#Egl salopette

[peachcrafts]

I ordered a set of nonwashable fabric paints and some nice crochet lace with an Amazon gift card I got, both with very promising reviews. I'm excited thinking about the possibilities with the fabric paint. I'll practice with paper and acrylics before actually using the fabric paint to cotton but the excitement is real.

[dreamyfrill]

Fancy paper dolls by Angelic Pretty

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𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚: dreamy_frill

[pastel-fiend]

I just saw a discussion about salopettes, disliking the look of salopettes, and not understanding who they're for, which reminded me how much I love salopettes. They're for me! So here's some salopette coords from the past few months as pro-salopette propaganda. I like using them for kajurori, or when I want a more comfortable coord

[arcadegh0st]

I don’t even know anymore, man. I only got dressed because I woke up at 230am after only like four hours of sleep and couldn’t go back to sleep.

Now Im obligated to be awake because I gotta get the small folks to school.

Anyways, spooky cookie salopette~

[ichigoera]

Royal Chocolateダブルボタンサロペット (2012)

[abysmalangelic]

I decided I'd make a documentation of everything in my wardrobe, so here we go!

Brand: Angelic Pretty

Print: Chocolate Rosette

Colorway: Green

Type: Salopette

Notes: I don't have the matching rosette or accessories yet

(there aren't any pics on lolibrary so this is someone's old lacemarket listing, not my pic!)

[lacemarket]

super cute salopette! only $26!

auction time remaining: 4D, 6H

[20dollarlolita]

A little guide on how to use Lolibrary to research for handmade lolita fashion:

We've talked about EGL coord mood boards, where you collect a bunch of images that you think will help you communicate your ideas and surround you with inspiration. When you're asking for help with lolita ideas, presenting a mood board immediately lets everyone know a lot about what you're trying to make and the route you're trying to take to get there.

I also use the technique for researching as well, but you have to approach the process of what exactly you put on the board slightly differently.

For example, today I wanted to make a skirt for a friend. I know that this friend wears a lot of sweet lolita, and a lot of Angelic Pretty. I also knew what fabric I had. So, off we go to Lolibrary. If you're new and you've never been there, it's your new favorite website. It documents lolita fashion history and it's such a powerful resource that I don't think any other fashion out there has.

Lolibrary has a very elaborate search system. When I'm looking for advice on how to construct something, I like to put in search parameters so that I have a like 15-30 pages to look through. You want it specific enough that you're looking for the thing you're looking for, but not so specific that there's only four results.

In this case, I knew I wanted something inspired by Angelic Pretty, and I knew it was going to be a skirt. So, that's our search terms, and we get about 30 pages of results. If you don't have 15+ pages of results, you're probably going to want to widen your search a little. You can specify multiple categories like "Skirt, JSK, OP, or Salopette" which will find you results that are any of the four in there. You can search Angelic Pretty but also Baby the Stars Shine Bright and MAM. You are researching, so you need to have enough results to research.

Right now, we're differing from a mood board in that we are not collecting things that we want. We are looking at what exists.

So here I have a whole page of skirts. We now need to narrow it down into skirts that sort of look like skirts made with the fabric like the fabric we have. Wow, that's a sentence.

So now, in a background tab, I open every single result that looks like it was made with fabric with a similar fabric to mine. In my case, it was all-over prints of a certain size. And I just keep going. I'm not even looking at the skirts yet. I'm just opening tabs.

Once I have like 60+ tabs open and Firefox is questioning its life, I start copying the main picture off each listing and slapping them all onto a board. I like to make a big canvas (like 1500x1500) in GIMP and then just dropping the pictures on there. The whole idea here is just to be able to see all the results at once. However, I usually will sort of start lining them up a little bit.

For example, on this one, I started sort of putting more complex designs in the top right, and simpler designs in the bottom left. If I saw that something was constructed very similarly to how another skirt was constructed, I would sort of try to put them next to each other. However, I really don't get too caught up in the "it has to be right" process here. The entire purpose of this is so that I can then close those 75+ firefox tabs and save my browser.

And now that everything is on one page, we can start looking for patterns. What things do I see a lot on this page? I see a lot of 3-flounce skirts. I see a lot of skirts with a lot of tiers and lace and detailing. And I see a lot of skirts with a ruffle on the bottom and a little bow on the waistband. From this, I can look at how much fabric I have, how long I have to make this, and how much work I want to put into this garment today.

And now that I have these skirts, most of which have similar construction in some aspect (don't look at the very top or very bottom ones. They don't know what they're doing here), I have multiple options to look at for the fine details of what proportions I should be looking for in both "how wide should this ruffle be" and "how big should this waist bow be". Prior to this search, yeah, I know a lot about how a lolita skirt could be constructed, but this taught me a lot of nuance of how Angelic Pretty constructs their skirts that have a relatively large all-over print.

Someone told me that my print I had felt very Emily Temple Cute, and while I love that brand a lot, it's not my friend's style. So making sure I was referencing Angelic Pretty skirts and not Emily Temple Cute skirts can help me confirm that I'm making something my friend will wear more than something I would wear.

So anyway, there you go. The secret is all in finding that initial search, specific enough that you don't have 100 pages to go through, but open enough that you do have like 15-30 pages to go through.

[starlingharley]

so i designed a whole line of baldi egl outfits based on a baldi's basics-themed pattern i made Just Because 😳

from left to right: a basic skirt, JSK, OP, and a salopette <3

( oc uses they/he! )

[plasticpony4]

♡ My 2023 retrospective: egl version ♡ PART 4/9

June

My birth month started with a friend visiting. She wanted to start wearing lolita, and she brought her first pair of shoes (the white tea parties).

Lolita shoes say trans rights!

I dragged her to one of our meets for ILD too. It was really fun!

Everything I was wearing was Angelic Pretty, except for the socks and shoes.

Then it was already time for my birthday! I wore a super casual coord (as it was already really hot) with my Putumayo cutsew and met a lovely girl at a french café.

We ate the birthday éclair and pain au chocolat and talked about Misako Aoki and our lives.

July

As summer is incredibly hot here, it's almost impossible to wear lolita, so I only tried doing that a couple of times.

The first time was for our usual meet. This is what I wore to it. The OP is the same Innocent World one that I was wearing in other photos.

Some other photos from the meet:

That is an actual rococo fountain!

Later that month I acquired a copy of the newest Misako Aoki's book with my friend who was also interested in it.

After that, the only other time when I dared wear a lolita coord in July was when the Barbie movie came out, because we went to the night show, I didn't wear a blouse and we thought that there was a possibility the AC would be on in the movie theater (it wasn't, but I was fine anyway).

JSK: Angel Tiered JSK by Angelic Pretty

August

August is as hot as July, so I only managed to try wearing lolita once, and only because I really missed it. As you can see, it's a really simple and casual coord with my Karenina JSK (which is actually more of a salopette) by Innocent World. You can't really wear anything more elaborate in the summer here, or you'll die. For sure.

I really love this Q-pot bag and ice cream necklace that my friend @saturnia-pyri sent me!

Bonus pic with my boyfriend because I love him so much. Sorry! Hehehe.

[END OF PART 4/9]

[ashleighwho]

Idol Style Lolita Coord

I absolutely adore this set by Ocelot!

It's very much idol inspired, more than typical lolita, but I still love it.

The main set comes with two detachable bows, cuffs, can be a skirt or sallo, and is just super cute and versatile. You can buy more accessory items to match too, personally I bought the headbow. It’s all amazingly high quality for the price. Also, it's very plus size friendly!

Items Used:

Salopette, Cuffs, Bow: OCELOT

Blouse: Mirrou

Shoes & Socks: Offbrand

[sucredoll]

Moco Moco Bunnys Series Announcement! | Angelic Pretty

[frillycatlady]

First time wearing a salopette and attempting a pastel theme / yume kawaii-ish style!

This was for an event which I was an organiser for, so I wanted to be comfy.

Sorry for the weird filters, the lighting in my room sucks. I chose the cat ear headdress for the event. I preferred the bunny ear macaron headdress but it’s heavy and I expected to move around a lot. I love this outfit as I put a lot of thought into accessorising it. Besides the necklace and headdress, I’m wearing 4 rings, 2 different wrist cuffs, 6 badges (2 on my shoes, 2 on my shoulder straps, 2 on my waist) and ear pierce. I have 2 ribbon pins on my cat ear headdress. My blouse is made up of a main piece and detachable sleeves from 2 other blouses. I wore my pink Skechers because as I said, I wanted to be comfy, and I accessorised them with cute badges. I love Skechers and these machine-washable ones are really easy to accessorise because you can just pin stuff on them! I will take better pictures next time, probably with a cute pastel wig and more ribbons or something. I just wanted to share some quick snaps of my outfit test to celebrate my first time wearing a different style before the year ends! The event was a success and this outfit scored high on comfort and practicality 👍🏻 Unfortunately I didn’t take pictures, which is probably for the better because at least I look bright-eyed and bushy-tailed here before the consecutive late nights gave me eye bags and a puffy face 🤣 Main piece: Angelic Pretty Wrapping Heart salopette Blouses + sleeves: Vcastle Shoes: Skechers Cat ear headdress: Choker Rabbit Other accessories are handmade or mostly from Cheese Cat, Tianxin Manman, Xiaonan Handmade, Little Paca. Tumblr doesn't seem to like external links, so if you'd like to know where a particular item is from, feel free to dm or send an ask!

Since the new year's just round the corner, I'd take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year and may you enjoy good health and get lucky with all your dream dresses in the year ahead!

[prettydramatique]

[lacemarket]

baby the stars shine bright salopette for only $50! downside, this one has shipping that's $30 (within the US). still a decent deal! there is some minor damage (a few small stains) apparently, but the owner describes the dress's condition as an 8.5/10

auction time remaining: unknown bc this is a buy now item. sorry ':D

[lacemarket]

AP for only $100! A cute lil bittersweet salopette and ribbon!