Two Holiday Outfit Inspirations

Disclaimer: Usually I’m someone who doesn’t post twice a day. And originally this post was meant for yesterday, but I was too busy to finish is, and anyway, it’s the holidays, and about everything is special during these days. Oh, and I tried to incorporate all brand names in the text at first, it’s horrible. You’ll find the polyvores when you click the respective pictures, which is far more convenient.

I haven’t done a Porcelain Sunday in ages! Well, today won’t be one, but there are inspiring pieces and matching outfits, so it is pretty much the same. Two of my very favouite holiday pictures, and very different ones, too.

Barbie in The Nutcracker

I love the original ballet. I love Tchaikovsky’s music. I love the story by E.T.A. Hoffmann. But I must admit, the version I hold dear most is – right – the Barbie picture. It’s not animated that well and has an incredible amount of not-sticking-to-neither-tale-nor-ballet, but so incredibly sugary and sweet, a very depiction of the Sugar Plum Fairy herself. Whenever I’m sad and need comfort that feels like a marshmellow but without the calories, I turn to this movie.

1. Dress: With the Sugar Plum Fairy theme I decided to go for something between Classic and Sweet Lolita. The dress represents the more classic and festive side. I also wanted to go for hues of plum instead of pink in contrary to the movie. The dress has a nice mid-19th -century feel about it thanks to the bell sleeves and the flap at the back (the original story was written at the beginning of the century, though). Also, the skirt looks quite light due to the pale colour which also is a notion and quality we associate with ballet costumes.
2. Blouse and Skirt (and Corset): I chose the blouse mainly chose it for the rich, reddish plum colour. While the classic version of my Sugar Plum Fairy interpretation balances the parts of blue and red equally, the more sweet take is more on the red side. The Skirt is Alice and the Pirate’s Twilight Circus, a print that I like quite much. It shows stage performances (kind of) without turning directly to ballet. In relatiom to the Barbie picture I’d link the motives to the sweets-inspired supporting characters. The corset I put in mainly as an additional piece and another block of colour to the blouse. I think it’s pretty and I already used it back in my Ero Lolita Matching Monday.
3. Headdresses: The alice band with the large round lace piece which in my head belongs to the classic side strongly reminds me of another Tchaikovsy ballet, Swan Lake (there’s a Barbie adaption of this, too, by the way, but here I’m more of a Princess Tutu fan ^^), where the leading lady often wears a headdress (on both sides of the head) made of white feathers in a rounded shape (a bit tangled, this sentence, isn’t it…). Plus, it looks like something sweet covered in layers of cream to me. The oldschool headdress was a choice of heart in this case, I just like the style.
4. Tights: Lacy ones, but striped ones would have been great with these outfits, too. The main point is to choose something light and sugary.
5. Bag: It’s far too expensive even for Lolita, but I liked the shape so much. Something shaped like sweets could be nixe, too, and again it’s a pastel pink/ plum shade.
6. Shoes: The fur-trimmed rain boots with Art Nouveau artwork are meant for the dress, while the Neosens 20s style shoes are for the sweet version. Of course it could be the other way as well, but I liked the contrast of the pale blue of the low Ludwig heels with the more red-toned rest of the outfit. It also matches the bolero jacket I thought nice with the plum blouse.
7. Accessoires: For jewelry I took things that had either to do with ballet or with sugar. There are so many sweets-themed accessoires out there, one can’t even count. The heart-shape cutout gloves are of the same brand as the purse, and I thought they would make a neat addition together with the parasol.

Hogfather

A much darker tale is Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather. A beloved Yultide classic in my inner circle since its release and the book wonderful per se (it’s Discworld) Hogfather tells the story of Hogswatch eve events mostly settled in Ankh-Morpork revolving around Susan Sto-Helit, Death’s (adoptive) granddaughter, Bilious, the Oh God of Hangovers and several other very unique characters. Actually it’s a bit like Charles Dickens with a dark fantasy twist. With the coordinate I aimed for something between dark Victorian/ Classic Lolita and very wild and strong Mori Girl.

1. Dress and Blouse: I wanted to incorporate the dress in a coordinate ever since I saw it first. It’s exceptionally versatile and can become everything with the right accessoires. Rather plain to match Susan’s current profession as a “kind of Goth Mary Poppins” (Terry’s words) it works as a base for the other pieces of the outfit rather than as a piece for itself. The blouse is one of my favourites, and I mainly used it as it is winter and I wouldn’t go out without sleeved with that weather.
2. Jacket: Even with the Hogfather theme I wanted a bit of Victorian decadence in this coordinate. The elaborate fabric with a flowery woven-in pattern and the puffed long sleeves made it perfect for the cause.
3. Hats and Scarves: Here’s the wild compound for the theme. I decided to go for a brown and a grey version. (Faux) Fur is a perfect way to incorporate something either very aristocratic (advised for Lolita) or very strong and primal (Mori, rather) into your outfits, depending on glossyness, texture and colour.
4. Ruffle Collar: A break from the toughness of the fur elements, the ruffles fall softly and ad a more usual sense of Mori Girl to the outfit, feminine and elegant, yet not too shiny and perfect.
5. Accessoires: I know, I know. It’s Hogfather, not Deerfather, but I really couldn’t find anything wild boar-related. Things with antlers, on the contrary, are quite easily found, and do transport the right feeling, too. H&M for example has cute antler-shaped rings at the moment (which sadly didn’t fit on my fingers, but as I don’t really wear rings often, it’s not that much of a loss).
6. Shoes: The granny boots are a hint on Susan’s occupation as a nanny again. The brown colour way seemed nicer with the brown fur set and the black one with grey, so I used both.

Porcelain Sunday: My Neighbor Totoro

All pictures in this post belong to Studio Ghibli

My Neighbor Totoro is probably my favourite Studio Ghibli film ever. It also the most widely known and the one that gave the studio its mascot.

For those of you who don’t know this masterpiece yet, here’s the story:

Satsuki, her father and her little sister Mei move to the country to be closer to their mother (or wife, respectively) who is recovering from a serious illness in a hospital not far away. It’s said that their new old house is haunted so the family drives away the ghosts – which are actually just susuwatari – little dust sprites – with laughter.
While their father is working on his studies and Satsuki is at school, Mei is bored and starts following a small white animal with rabbit-like features. It keeps loosing nuts that it seems to carry somewhere. In the attempt to collect them the little girl falls down a hole between the roots of an old tree. Deep down below she meets Totoro, a friendly woodland spirit who starts to brighten up the girls’ days until their mother’s return.
But when Mei runs off after a fight with Satsuki over their mother’s well-being, the older sister needs Totoro’s help in a different way…

Of course the similarity to the beginning of Alice in Wonderland is quite obvious

As always in Miyazaki’s movies, the details of the backgrounds and scenery are astounding. As are the animations at the beginning (sorry it’s in English, but I couldn’t find one in Japanese with the right video, too) and the end, there’s so much effort put into these little things!

From the ending

I also happened to stumble upon a piano version of the movie’s opening theme, it’s really worth listening.

I guess it's a clock. Adorable, isn't it?

The inspiration that comes from My Neighbor Totoro is more of a Mori Girl kind than of a Lolita one. I myself especially like the acorns and nuts motive and the smallest woodland spirit, but I would love any of the animation pieces from the opening or pictures from the ending as a print.

Porcelain Sunday: Kiki’s Delivery Service

All pictures in this post belong to Studio Ghibli

Thanks to my work (with the best boss ever) I’ve been watching several Ghibli pictures during the last two weeks. While Kiki’s Delivery Service is not my favourite it’s perhaps the one I’d most likely call a shoujo anime.

The story revolves around 13-year-old Kiki, who in old witch tradition is supposed to spend a year away from home. Accompanied by her black cat Jiji she finally finds a town to settle down and even gets a part-time job in a bakery in exchange for a place to stay (including breakfast). As she has no other notable magic abilities than to fly on her broomstick she decides to open up the eponymous delivery service.
Although things go well on this matter, Kiki’s emotions go awry pretty soon, mostly concerning her slowly starting friendship with aviation fanboy Tombo as well as the encounter of a receiver of a package.

Kiki was one of the first (accurately the 4th) movies of the “real” Studio Ghibli. It came to the silver screen in 1989, which means it’s just as old as I am.

Ghibli is very renowned for what I call “scenery porn”, the elaborate backgrounds and detailed settings are something that is hard to find in other anime. In the case of Kiki, the scene is set in a somewhat european-looking town by the sea, stuffed with old buildings (the movie takes place in an alternate universe where the world wars did not happen) and well-dresses citizens.

Leaving out the small coming-of-age part, this film consists merely of episodes built around certain deliveries. It’s more funny and cute than really meaningful and deep, but I’m really okay with that. Kiki is a movie one can watch while doing some artisan crafts or needlework. I for example had a great progress with my rag rug during this piece of art.

The inspiration, wonderful artwork cast aside, are the ways Kiki and some others of the characters show us to outgrow all things that hold you back. A wonderful lesson to be learned, if you ask me.

Porcelain Sunday: Harry Potter

Yes, I’m jumping onto the bandwagon of saying goodbye to one of the greatest phenomenons of my childhood.

Honestly I don’t think that there’ll be another generation of children that will have this bond with JK Rowlings work – we grew up with these characters, we waited every year for a new book and after that for a new film… and now it’s over.

And even though I stopped reading after the Order of the Phoenix and stopped watching even earlier (but maybe I’ll catch up some day – but I had my reasons to stop), I consider myself a fan. I participated in Hogwarts forum RPGs, I took innumerable Sorting Hat tests, I drew fan art and wrote fan fiction. I thought about and discusses the characters’ and story’s progress and which kind of pet I’d take with me to Hogwarts and was delighted when a friend of mine compared my room to the Burrow the fist moment he saw it.

All pictures in this post belong to WB

The inspirational part of Harry Potter on fashion or style behalf is mostly thanks to the movies, and even though I didn’t like some decisions they made I love the look.

In fashion I especially loved the quidditch equipment, but also all the fancy robes. Dubledore’s below is only one example, and I think the costumers did a splendid job!

I’m glad to study at a university nicknamed “Hogwarts”, but it’d be even better if we had rooms and surroundings like this:

(All right, we've got something like Diagon Alley)

Now, enough with the nostalgia… I’m going to re-watch the movies now. ^^
And by the way, I’ve got to try this recipe for butter beer some day…

Porcelain Sunday – Happy Easter!

Originally I wanted to post my re-written Porcelain Sunday themed of Sucker Punch from last week today, but I completely forgot that this Sunday was Easter Sunday! Well, this might have made a great preparations post, too, but it’s to late now.

It’s a little difficult to write a Porcelain Sunday about Easter, so I’ll just list some things that might be inspiring for you. So, what I love about Easter:

• Egg hunting. One of my favourite traditions ever! I even wanted to hunt for my Christmas presents, it was just so much more fun! My grandmother used to hide several smaller and one larger nest in the garden, the latter one not only with hard-boiled eggs or sweets but a little gift of some sort. I remember one time when I was still in primary school when I spent the Easter holidays in Italy with my father and some friends of his together with their children. We had an egg hunt and one of my teeth was loose and I lost it in a half-melted chocolate egg…
• Ēostre. We don’t know if there ever was a goddess named Ēostre (Ostara in German) or not, but I personally like the thought. Laugh at me, but the thought of a spring deity as a symbol for the rebirth of nature, accompanied by hares, comforts me. Besides, I like her name, made up or not.
• Egg decorating. We always did thins a week before the actual holidays, most of the time my cousins, my grandmother and I. My grandmother also has a quite large collection of easter eggs, painted by herself, the women of her family, her best friend or me, decopatched on with silk paper by my mother (quite Waldorf), adorned with ribbons, batiked, bought on crafting bazaars, everything. If I knew not that I’ll most probably some times in the next ten years, I’d start my collection right away. There’s a method to boil an egg in vegetable or tree dyes while a flower or leaf is fixed on the shell that I really want to try next year.
  Also, think of Fabergé eggs, which are the most Loli-able (and sometimes Steampunk) kind of easter eggs ever, come to think of it.
  
• Cake. Another thing that belonged to my family’s Easter celebration was cake in the shape of a little lamb, mostly simple pound cake. I prefer dry ones on Easter, like marble cake, they’re easier to take outside with you for a picnic.
  
• Discworld Tradition: Soul Cake Day. The Soul Cake Duck the Discworld version of our Easter Bunny and I even bought a duck-shaped cookie-cutter yesterday.
• Bonfires. I love bonfires. Being raised by a very spiritual, nature-bound mother may have caused this, but maybe it’s only the urge to feel alive just like my ancestors did when they sat at the whispering flames, telling tales of great deeds and feasting on the prey of the last hunt. You see, archeology soaked it’s way deep into my mind. It’s also a good way to get rid of bad thoughts or dreams or set your wishes free into the night sky, just like on Yultide or New Year’s Eve. Write down what bothers you on a piece of paper and burn it.
  
• Greeting the awakening of the new-born nature. Easter is a great opportunity to celebrate every new leaf and every flower you meet. In many families it’s traditional to take a biking tour on Easter Sunday (in my family it’s rather on the 1st of May), but a stroll in the park or countryside will do as well. A picnic might be perfect, even if you go all on your own!
  
• Hares and Lambs. I love both as symbols and animals alike. Hares stand for fertility, joy of life and even some kind of aggression (ever saw a hare fight?). Lambs are something worth of protecting, sweet but curious (leaving out the religious part). They both make adorable motifs for dresses or skirts or t-shirts as well.

That’s what I love most about Eastertide. What’s your favourite part of the holidays, if you celebrate them, anyway?

Porcelain Sunday – Anne of Green Gables

“I feel… as if… somebody… had handed me… the moon.. and I didn’t know… exactly… what to do… with it.”

The bad thing with weekly features is that one can’t just write what comes to mind, or I’d tell you the next fairytale of my stroll at the riverbanks instantly. But as we omitted the features last week, we can’t do this again! And so I’ll give you the Porcelain Sunday I’d planned for two weeks ago.

As at the end of march finally my books arrived, I had to make this Porcelain Sunday all about Anne of Green Gables!

 

My beloved and well-worn copy of the first volume.

I ordered Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island and Anne of Windy Poplars back in February, and they arrived exactly in turned order.

Aren't these copies pretty?

 

For those of you who don’t know Anne Shirley yet, here’s a little summary of the story:

Anne is a very imaginative orphan who – after being “handed down” several times – gets to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, elderly siblings who own Green Gables, a house with some farmland on Prince Edward Island, Canada. We accompany her when she gets to know her best friend Diana Barra and encounters a nemesis in form of Gilbert Blythe (well, at first, that is) and later get to see her becoming a teacher, authoress and by no means less spirited young woman of the late 19th century than she was a girl.

I loved Anne from the very first moment when I discovered the mini TV series about her. I had seen the book before on a sunny afternoon I had spent in the library of the school where my father teaches, when I had finished the tea the wonderful librarian had given me, but when I took more interest in the book I had to go, sadly.
Actually this is one of the few books of which I first saw an adaption before reading the book, but I wasn’t disappointed at all when I finally got my hands on the original text.

But I dare say, after reading Anne of Avonlea I was rather disappointed. All that talk about A.V.I.S. was so utterly boring and definitely had no scope for imagination! And Davy – who in my opinion is nothing but an overly spoiled brat -,well I was glad they left him out of the TV adaption (and I’ve got some pity for his twin Dora, she’ll have such mental issues later when she’ll come to know that everybody just loved her good-for-nothing brother and didn’t like her! It’s completely irresponsible and not very nice and pretty unfair of Anne to repeat every now and then that she likes Davy better. We read it when she said it first, so no need to rub it in! Excuse my language.). But Anne made up for it a little bit with her acquaintance with Miss Lavendar Lewis and the dreaming of Hester Gray. After all the second book left me with a weird feeling and had not the incredible magic of the first one. But:

“[...] isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

I really was looking forward for Anne of the Island where she attends Redmond College – maybe her imagination and spirit would come back. It did, and at the moment I’m reading Anne of Windy Poplars with great pleasure (albeit I think that the change to an epistolary novel was quite unnecessary). But now – for the inspiration – I’ll concentrate on my much-beloved Anne of Green Gables.

The book is so full of inspiration that I don’t even quite know where to start! I guess the most important message is the “scope for imagination” that Anne embraces constantly, and to imagine. Just like Princess Sara who pretends to be a princess, Anne spices up her everyday life – sometimes up to a unhealty extend, as we learn from the haunted wood episode – and even gets herself a second persona, not so different from a roleplay character: Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald.

“There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.”

Not even to mentions that she renames nearly every place and thing that she comes to love to make it sound more like a fairy tale. We definitely should take her as a role model in this concern because wouldn’t it be nicer to live at a wonderful place like the Lake of Shining Waters than plain old Barry’s Pond? And that’s only one example.

As for appearance, Anne desires nothing more than to have a rose-leaf complexion, velvety violet eyes and raven-black hair and to wear puff sleeves. Sometimes her dresses are described, but the real beauty of this heroine lies in her dreamy eyes and interesting face, so there are no real significant looks that originate from the book itself. The movie in exchange provides us with simple yet most beautiful dresses from the end of the 19th century datable through the mentioning of Queen Victoria still being alive somewhere in the first book and the fact that all of her sons are old enough to go to war in 1914 with her being married in her early to mid-twenties.

Instead of plastering this post with screenshots from the mini series of Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Green Gables – The Sequel, I’d rather recommend to watch it yourself to get acquainted to the look. There may also be some editions of the books with illustrations, but I personally think that the movies couldn’t have cast better with the actors than they did, and the whole surroundings are utterly perfect (I only advise against watching Anne of Green Gables – The Continuing Story as it has nothing to do with anything ever written my L. M. Montgomery). They made a new series lately, but I admit that I’ve only seen screen caps of it by now. There’s an anime series, as well, which is quite nice, too, at least as far as I’ve seen it. But in my opinion, the most inspiring is the 1985 version.

And with that opinion of mine I’ll leave you for today to go to bed – tomorrow will be my first day at university since last summer! I’m really excited and think it’ll be a splendid adventure.

Good night!

Porcelain Sunday – The Great Mouse Detective

 

 

The Great Mouse Detective, also known as Basil of Baker Street, is one of my favourite Disney movies ever.

I fist watched it while in elementary school on video (yes! video!) when we borrowed it from the library on a rainy Saturday afternoon. I don’t know why it made such an impression, I only know that I kept it in mind during the years and was delighted to watch it again.

For those of you who don’t know the film yet, I can pretty much sum it up as a Sherlock Holmes adventure in a mouse’s Victorian London, solving a case of toy-maker kidnapping.

So, where’s the inspiration?, you may ask now.

Well, as for me Lolita is – at least a part of it, that is – a return to childhood and a view at eras gone by, especially that of Queen Victoria. And this is where this movie comes in very, very handy. Mainly, I have to admit, I’m inspired by the whole “classic” detective look of Basil, but I do love Dawson’s and Olivia’s clothes, too! The whole atmosphere of the film is whimsical and inspiring at the same time, mostly for some Classic Lolita (maybe some Gothic to resemble the villain, Ratigan, too).

I guess I don’t have too much to say for Porcelain Sunday when it’s about a movie as I think one needs to watch it to understand the “whole thing”, and I’m quite tired, too. So good-bye for today, sleep well, all of you!

Porcelain Sunday – The History of Dessous

Lately, there was a documentary on the french-german tv channel arte about said history of dessous that I found utterly interesting. And without further ado I’ll give you the video.

And there will be more to read tomorrow, but first I’ve got to recover from Jules’ recent visit. :)

Porcelain Sunday – A Little Princess

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett is – at least I guess so – along with Kamikaze Girls and Alice in Wonderland one of THE Lolita books, after all, so it was quite obvious for me to dedicate a Porcelain Sunday to this piece of work. Especially when I think about that it’s been one of my favourite books for over ten years and I’ve read it more that once a year since, I’d say.

I got my first copy when I was seven or eight years old, a wonderful book with an elaborate cover and even more beautiful illustrations by Mr. Graham Rust. I read it everywhere, on the couch beneath the skylight with the bright stars shining above me while winter painted the window with his flowers, out in the garden in warm sunlight where the cold of the book’s London could still reach me and even in the bath tub where it got a little damp, I fear.

My second copy, this time in English, encountered my life in Coventry, United Kingdom, on my way to Ireland, together with a copy of The Secret Garden at a rummage sale in a community centre. Both were Parragon Children’s Classics and cost no more that a pound together. I don’t remember exactly if I knew about it already, but I was on the best way to become a Lolita.

But now for the inspirational part!

As I said before, the illustrations stunned me. There were all these Victorian dresses for little girls in pretty colours, the stripes of Ermengarde’s dress when we first encounter her, the looks of the Large Family!

This is not the first time we meet Ermengarde, but this picture illustrates very well what you could use a "princess friendship". Somehow.

One of the outfits I love most in the book is Sara’s rose-coloured dancing frock. I guess there will be references to it tomorrow…

Another favourite of mine is Ermengarde’s striped dress, it’s quite simple in a good way, without being just plain.

Here we first get to see Sara as a servant. Even in her misery she has the bearing of a princess, a countenance I surely try to have, too, but I definitely do not hope to meet with such circumstances as she had to.

And finally, there’s the Large Family. Not only do I adore the romantic, whimsical names Sara gives them – Ethelbertha Beauchamp and Violet Cholmondeley and Claude Harold Montmorency, to name only three of the children -, they also live in a wonderful house and a loving, cheerful family not only Sara dreamt of. And according to the illustrations they dress well, too!

Another point that can be seen as loliable is the way how Sara sees her dolls, especially Emily: Not as mere toys but beings with their own personality, just a little bit like Lottie, the eponymous doll from last week’s Porcelain Sunday. And I guess the way Sara’s dolls, especially the “Last Doll”, are dressed and decked out is exactly the way some Lolitas would like to see their BJDs or other favourite dolls treated like.

 

The Last Doll

Of this wonderful book there also is a movie (to be precisely there more than one, but I only talk about the 1995 version which is also the more popular one). While it is very pretty to look at, some of the alterations in comparison to the book aren’t too felicitous at all. After all, it even screws the original climax of the story. So, maybe you’ll mark my words and first read the book (if you haven’t yet, that is) and then watch the movie if you want to, but not as an adaption (a mistake I made when I first saw it) but as a loosely based-on story. They even made Sara blue-eyed and fair-haired instead of green-eyed and raven black! What a pity!

This is my favourite picture from the book I think, or at least from the end. Sara’s outfit is so pretty and her boots are simply a dream made of leather. Indeed, she is a little princess.

Today I’ll leave you with some really inspiring quotes, one from the book and two from the movie, that managed – despite all things they in my opinion did wrong with this film – to emphasize the message from the book which every Lolita should live up to, or, in my opinion, at least try to:

Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.
(Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess, first published 1888 – 1905)

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.

You can be anything you want to be, my love, as long as you believe.
(Warner Bros.: A Little Princess, 1995)

Porcelain Sunday – The Lost Doll

When I first read Victoria Suzanne’s advice on how to be a better blogger I though about a weekly post I could make. After thinking about alliterations with Steampunk and fashion (which may come too, anyway) and a dozen other things, I decided to go Porcelain Sunday. If you can’t think of what this should be – and I can’t blame you for that -, please let me explain. When I first encountered Lolita, I was stunned by the look that resembled not only the attire of my childhood heroines – Sara Crewe and Mary Lennox amongst them – but also delicate, pretty-to-beautiful porcelain dolls, and ever since this was the look for me to achieve. So, Porcelain Sunday will be about where I take my inspirations from for this wonderful style, be it music, a movie, books or an animated series. I hope you’ll like it and maybe share my inspirations.

Inner cover art.

 

I thought I’d start with something more uncommon. Books in general provide such masses of inspiration, and children’s books, especially illustrated ones, are the most extreme. The book I draw my inspiration from today is one that I got a long time ago, it basically was there all through my childhood. It’s The Lost Doll by Jean Richardson with illustrations by Mike Dodd.

Uncommon it is because it’s not set in the Victorian era or even earlier, no, the story takes place in London of the 1920s. Harriet, a little girl, looses her dearest doll Lottie that has somehow “run off” in the park. During the book Harriet receives letters from Lottie who is travelling around the world with an American girl named Beth and another doll, Little Star.

From left to right: Little Star, Beth, Lottie and a poodle.

 

So much for the story line, but now for the inspiration!

The pictures – as you can clearly see – are in muted, elegant colours and I simply love the look of 20s children’s clothing! Some wonderful Lolita artist have already tried to mix it with Lolita, actually, and I surely do love the results:

By Carnet-atelier via deviantArt

By Seitou via deviantArt

Please click on the pictures to visit the artist’s deviantArt galleries! They are definitely worth it!

Seitou has a great deal more of designs like this, I think I’ll have to make a Porcelain Sunday entirely about her some day – and I just discovered her today!

The inbetween-wars era is highly underestimated for Lolita, I think. And yet, it’s so easy to give a flair of the “golden twenties”! But that shall be the matter of my post tomorrow, also starting a new weekly updated series, the Matching Monday.

And I think that The Lost Doll made a great start for Porcelain Sunday, too, even though not intended. Because: Isn’t Lolita all about to look like a doll come to life in one way or the other?

This will be the thought I’ll leave you with for now, but not without my best regards.

Yours truly,

The Hedgefairy