One thing I have is a weakness for pretty dresses. Feminine, classic, simple dresses.

A year or two back, when I started whining about there not being enough classic, simple sundresses available, a friend pointed me in the direction of several Japanese clothing designers. By exploring those sites, I found out about this whole Japanese style called “EGL” (or “Elegant Gothic Lolita”, and no- the name does *not* come from the book) that quite a few Japanese designers create clothes for. EGL has a large range of styles included in it, but I really only like what’s considered “classic”. I *don’t* like any of the “sweet” stuff- candy colors and prints of carousel horses do NOT do anything for me.

Typically, EGL dresses are meant to be worn with petticoats and shirts and tights and fancy shoes and hats- a very Victorian inspired look. But on their own, they make *beautiful*, classic sundresses. And many of the designers will ship to the US. Unfortunately, the dresses are expensive- typically $200 to $500 and that’s too much to spend for a sundress that’s most likely going to be stained with paint and mainly worn chasing after a four year old. Plus, I live in my Nikes and I would feel silly pairing such gorgeous dresses with sneakers.

However, I still drool over and covet a bunch of the dresses and skirts, even if I have no place to wear them or would look silly doing so. Maybe if I had some tea parties to go to Anyway, from time to time I might throw an image of a dress up here, and now you know why I do that

This dress is from Innocent World…

Innocent World dress