While I'm putting a halt to my brand obsession, it doesn't mean that I am going to stop buying lolita (or a few small brand items here and there). After going to a couple of meet ups and interacting with other lolitas, I've realized that brand isn't everything. Therefore I will not feel uncomfortable wearing bodyline around the other girls anymore. By coming to this conclusion, I was able to put together a casual loli bodyline coord in my head. I've never even considered wearing lolita casually, but now that the fall semester is coming up, I'd like to wear lolita to school. The cool thing about casual loli is that I will not feel the need to wear a wig with my coord.
Now on to what I have planned out! I still haven't bought everything for Milky Berry, but I have a lot of time to do that; as I'm not really planning on wearing it until at least October. I am hoping to do my casual coord for $150 or less.
The focal point of this coord is going to be the skirt. I am planning on buying Bodyline's soft cream skirt in black. I already have the JSK version of this in mint. At $25 + EMS shipping, it shouldn't cost
more than $50. I can't find a good photo of the skirt by itself, so I found this from another blog. I'm blotching out the faces of the girls as I don't personally know them.
I am going to buy the skirt on the left.
For my top, I am going to wear a black blouse that I already have.
This isn't the blouse that I have, but it's just to give you an idea!
I need to buy a light pink cardigan to go over it, where I can probably get at the mall for less than $20.
In order to make the cardigan not as boring, I initially thought of pinning my pink chocomint stars to it. However, I think it would be far to much pink on top. A simple solution to this is a "bittersweet" fuzzy star from kawaii goods, which I still have to buy. The star will really pop in the pink backround, and coordinate wonderfully with the base color. Kawaii goods recently dropped her fuzzy star prices, making them considerably more affordable.
LOVE THESE!
As for my socks, I would like to buy Angelic Pretty's Toy Parade socks in black. I really don't like the Toy Parade series, as I find it a tad childish, but the socks are outfitted in conversation hearts!
I'm planning on ordering these along with my Berry Berry socks from Angelic Pretty USA's website once I get paid again!
As for my shoes, I am going to wear my pink RHS shoes that I already have.
Mine are at the bottom right.
So far, this coord will run me about $90 with the socks and skirt. So that leaves me with about $60 left over for acsessories. My biggest issue is which bag to get. Bodyline has this weird lookin' apple bag that I'm considering:
This is only $6 on bodyline's website. If I bought this I'd cut off the handles and cover up the weird green leaf thing with something. I'm thinking black, lightly deco'd felt stars.
Also, for my hair, I'm going to wear the ice cream cookie clips that I made. The "frosting" on the cookie is going to be be pink, to coordinate with the rest of my accessories. As for my necklace, I'm going to wear my bear ice cream parfait from kawaii goods. I'm still debating on what kind of earrings I should make.
And of course, if I REALLY want to spoil myself, and if another one of my Amazon books sells, I'm going to buy these totally bitchin rings:
I'd be able to wear these with just about anything.
I'm also going to try to make some bracelets, as I just bought a huge bag of cute plastic stars.
Until next time!
Update: After spending about an hour and a half on Angelic Pretty's website trying to figure out why it kept declining my debit card even though I had money, I finally got through and ordered my stuff! I got my 2 rings and 2 pairs of socks. I'll buy the skirt, star, and cardigan next pay period.
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