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>>57428428>>57423132>>57437402>>57437412Well, I saw an outfit that someone referred to as an "ouji coord", so I looked it up and found out that it's related to lolita fashion, so I looked that up, and it's mostly a girl thing across all of its different flavors, but towards the end I found "ouji" that's apparently lolita clothing except centered around boys.
>https://www.tumblr.com/20dollarlolita/698303704082825216/getting-started-in-lolita-fashion-what-is-a-coordWhile the lolita community seems welcoming enough, the structure of the clothing reads off as quite pretentious to me, with various rules and requirements, from my time canvasing comments sections it seems like you can get away with only waiving either the headgear or the socks/tights or the extra little accessories.
I looked at the various different flavors and I can't really make out if "ouji" is its own subculture or just a style of lolita aimed at boys because everything else seems to be dominated by women. Likewise I also just discovered this thing called "aristocrat fashion" which is apparently adjacent to but not lolita and similar to "ouji".
I guess my main question is "Who is really into this stuff" and "How do you really go about designing these things", I don't think any of my OCs (assuming anything besides Alex gets written) would go into such detailed outfits, at least not regularly, even Kris's outfit is just the old Poke Maniac cloak. Ouji and military lolita seem appealing enough to me, but much like his Black Blaze outfit, I think it would be only "ceremonial"; but I don't really know how to go about making extravagant ouftits, or determining who would wear them. I don't picture Alex as a subculture guy like Kris, but he might end up buying into ouji/aristocrat unintentionally, similar to his use of denim and leather jackets. I'm sure Phos would tell him some stupid shit like "dIdnT knOw yOu liKEd lEaThEr" because apparently leather is popular in fetish communities.
