For April, some of the local lolita crew went to the Japanese Spring festival in the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, and I put together this Rapunzel coord from my latest purchase, a Baroque x Sakizo jumperskirt secondhand from Lacemarket. My actual coord was intended for comfort, so I wore a cotton cutsew and knee high socks, but the shirt and socks got sweaty and were not washed, so in this coord for a photoshoot, I wore a fancier blouse and different clean socks. The festival was closed the next day due to rain so it was really warm and humid for lolita, let me tell ya.
[JSK: Baroque x Sakizo; blouse, socks: Metamorphose; shoes: Sosic Shop; necklace and flower ring: TxarraOtsoa; necklace: Disney; other rings: offbrand, Etsy; hair corsage: Black Ribbon, Taobao; other hair flowers: Daiso, Claire's, off brand; bracelets: offbrand; earrings: iconografi]
Obviously I was very pleased to get another Sakizo dress in my collection at a bargain, and since this dress had flowers and Rapunzel's braids in the print, I thought why not wear it to the gardens with a Rapunzel inspired hairstyle? This Bodyline wig was ready to be retired permanently but as I couldn't really sell it in such poor tangled condition, I decided to braid it (permanently lol) and add pink and purple and cream flowers to match. One of the hair corsages is actually a kanzashi, which was perfect to wear to the Japanese festival. I also really loved the elaborate multi-strand pearl choker decorated with off-white flowers which I got from Etsy, as it matched the pearl chains that came with the dress well. But I really really loved the purple pansy ring I nabbed from a cupcake topper years ago because there were purple pansies in this print, too. It was meant to be.
The only thing I didn't like about this coord is that the beige color did no favors to my skin. But I didn't think wearing gold or brown accents (like gold or brown shoes) would help that either. This dress comes in multiple colorways including white, purple and various pastels, perhaps one day I might try to get another colorway and see if it looks better on me. Overall, this was a solid coord, I loved the Rapunzel braid and the dress is beautiful on its own so I didn't need a fancy blouse or socks.
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