Gothic and Lolita Photograph of Mizuki and Hana
| Linguistics | Mizuki, 18 and Hidea, 18. Dress: Angelic Pretty (for both), Point of Fashion: Twins, Current Obsession: (Mizuki) I love Hidea, (Hidea) I love Lolita world. |
| Concepts | Mizuki and Hidea are both wearing Angelic Pretty in public. Photograph from the book Gothic and Lolita by Masayuki Yoshinaga (2007). |
| Visuals | The Angelic Pretty dresses, bags and bonnets all have musical notes and symbols. Both dressed go below their knees, Mizuki’s dress is white and Hidea’s is Pink. |
| Emotions | Both girls look very content and excited to be who they are and to dress in lolita. |
| Characters/ Objects | Hidea and Mizuki, both wearing Angelic Pretty outfits. Photograph from the book Gothic and Lolita by Masayuki Yoshinaga (2007). |
| Scene | Outdoors/park/bridge in Tokyo. Undefined. |
| Aesthetics | Lolita. Gothic Lolita. Both girls love to be who they are when dressed in lolita. Specifically wearing all Angelic Pretty is directly Lolita and gothic lolita. Both girls are dress in the robe a la francaise style dress that is mixed with a Victorian era aesthetic. |
| Westerness/ Japaneseness | Lolita dress: Rococo and Victorian era trans-contextual references that are western. Dress ideology being based in shojo, lolita and kawaii. |
| Grotesque/ Abject | Both girls dress infantile to a point that they are no longer in the homogenous gender binary, they entered a liminal and free-floating aesthetic of life, used the alter ego of the shojo, and achieved jouissance through dress. |