Fyi for anyone wanting to support Chinese indie sellers without potentially buying from fast fashion, I would highly recommend shopping from taobao through a shopping service as taobao is primarily consisted of small indie businesses who often do made to order items often times tailored to your measurements too and is often recommended in Lolita fashion communities as an alternative to buying from name brands due to affordability at a genuinely reasonable price for the quality.
At every chance I get with goths in my goth communities I will always recommend taobao if they want to support Chinese small businesses without resorting to fast fashion because while fast fashion is a genuine concern, there is a layer of racism to assume Chinese fashion businesses are all poor quality fast fashion made with slave labor, taobao sellers always make their products in their small studio of workers that work hard to make high quality products along with the fact that some western small businesses will also outsource to sweatshop—free studios.
Chinese indie sellers deserve to be supported instead of fast fashion giants that are products of either western outsourcing or exploitative capitalist chinese businessmen and fyi made in America items are most likely made with prison labor (Google that)!
Some taobao shopping services I would recommend:
—42 Lolita (great customer service)
—Lolitawardrobe
—My Lolita dress
Remember to SHOP SMALL even when shopping internationally!
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DIY Specimen band-t
Front and back
On me
Side boob on show :3
Finally finished my DIY Specimen band-t that I technically started last May. I had got everything done except adding the grommets and lacing up the sides, which I now finally got done now!
Funnily enough the base t-shirt that I built off of was a Christian seminar t-shirt I stole from my dad, it's a bit ironic that it was made into a goth band-tee LMAOO
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A reference sheet for my Sonic Oc Kira Punk. I've never thought I could make this since I don't usually present my oc so much but there is.
Also I like the Sonic Idw reference sheet style, it's really cool.
The first design I made it but I wanted to improve.
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