There's some great loliable 90s shoes on etsy.ġ, 2 & 3 are examples of shoes available currently that are perfect for old schoolĤ, 5 & 6 are examples of shoes taken from actual oldschool street snapsħ, 8 & 9 are examples of shoes better suited for more contemporary lolita & J-fash I recommend some Antaina shoes, some Demonias, Metamorphose, Tokyo Bopper, or actual vintage or reproduction shoes. Shoes from back then will often have that chunky feeling even when flat. The shape of the 90s chunky shoe is often squared off or bulbous at the toe, they will always feel somewhat substantial and sturdy aesthetically. Chunky platforms from the 90s, however, often have a more organic feel to them, many times with a sole that is much wider than the shoe or the shoe itself being wider.
The toe is often rounded off in a quiet, unobtrusive way. This point is mainly about accessories and styling, I'll be touching on this more in relation to main pieces in part two.Ĭurrently popular chunky platforms tend to have a neater modern feel to them, with a tidier sole not much wider than the actual shoe, and fairly proportionate. After all, creativity has always been a big part of lolita.
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Once we have these things, we can be as free and creative as we like putting together coords that will feel like true old-school lolita. So we have to put the extra effort in if we want to put together accurate old school coords that they never would've had to think about back then. We no longer have easy access to what was available then. The reason it was so effortless and free is that they used the things they had access to, but it's no longer the 90s or early 00s, and the style of items change.
And it is, however there's one difference when it comes to wearing old school today. It might seem like I'm being strict or "giving too many rules to old school" when the fun thing about old school lolita is that it's so free of rules compared to modern lolita.
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The nuances are very important when wearing old school, as these subtle things we might not even notice can bring a coord from 'authentically old school', to 'old school inspired', not that the latter is bad, of course, but this blog is about how to dress as authentically to the period as possible. However I should also point out that the level of frumpiness varies from coord to coord and style to style, there isn't only one way to wear old school. There were also a lot of coords worn specifically to be photographed and featured in street snap magazines like KERA, or even taken at home, and we shouldn't forget the western community back then, but they don't differ too much from other coords vibe-wise.
Part of the change in styling comes from the activities the subculture is based around, back in the 90s and early 2000s lolita was often worn to hang out on Harajuku bridge or go to Visual Kei concerts, whereas now it’s more commonly worn to go to large tea parties or organised meet ups. Old school coords, a lot of the time (though not always) had a 'messier' feel to them as it took cues from visual kei and natural kei, and stemmed from street fashion culture. Modern lolita has more rules and generally needs to be more 'perfect', and is more influenced by kawaii themes or historical themes. My first tip for better coording old school lolita is to remove yourself from the coording mindset of modern lolita.
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