Is Sailor being made to walk the plank by Pirate?

♥Sailor Lolita♥ with Pirate coming up fast on the starboard side

Pretty self-explanatory, Sailor Lolita is a very nautical-themed style of Lolita that is very much inspired by Japanese Sailor-styled uniforms.

Sailor collars, dark blues, and whites are often key factors in recognising this style. Nautical motifs are often used in this style; symbols such as ship anchors and wheels make very cute additions to this style.

 The skirts have nautical stripes around the edges, the blouses have little sailor collars and ties, and sailor hats are worn in place of headdresses. It's really just a small subset of sweet lolita, it's popular enough to deserve it's own panel. 

Like most Lolita styles the same bell-shaped skirt is expected, quite often this skirt may be pleated, and the outfit may often include a puffed-short-sleeved blouse with pockets.

Although striped socks may not work with a lot of Lolita styles, they often look nice when coordinated into a Sailor Lolita outfit.

Again minimal make-up with suit this style, including some lip-gloss to stop your lips from cracking if you'll be out near the sea!

The handbook says thats it's really just a small subset of sweet lolita which is popular enough to deserve it's own panel. I would tend to think that it was more between classic and country, due to the style and color choices, when i started eing interseted in lolita, sailor was a new trend that had just started and as far as i remember wasn't in the "handbook"  I haven't seen alot of sailor around lately, i think it's been a bit drowned  in the sea of OTT sweet. （‐＾▽＾‐）オーホッホ (Chuckle)

I think the real reason sailor hasn't been around lately is due it's limited design borders (limited themes and almost mono color paltete) and the rise of the related substyle 'Pirate' which is currently VERY popular due to the brand "Alice and the Pirates" which is a sub-label that Baby (BTSSB) created in 2004. It has a strong pirate and pirate-punk theme with bolder colours and more items suitable for Oji/dandy and Aristocrat styles.  this raises the question on what defines an "official" lolita style, pirate isn't in the handbook, but Baby which is a "BRAND" lolita shop, is making pirate, so does that mean it's lolita? and does this change depending on if it's Japanese or European of origin?

one of the reasons for pirates sudden andfast populary could be the sucess of the Pirates of the carribean films through which pirate  themes have become popluar in mainstream media