Hello lovelies,

here are my coordinates from February in June because I am a lazy bum.

The first coord is an Infanta JSK with a magic tea party blouse and dream V shoes. If you look closely you can see the ribbons in my hair.


All in pink, what a shock. The dress is from Baby the stars shine bright worn with Rosemarie seoir shoes and an offbrand bonnet. 



A more casual himekaji coord with a Liz lisa dress and a red hairbow. The dress is really warm and perfect for cold temperatures. 

The following is my non-lolita valentines coord, I showed it off already in another post. The skirt is from Swankiss, the top from H&M.

 And this is my lolita Valentines coord for our Lolita Teekränzchen in February. The jsk is from Metamorphose and I added all the roses to it. The red blouse is hand-made and made out of chiffon.


Another softer coordinate with my Innocent world jsk and dreamV shoes and a lockshop wig. My hair was super messy, luckily this wig fits almost every outfit.

All in all, 6 coords that month. Not bad! Usually I only make it to 3 to 4 per month (about one each weekend). It is such a shame that I can not wear lolita at work.

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

for last year's Connichi I made a mash up, I combined a robe a la francaise with an Elsa from Frozen design. I wanted to cosplay her for a long time and had already bought some fabric but never even came to make a pattern or anything. The dress design is my own and it's pretty simple. But except for all the glitter Elsa's gown is also not super fancy.
As for the sewing pattern I used the robe a la francaise pattern by JP Ryan.

I started this project on the 3rd of August and finished it in time for Connichi 2018 which was held on the 7th and 8th of September. Everything except for the dress side seams were hand-sewn. As you can imagine, I had a hell of a month constructing this.

Doing the pannier was the first item on my list. See my other post here.
Lucky for me I already had stays and therefore didn't have to do them.

After the pannier came the underskirt, made out of a silver and blue polyester fabric. I didn't have enough fabric and had to order some more from the fabric shop in China and it only arrived two days before we left for the convention. That was super close, but also meant that I finished the skirt on the long train ride.


The construction of these skirts is super easy because they are made out of two big rectangles, in my case it was 107cm long and 150cm wide. I pleated the waist then sewed them together on both sides, leaving about 20cm from the top unsewn.

A ribbon was sewn to the waist, then hem it and that was the whole construction of this gown.


In the end I decided to also add some frills and bows. Pro tip: always do this before you sew your skirt together, not afterwards. It's much easier this way.

The frill was done with a whip gather. It was the first time I used this method and I had to start over three times because the material was so thick that the thread was pulled apart several times. But after the first regrets I really came to like this form of gathering.




The stomacher was also made out of the shiny fabric and lined with buckram, leather and thick linen but it still didn't get the stiffness I wanted.
I found this huge snowflake on aliexpress and decided to buy it. After it arrived I found out that it was a replica (?) of a frozen snowflake and even had a tag.

And this is the finished stomacher



The dress was a pain in the ass, I will not even sugarcoat it. I sometimes really didn't have any clue what the instructions wanted from me and I had my friends help me explain the mystery. Or sometimes they made the confusion even worse. Oh, and working with chiffon...I hate it. But it is still my favourite fabric to wear.

At first I wanted to cut off the straps to the dress to make it more historical accurate but then I thought, I am making that dress out of plastic chiffon, that is the least of my problems. 

This is what my back lining looked like. That is actually a pretty good method to adjust your dress to your size.


The next time I am doing a robe a la francaise I will not do the front closure on the lining because it didn't work out for me. I had to pin the stomacher on the sides of my gown and it looked horrible.
At least the back looked super cute,  the picture is from afterwards and you can clearly see the tiny snowflakes I added at the end.


I made three different sleeves, the biggest ones in the chiffon fabric, smaller ones in white and then I also added lace sleeves.
That's my under sleeve made out of white chiffon and blue and white lace.

My boyfriend helped me out with the dress and glued rhinestones to the sleeve. Thanks again!

I didn't have enough rhinestones to also glue them to the lace I added to the dress. Maybe I'll do this before another photo shooting, but none is planned yet.


The last bits were finished on the train ride to the convention, especially adding all those little snowflakes which are almost impossible to see on all the pictures. Fantastic.


Here are some pictures of the costume worn. Thank you so much to the Photographer Souly/Il Carnefice

Hello lovelies,

this year I wanted to do a monthly OOTD but it is almost June and I haven't done a single one.
The concept of this post is that instead of doing separate blog posts for each outfit, I will just do one per month.
I will start in January and will do to per month until I am even, at least that is the plan.

In the first month of the year I had two lolita outfits and only some random shots from our trip to the Philippines. Manila was so hot in January and the humidity was so high that I almost never had the chance to take nice pictures because I always looked like a mess.
 The first picture is an outfit from our Teekränzchen, see my separate post about it here.

 I wore the tartan check frederick trump jsk from Innocent World and a moi meme moitie blouse. The rest was offbrand.

The next picture is from the same weekend. I wore a dress that a friend of mine made. The shoes were from DreamV and the rest was offbrand again. 


This picture is actually from the Philippines. My cousin made it when we were at the Magic kingdom, an amusement park. The dress is from sky rose, a brand that shut down last year.

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,


last year I made a set of small panniers; these were used in the 18th century as undergarments to widen the skirts on the sides until the 1780s. Only the English kept the pannier as their official court fashion until 1820.

The pattern I used came from the book "Guide to 18th century dress making" by American duchess. It was very easy to follow and had a lot of pictures and step by step written instructions. All in all I can really recommend her book if you are interested in the fashion of the 18th century. Her new book will come out in Summer and it's all about hair and make-up, I can't wait!

The fabric I used was a medium-weight cotton with stripes, I found it in my left-over fabric stash and just had enough for this project. Hooray, lucky me.

The ribbon is the typical cotton herringbone patterned one, 2,5cm wide.
As for the boning I used two layers of reed boning, also about 2cm wide. I found that one layer was not as stable and used two.

 This is how my pattern looked like:
Doesn't look hard at all, know does it?

Actually there is nothing more to say to this project, it went smoothly and everything worked out perfectly.





All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

at the bring and buy last weekend I realized I have been a lolita for 15 years, for me this means that I have been wearing lolita fashion for half of my life. This is so crazy!

I found animexx, a German anime and manga site back in 2004 because I loved reading manga and watching anime, duh. I registered and immediately found out that I am not the only one in Vienna who loved them.
I was introduced to Lolita from watching various Visual Kei bands, especially the band Lareine. In 2004 I started wearing my first lolita outfit, which was actually the first Communion dress of my sister, at a Visual Kei meet-up and I guess it just went downhill from then on. Just kidding :D.

My style changed a lot since 2004. It started out very sweet, went on to very casual and I think I am on the classic level now, with some OTT influences.

To celebrate this joyous 15 anniversary year I made a lolita through the years collage. Which year do you like best? Or find most ridiculous?

I couldn't find any pictures from 2011, I was concentrating more on cosplay that year.
Looking back, I had so many weird coordinations but they all helped me grow and move on. I am pretty confident with my style, in and out of lolita and those 15 years also helped me shake off a bit of my introvertness and even enjoy talking to my fellow lolitas. It took me about 10 years to really feel good in the Austrian Lolita community, better late than never. 

What is your lolita over the years story?

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,


today is the first of May and I finally had a free day again. Last week I took vacation and got sick so I did not enjoy much of it.
So today I went to the Animarket and the j-fashion bring and buy, latter was organized by our Austrian lolita fashion community.

The place was once again packed with people selling their old mangas, dvds or hand-made items. A friend sold hand-made items and I got a green tea body scrub.