Not a “Lolita” in the Nabokovian sense, the woman was an adult dressed in Lolita fashion, a style of dress popularized in Japan in the mid-1990s and informed by the Victorian era and ornate Rococo art ...
There’s something ultimately comforting about it: It makes up for the nostalgia of girlhood left behind, the little Mary Jane shoes of our former lives, the dainty dresses we once wore ... Think ...