SugarNoor was attacked a lot on that page, when the blog first opened. There's this website called Behind the Bows, and it's pretty much where Lolitas talk crap about each other. I was kind of nervous about putting myself out there.
But you're pulling it off! At what point did you decide you wanted to blog your outfits? It seems like you have to fulfill two very high standards of dress, and modesty, from two very different communities-both your Muslim community and your Lolita community.
"Ita" comes from the word "Itai," which means "ouch." It means that your coord is so terrible that it burns me to look at it. Since I cover my hair, and cover a little more of myself, I have to try harder. They think it's pretty cool.īut since I do wear the scarf, I feel like I have to try to coord better than everyone else who doesn't wear a scarf. They've accepted me, and they don't judge. People come from a lot of different backgrounds into Lolita.
I haven't received any hate from my community. How have other people in the Lolita community responded to your hijabi Lolita coords? I feel more welcomed into the Lolita community than in the Muslim community. There was all this mean stuff written, like, "This is so sad, this girl, in this dress, getting married at eight years old and getting beaten by her husband." Or, "Such a pretty dress to get covered in blood." It's funny, because they used my profile picture but all of SugarNoor's pictures. It should have said "Ban Hijabi Lolitas" instead of "Muslims." I guess they didn't realize that most Muslim Lolitas don't wear hijabs. I saw a Facebook page you recently posted called "Ban Lolita Muslims," and they were using your photo as the main profile picture. The creepiest thing a guy has said to me is, "Little Bo Peep, where's your sheep?" But it's mostly women, who might say, "That's cute," or try and snap pictures without my permission. My friends told me that this has happened to them. Sometimes people will lift up my friends' skirts to see what's holding it up. I'm waiting for it, though, because I will pepper-spray them. But some of them are, and it makes people who don't know what Lolita fashion is have that type of expectation when they see a Lolita.ĭo you ever get creepy comments from men when you're dressed in Lolita?Īctually, no, I haven't yet. Age play is a fetish, where you like having sex dressed up as a baby. Sometimes people do associate it with the book, because there are some Lolitas who do age play in Lolita. I could wear this without a scarf.ĭo people automatically associate it with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita? There's really no difference, because Lolita is fairly modest to begin with. How do you adapt the Lolita style to hijab? What's your process? You can even do Pirate Lolita, or Witch Lolita. You have Otome, which is extremely casual Lolita. There's Sweet Lolita, Classic Lolita, and Gothic Lolita. There are different sub-categories of Lolita. Lolita has over a thousand different dresses and prints. It's actual fashion with its own rules and its own style. It's based off Rococo and Victorian fashion, just modernized a bit. VICE: What is Lolita fashion, for people who are unfamiliar with it?Īlyssa Salazar: Lolita fashion started in Harajuku, Tokyo. VICE spoke with Salazar about Vladimir Nabokov, Islamaphobia, and how she navigates the margins of both the Muslim and Lolita communities. But as a Muslim, she's used to people scrutinizing and criticizing the clothes she wears. As her fame grows, she's become exposed to the highly critical and discerning tastes of the Lolita community. Over the past two years, Salazar has amassed more than 10,000 followers on her blog. The word "hijabi" is used to describe Muslim women who wear the hijab, or headscarf, as a form of daily religious practice. But Salazar, a convert to Islam, has distinguished herself within the Lolita community with her Tumblr, The Hijabi Lolita, where she posts photos of her daily outfits, paired with her headscarves. She's part of a well-established subculture of girls who enjoy dressing as Lolitas-a style of dress originating in Japan that borrows inspiration from the aggressively fussy aesthetics of Victorian-era clothes. This is an everyday uniform for the Lolita enthusiast.
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