hey guys on Ask Japanese it's Cathy C at i am usually wearing lolita
fashion, which you've seen a lot before. But the beautiful thing about the style is that it's very modest and people of different cultures and
religions can enjoy it. I've met some wonderful girls from Malaysia who actually coordinating their Harajuku fashion
Together with their Hijab so let's go and ask them about it. Guys don't forget
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Hello, so I met some lovely girls they're all dressed amazingly so where you from Malaysia.
Which city?
And i can see you're dressed in lolita fashion today?
So what made you interested in japanese culture?
Anime, and the culture the environment
Other... each one of them is so creative, so lovely, that's why I like Lolita...
What did make you interested in Japanese culture?
History and fashion, Anime and games ... and Lolita.
History as well? Do you history?
so far i'm just about year 8 though, but not so much.
Why Japanese culture?
I like fashion, anime, the culture...
Why did you decide to wear lolita fashion?
Because it's lacy and so cute, extremely cute and
I think it looks innocent. Someone wearing it looks innocent.
Because it makes me look cuter and sometimes makes me forget
the hard times, made me feel more younger
i feel like a princess when I wear it.
A princess! - You are!
(director question) Let's ask that.
What do you like about the lolita fashion?
Mmm because it makes me cute and like...
Cute, that's ok. Princess, we're all princesses?
Can you actually wear this style and back in Malaysia as well?
Sure, we have our own events, so we
wear these dresses outside when we at the cafe, because we want to look cute right
So how what are the reactions when you wear lolita at home?
Sometimes people look at us like... weird in awkward
sometimes shocked and sometime like "oh you look cute". Stuff like that.
So you get both reactions.
Okay what - what reactions do you get a lot?
Hmmmm
You're shy. That's okay it's okay you can be shy!
That's cute though.
In malaysia we doesn't wear these always so people look at us as if we're weird or something.
But do you have like many friends who wear it together?
In our group we have 10 person yeah, so there are another
7 more person but they were not coming here.
one thing i really appreciate i want, to say ...... what? (director adds question)
Director: Can you ask this extra please?
Nice one. There's a good question
So when you wear this Japanese fashion in your country back in Malaysia...
Is there anything you have to be careful about or anything you pay attention to
when you wear it for example it's very hot so, this and this.
Or you shouldn't do this and this. Are there any rules?
We will pick a comfortable place to wear lolita because Malaysia is so hot,
We cannot walk like this on the street.
or we will melt down.
Sometimes we take care of our attitude so people will not misunderstanding
about lolita culture so that's what i'm concerned about.
What do you what do you mean like attitude what you mean?
Do not make sure any faulty or be very like harsh
aggressive or anything like...
Don't be rude kind of?
Don't be rude or any kind of bad attitude to others.
Anything you're careful about when you wear lolita fashion back at home?
No, I just be myself.
Whether people like you or not, I just be myself.
Everyone's been seeing it you're wearing a veil, what's the name of it?
Hijab.
So are there many Lolitas in Malaysia where the Lolita wears a Hijab?
Not so many, because, in our country the hijab is like modest...
Modesty?
So people often say that this Hijab is not suitable with Lolita.
But we turned it around and we said,
It's ok to wear Lolita and Hijab also because
i think we're still modest.
Yeah it's modest and beautiful, i totally encourage this
I have a friend back in the uk she's wearing it as well.
Right... How did you explain the fashion to your parents though?
First time I saw Lolita I was in Middle School.
So I tried to convince them, that this fashion
applies with the modesty of the Hijab.
I think that is not often with our Islamic rules. And then they...
support me actually to wear L olita
That's so good. It's because it's a very modest fashion right. You don't show any skin
It's not show skin so much that's how i convinced them to wear this.
I tried to cosplay but sometimes cosplay shows so many skin,
They're like no, no, no no, you cannot be too sexy.
So for example there might be some girls watching right now
who actually wear a hijab and who are interested in wearing lolita fashion,
or harajuku fashion styles can you give them a tip of
how to wear it together, how to protect the modesty when you wear the fashion
A tip? I'm not sure... maybe we should wear the pants instead of socks.
We wear pants.
That's alright. Because if we wear tights, we show our...
leg shape so and that's not correct for us and
Maybe match the color of the Hijab to the dress? I can see you're doing that.
Match color with the Hijabs or maybe slight off...
so people will see which one is head and body. If all is pink you might see me all pink.
Find a different color? Yes, different, a slightly different shade.
I see you have the head pieces on. I find that so cute.
I bought is from the store. It's quite cheap.
And it's cute.
I think it's great what you're doing i hope you're having a good time in Harajuku.
Thank you!
Ok I'll see you soon then. Thank you!
(waiting for the cue)
When i was still living in the uk in my community was a lolita who was
coordinating lolita with her hijab and it looked amazing her name is Sugar Noor and
She was very very inspiring she's a lovely lolita and that was in my community
before i actually even came to japan so that's how
i first met a lolita who combines that with her religion which i thought was amazing
and she always a great coordinates how she
matched the the color of her hijab to her coordinates, it's fascinating and
In recent years, there's been more and more girls getting actually inspired by her
to dress up, to match the Hijab with Lolita fashion...
which I find amazing because lolita fashion is so modest you're not supposed
to show, too much skin. So it's great
to see that you can use lolita fashion in a way of expression and
showing that it's a modest style it's not sexy it's not there to attract other people
in that sense.
Because lolita community can be quite toxic there's been negative comments but
also very very positive comments and it's great
to see that girls can use it as a way of expression while still honoring
their own Religion. So a hope this inspired you and maybe if you're
interested and you wear hijab and you'd like to give it a go:
Some names I'd like to give to your that's Sugar Noor, she is great.
If you are on Tumbler, then it's Alyssa Salazar, I hope I said her name right.
Also another girl that i met actually in Houston, that's Piloves314
she also does wear Lolita with her hijab and those girls that you've seen!
I'll put their names down below so you can check them out if you're interested
would like to get inspired see how they have
coordinated their religion, the hijab together with lolita fashion very very great
and you can also find out a little bit more about the
ideas behind it and what you need to be careful about when you coordinate it.
I hope this inspired you, I find this great. Please leave us good comments
Looking forward to reading what you think about that what you think about the girls
the whole system. I'd really like to read what you think about it.
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All of those girls thank you so much for taking part in our video and i hope i'll catch
you there again sometime on the streets of harajuku.
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