Category: dress

dear celine, dress, gothic and lolita, victorian maiden

Predictability lol

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So about 5 weeks ago I ordered a dress from Dear Celine – a black/grey classical high-waisted affair. It’s been 5 weeks, so stuff is bound to happen in that time. I look at dresses online every day.

I’ve also been obsessing over a particular Victorian Maiden dress – which happens to be on sale right now. I keep telling myself that the reason I love it is because of the print – flamingoes! I just love flamingoes. And pelicans. But they don’t have a pelican print.
Tonight I was just thinking about stuff I like. I thought about these two dresses, amongst others. I looked at the pictures. Then I thought… wait a second. Flip the Dear Celine dress. Enhance… Enhance.


SAMESAMESAMESAMESAMESAMESAMESAMESAMESAMESAMESAMESAME

Does anyone else agree with me that these are pretty much the same?

I can be so predictable.
I’ll be receiving the Dear Celine dress in the mail probably this week, so I’m going to write up a review. I’m quite excited.
(I still want the Victorian Maiden dress, too.)
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New Dress!sf

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Today I made this dress! It’s from a Burda pattern (I forget which, but a new one). There’s a zip at the back and the bodice is lined, the skirt has 4 panels. I gotta say, the Burda instructions were so hard to follow. I didn’t realise that I needed lining until I was nearly done – it just never said the word “lining”. Burda instructions are not for beginners! But the dress itself was fairly easy, although because of my unique size I had to alter quite a bit – I took the straps up about 3cm, which makes the bodice really tight… ah well. I’ll fix it later.

Pictures!
On the road again… without a petticoat.
With a petticoat

In action. I’m happy with it!
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KidsYoYo and Qutieland Review

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Part 1
Thursday, 17th September: Today I ordered this lovely KidsYoYo OP in the blue floral fabric from Qutieland. This is the original Mary Magdalene one (about twice as expensive) that it’s based on. Beautiful, isn’t it! Charles says it looks like it’s from Mushroom Kingdom. I am cool with that assessment. I emailed Qutieland with a query about size, and I got a reply saying that they will make the dress according to my measurements, and not to a fixed size. They will take my measurements and add 3 – 4cm for ease, and there is lacing at the back. This dress is supposed to take 20 – 25 working days to make. That’s a max of 5 weeks!
It ended up being $133 AUD, shipping included.

Part 2
Tuesday, 20th October: Today my dress arrived! It was folded neatly in a plastic bag in a postage bag. It needed an iron when I took these photos, but I couldn’t resist putting it on immediately! The quality is really good. It is lined with a thin cotton fabric, and the outer fabric is cotton. The tiered underskirt is made from cotton broderie anglaise. The dress comes with two bow brooches, one made of the dress fabric and one made of a complimentary colour – in this case, a dark aqua kind of colour. I didn’t expect two! Very happy.
The sewing is all good, a couple of loose threads but that’s normal. It fits me really well and I’m totally happy.
The only weird thing is that I didn’t get notified that it was shipped until about 5 hours after it arrived. My dress traveled through time. Best dress ever.

Photos! I’m not wearing much of a petticoat (I have one on order from Qutieland ^.^) but you get the idea.


Here’s the dress as it came, with tag and two brooches:
Here’s a close-up of the two brooches. I’m really happy that they’re brooches and not sewn on. Now I can use one on my dress and one on my jacket!
I’ve always been happy with my purchases from Qutieland, and this is no exception. Winner!