My dress has eyelet lace in the princess seams on the front, and around the hem. My dress looks like a slightly mottled pink from a distance. The end result is that the Mary Magdalene dress looks like a floral dress, even from a distance. The motifs on the Mary Magdalene dress are a stark color difference from the background, and are 2-3x larger than the motifs on mine. The motifs on mine are very small and subdued, with the color of the pink roses almost matching the pink background. Quick comparison between my fabric and the fabrics on these dresses. I took this book to walmart and bought a fabric that I thought was similar. I had bought GLB #21 at an anime con in 2008, and I looked through it for dresses I thought I could make. However, I fully did not understand exactly HOW MANY details to cram onto a dress. I had a couple of people who were mentoring me while I made this ( There was a thread on the forums called “the unofficial “is it lolita?” thread”, and the help that I got from the more experienced lolitas on that thread is the thing that inspired me to make this blog several years later) and they’re pretty much the only reason why this isn’t a train wreck. We tried very hard to get Baby to answer to literally any other name, but she was happy being BabyGirlDog). (The cat was named Maggie and the dog was BabyGirlDog. What a bummer of a combo breaker is the 2016 picture, to not have one of my pets in the left corner. So, part 1, and a thing that I talk about all the time on this blog, not enough DETAIL. This is especially true when you’re making your own lolita. Instead of doing this chronologically, I’m going to find major flaws with my coordinates and then group those together, because I think this will be easier to discuss repeat problems that new (and old) lolitas tend to make. So let’s stick this under a cut to hide my shame and just jump in. You can tell that I’m old because I live in the USA and I went to high school before all the electives were cut. (I don’t respect this dress enough to press it before photographing it)Īt the time of me making this dress, I had taken my high school’s Clothing and Design class twice, and had made four cosplays. This is probably going to be a long series, because critiquing my past mistakes is amazingly soothing and fun for me, so today’s all about my first dress, which I made for myself in February of 2011: So, a couple of notes before I stick the rest of this under a cut: 1) yes, I’ve had pink hair for over 10 years, and 2) I’m still bad at posing ( though in the recent coord picture I was actually holding up a tree branch so it didn’t get into the shot) and 3) I do now know that you have to press your dresses so they don’t have that xTREME side crease. So here’s second-most recent coord next to third coord ever: I feel the need to put a current coordinate next to my first one, just to establish that, despite what this will look like, I did evolve into a competent lolita-wearer eventually. I made this dress before ever seeing any lolita garment in person. Today, we’ll be talking about the first lolita dress that I made, which was also the first lolita dress that I owned. Thankfully, however, I’ve been working on lolita coordinates for almost ten years now, so we can just go nuts talking about my old bad coords. However, there is no polite way to say to someone, “Hey, your coord needs work! Can I critique it for my 1300 followers on tumblr?” and taking someone’s coordinate to critique without getting permission is absolutely just plain mean. A really useful way to learn how to make a good coordinate is to look at bad coordinates, or coordinates that just aren’t 100% correct, and critique those.
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