Lolita 52 Challenge starts!

Since I'm a very bad blogger these days, I decided to join the Lolita 52 Challenge organized by Caro on F*ck Yeah lolita! Each week I'll pick randomly a topic and will blog on it on Wednesday (well for this week I'm late!).

Here are the topics submitted:

1. 5 pieces that every Lolita wardrobe should have, regardless of style
2. 5 movies for Lolitas
3. What my own Lolita lifestyle is like
4. Favorite thing to put on my head
5. My wardrobe turnover
6. My favorite Lolita brand
7. Why I wear Lolita?
8. Why don't I wear Lolita more often?
9. 5 keywords that describe my personal Lolita style
10. How I first found out about Lolita
11. 3 trends I wish would come back
12. Combining other fashions with Lolita
13. Lolitas I have met in real life
14. Lolitas I would love to meet
15. 3 things I wish I was told when I was a new Lolita
16. 10 facts about my Lolita wardrobe
17. My first meetup
18. Trends I thought I would never get into, but I now love
19. Trends I thought I loved, but now I'm not too keen on
20. How satisfied I am with my current wardrobe
21. Plan for a trip! A week's worth of Lolita outfits I can fit in a small suitcase
22. How I accessorize
23. What influences my Lolita style
24. What's in my makeup bag
25. Best places to wear Lolita
26. How I get out of a wardrobe slump
27. Purses that I love
28. Bloomers or no bloomers?
29. Lolitafying things in my everyday life
30. How long it took me to build a complete wardrobe
31. Impulse buys that were totally worth it
32. My best deal
33. Something that I made
34. Wardrobe blunders! Things I bought that I ended up regretting!
35. What I thought when I got my first real piece of Lolita
36. Nails to match my favorite looks
37. Something that's not my style, but I love anyways
38. Favorite hair style
39. Most versatile Lolita item I own
40. 5 inspirational fictional characters
41. Fondest meetup memory
42. The ways in which I fit the cliche
43. The ways in which I do not fit the cliche
44. How strangers react to my clothes, and how I react to their reactions
45. Something that was a gift
46. Parasols: Vital or frivolous?
47. The item in my wardrobe that was the hardest to get
48. My "signature" outfit
49. My favorite Lolita print
50. What's in my closet, but I haven't worn yet!
51. Predict the next Lolita trend!
52. How Lolita has changed me

I've picked the number 8 on Random.org, so the question is: Why don't I wear Lolita more often?

When I finished my studies and my internship (because I don't have a job yet) I found myself a lot more time to wear lolita but I'll give you reasons of why I didn't wear lolita a lot last year:

• Time - When you have to work almost 12 hours per day on your student project (from 9am to 9pm) at school, you prefer to save some time to sleep or relax more.
• Comfort - Again, 12 hours in a really hot room (40 computers running + 10 servers produce a lot of heat) with no window near you is suicide dressed in lolita.
• Credibility - It's hard to wear lolita when you don't know well your co-workers. I don't want to be judge on my look and even if videogame industry isn't really strict about dresscode, it's  a world of men and as a female I'm already seen as "different" and doesn't want to create me problems for my career.
• Last but not least - Sometimes I just prefer to wear a scandalously tiny short with a pair of Doc Martens or a very long black skirt, because that is also me!