http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/06/how-to-be-a-got.html
June 28, 2007 | 11:14:13 AM
WikiHow has posted the intriguingly titled article "How To Be A Gothic Lolita." The perverted heart begins pounding with masturbation-like regularity: surely, such an article will deal with teachning 14 year old girls to listen to Type O Negative and seduce synaesthetic Russian professors. But what the f...
Throw away any pre/misconceptions you may have! Gothic Lolita is not necessarily related to what you think of as "Goth". It is not a reference to Vladimir Nabokov's famous novel Lolita and followers of the style do not consider it to be a sexual style. Instead, adherents present themselves as young victorian girls and consider it necessary to look "cute," "beautiful," or "elegant" rather than "sexy."
So step one in being a Gothic Lolita is to be neither Gothic OR a Lolita? What is wrong with Japan? Good god. Eliza — sleeping soundly in her tiny coffin, stuffed with teddy bears and prophylactics — probably coughing up thick, mucousy lungfuls of blood right about now. She can feel cosmic aesthetic wrong.
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