It starts with a dress, or dresses. Among a menagerie of rainbow variations, certain features are standard: lace and ruffle-decked blouses under jumpers, aprons, or high-waisted belled and crinolined knee-length skirts; more skin covered than bare; headwear including bonnets, miniature hats, or massive bows over ringlets and long tresses. So many ruffles; so much lace (Fig. 1). Beginning in the late 1990s,gothic lolitas—overwhelmingly young women in their teens and twenties, and overwhelmingly girly in their outsized bows, platform Mary Jane shoes, and petticoated skirts—stood out as defiantly, bizarrely out of place and time on the Tokyo street scene, all bright white and concrete in Harajuku, a built-up postwar neighborhood of Tokyo known as a youth haven since the 1960s. More than twenty years later, although most Harajuku fashions have died out in keeping with a fad's typically short life cycle, the gothic lolitas have persisted and even multiplied, thanks in large part to the Internet, which has helped muster an army of misfit girl aristocrats not just in Japan but around the globe.

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“少女铠甲”：全球哥特洛丽塔时尚社区与少女对立技术

它从一件或多件连衣裙开始。在各种各样的彩虹变化中，某些特征是标准的：在套头衫、围裙下的蕾丝和荷叶边衬衫，或高腰喇叭形和衬里及膝裙；覆盖的皮肤多于裸露的皮肤；头饰，包括帽子、微型帽子，或者在卷发和长发上的大蝴蝶结。这么多褶边；这么多花边（图1）。从 1990 年代后期开始，哥特式萝莉——绝大多数十几岁和二十几岁的年轻女性，穿着超大蝴蝶结、厚底玛丽珍鞋和衬裙裙的绝大多数少女——在东京街头的场景中以挑衅、奇怪的格格不入的方式脱颖而出，全是明亮的白色和混凝土原宿是东京战后建成的街区，自 1960 年代以来就被称为青年天堂。20 多年后，尽管大多数原宿时装已经随着时尚的短命周期而消亡，但哥特式洛丽塔仍然存在，甚至成倍增加，这在很大程度上要归功于互联网，它帮助召集了一群不合身的女孩贵族不仅在日本，而且在全球范围内。