I Love Incorporating Things From My Non-lolita (punk/goth) Closet Into Punk Or Gothic Or Old School Lolita.

Cartoon Crusties

Mana-sama [Malice Mizer] & Soshi [Noir Fleurir] wear Kazuko Ogawa's synthetic leather long OP

アンティック-珈琲店- wearing angelic pretty, unsure of what jsk teruki is wearing… _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):

My albums selection for the next week:

Cheng Daoyuan - Apeiron

Owen Davis - Untitled Ukavar

Alien Sex Fiend – Who's Been Sleeping In My Brain

Deity Guns – Electricity

Crawl - Earth

Hammershøi - Cathédrales

Kultur Operating Penis - 1988 / 1991

Front Line Assembly – The Initial Command

Élisa Bories + Calcaire - Vestige

Encephalophonic - Surgical Mods

j-fashioner’s from malaysia ♱

This was at a mall in Malaysia that was dedicated to j-fashion!!

Magician Shokyokusai Tenkatsu and her Flower Heaven Troupe wearing a strap-on hooked into a 300,000 volt Tesla Coil to shower bolts of artificial lightning on the girls below holding conductor rods, part of the Japanese artistic movement called Eroguronansensu (literally “erotic-grotesque-nonsense”)

«Rozz Williams of Christian Death sandwiched between Edward Stapleton and Gerardo Velázquez of Nervous Gender

📸 Ave Pildas, 1982.

Music From Hell deluxe reissue out now on 2xLP/CD 💿»

Master List of Goth Bands from Latin America

I have made an expansive list of all of the goth bands that I have found that come from Latin America whose music I have shared on this blog. This list is compiled by continent/region and country. Next to each band, I have a small description of their precise subgenre to the best of my abilities. Additionally, this band list is only what I know about at this point, so expect it to be added onto over time and please add on yourself if you of someone I haven’t included. I tried to represent as many countries and as many different kinds of goth as possible. This is specifically artists from Latin America, not bands from the US and other countries with Latino members (though some bands are international or have relocated, for which I try to specify). I hope that you find something on this list that you like. 

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hi! I have a couple of very old brand pieces that aren't on lolibrary. where would you suggest I look to hunt down additional info and maybe add them to the database? thanks!

Hello! I’m very excited by this question.

I have a few suggestions depending on how knowledgeable you are on the item- if you aren’t sure where to start at all you might have some luck with narrowing down the general era or release date of the item judging by its label or wash tag.

Various tag guides have been published- this one by How To Become An Angel on neocities and this one on Raine’s Crimson Reflections blog.

But since you have checked lolibrary and it isn’t there, i’m assuming you have some information already (release year or print name or something along those lines). It’s possible to access old versions of lolita brand’s websites through the wayback machine and adjust the year to suit your best guess. From the homepage you can go to the brand catalogue and see the dresses / jsks / undergarments / ect and see if any have descriptions that will match your mystery item (even if there is no stock photo available). For example:

- Angelic Pretty 2002- present

- BTSSB 2000- present

- Metamorphose 2000- present

- Victorian Maiden 2001- present

- Innocent World 2001- 2004

- Innocent World 2005- present

- MmM 2001- 2010

- Atelier Boz 2001-2003

- Atelier Boz 2004 to 2017

Lolibrary is an extensive database, but it doesn’t cover every single piece in existence. If I haven’t found it on lolibrary and I haven’t found any information on the brand’s original website, I will usually turn to my lolita magazines and see if I can spot the item anywhere. Lolita History is a great resource that most of you are already aware of. It’s great for GLB scans and even other niche publications that have been kindly submitted. You can filter by Keywords to narrow down your search.

All of the advice above is if you are the kind of person that likes to take your time with research and look into the item personally. If you don’t have time for that, i’d just post it on social media and ask if anyone knows anything. U can post it here on tumblr or u can send it to me! There will always be someone happy to help, and if it’s something I can’t do myself I will volunteer to submit it to some senior lolibrarians and see what can be revealed.