52 Week Lolita Topic Challenge : My First Meetup
Today’s post from the 52 Week Lolita Topic Challenge is 17. My First Meetup. I guess technically, my first meet up was the lolita meetup at Katsucon February of 2012. Prior to that, I’d attended Otakon in lolita for a few years and I was part of the online EGL community, but I hadn’t really actually went out to a meetup. I’m really kinda shy, and I had this terrible idea that I wouldn’t be good enough to fit in with my local group, because I’d see these awesome lolita at conventions and I felt like the ugly duckling. I don’t think I got any good photos so I stole one of me from another attendee. Credit is in the caption (and she has a lot more photos from the event)
(I’m wearing Angelic Pretty’s Miracle Candy JSK with AP Socks, IW blouse, Baby bag and Bodyline shoes)
My first non-convention meetup was to see a movie at a local mall, and I don’t think I knew anyone there, because I think it was all different people from the one at Katsucon. 
I’m honestly not even sure what movie we went to see, come to think of it. I know it was fairytale themed though. But, I do remember that I met Jayne and totally thought that her awesome hair was a wig because she had it done so well. Seriously, that girl has some impressive hair skills.
Anyways, I was really nervous about going to a mall in lolita, and what I should wear, so I ended up wearing a really toned down old school coord. I think it was because the movie was fairytale themed and this skirt features sleeping beauty? This is after I came home and my hair is rebelling royally. Skirt is Angelic Pretty, Blouse is Innocent World, and everything else is offbrand, I believe.
The third meetup I went to was just a few months later, and it was at the Zoo in DC, and I wore my favorite dress ever, Innocent World’s Strawberry Animal Fields, but I’d moved the strap button and made the straps too long and slouched in all the photos so they came out really bad. However, I met the designers of Belladonna that day, and one of them (who is super adorable, by the way. She was wearing an AP little bird’s symphonia dress with a blonde ringlet wig and all the little girls thought she was a princess) took the picture of my feet that I use for my tumblr icon now.
Actually, speaking of little girls thinking you are a princess. At one point we were in the section of the zoo that had fish and bugs, and someone knew someone… or was just very charismatic, I don’t remember, but they got us a little tour behind the scenes with the octopus. I’m terrified of fish (and octopi, apparently), so I wasn’t interested and just waited for the rest of the group over with the ants and stuff (which are fascinating, just by the way). This mom came up to me with these two little girls and she was like “they think you are a real princess” with this half shrug like “what can I do?”, so I played along for a bit, and it was really cute. It was a really fun trip, but kinda confusing because someone had to leave early because it turns out pets aren’t permitted at the zoo, and people got there all different times, so we had multiple groups going around that were all disconnected. All in all I had a great time though, and I’m really glad I got to meet everyone.
Hey, I met you! I’m not sure if you remember me, but I wore AP’s Sugar Hearts OP in purple. My friend Kelly spoke to you in the reg line and I thought we’d find you again after the meetup (I didn’t want to bore the people with me so I left) but I couldn’t spot you. I didn’t have the money to go this year, but we definitely want to go next time.
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Sorry it’s so bad!
I was really hoping we could be friends and I assumed there would be pictures of you everywhere (your coords are amazing) but I didn’t see any but the one you posted. I’m sorry if we annoyed you at all. It was the first con I wore lolita to and I think you were the first lolita I spoke to, so I was pretty excited.
Oh gosh! Yes! I remember you! I loved how you matched your wig to your dress. ^_^
Aww, thank you .///. I love putting together coordinates, but I’m so baaaad at remembering to take pictures, or I make really derpy faces, so I don’t end up with many online. I post them to Facebook or tumblr sometimes, but not often.
And no, you didn’t annoy me at all! I’m sorry, I’m actually really kinda shy and I was really nervous too so I didn’t know what to say to anyone and I wanted to try to meet everyone and I was so overwhelmed by how many people there were! @_@ I ended up going to lunch with a bunch of the girls I think? I can’t remember what happened exactly, but I remember I met some more people and they all were going to lunch too and then turning around and looking for you to invite you along and then I couldn’t find you? I’m sorry I missed you! 🙁
I’d love to be friends with you. ^_^ I’m sorry if I gave any other impression or anything of the sort; I was really really nervous. I remember just not knowing what to say to anyone.
By next time do you mean 2014? If so, I’ll totally be there and I hope I get a chance to see you! ^_^
Yay! Thank you.
I’m sorry I looked so angry in that picture, I didn’t realize until after we left that we only got half of you as well. I was really overwhelmed as well, I didn’t know what to do and I didn’t want to bother the 3 people with me. We had a hard time finding the group at first and then the archway area is so crowded, we decided to just go. It’s hard to really prepare for a con and since it was our third (Kelly’s first) and Katsu is so amazing, we got too excited and forgot to eat again. ^^;; At least I think that’s what happened around that time!
You were so nice to us! I was worried because I know I seem angry a lot and Kelly is a very excitable person. We went to T-Mode and during a lolita panel they had a slideshow of pictures from Katsucon. Your picture was there! Kelly and I were so excited, we had no idea if you went every year or not haha. We will definitely be there 2014. I’m glad you’ll be there. : D
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go this year. Hopefully next year, though.
Hope you have fun!