Gothic Lolita inspired look!

Hi! Today's outfit is gothic lolita inspired because recently I've seen lots of pictures of gothic lolita looks and thus ended up wanting to dress like that. I don't think my outfit actually meets all the qualifications for it to be considered gothic lolita and so I'm only saying that it's inspired by it.

For that matter, though, I'd love to dress in lolita, but there are way too many rules for my taste and I fear I'd be called an ita. Also it's kind of too clean a style for me? It feels wrong to look so put together and proper. I'm too punk rock for lolita or whatever. But I really do love the style and specifically gothic lolita! Wish I had it in me to get into it but as of right now I don't have it in me, the best I can do is this. Maybe one day, though.

What I'm wearing:

• dress [thrifted]
• corset [got it from my mom, changed the lacing from shoelaces to satin myself]
• shirt [new yorker]
• petticoats (which you hopefully can't see) [thrifted]
• choker [made it myself]
• tights [got them from my mom]
• boots [lolita wardrobe]
• necklace [betsey johnson]

It is that time of the year again, I steal flowers from our neighbour's garden and take the best pictures I've taken all year. On the way to steal the flowers I walked past another neighbour whom I forgot has a dog and I almost had a heart attack when the said dog suddenly ran up to me from behind lol.

xoxo V

I started making a fashion portfolio...

...And then I quit after two pages. I saw an ad for a fashion school, not gonna mention which one it was because I don't remember it, and as a fashion enthusiast wanna-be designer I obviously checked out the application forms and everything even though I actually had no intentions of applying there, and there was mentioned a fashion portfolio. I took a screenshot of it, thinking that it could be smart and useful to make one for myself since in the future I am going to apply to some fashion schools, you can see it below.

You see how it mentions "mood board"? That's what I started with and used those two pages for! I have a pile of old Vogue magazines from back when I was still into fashion yes but more into the mainstream rather than alternative as I'm now, and I cut them up some more and put together some really cool collages that represent my vision as well as it is possible to present an alternative brand with stuff from Vogue.

I let the collages stay in the sketchbook I used for maybe two days and then I ripped out the pages and put them on my wall and decided to leave making a fashion portfolio until later. I think that next time I'm going to have to print out pictures that better represent my vision because the pictures in Vogue just don't really work.

xoxo V