Seattle's Lolita Meetup at Unicorn, and D'ambrosio Gelato

The diverse city of Seattle and its neighboring cities, is a growing pin point for Japanese sub-culture.   With cons, meetup group, entertainment,fashion, and many more. The lolita meetup group in Seattle, meet up once a month with fellow lolita members. As of date, the group has a couple dozen members,and the average number of lolitas per meetup averages to about a dozen, with a combination of some familiar and fresh faces each time. You can find them on http://wa-lolis.livejournal.com/ or as Washington Lolitas on Facebook.

This Month's meetup was at Unicorn, a bar filled with fun, mesmerizing colors and displays.  Their menu items have creative, silly names such as, Unicorn Jizz, Happy Ending, Unicorn Tears, Unicorn Balls, Unicorn-Dog, etc. The lighting with dim, with loud music, and the downstairs section of the bar have an arcade and a lounge area.

Since most of Unicorn was small and poorly lit for taking group photos, the lolitas decided to go over to D'ambrosio Gelato to get icecream and to take the group photo.

Photos from Unicorn

Featuring a Seattle's (Ballard) Boutique "Curtis Steiner": A Mini Wonderland for Women Who Love Vintage

One sunny morning, walking by, I took notice of a little boutique, Curtis Steiner, that had paper dresses at the window.  I had passed by this boutique many times before, but this time, I took a closer look, and decided to go in to learn more behind the lovely creations.  The shop was filed with doll size paper dresses, ranging from $200-500 approximately, vintage jewelry, and household antiques. Everything was laid out magnificently, very crisp, clean, and sophisticated.

I went through a brief interview session with the owner.  Mr.Steiner was inspired by the vision of combining something theatrical and art gallery-like, something different because he felt that regular retail always sold the same thing.  He have had the current location for 2 years, and prior to that, he had the business for 13 years just down the block from the current location.  He sells vintage jewelry and antique, as well as items from independent artists. The artist that created the paper dresses, was Ann Dunbar.