This article is about the Japanese fashion style. For other uses, see Lolita (disambiguation).
Angelic Pretty, a shop specializing in lolita fashion
Lolita fashion (ロリータ・ファッション, rorīta fasshon) is a subculture from Japan that is highly influenced by Victorian clothing and styles from the Rococo period.[1][2][3][4][5][6] A very distinctive property of Lolita fashion is the aesthetic of cuteness.[7][8] This clothing subculture can be categorized into three main substyles: 'Gothic', 'Classic', and 'Sweet'.[3][9] Many other substyles such as 'Sailor', 'Country', 'Hime' (princess), 'Guro' (grotesque), 'Qi' and 'Wa' (based on traditional Chinese and Japanese dress), 'Punk', 'Shiro' (white), 'Kuro' (black), and 'Steampunk' Lolita also exist. This style evolved into a widely followed subculture in Japan and other countries in the 1990s and 2000s[10][11][12][13][14] and may have waned in Japan as of the 2010s as the fashion became more mainstream.[15][16][17]
^Hardy Bernal 2011, p. 20
^Monden 2008
^ abRobinson 2014, p. 9
^Gatlin 2014, p. 16
^Haijima 2013, p. 32
^Coombes 2016, p. 36
^Monden 2008, p. 29
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^Berry 2017, p. 9
^Kawamura, Yuniya (2012). "Harajuku: The Youth in Silent Rebellion". Fashioning Japanese Subcultures. pp. 65–75. doi:10.2752/9781474235327/KAWAMURA0008. ISBN 9781474235327.
^Haijima 2013, p. 33
^Staite 2012, p. 75
^Robinson 2014, p. 53
^Monden 2008, p. 30
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