Street Culture: Lolitas at Royal/T in Culver City

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Jenny Newman of Los Angeles, 25, is dressed up as a Gothic Lolita at the Lolita Halloween Tea Party held at Royal/T, a Japan-centric tea house and gallery in Culver City. The Lolita fashion subculture has it roots in Japanese youth culture and draws inspiration from European Victorian and Edwardian styles of dress. The style is further broken down into subsets, including Gothic Lolita, Elegant Lolita and Pirate Lolita _ all unified by a frilly, feminine sense of whimsy.

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( Tara Godvin / Los Angeles Times / October 26, 2008 )

Jenny Newman of Los Angeles, 25, is dressed up as a Gothic Lolita at the Lolita Halloween Tea Party held at Royal/T, a Japan-centric tea house and gallery in Culver City. The Lolita fashion subculture has it roots in Japanese youth culture and draws inspiration from European Victorian and Edwardian styles of dress. The style is further broken down into subsets, including Gothic Lolita, Elegant Lolita and Pirate Lolita _ all unified by a frilly, feminine sense of whimsy.