>5073598
>is one of the unknowns
I'm sorry! I'm trying to get to a meet, it's just hard with school during the week and work on the weekends. I met a couple lolis at Manifest and I'd really like to meet more people from the community though.

>>5073636
TELL ME WHO YOU ARE (or alternatively, message me on FB if you know who I am, haha)

THE OBVIOUS SELF POST IN THIS THREAD PAINS ME SO FUCKING BAD OH MY GOD

>>5073644
I haven't actually been to a meet or been particularly active so no one really knows who I am, haha. I think I'm the only Rachel in the group though?

>>5073645
You talking about op? Cause I already outed myself bro.