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Boy mori kei tumblr11/24/2023 ![]() Mori was originally started by girls, however, it didn’t take long for the male wearers (森ボーイ - Mori-boys) to start wearing it too. The name 'Mori’ (森) comes from the Japanese word for 'forest’ as they looked like fairies and other forest dwellers. The wearers of this style were referred to as 'Mori Gyaru’ (森ギャル - Mori Girls) rather than as a type of Lolita as the style very soon changed so much that it lacked the basic necessities of what 'Lolita’ required. Using accessories make of beats, thread, twin, cotton, lace and leather ('raw’ natural materials).Rumpled or un-ironed 'raw’ clothing and materials.Earthly colours like browns, greens, beige, pinks and whites.Lots of layers usually comprised of lace and cotton.The clothing because less fitted and more free and ‘natural’, some popular characteristics involve: Amongst these many styles there is also Mori Lolita which focuses on wearing Lolita style clothing but in earthy tonnes and colours.Īs the style evolved and grew more popular, it started to move away from its Lolita roots, focusing less on the cupcake-style skirts and Victorian aura and focusing more on a more elegant and gentle aura, almost like trying to represent Mother Nature herself and living a simplistic lifestyle. Hime Lolita (aka Hime-kei - Princess Style)Īnd many others.Over the years the style has evolved more and more and there are many different styles of Lolita: Lolita (as most of you probably know) is a fashion subculture in Japan based on British Victorian era style clothing. This time I’ll be taking you out of the high fashion world and deep down into the woods.īefore I can give you a proper introduction to Mori, I need to take you back to the roots which actually started in another fashion style called Lolita. Yes, even from willowy pretty white girls in floaty dresses.It’s been a long time since I’ve written a style introduction post, but I thought now would be the perfect time to write one as I’m really getting into a new style this season. And maybe there’s a person, just like me back than, who feels underrepresented. Search for “mori girl” (because it’s the original term and more often used than the gender-neutral Mori kei) on tumblr, or even on Google, and you’ll still have the same skinny, ethereal girls in floaty dresses I saw three years ago. There are more examples, more forms, figures, skin tones, genders, hair styles, styles in Mori kei, even. I’m okay with my body and I know I look good in Mori. Where are the dark-skinned people, the marshmallow girls (I love that term, it sounds so nice and warm and fluffy and lovely), the power grrrls, oh, and where are the boys, or any other gender besides female? Is being a demure, thin, pale girl all that there is to being Mori? Is it not okay to differ from the ideal?īy now, more than three years after the post that sparked Natalie’s post in return, I’m not anxious anymore. I just wondered why all the Mori pictures I ever saw featured a certain stereotype. But most of the time, I can deal with that. Not always, not everyday, but everyone has these days when they don’t like everything about themselves. My figure is that of a Renoir or Mucha model, not a Warhol one. I do have a belly that’s visible, but actually, I don’t care that much, I actually like it. I’ve got a rugby girl silhouette, not a ballet girl one. I’m quite muscular, but I’m short and broad-hipped, so it doesn’t show. I’ve got an E to F bust, and it runs in the family. It still distresses me that they tried, because not everyone has enough self-esteem and body consciousness to disbelieve. I wanted everything, from body shapes and skin colours to hair cuts and colour schemes.īelieve me, there have been people trying to make me believe this, and trying to make me believe it makes me somehow less worth than others. When I wrote the words Natalie quoted on her blog I merely wanted more examples of Mori Girls that weren’t model-like girls with androgynous bodies, of white, perfect skin and wide eyes, long legs and pretty hair. Because it’s that headline that I always see in the referring links, and it’s the headline that bugs me. This is about the title of the post mostly, not the content (which is about the same as in this post, actually). While this might not have been Natalie’s intention and she merely (mis-)interpreted something I wrote back in 2011 I thought I might as well write down my thoughts about that. One of the links that refer to my blog most often is one from Vanillery Garden, from a blog post titled “ Am I too fat? Weight Issues In The Mori Girl World“.
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