EGL fashions and their subsets are inspired by Victorian and Rococo fashions, whose heyday was during the mid to late 1800's in England and France, respectively. Adapting these styles to modern lolita is one of the more interesting things about the fashion, I think, and I'm constantly on the lookout for authentic fashion plates and research from the era when I'm making something new.
But I've always wondered - during this time period in America, there was a similar but still wholly different fashion movement happening. In the American South, fashion was known as
Antebellum.
Antebellum fashion is characterized by hoop skirts, pagoda sleeves, capelets and shawls, floral decorated bonnets, pointed drop waists and near-off-the-shoulder bodices. Quite a lot of the antebellum aesthetic could successfully be translated into EGL, especially the styles specific to little girls of the period. Young girls in antebellum fashion also had shortened skirts, but a marked difference is that girls allowed the lacy bottoms of their bloomers to show underneath their skirts.
( Antebellum fashion plates featuring young girls )What do you ladies think? Which aspects of Antebellum style do you think would translate the best? Are any of you as fascinated with this style as I am? I'm going to start making some sketches to see what could be pulled from this style!
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