Hello lovelies,

at the bring and buy last weekend I realized I have been a lolita for 15 years, for me this means that I have been wearing lolita fashion for half of my life. This is so crazy!

I found animexx, a German anime and manga site back in 2004 because I loved reading manga and watching anime, duh. I registered and immediately found out that I am not the only one in Vienna who loved them.
I was introduced to Lolita from watching various Visual Kei bands, especially the band Lareine. In 2004 I started wearing my first lolita outfit, which was actually the first Communion dress of my sister, at a Visual Kei meet-up and I guess it just went downhill from then on. Just kidding :D.

My style changed a lot since 2004. It started out very sweet, went on to very casual and I think I am on the classic level now, with some OTT influences.

To celebrate this joyous 15 anniversary year I made a lolita through the years collage. Which year do you like best? Or find most ridiculous?

I couldn't find any pictures from 2011, I was concentrating more on cosplay that year.
Looking back, I had so many weird coordinations but they all helped me grow and move on. I am pretty confident with my style, in and out of lolita and those 15 years also helped me shake off a bit of my introvertness and even enjoy talking to my fellow lolitas. It took me about 10 years to really feel good in the Austrian Lolita community, better late than never. 

What is your lolita over the years story?

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,


today is the first of May and I finally had a free day again. Last week I took vacation and got sick so I did not enjoy much of it.
So today I went to the Animarket and the j-fashion bring and buy, latter was organized by our Austrian lolita fashion community.

The place was once again packed with people selling their old mangas, dvds or hand-made items. A friend sold hand-made items and I got a green tea body scrub.

Hello lovelies,

time flies by so fast and we are already at the end of the March. Didn't I just celebrate new years? I really miss my students day were the days passed by so slow and I had so much time for all of my hobbies or just watching series or read a book.

This month we visited our most favourite Cafe again; Little Britain. The owner and waitresses are always so kind to us and the food is really good.
This time I ate a blueberry crumble, scones and drank raspberry lemonade.






I wore my quaint lass dress again, a few hours before the meet-up I removed the weird lace that was at the collar. It had bothered me for so long and it was the reason why I didn't wear the dress in a long time. The white lace which can now be seen at the colour is from the white chiffon blouse I wear underneath.
The hat is from L'armoire de versailles, a chinese lolita taobao brand. The shoes are from rosemarie seoir. It has a little bow in the back.




Have a great week,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

I live in a very old appartment, it was build around 1900s and most of the furniture is about 30 years old. I tried to modernize the flat but the progress is so slow. But for 2019 I said I really want to tackle this problem and use my extra money on new furniture and a good electrician.
The first item I want to buy is a new sofa and M. and I visited four different furniture stores before we decided to buy the very first sofa we saw at the first funiture store, which coincidently was ikea. I am a huge Ikea fangirl so that is really no surprise.

My outfit for that day was another Valentines coordinate but this time not lolita but larme. I haven't worn larme in a very long time, actually I think I didn't wear it in 2018 at all, shocking!
The skirt is from Swankiss and the pullover from H&M, or as a friend called it, titty window.





All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

sometimes social media also has its good sides. Yesterday I found this amazing and relative new vintage shop in Vienna called magic oyster vintage, opened in March 2018.
It is near Mariahilfer Straße, the longest shopping street in Vienna and therefore relatively well located.
I visited the shop today after work and was thrilled. The shop keeper was super friendly and even made me a cup of tea. There was no other costumer so I could chat with the shop keeper and browse to my hearts content, and there were so many items. I was in my own personal heaven.
The price range is normal for Austria which means I didn't find an item under 70€ but no worries, cards are accepted. .
The white dress I bought was already very "cheap" with 79€.
I also found cute hats, corsets, dresses and shoes, not only old but also new vintage brand like collectif or what katie did.







When I entered the shop I thought it just had one room and a smaller ajourning room with the dressing rooms but no! It has another huge room with underwear and even more vintage clothing.



Adress: 21, Esterházygasse, 1060 Wien
Opening house: Tues-Fr 11am to 7pm, Sat 11am to 5.30pm
Homepage

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

another month, another Teekränzchen.
This time we visited a Cafe called Daniel Moser's cottage. It is located in the 19th district which is infamous for being a more a more expensive and pretentious district.
The restaurant was full when we entered at 1pm and only cleared a bit when we left at 4pm but we had our own little booth which was wonderful.
I ordered the burger and the fries and latter was really good but the burger was boring. It was small and the avocado sauce was only in the middle. The chicken in the burger was tough and hard and all in all it was a let-down for expensive 14€.
M. ordered an apple cake and at least this was really good. It tasted of cinnamon and reminded me of apple strudel.



Group picture!


My outfit was a late valentines inspired one in red and white. I finally had the chance to wear my metamorphose dress again and it fit perfectly with the red blouse I made for a meet-up in Manila. It only needs red lace, I still haven't ordered some. The red roses on the shoes are from shoe clips I made for a cosplay. Good I kept them.




Have a nice week,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

here are my top 10 non-lolita japanese fashion pictures from 2018. They are ranked chronologically like the last lolita fashion year 208 blog entry.


 This outfit is from January for a Cha no ma date with friends. The dress is from Sky rose.
 I wore this for another matcha date with a friend. The peignoir makes it really soft and cute. The dress is Swankiss and the peignoir is vintage.

 This outfit is from March and the dress and pullover are both from Liz lisa. I think I wore it for lunch with friends but I am not sure anymore.

What can I say, I wore this in April for a lunch date again. I really like to dress up when I go out for food. The dress is from Sky rose, the cardigan from Axes femme.

Another month, another lunch date. What can I say, I only dress up when I go out of the house and most of the time I only go to work (=no dressing up) or meet friends for lunch/dinner.

Monochrome June. The dress is from DreamV. I picked up lolita dresses from a friend who gave me her whole collection for free. Bless her.

 Another June coord and this time I didn't only wear it for a lunch date. This was for the Vienna pride parade (Regenbogenparade) and it was a lot of fun. The dress is from Swankiss.

 To be honest, I cheated on this one. My lolita Top 10 were full already but as I mixed this lolita dress with cult party kei elements I thought I could also add it to this list. This was my outfit for the convention Nippon Nation in Vienna in July. The dress is from Metamorphose temps de fille, the peignoir is self made and the shoes are from Rosemarie seoir.


My sister and I were roaming around the inner city, looking for nice and not too crouded places for pictures. Blouse and skirt are from Liz lisa.

 This is a coord from October, the dress and blouse are from Liz Lisa.

Most of these are quite simple, when I remember my outfits from 2017 they were more elaborate or at least more creative. I think my full time jobs really doesn't leave a lot of time for my fashion which is very sad but that's life. I can afford all the dresses I every wanted but I have no time wearing them.