#Buy Petticoats Online

[malco-modes]

The Best Place to Shop for Women's Petticoats This New Year 2023

Are you looking for the perfect place to buy women's petticoats online? Look no further! In this blog post, we'll be discussing the best place to buy petticoats and other women's garments online. From luxury boutiques to budget-friendly stores, we've got you covered with the best options for finding the perfect petticoat. So if you're in the market for a new petticoat, read on to discover the best place to shop!

Amazon

When it comes to shopping for women's petticoats, Amazon is one of the most convenient and cost-effective options. With a wide selection of styles and colors available, Amazon offers something to suit everyone's taste. From classic tulle petticoats to fashionably designed pettiskirts, shoppers can find a great range of petticoats to match any dress. The prices are also competitive, so you can find quality pieces at an affordable price. Plus, with Amazon's Prime membership, you can enjoy fast and free shipping on your purchases. Whether you're looking for a classic petticoat for a formal occasion or a unique pettiskirt for everyday wear, Amazon has everything you need.

Malco Modes

When it comes to buying women's petticoats, there is no better place than Malco Modes. As the largest and most respected manufacturer of high-quality petticoats, pettiskirts, pettipants, and slips, as well as Square/Western dance apparel in the United States, Malco Modes offers a vast selection of fashionable and functional pieces at an affordable price. They pride themselves on providing the highest quality products made with attention to detail, comfort, and style. No matter what kind of petticoat you're looking for, Malco Modes will have the perfect one for you! Additionally, they have great customer service should you have any questions while shopping. Whether you are looking for something to wear for a special occasion or something to complete a classic look,  With their huge selection of women's petticoats, Malco Modes makes sure to have something to suit any woman's individual style.

Let's take a look at the collections of Petticoats at Malco Modes  

Michelle Knee Length Petticoat Our Fullest Dance Petticoat For Serious Skirt Volume Vintage Clothing And Rockabilly - Red 

At Malco Modes, you'll find a huge selection of women's petticoats, from long, full-length styles for max volume, to cute and flirty knee-length petticoats that are perfect for casualwear or special occasions. With such a wide variety of petticoats available, you'll be sure to find something that fits your style!

Chiffon Petticoat For Vintage Clothing, Wedding/Formal, And Rockabilly Wear

When it comes to classic and timeless fashion, nothing makes a statement quite like women's petticoats. Whether you’re looking for something that will make you look elegant for a wedding or formal event, or looking for a unique addition to your vintage clothing collection, Malco Modes has the perfect chiffon petticoats for any occasion.

For those who want to add a bit of extra drama to their look, Malco Modes also offers special design petticoats with lace ruffles and pleated detailing. All of their petticoats are made from 100% chiffon fabric, which is light and comfortable, yet strong and durable. Plus, each petticoat is easy to clean and care for, ensuring that your look lasts for years to come.

So, if you’re looking for an affordable way to add a bit of elegance to your wardrobe, then look no further than Malco Modes’ chiffon petticoats. With their wide range of styles and sizes, you’ll be sure to find the perfect petticoat to add the finishing touch to any look.

Crinoline Petticoat Underskirt Full Slip W/ Lace

For women looking to add an extra layer of frilly fun to their look, a crinoline petticoat underskirt full slip with lace is the perfect addition. This type of petticoat has a full skirt with a comfortable elastic waist and a sheer lace top. It adds a flirty, feminine flair to any ensemble, whether you’re attending a formal event or just enjoying a night on the town. Women's petticoats are a great way to add a touch of vintage elegance to any wardrobe and this crinoline underskirt is no exception. The lacy design will add a romantic element to any outfit, while the full skirt ensures your look will always be polished and put together. Whether you’re dressing up for a special occasion or just want to add a bit of femininity to your day-to-day attire, this petticoat is a perfect choice.

Luxury Chiffon Adult Petticoat Slip Lace Trim Adjustable Waist And Length Ideal For Moderate Lift For Rockabilly

For the ultimate in classic rockabilly fashion, look no further than the Luxury Chiffon Adult Petticoat Slip Lace Trim Adjustable Waist And Length Ideal For Moderate Lift. This petticoat slip features a beautiful lace trim and an adjustable waist and length that can be customized for your perfect fit. The lace trim adds a touch of sophistication and femininity to the petticoat, while the adjustable waist and length provide a moderate lift for an effortless rockabilly look. This slip is perfect for dressing up vintage clothing or for special occasions, such as weddings and formal events. The quality materials used to construct the slip are both durable and lightweight, so you can feel confident that it will last through many wears and occasions.

Conclusion

This New Year, you can find the perfect Women's petticoats online at Malcomodes! With a wide selection of styles, colors, and sizes, they are the perfect one-stop-shop for all your Women's petticoat needs. Whether you're looking for a classic lace petticoat or something with a modern twist, Malcomodes is the best place to buy petticoats online and it is sure to have something to fit your style. Plus, their friendly customer service and fast shipping make it easy to get the perfect petticoat just in time for your special occasion.

[altruistic-meme]

i didn't get the specific one i was after, but i DID get a k-cup coffee maker!!! fuck yeah!!! and it came with a coffee filter too, so i can still make regular coffee in it :D

[iambydollyjain]

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[mayakern]

our flash sale is ongoing right now!! 🎉

we are offering 25% off ALL items except our newest mini skirts and petticoats! all purchases are eligible for our 'buy 2 skirts, get the 3rd 50% off' deal!

this sale will end in ~30 hours, so be sure to check it out!

[stellastra-scribbles]

Finally completed the outfit reference for Jayna Stiles, a half-elven NPC follower from Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.

Outfit breakdown (or "outfit onions" as I like to call them lol~)

I really like Jayna Stiles and her backstory + goals of becoming a technological healer. I'm also a sucker for 19th-century fashion and I have an unhealthily large collection of reference books and a bunch of files saved from online museum collections (I've got about 22+ gigabytes of refs downloaded from the Library of Congress alone haha I need more hobbies).

Back on track, I really just wanted to design Jayna an outfit that suited her character more than her in-game sprites while also being practical for travel/adventuring.

More unrestrained detailed design ramblings below the cut~

Individual layers. I pulled most of her colors from her default outfit.

Since Arcanum's starting year is 1885, I usually picture the "modern" sense of fashion in big cities like Tarant and Caladon taking cues from real life 1885-1890s western fashions (to give myself some leeway with references). Smaller towns can be a bit more dated, but I try not to go back further than the 1870s in most cases.

However, for a character like Jayna, who hails from Dernholm, I gave her clothing from references dating back to the 1850-1860s. I did this because Jayna says in her recruitment dialogue that "[her] parents weren't wealthy people, and [she doesn't] make much money here in Dernholm," so I took this to mean that she likely wears clothing to last, wearing hand-me-downs, makes her own clothes, and mending it over the years rather than buying new clothes.

Given that Dernholm (+ the Kingdom of Cumbria in general) isn't in the best state when the game starts, they may be behind the times and the latest fashions take longer to reach Dernholm.

Gar: “Alas, poor Dernholm! Once home to the legendary Dragon Knights, it has fallen on hard times since Praetor became king some 60 odd years ago. He despises all technology, and I think he's recently become sour on magick as well.”

Herkemer Oggdoddler: “For two generations Cumbria languished as an economically abused and technologically impaired backwater in the shadow of Tarant. Its once fine capital, Dernholm, has become a ruin.”

Layer 1 - Chemise + Open Drawers. I deliberately drew the drawers as fairly loose so as to not expose her without having to redraw the pose or resort to "Barbie doll anatomy."

Various resources demonstrated the chemise being tucked into the drawers or worn fully untucked/loose, but I drew it as tucked-in for the sake of reference visibility, so perhaps either one works in practice.

Layer 2 - Corset + Socks/Stockings. I picked a more "contemporary" (1880s) design for the corset as I imagine it would be a more custom-fitted garment. Plus, anyone who has ever worn bras will attest that a bra that properly fits is comparable to a good pair of shoes: never cheap out on it because if you take care of it, it will take care of you. Perhaps that same logic can be applied to corsets in ye olden days and historically-inspired fantasy settings.

For Jayna, despite the simplistic design, it might be one of the few luxuries she can afford for herself given the necessity of the garment for bust support.

Layer 3 - Trousers + Shoes. I was inspired by vivandières and Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, who typically wore trousers beneath their skirts. Dr. Walker was a "surgeon, women’s rights advocate, abolitionist, and spy, [and] the first female U.S. Army surgeon during the Civil War." Since Jayna is an aspiring technological healer, I feel like an allusion to Dr. Walker and her practicality was appropriate.

Layer 4 - Petticoat. It's just something to fill out the skirt volume a tad. I considered adding a corset cover in this layer but I did like having the upper outline of the corset somewhat visible in the shirtwaist layer to illustrate her living situation (aka she doesn't have one or just has a poor-quality one). As a modern-age woman, I think this this all already looks like a laundering nightmare to wash by hand.

Layer 5 - Shirtwaist + Outer Skirt. I really like the shape of the 1860s Garibaldi blouse's sleeves (I think these are bishop sleeves? correct me if I'm wrong...) and the stripes allude to some 19th century nurse uniforms. I initially went for a plaid pattern but that was a pain to draw and using a pre-existing plaid brush/pattern just didn't look as good as I wanted it to be.

Layer 6 - Sash + Pistol Holster + Bag. Given Jayna's goals of becoming a tech healer, I took design cues from vivandières, who were 19th-century women attached to military regiments, with a few known vivandières being nurses (like Anna Etheridge).

However, rather than lifting the vivandière look completely, I imagine Jayna would attempt to replicate the silhouette with her own clothes. The bag is a bit of an amalgamation of various 18th-19th century hunting/frontier bags, so I apologize that I don't have a direct reference image.

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Of course, in the end, I did take some liberties with the outfit so it's not completely historically-accurate, but that's okay since Arcanum is a fictional universe.

I guess I should've prefaced that I'm no expert on historical fashion, just a casual enthusiast who thinks "ooh old dress is pretty!"

I just wanted to see how far I could go before I had to make some concessions, such as:

Jayna's hair is short and worn loose while irl Victorian women typically had long hair and wore them up (there were documented exceptions of course). Many portraits for both female player characters and female NPCs across all in-game races show short hair and loose long hair, so let's just assume that 19th-century Arcanum has more relaxed feminine hair standards compared to the real-life 19th century western world. Also, irl 19th-century rural women did sell their hair for money, so maybe there's something to apply to the world of Arcanum with that. Or maybe the short-hair craze just hit Arcanum a few decades early *shrug*.

I initially planned to give her gloves, but many resources show vivandières not really wearing them, preferring to go barehanded.

The clothing colors may be a bit too saturated for the era I took inspiration from, but I wanted to stay somewhat faithful to Jayna's original sprite colors.

I did simplify some garments down for the sake of me having to draw enough layers as it is lol. Sorry if the lace wasn't fancy enough or that she doesn't have headwear. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sometimes you just wanna finish a project and be done with it.

hoo boy, that was a lot

Thank You For Coming to My TED Talk :)

Now go play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura~

[nadianova]

May I ask where you got your maid uniform? (the one you wear while holding your new-ish pup squishmallow) I've been looking to get a nicer maid uniform and yours looks lovely 🥺

it was bought from taobao which is like chinese ebay or whatever with a courier service but i couldnt for the life of me explain how it was done given that i don't even know what the names/brands of these clothes are since they're all in chinese

there was also a lot of searching involved since for my size I'm otherwise pretty small but my tranny shoulders don't fit in anything and asian sizes tend to be pretty small anyway

in the end i had someone just pick the pieces out and basically hand hold me through the whole process for free cause i was lucky but i think the best answer regarding this is that instead of trying to buy a maid outfit online its better to try a buy a dress and an apron separately

from what i was looking a maid outfit in this quality would have been like 300€ or something based on handcrafted sets on what i was seeing on etsy since people would sell it as a special outfit but for me it ended up being like 100€+20€ shipping cause its like just dress and apron and a petticoat really

i was surprised how amazingly good the quality is tho its like really comfortable and well made. i don't really have any special clothes or buy dresses so this is like the most expensive thing I've ever owned (even if this was relatively cheap for what i imaged id have to pay for a maid outfit)

so ye idk advice is to find a friend or something who is really into lolita fashion and ask for more details

[pinkprettycure]

not to mention they get funky about ppl ''breaking the rules'' and tell ppl they cant be a real lolita without this this and that.

then act confused when newcomers have the expectations of needing to spend a lot of money in order to be part of the community.

like you're 19 year old fat kid who wants to get into lolita. you need a plus size dress, a blouse, stockings that fit fat calves, hopefully theyre under a US size 8 because they need lolita shoes and asian sizes also run small. a petticoat because not wearing one is evil, bloomers because youre a weirdo if your panties are all out like that, oh and accessories and to do their make up. of course. because if you dont do your hair and makeup what even is the point.

and you cant buy any of this from like hot topic or anything. you cant wear a regular blouse you freak. you cant wear a cute t shirt it HAS to be a lolita cutsew. you cant wear sneakers ewwww thats ita. you can DIY your accessories but you need to buy the right lace online because the stuff they sell at joanne is ita.

oh but you can buy kid easter socks from target thats okay :3

[gothhabiba]

hello! i am a longtime huge admirer of your clothing/fashion sense, as well as a longtime backreader of your #victorian and #goth tags. i am really interested in what you've written about Victorian dress, and i am looking to get more into 19th and 20th century clothing for gender + diy craft reasons. i'm so sorry if you've answered similar questions before, but do you have any tips for where a newbie should start researching? either way, thank you thank you, your blog opens my mind wide and brings me much joy and reflection!

General research:

Spend some time searching the 'net, museum websites, and archive sites for fashion plates (such as archive.org—link leads to a date-restricted query for "fashion"—or the Smithsonian—link leads to fashion plates in their image collection). Take note of what you like, as well as which styles correspond to which decade. Karolina Żebrowska has a good rundown of English fashion over the decades.

The undergarments are what does the most work creating the necessary silhouette to make Victorian & Edwardian womenswear fit properly. If you've figured out a decade you want your outfit to draw on, doing a quick search for "[decade] undergarments" should bring up plenty of blog posts, which may or may not cite primary sources (such is the fickle nature of the historical blogosphere). Bustle pads and sleeve supports can be purchased or made; they're both pretty simple, and tutorials abound.

Purchasing clothing:

Reproduction made-to-measure clothing can be readily found on etsy, but can be in the several-hundred USD range. I've had some luck finding vintage reproduction clothing (like, a skirt someone made by hand in the 1980s to a 1900s walking skirt pattern), which tends to be much cheaper.

Men, women, and children wore stays and corsets. As far as I know, Orchard Corset has the cheapest OTR corsets that are good quality and safe to wear. If you get a corset in the style of a specific decade handmade or made to measure, make sure that the seller tells you what the boning material is, what construction the boning is (spiral steel is sturdiest and most flexible), how many bones there are, what the corset material is, &c.—otherwise it's an indication of an unserious maker. Follow general advice for wearing corsets at a waist reduction (lace up slowly, break it in, &c.).

Antique Menswear on youtube gives a lot of good, practical advice for wearing late 19th-century and early 20th-century men's clothing (including where to buy reproductions and how to treat them, how to modify modern shirts to 19th-century standards with basically no sewing skills, &c.).

Actual antique clothing can be found and purchased online or at estate sales—usually in very small sizes, but I've seen Edwardian skirts and petticoats in an XL (also a small size, but...). You can also just simply browse this kind of thing for inspiration and save photos of anything you think you'd like to recreate.

Even clothing that was not "meant" to be worn by re-enactors can be clearly historically influenced (e.g. the huge boom in Victorian- and Edwardian- style blouses in the 1980s), so keep an open mind when shopping for vintage clothing! A lot of 1970s dresses that look "hippy" on their own can look very Victorian with the right undergarments and an updo. A lot of 1980s men's trousers also approach the right silhouette for the 1910s-inspired three-piece suit I'm trying to put together. Witness also the recent trend for big puffed sleeves!

Making or modifying clothing:

Victorian and Edwardian manuals for garment drafting and sewing can be found online—go to archive.org and search for "sewing," "drafting," or "dressmaking," then use the filters on the left to chuse which year(s) you want to see results from. Most of these have patterns that are sort of vibes-based: The work-woman's guide is one manual that claims to have patterns laid out strictly according to a grid.

I don't sew garments, but if Victorian pattern-writing for sewing is anything like it is for knitting, that may not be super useful. People do sell updates and graded 'translations' of antique patterns (which tend to be written in only one size) on etsy and ebay—just make sure from the description that it's 'deciphered' and translated rather than a scan of the original pattern!

One of the easiest things that you can do to add some Victorian or Goth flair to an otherwise plain-looking garment is to add trim. You can knit, crochet, or tat your own trim from Victorian lace-making patterns; purchase antique trim from resale sites; or buy braided or lace trim very cheaply at any craft store. Trim doesn't just have to go around the hems and cuffs of a garment: lace "insertions" between two pieces of fabric, as well as raised geometric patterns over the surface of a garment, are common in 19th-century clothing.

[ID: first image shows a black overdress showing lace insertions between strips of fabric of equal width, creating a striped effect. second image is the back of a black blouse with trim in a geometric design centred around right angles and parallel lines. end ID]

Jewellery (women's and men's):

Actual antique jewellery (including men's jewellery and fastenings) is not as expensive as you might think. Even if you're not willing to spend a lot of time learning what to look for and scouring estate sales for people who don't know or care what they have, late Victorian mass-manufactured costume jewellery often goes for sub-$50 or even $30 prices at auction on ebay (USD, in the US—in my experience it is even more plentiful and cheaper in the UK).

Specifically, I've lucked out with lots ("lot" as in, a bunch of small things being sold together) of "vintage men's accessories" going for $20 or so that contained Victorian cufflinks (in low-karat gold, mother-of-pearl, and jet), collar studs (in low-karat gold and base metals), and shirt studs (in low-karat gold, with garnets and seed pearls, &c.). Searching for lots of accessories is generally a good idea since by and large people do not know what these things are... but if you're willing to spend a little more for something that has been identified and is more likely to still be with its set, use the specific search term for that item (e.g. "antique collar studs").

Answers to Questions About Old Jewelry (though aimed at estate sellers and, if memory serves, full of regrettable pæans to Queen Victoria) is a good reference text to dating antique jewellery. I also recommend Miller's Illustrated Guide to Jewelry Appraising. Both of these texts are available on libgen.

Feel free to ask me follow-up questions if you want more detail on any of these points. As you can see I am perfectly happy to blather away on this topic

[bryng]

it's bandcamp friday

HEY EVERYONE IT'S BANDCAMP FRIDAY SO I'D BE VERY APPRECIATIVE IF YOU TOOK THE CHANCE TO BUY SOME OF MY MUSIC!!!

in case you don't know, Bandcamp Friday is a rare event where Bandcamp doesn't take a portion of revenue, so it's very important to support artists on bandcamp if you want to prove that alternate online marketplaces for music can exist! even if it isn't me!

I ALSO just released the anniversary remaster of my 5th album, Petticoat, so go give it a listen! and hey, if you like the tunes but dont want to / cant pay for it, no worries! i put all my stuff up for pay what you want so that you can get high quality downloads for free! because i love you!

SUPPORT BANDCAMP ARTISTS TODAY!!!

[fedine]

So, I'm working on the petticoats, right, and these things will need to be hemmed, yeah, so I need to put on my proper support garments to do so, see, and so this morning I start to put on my stays mock up, because it is the only set of stays I have that fit properly now, of course, but as I built them to test the fit of the pattern (no alterations needed), I built them from the cheapest Walmart muslin I could get my hands on, which I knew would wear out rather quickly, because plain weaves are weak, and this was a very light fabric, okay, but then when I laced my garment up this morning, spiral style, I heard a rip, and I knew that it was over, and that I went from having two pairs of stays, to zero pairs of stays, seeing as the short stays I made over the course of months on the carpeted floor all spring, including embroidery, do not fit properly, I needed this set to work for me to get the petticoats ready, but since I need to make a whole new unavoidable set of sturdy stays now, I have to make the new pair before I can do anything with the hems, and I will certainly make sure that this set does not have weak lacing structure, by way of a coutil interlining and a special lacing bone, but there is one silver lining that I can now harvest the bones from the old pair, and I only need to buy the special lacing bones online, and it will likely take me a week to make the stays, and hopefully the special lacing bone will arrive quickly, because I will not be embellishing this pair with anything at all, since I learned my lesson with spending days embellishing the last stupid pair that did not fit, so I expect to be done with everything by September 1st, if nothing else in my life goes as horribly wrong as this, if the special lacing bones arrive when I need them to

[malco-modes]

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[autisticwanning]

Chu Wanning and Mo Ran in a modern au idc abt genders wearing lolita. Right great. I don't have a specific substyle in mind but heres a few examples for them:

Mo Ran:

For some reason all these I could see Mo Ran in!

And then Chu Wanning:

I think he would wear one of these substyles: Han Lolita, Hime Lolita just so long as its white with maybe some gold. I could also definetly think he would wear a very toned down version of it perhaps more so but yk!

But anyways how they'd meet in a modern world ! Mo Ran runs a lolita tea party? they meet! they date!

or perhaps Mo Ran somehow finds chu wannings page online and they start chatting!

Or maybe they meet through Xue Zhengyong!

I think Mo Ran would make a lot of dresses! He would make many dresses for Wanning despite the fact that he gets told not to multiple times.

I also think Mo Ran would somehow struggle to buy lolita clothes cuz he has a large chest and so constantly buys dresses and then has to adjust them to make them fit.

Also if Chu Wanning were to wear his dresses outside he would always wear some sort of face covering as he would feel shy and doesn't have the confidence to wear it out. Mo Ran on the other hand would yap abt the fashion all day long and wears it to wherever he works.

I always get stuck with Mo Ran with like "this or that" like would he wear heels with his lolita or would he just wear flats cuz he would fall right on his face?

Chu Wanning on the other hand, I feel like he might be good to an extent of wearing heels but much prefers to wear simple flatter shoes.

For their jobs I feel like Mo Ran might hate his job? I don't know what it could be but he just doesn't like it and would much rather work with Lolita fashion or with cats (or wanning)

Chu Wanning would work an office job and he wouldn't mind it, as Xue Zhengyong is his boss but is very disliked by his co-workers.

Mo Ran would first get Lolita Fashion around 12-16 either through begging his uncle to get him it or making himself. (Xue Zhengyong brought the dress of amazon)

Chu Wanning however knows about it when he was younger and loved it but would never think to try it. (until perhaps he were to meet Mo Ran. Or he makes an impulse buy!)

Mo Ran would help fix and make any adjustments to Chu Wannings dresses before they got together (after he found Chu Wanning's fingers bandaged up and a almost ruined lolita dress from his own sewing)

Chu Wanning would also get cancelled for not wearing a petticoat like once as he was too exhausted to put it on and Mo Ran would beef in comments with people about it.

Mo Ran loves to experiment with his cords, his hair, his makeup, everything! Chu Wanning on the other hand would never. He tries to stick strictly to the rules and prefers to keep his hair in almost the same way every time. Sometimes he switches hair accessories though.

Mo Ran would listen to baby metal blasting at top volume out his headphones while Chu Wanning would listen to classical music at a normal volume.

end of yap :3 if anyone read this far than i hope you enjoying my yapping

[royalsealy]

1. What is your dream piece? 2. What was your first piece? 5. What lolita staple do you hate? 8. What are some details you wish to see more of? 10. What is an underrated print/design motif? 12. If you had to change one thing about modern lolita fashion, what would it be?

1. What is your dream piece?

Metamorphose temp de filles 2003 Bridal OP was a massive dream dress for me (lolibrary)

I never thought I would see it, definitely not in person or online but 1 managed to pop up a few weeks ago and I broke my no buy so fast! It's a lesser known mtdf release (so it wasn't that expensive) but the flocking pattern is so gorgeous and the type of silk used has a unique texture/pattern to it. I plan to make a replacement sash and some accessories for it. I got it in black, which is the last colorway missing on lolibrary so maybe I'll take some nice photos and submit it. :)

I have some other minor dream dresses but this was the big one.

2. What was your first piece?

The first piece that came in the mail was Baby the Stars Shine Bright's Kuma Kumya Marine Island II in pink!

When I got it I immediately put it on, I had a blouse and everything from the socks, shoes, accessories- all I was missing was a petticoat and I remember being stressed out by how it looked on me. I was really second guessing my decisions and how quickly I jumped in, then my petticoat came in and I was immediately reassured. This is a piece that absolutely needs to be worn with a petticoat or it can be kind of jarring.

I like pink but it's not a color I wear, so I don't see myself having a lot of pink in my wardrobe. I would love to get this print in a different color (navy/mint mostly) in the first cut since I find it more flattering for me.

But I love all things sea critter related, I wanted to be a marine biologist for a while and dabbled in marine ecology for a time so this print is a favorite for sure.

5. What lolita staple do you hate?

Those chunky bead bracelets, when I see them on other people I think it can look really nice but I don't like them on me at all.

8. What are some details you wish to see more of?

More variety in the structure of main pieces, I feel like recent-ish Angelic Pretty falls into having a lot of the same structure that can lead to some of their pieces looking the same to me

(Although BTSSB's JSK I and II cuts do this too)

10. What is an underrated print/design motif?

I would love to see more things like embroidery, the 2 toned/color screen prints/designs

(Angelic Pretty's Aqua Princess)

12. If you had to change one thing about modern lolita fashion, what would it be?

Remove the use of plastic leather especially for bags. Not only is it really hard for these items to hold up over time, but as they degrade and shed they add plastic to the environment.

More things like canvas bags which can or can not include leather or other natural fiber embellishments would be nice, that way there would still be some variation in color or design but in a more sustainable way.

(BTSSB's Alice in Fun fair bag)

Thank you for asking and for reading!!

[mayakern]

well y’all

it has happened

the mystery winter plague that took devin out for the past week has finally hit me

it’s pretty much the worst timing since i still need to promo the 25% off sale and petticoat preorders start on monday

but uhh

buy skirts i guess?? thanks

[sazandorable]

things i want to touch/see/try on before buying:

shoes (are they comfy? my feet are weird-shaped, like a lot of people's)

bras (sizes are a fever dream and i won't wear the same size for different models of the same brand)

pants (how high do they sit? do they fit my butt? are the pockets real? how deep? are the legs too long? is the closing Annoying?)

skirts (yes it says the length, but how low down my thighs does it actually go once i've put it around my waist? do i feel like i'm flashing the entire area if someone sneezes down the street? can i walk easily or is it too tight, or is it so long and flowy i keep tripping? how does it look with shorts or a petticoat under it?)

tops (what is the TEXTURE? do i know i'm gonna sweat-stink in it? how much cleavage is that with my boobs? how does the print look across my boobs? what is the right size for my boobs vs my waist vs my shoulders?)

any sweater or hoodie (is it scratchy? is it comfy? exactly how oversize do i want it?)

any surface furniture (yes i know the measurements, but i need to see it and try moving around it to figure out if it'll feel too big in my space and crowd it, if i'll knock into the corners and stub my toe 10 times a day, if it'll be a awkward height to stand at to chop vegetables)

any sitting furniture (is it comfy or is it Unbearable for my weird bisexual/neurodivergent/hypermobile way of sitting? is that plush chair soft or scratchy, plump or hard? can i easily move it around or stand on it if necessary?)

any mattress (Must Test The Boing)

any kitchen or bathroom fixture (are the switches, knobs, buttons, electronic controls easy to use, or are they hard to push, fragile, finnicky, annoying?)

any electronics (Hold The Phone In Hand, type and click around to check the feel and sound of a laptop)

any cutlery (ok that one might just be my own quirk, i know i am extremely picky about spoons and forks that feel okay or Bad in my hand)

any tableware (some porcelain/ceramic Feels Bad and/or Sounds Bad and i Feel The Scraping In My Teeth)

any nice inking pen (i wanna hold it and try out testers)

any nice craft paper or fabric (I Need To Touch It)

anything I'm buying for its scent (i need to smell it)

no genuinely i do not understand how people buy stuff without Touching it?

I do buy online but it's like... collector fandom merch or specific stuff that only this one indie store makes for their own brand and i'm anxious about the gamble every time. for furniture I will go to the place and check it out to make my choice in real life, and then order the delivery.

every time I hear someone say “we should just get rid of physical shops and have everything online” I get a bit angry because

a) physical shops are important for those who don’t have access to a computer/ internet/ ect

b) those “weird” and “niche” shops I love so much don’t have the same vibe online, they turn into just another website

c) I hate paying for shipping

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