Hello lovelies,

sorry for the lack of updates, I am currently super stressed with pretty much everything. Workwise its hell at the moment and instead of working 40h I usually work between 50-60 hours each week. I am hitting my breaking point fast and I will probably quit anytime soon. 

But let's get to the good stuff, the coordinates from September and November. As it is already February I am as always super late. But I am trying to film a lot more for youtube and instagram and trying to push it. And this is so much work. Plus I still need to write my first Bachelor thesis (of four).

So, what were my outfits in these three months?

September

I spontainously decided to colour my hair pink at the hair dresser at the beginning of September. I yearned for some change and as I didn't really leave the house and didn't go to the office anymore, I had the feeling that now was the perfect time to get my hair in a weird colour; nobody would really see it.

This was right after the hair dresser. I wore my fox dress in mint. Not really my colour but the foxes were so cute.

My innocent world dress combined with a bonnet and new tights. They actually have flower and portraits on them but sadly, it is not really visible.

The dress is from Magic tea party. I didn't want to combine it with a bolero because it was a hot day. Instead, I just wore a light scarf and suddenly the outfit looked like a Russian grandmother. But I did like the combination. 

October

Halloween month and I didn't even had my halloween week off because of work, nor did we have a party because of the covid restrictions. Instead M. and I spent the night watching a horror movie. 

This was a rare day at the office. Of course I had to wear my brand new Liz Lisa pullover. 

Ignore my shoes, those are my current house shoes. But this is also the newest Strawberry dress I got from Liz Lisa. I love how cute it looks.

I am not a fan of the following look because the light or my make-up look so off.

But I am here with my Cat Devil, at least she fits the Halloween theme and the door perfectly. 

The dress is from Abyss Museum and the last time I wore it was for the Halloween teaparty in Vienna. It had been quite some time. The bonnet is from Angelic Pretty. I really love it but the sides tend to flap terribly.

The hufflepuff dress is one of my favourites. And it fit the Halloween month perfectly again, as does Maja. She is definitely the most photogenic cat in this household. I couldn't get a decent picture with Sheila at all. She is super scared of everything. 

November

SHOCKING! Another cat dress. Who would have guessed? I pre-ordered this dress from Emily temple cute in July or August and received it in November. It is such a cute dress, I am really happy I decided to buy it. Shoes are from Bodyline and the bonnet is actually a very old opne from Alice and the pirates.

Maja is my special guest is almost every month. But I can't help it, she is so cute. I just want the world to see her. 

The dress is from Metamorphose, the overskirt from Mighty Kingdom, the shoes from Rosemarie seoir and the wrist cuffs from Bodyline. I made the round head-dress myself two years or three years ago. 

I hope you enjoyed it, check out my youtube or support me on patreon for more special content!

Have a great weekend,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

I got wonderful news! Last year around Christmas I decided to join Patreon with the intention, to use the money to make more printable sewing patterns, photo shootings and maybe scan all the vintage sewing patterns. 

At the moment I am working on two new videos and my newest video got released on Patreon one day ago and it will be released for everyone in 48h afterwards on youtube. 

I still have to work hard to get a grasp of the Valentina pattern program, because I also want to upload a free sewing pattern of the Regency cap I made a while ago. 

I hope you can join my Patreon community, there are four tiers and the lowest tier is just 1€ a month. 

Join here

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

sorry for the lack of updates, I am currently super stressed because of exams, work and pretty much everything else. It's hell at the moment. I even took a vacation from work to study for my exams next week and there is still so much to study. And I just really want to sleep. Oh no. 

The title of the post is actually the whole story of this post. haha.

I entered an online giveaway from Veinityfair and won! I was over the moon when they contacted me for a comic. We talked about some ideas and I really loved the Victorian hair-jewellery. The artist went for it and about a month later, the comic was ready. 

I will only post two pages of it as a teaser. Read the whole comic on their Instagram.

Thank you so much again, that was great!

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

my video tutorial of the half-round mask is finally done and on youtube. Please watch and subscribe! 

There are a lot of different ways of how people sew the mask and that was the method that worked out best for me. I hope you like it and share your result if you sew one!

Download the mask pattern from my dropbox.

Stay safe and healthy everyone!

All the best,

Auris Lothol

 

Hello lovelies, 

I wanted to make a nice cap after the Regency dress I finished but it was so hard to find surviving extants and pictures in general. I dove into museums and libraries that shared their collection for free online. And for future references, I will post them here because they are brilliant. 

Published 1794-1802, probably London. 64 pages full of fashion plates.

 National Portrait gallery

This was a rare find, it has fashion plates, portraits, etc. I searched for regency morning dress and I found a lot of fashion plates. Click here to my specific search.

Show me

Another British source:Games, collections, videos, stories, homework help and family days out from museums and galleries. I found a few regency fashion plates, for example this one here. 

Regency fashion

More fashion plates from the magazine "The gallery of fashion" (1794-1803) 

Candice Hern

is an author of Regency romance books and her site contains a lot of information on clothing during that era. 

Regrom

another site dedicated to the Regency era. I found some interesting articles about caps and clothings.

Mimi Matthews

this site would not be complete without this author. She is another author of Regency romance novels and her site is also dedicated to everything Regency. I found this article about Regency caps that was very interesting. Read more.

Cap sewing 

on there is a whole load on information on how to sew an 18th century cap. I include this on the list because most of these forms were also used during the Regency era.

In the end I found a cap I especially liked from the Riksmuseum, located in the Netherlands. follow the link here to go there.

 It was published in the magazine "Magazine of Female Fashions of London and Paris, No.31.2, London Head Dresses" around 1800. This cap especially caught my eye:

I liked how the hair was not completely hidden underneath the cap and there was a kind of veil over the eyes.I immediately set to work and made about 5 different mock-ups before I found the pattern I liked.

 

Normally I only do one mock up and it fits, at least for modern or lolita clothing. But for historical clothing I always find myself doing mock-up after mock-up because it is not quite right. It stresses me because I have the feeling that I just can't do it properly. I remember also doing about 5 mock-ups of my Edwardian corset before it finally fit. But it cost me a lot of time and nerves. 

I bought a very fine cotton fabric at my favourite fabric store for the base. I still had see-through but stiff silk for the veil. I made the mock up with cotton and tulle, but felt the tulle didn't look good enough. 

This is the pattern I ended up with. It looks like half a croissant and only looking at it makes me kind of hungry.

After cutting it, I already measured it with seam allowance, the piece looked like that. 

At the bottom I measured out dots every 0,5cm and then gathered it to 7cm.

Afterwards I did the same at the top, and gathered it to 8cm. And it went from a nice croissant to something that looks more like a cap. But see how the shape of the fabric changes completly with just one line of pulled thread? I love it!

 

From the same fabric I cut out two strips of about 4cmx74cm and ironed them to make something like a bias tape. On the original picture the band that goes around the cap is a bit wider, I guess I could have also made a 2cm bias strip instead of a 1cm.   

The strips were then pinned around the edges of the cap, sandwiching the fabric. I left the bands on the sides longer because I wanted to close it at the back of my head with that.

I went over the whole cap with a running stitch and removed the pins. Usually I like to stick in the pins and be done with it, but I was working with real silk fabric in the next step and I did not want scratch or tear it. 

I tried to use as little of the fabric as possible because it was so expensive. And I am very happy, that everything with the fabric worked out so well because I did not have to redo it. Hooray. 

Below is how the pattern really looks like. I ironed it on a very low heat and did not ruin it. Plus it kind of removed the wrinkles. Horray.

While the top is a picture of how it looked like right after I cut it out, below is how it looke like after I ironed and hemmed it.

The next thing I did, was of course, pinning and then sewing both parts together. The project, so far, was very nice and easy, except for the 5 annoying mock-ups. At least everything else worked out.

But I was not done yet, I added ribbons made out of lace, I have no idea if this was actually work like this? No idea and I didn't find anything else that looked like that, so please leave a comment!

And here is the finished look.

A video will be completed and uploaded soon. I will post it on the blog as soon as it's done. But if you are a patreon member, you will see the video 48h before anyone else. So if this interests you, you can support me there: Patreon

All the best,

Auris Lothol

 

Hello lovelies,

last month I got my new dress from Miao Wu - The crimes of Grindelwald, the hufflepuff version of course. I bought it over Clobbaonline, the link is here, back in July. It was open for pre-order and I immediately took the chance. 

 

Three months later it arrived, neatly packed with the small Hogwarts chain in a separate plastic. I ordered the L version of it, because I was very unsure with the measurements but it ended up being a bit too big. I am still unsure what to do about it but I am thinking about doing a ribbon shirring over the actual shirring. 

The site stated the following measurements for the dress:

Size	Bust	Waist	Length(Not Including Shoulder Straps)
S	78-86	66-74	84
M	83-90	71-79	85.5
L	86-94	76-84	87

The larger end of Bust and Waist is the max after the back shirring is stretched(not the max). It's not recommended to stretch the back shirring for more than 6cm in case of tight fitting(For your reference only).

 

The yellow fabric is cotton and the black is velvet. The words hufflepuff and the hogwarts patch are directly machine-embroidered onto the fabric. The seams are straight and neat, and the ends of the thread were trimmed.

The dress has sewn in cups, and I am not sure why. I only know this cups from dresses were you can't or shouldn't wear a bra, like a ball gown. The lining is made out of a typical black polyester fabric.  The zip is on the side and it can be difficult to close, even while flat-laying it, because of the velvet. 

The straps are adjustable. Therefore perfect for taller or smaller lolitas.

This is the separate clip I got, I am not sure where to put it though. It is not seen to be included in the worn pictures with the model, maybe it was just a goodie.

The dress is a bit on the warmer side, perfect for autumn walks and winter meet-ups. 

Cost: 

The dress was 72$ (~67,50€)

Shipping was 16,5$ (~ 14,50€)

So all in all less than 100€.

All the best,

Auris Lothol