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The Gothic Lolita will usually wear a dress but may wear a skirt and
blouse and is able to choose shorter puffed sleeves or shorter black socks.
Ideally she wears the classic Victorian-style band headdress but substitutes
may include a miniature black top hat (cocked to one side of the head), a
black bonnet, a black satin or velvet Alice band, or a large black bow
attached to a headband. She will occasionally wear a short black soft-
tulle/lace-net mourning veil but, as this is more an adult’s accessory rather
than a child’s, it is not common. Her parasol will also be black with ruffles
and or lace.
To accentuate the little girl persona but tending towards the macabre,
the Gothic Lolita will carry, if she carries anything, a teddy bear with a
gruesome element such as perhaps a chain around its neck or a morbid-
looking doll (Fig. 10).
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