Do you know how interesting it is that in Japan you can buy little girl clothes in women sizes that have no sexuality injected into them? Just smothered in ruffles and the most stuffy patterns.
INNOCENT WORLD
I read an article hypothesizing that Lolita was a way that Japanese women were making themselves so useless via intricate fashions on purpose so that it was difficult for them to even tie their own shoes and shit? And there was this hypothesis that it had to do with how overworked and unappreciated women were. Also it apparently could be a side effect of extreme social gender divides. I seriously have so little knowledge into japan, the Lolita fashion thing has fascinating connotations.
Is it women not wanting to grow up?
Rejecting responsibilities that have brought them little social reward or benefit?
Are ladies wanting their needs considered?
Are they oppressing themselves?
wat?
Some peeps say that it could be a reaction to an oversexualized obscene pop culture too.
OR
is there something strange that women here dress up as little girls with sexuality injected into it? via lil bo peep costumes and shit with garters etc.
are women here doing it for sexual reasons/fighting the worthlessness they feel from their sexual aging or something?
Or am I being wack saying ladies are doing it for men here or sex or something?
Maybe this has to do with Western cultures seeing sexuality as a huge source of empowerment
Or maybe this is the closest we ladiez feel we can get to childhood in our culture that would make lots of fun of us if we weren't being sexy while dressing like a kid cause we can only feel okay to weird shit if it's a little sexy
but that really limits our options on weird shit guys. like i think that's why bjork gets so much shit, cause she doesn't inject sex or power into her shit all the time except in this pretty honest honest manner
maybe we're more pedophillic than japan, or maybe japan is a step ahead of us and soon we'll get rid of the tits and want the little bo peeps to look as flat chested and respectable as a lolita?
WUT?
am i seeing too much sex in this? all i seem to keep coming back to is that it's a regressing out of puberty. but there are a lot of social implications to wanting to be a kid.
is it women who don't feel like they get to have fun
is it women who can't figure out how women could be treasured without their innocence?
is it women who are like, fuck this shit, i want people to take care of me
doooes it have to do with a lack of father figures
FREUDIAN?????
(btw this song is awesome: Gucci Mane ft. Drug Rug - Pillz Team Teamwork)
Is it weird in our culture that mature respectable women are sexless and sexy at the same time?
this gets into so much analysis of women's place in culture and stuff
and this gets into if this is feminism or the opposite or really has nothing to do with gaining or getting rid of power
AHHH
SO INTERESTING
are people there depressed
are we fucked up
what
are women more of sex objects here or there
this also gets into a regression desire of the whole culture of japan
and our western impulses to regress
and how they differ
and why
why do people want to regress?
is it because of the instability of work and society and the environment and stuff
maybe that it hurts too much to have to have so many unsolvable problems and useless responsibilities
whooooo knows
i don't
but i know this would be a really fun thesis
it would wrap and wrap and wrap
in nets
is lolita fashion a desire not to be a woman as it means more abuse and less safety
oh gosh.
oh gosh.
fashion psychology
you could get into....
lots of stuff
the recent desire for shoulderpads coming back
backwards baseball caps?
i dunno.
neeeerggg
on an unrelated note
ALICE GLASS IS SO COOOL UHHHHHHH
Actually you need to listen to this whole 8tracks too. I love it. so much.
amazing. do it. perfect hip hop.
also it's so interesting the stuffy lolita on older women is like, the opposite of the other type of lolita in japan.
i guess that lolita does exist in japan, either with busty women dressed like little girls or little girls sexualized in school outfits and stuff.
so.
i guess that exists there.
but...
we definitely don't have the older woman doing the stuffy lolita.
good night
i have no idea what anything means.
I keep wondering why Japan has so many different "movements". It seems so divisive compared to what we're used to here. I guess you have like punks and people like that who try to be different here. But it seems intensified there. Like a culture that is obssessed with being different. You have Lolitas, Visual Kei, Ganjuro, people who dress up like 50s amercian greasers with ginormous pompadours, and so forth. Maybe they're just trying to find their place between Western civilization and Asian civilization, without loosing their individuality. Japan has a long history of trying to "fit in" with the West while without losing their "Japaneseness". Wakon Yosai (Japanese spirit and Western techniques) was a phrase often used during Japanese industrialization in the late 19th century.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe I'm just overanalyzing this.
... now I'm just rambling.
There's a strict art to like... everything. Even an art to creating useless products has its own criteria and movement name and everything. I done saw a book on it.
ReplyDeleteI guess maybe that history of creating extreme arts to everything makes for xtreeeemely serious fashion.