[coord] redo for a high tea

For a birthday meet / high tea at the botanical garden with some lovely lolitas, I finally completed a halfway decent coord with the pharmacy jumperskirt, the Florence dress from Baby the Stars Shine Bright. Seeing my past failed attempts, I was able to formulate a better plan to work with all the weird details of the dress. I think this was a successful result of the planning, although a few things could always be better, but you have to stop somewhere, lmao.

JSK, hairclip: Baby the Stars Shine Bright; blouse, purse: Innocent World; socks, alice band: Metamorphose; shoes, jewelry: offbrand

I didn't have any matching brown shoes, sold the last pair, otherwise this would have been a little more balanced colorwise, but I didn't care at this point, it looked pretty good overall.

Also, I found a way to work in the barrette, which I find always slides out of my hair/wig hair because of its size/heaviness. For this hairstyle, I didn't want to wear it down since it would look boring and ratty and also it would be hot on my neck while I was walking outside in the heat. I looked up some tutorials on Youtube, and settled on a combination of two from Inky Rose: https://youtu.be/6e21cBj_OoQ

You can't see the side-fishtail braid (from a Misako video) in this particular shot, but I really liked how styling it, even if it turned out messy, made the hair accessories stay put better and just gave it a polished and sophisticated look. Like I said before, most lolitas, at least the ones I've seen in real life so far, style their cosplay wigs with incredible artistry, but generally wear their lolita wigs in 1 of 3 ways: down, high/low pigtails, or buns. Granted, it's hard to justify elaborate hairstyles when you're not going in for a pro photoshoot and just wanna eat and walk around the mall, but I think working in braids and trying updos is a genius way to freshen up a tangled old wig and add new style to a previously worn coord.

Anyway, be prepared for some really awesome coords at A-kon in the beginning of June. By awesome I mean awful. I have no more meets planned until the convention, but I bought a few dresses and accessories that should come in by then, as well as a new Otome no Sewing, so I might pop in with a handmade creation or a test coord! Once all this cosplay is done...