2016 Wardrobe Post

Welcome to my first ever wardrobe post! I've been collecting Lolita items for about three years now but this January is the first time I've felt I've had a wardrobe impressive enough to warrant a wardrobe post. Mine isn't as impressive as some, but every item I have is one I love dearly.

Clockwork Rose's Twinklebat - My very first Lolita item and one of my dream dresses from the second I saw it. This dress is why I ended up wearing sweet Lolita instead of classic like I had been planning.

Rouge Aerie's Nightmare Rising - Another dream dream dress already achieved. There's not a single element of this dress I don't love and it's so comfy to wear.

Bodyline's L144 in black

Bodyline's L580 in pink - I've dubbed this Harlequin Witch.

Chess Story's Miss Bunny

Bunny & Black's Nurse in "Creepy" / Bodyline's L305 in grey

Handmade / Offbrand - The offbrand one has pockets!

Bodyline's L364 in black and off white - The "off white" is actually a super crisp pure white.

All offbrand - I picked up three of these for five bucks and the last one for ten, all on clearance.

Vintage - thrifted / Titina / Loris / Angelic Pretty

Target, Sock Dreams, Sock It To Me, Angelic Pretty, Sourpuss, Sock Dreams x2

Kate Spade - thrifted / Payless / Bordello - thrifted / Bodyline's shoes269

Ebay / Thrifted

Thrifted / LuminescenTea

Baby The Stars Shine Bright's Lillianne

Mostly handmade and offbrand. Some notable brands include Holley Tea Time, We're All Mad Here, Chocomint, Bonjour Honey and Pastel Galaxyz.

This isn't quite everything; I have a lot of offbrand I've managed to incorporate into my various coords but it's all fairly boring on it's own. Actually doing up a wardrobe post like this and comparing it to other Lolitas' has me realizing what sort of things I'm still missing. I guess I'll have to revise my goals for this year already!

First Package of 2016

My first new thing this year is actually something I ordered back at Halloween. I took advantage of the sale Holley Tea Time was having on their clothing in October to buy their Rainbow Spooky Bats skater dress in purple. I think it was for 30% off so I got it for 80.50USD instead of the usual 115USD, which was super exciting. I've been wanting one of their skater dresses for years and as of now, I have one :D

This is one of their made to order items, so there was quite a bit of time between when I ordered and when I received the dress. I ordered on October 30th of 2015 and I received the shipping notice on December 29th, making it almost two months between ordering and shipping. However, once it shipped, it came very quickly. It arrived only four days later, on January 2nd.

The package itself was a surprisingly small poly mailer. Inside, the dress was sealed inside a cello bag with business cards and a sticker sealed in a separate cello bag. The dress is so cute in person and it fits me like a glove. The material is very stretchy but the print doesn't distort in a weird way even at max stretch. The print is super crisp and the construction is very nice. It wasn't even very wrinkly coming out of the packaging!

I'm super excited to wear this dress. I'm already coming up with coords for it. Thank you Holley Tea Time for the wonderful dress <3

Order from Pastel Galaxyz

About two weeks ago, I placed an order for one of Pastel Galaxyz' Dreamy Bow Rings and I just got the package today! I'm super excited about it because it's even cuter in person >w<

I placed the order on March 15th and, since I am the worst at using paypal, I used the echeck option so it took a couple of days for my payment to be processed. Once it was, the package was shipped out the following Monday and it arrived today after the strangest detour to the town like fifteen miles away where I haven't lived for three years.

The mailer was pink and very well sealed with super cute Hello Kitty tape, and it fit into my apartment's very narrow mail box with room to spare, which is always nice. It felt much fuller than a single ring could warrant and my excitement skyrocketed.

Inside were two smaller packages sealed in the cutest little bags ever. The pink one held the ring I ordered and the blue one held not one, not two, not even three, but four extra goodies.

In addition to the ring I ordered, I got three bracelets and a second ring! The ring is a My Little Pony mold that looks kind of like Pinky Pie, but I could be wrong there. Whoever it is, it's super cute and a great surprise addition to my accessory collection. The candy bracelet and the heart bracelet are also super cute and will be great with some of my lolita. The third bracelet, the one on the far left in the above picture, is kandi style, with elastic string instead of metal findings, and is the most wonderfully absurd collection of adorable beads I have seen since I was actually a kandi kid myself.

The construction of all the items I received is top notch. The rings are both nice and solid and securely glued to the ring bases very neatly. While the bow ring has a perfectly flat back, the pony ring is not quite as clean and has a bit of a raised edge around the head. This doesn't effect wearability at all and, as a free surprise gift, I have absolutely no complaints. The kandi style bracelet is made with two strands of super strong plastic elastic string with a very solid knot and all excess strings neatly clipped. The two bracelets with metal finds are both very well put together with no gaps in the jump rings.

Over all, I am amazingly pleased with my order from Pastel Galaxyz. I definitely recommend them and I'll definitely be ordering from them again. Thank you so much Pastel Galaxyz for the amazing ring and all the amazing gifts <3

Some coords from the past month or so, in no particular order. This really features how much offbrand I use in my coords, especially in comparison to the same three lolita specific things I wear with pretty much every coord orz

Skirt : Bunny & Black's Nurse Print in creepy

Blouse, Boots : Bodyline

Brooch : We're All Mad Here

Everything else is all either offbrand or handmade by me.

 Boots and blouse are the same Bodyline ones as above, everything else is either hand made by me or offbrand.

Not lolita but still cute as heck. Drawing little hearts or stars with eyeliner on my face is probably my favourite bit of detailing o3o

Lolita Goals for 2015

a couple months late for new years resolutions whoops

• Round out my basics

I've been seriously building up a lolita wardrobe for about two years now but it's been vvvvvvvvvvery slow going. Currently, I've got a pretty good little wardrobe that, with the help of lots of offbrand, lets me build a good variety of coords, but I definitely still need a whole lot of basics -- shoes, accessories, headwear, blouses, socks, bags, the whole shebang. A lot of what I need I have ideas for specific items to get since I do a LOT of window shopping so it's just a matter coming up with the funds. At the top of my list is Bodyline's L364 blouse in purple, a pair of wrist cuffs, at least one of the many bat themed headwear in my wishlists and a star shaped bag. Totally achievable things.

• By either Guilty Meltin' Sweets or Merry Making In The Ghost Town

These two AATP prints are at the absolute top of my lolita wishlist. They're everything I want from a lolita print (spooky? adorable? my size? hella check) and if I can swing it, I would love to pick up one of the jsks.

• Get at least one of the border print designs in my head actually designed and printed

Being an artist and a lolita is vvvvv hard for me because I keep thinking of perfect prints for my wardrobe. I've got four or five pretty solid ideas right now that I would like to eventually make for myself since solidly sweet things with creepy cute elements are far and few between, but first, I need to do the designing.

• Make more of my own lolita clothes in general

I have pretty dramatic proportions, a very limited income, and a marked preference for uncommon design elements. Making my own stuff as much as I can is definitely a smart way to build up my wardrobe, plus it'll give me something to do other than tumbl.

• Drink more tea

I have so much tea and I want to buy more because I love tea but I can't because my alloted tea shelf is already crammed full ;n;

• Find a nice balance between lolifying my room and keeping it from being overwhelmingly femme for my boyfriend's sake

My boyfriend is very supportive of me and my strange hobbies but he draws the line at pink and frilly bedding. I can compromise on this (though Target's shabby chic bedding is so freaking cute I want it) by going more romantic goth than sweet when it comes to decor, but bringing at least our bedroom into a more cohesive design is definitely something I want to do when we move this year. Step one is actually figure out how to put together my bed frame and get a bed skirt. Step two is refinishing my dresser to more or less match the rest of the wood in my room. Step three involves art, art everywhere.

• Join my local comm, go to a meet

This is probably going to be the hardest thing on this list for me to achieve. I have pretty wicked social anxiety so new situations with new people are really stressful but I definitely want to be more active in the community. This blog gets me off to a good start and my roommate and my sister are are both open to going with me to a meet to temper my anxiety so I have high hopes that I'll be able to check this off my goal list for this year.