The history of International Lolita Fashion Day
Hi everyone! ILD is tomorrow (Saturday, June 6, 2026), and since it's been such a long time and I'm feeling nostalgic for ye olden days, I thought I'd give you a little history about its origin in 2005.
Back then, I (as
kittyhot) proposed a silly idea: what if we had a "holiday" where we all dress up in lolita fashion for no reason other than to potentially run into each other on the same day?
It was not yet popular to wear lolita fashion on an everyday basis. People mostly wore it on weekends or to meetups, so ILD was meant as an "excuse" to wear lolita fashion "for no reason."
I was also trying to recreate what I thought was happening in Harajuku on the Meiji Bridge at the time. I knew that many gosurori gathered there on Sundays to just hang out, so I thought if we all dressed up and hung out at a mall or something, we'd accidentally find each other. I'm so glad y'all did not take my advice.
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Back then, I (as
It was not yet popular to wear lolita fashion on an everyday basis. People mostly wore it on weekends or to meetups, so ILD was meant as an "excuse" to wear lolita fashion "for no reason."
I was also trying to recreate what I thought was happening in Harajuku on the Meiji Bridge at the time. I knew that many gosurori gathered there on Sundays to just hang out, so I thought if we all dressed up and hung out at a mall or something, we'd accidentally find each other. I'm so glad y'all did not take my advice.
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