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8. Never worn

Due to circumstances (aka everything being currently packed into moving boxes in a place I can’t visit for longer than three minutes at a time) I’ve got a plenty:

• Magic Tea Party Moon Castle Embroidery jsk
• Hinana Queena Moira op x 2
• Restyle Cemetery skirt in purple & gray (x2)
• Infanta Love & Canary jsk
• Angelic Pretty Victorian Tassel jsk
• Ventovir/Will of the Forsaken Rose op

9. Casual

It doesn’t get more casual than what I wore to our pre-Christmas meetup couple of weeks back. There is only a blouse, a jsk, tights, shoes, a wig and a bow, and the makeup is really very simple. This certainly wasn’t the plan. 😀

10. Favorite brand

Angelic Pretty! I mean the OLD Angelic Pretty. Those dreamlike pieces are still to die for (just look at my answers from January) but these latest ones… meh. For practicality and ease on the wallet (plus the sizing/cut suits me well) I will say Infanta. Never to forget Ventovir (Will of the Forsaken) & Illves, both of them Finnish designers/brands.

11. Roses

I like flowers but I’m not huge on them in lolita, apparently! Nothing against them, of course. My only even remotely rose-inspired coord was the one for Hellocon 2016, the event’s theme being the Rose Garden. I wore a Bodyline jsk, pvc leggins, a Lip Service pvc bolero/shrug, Dolls Kill platform shoes and a MintyMix wig with addition of a pearl crown, bows and huge roses on top of my head! My shoes & ring bear roses as well as did Atte’s top hat – (he had Lip Service shirt as well) not to mention my white lace parasol, covered with pastel roses that actually lit up! The guest of honor that year was Baby the Stars Shine Bright.

I might have more, but for now I counted two dresses and two skirts with roses (there are smaller ones in others but not as much as ”the main attraction”). You can follow the links to see a coord with each.

• Sniffs the Rose Afternoon Tea Nostalgia jsk
• Angelic Pretty Lady Rose Back Frill jsk
• Bodyline high waisted skirt in red
• Bodyline other skirt in red

12. Cats

At first I thought this was a hit and miss… but it weren’t! In a promised land of lolita & eternal cat prints, my ONLY two things are AP novelty towel that everybody got from attending Witches’ Follies aka WTF aka Hellocon 2019. And for the Moon Castle from the question number 8 – I think there lurks a cat somewhere? So, yay? 😛

13. Teddy bears

Well, easy! But why are the answers always so that one dress is maybe in three categories while the others are completely left out? WHY? 😀 I bet there’s something wrong with my wardrobe!

The Baby, the Stars Shine Bright Teddy Bouquet Gobelin JSK (which also is one of my oldest dresses and I’m going to love it to threads) is an obvious answer to this! I don’t know why, but when I Am fleamarketing (and I do it often) I occasionally (more than once) bump into a gobelin bear purses/handbags (either actual vintage/vintage-ish, grandmother-style) and I’m always tempted to buy them just for this dress! 😀 It goes from bear(iness) to chocolatecake(ness) so easily! 🙂

14. Hats

Hat’s are just making their appearance to my lolita life! I have a love for bonnets & tiaras (and yes, still, to ponytail-wigs) so for a long time I felt I have no need for hats. When beautifully executed & carried they are a gorgeous part of any outfit, but I’m harboring them for later – as we age we need something new, and for me hats are the perfect answer to where to change my ponies when maturing 😀 For handbags & shoes as well, I’ve only collected those for a few years now. Naturally hats go perfectly with young persons too, it’s just that I need something to look forward to!

Hat 1 / Hat 2 / Hat 3

-FreakyAngel

Earlier this month I saw this circulating in the Instagram. I do not own this prompt in any way but as I participated the bigger one this year I thought it would be fun to do this one too. I will do it in four parts, a week at a time.

1. First thing bought this year

Can be seen on the left. Behold my dream dress, (that I never thought I would be able to have), the infamous & coveted Hinana Queena Moira OP in lavender colorway with a matching hat! Oh, and I’ve got two 😛 Atte bought the second one for me a week later because I was too afraid to wear it – in case of breaking or staining it 😀 But now I can twin with myself! 😉

1. Oldest item

I thought that after getting so many new things this year the answer would have been different but no, still either my Angelic Pretty Crown Trump Skirt from 2005 or the Baby, the Stars Shine Bright Teddy Bouquet Gobelin JSK also released 2005. Baby pink and gobelin bears, so lovely! <3

1. Thing you’ve owned longest

As seen already in the ”egl wardrobe challenge” that I participated in the beginning of this year (this answer cannot change, or could it?) my First Piece Ever was Bodyline’s (just think about it, beginner lolitas these days actually have an option on this, almost for everyone in my ”generation” (if you weren’t super, super lucky) the answer is either DIY or Bodyline 😛 ) Alice in Wonderland skirt in colors so vivid you could go blind! But I still like it. Wonder why? 🙂

1. furry

One might now think of fursuits, so popular in the con-scene these days (sometimes even paired with lolita fashion) but no, my take on fur is just more, more, moooore fluffynes – but not on my face 😀 . I own so many pairs of legwarmers, furboots, coats, mittens, beanies and bags that it could be counted as my pet peeve: especially as there are many that would ONLY combine a tiny vintage fur muff or scarf with lolita…Obviously, that’s not me 😀

1. snow

Well, this we got plenty! 😛 As living in Lapland, one of the perks is that you can take aaaaallll of from wearing snow coords, snow prints, boots, scarfs, mittens, coats and those threaded ”thicker materials” that there’s always warnings in Lace Market about 😀 Any velvet, gobelin or even wool is not too thick in here! (Nor is any wig too hot, ever 😉 ). Here you can see my quirkiest lolita dress so far, the knitted one! That baby is warm even in -30C, tested, proved and found perfect!

Also, snow prints & ”Christmas” dresses, especially with fur details…all suitable in here more than a mere week per year! Lighter materials work too, as seen in my this years ”first snow coord” with this Infanta piece paired with light & airy, almost paintbrushed things!

1. chocolate

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE chocolate prints (one of my favorite themes in lolita) but unfortunately I don’t own any! At first I thought I’d have to leave this part empty, but then I remembered that this summer at Matsucon I was kind of chocolate inspired. Well, chocolate and strawberries. I had some chocolate/candy jewellery, chocolate brown cardigan & wig, and in the dress there are chocolate hearts in the print. So yay, chocolate!

1. international lolita day

Now this could have also been the chocolate coord, at least kind of. We had plans with a part of our comm to meet in Rovaniemi and take tea in our favorite tea shop, but due to everyone being busy with other things it did not happen. It’s always sad to miss out either of the ILD, but I guess this year has been full of difficulties (aka being homeless atm) anyway.

I was going to wear either my Petit Patisserie from Angelic Pretty or my newest addition, Eternal Carnival OP (also AP), that desperately needs another take on it as I only wore it the day after I bought it at Hellocon (The Angelic Pretty tea party to be precise) coorded with whatever happened to be on hand – which wasn’t much nor my intention.

This same post will be published in Finnish as well. Also, three more parts are coming your way if you just stay tuned! Feel free to participate as well!

-FreakyAngel