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.

Hello lovelies,

time flies by so fast and we are already at the end of the March. Didn't I just celebrate new years? I really miss my students day were the days passed by so slow and I had so much time for all of my hobbies or just watching series or read a book.

This month we visited our most favourite Cafe again; Little Britain. The owner and waitresses are always so kind to us and the food is really good.
This time I ate a blueberry crumble, scones and drank raspberry lemonade.






I wore my quaint lass dress again, a few hours before the meet-up I removed the weird lace that was at the collar. It had bothered me for so long and it was the reason why I didn't wear the dress in a long time. The white lace which can now be seen at the colour is from the white chiffon blouse I wear underneath.
The hat is from L'armoire de versailles, a chinese lolita taobao brand. The shoes are from rosemarie seoir. It has a little bow in the back.




Have a great week,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

I live in a very old appartment, it was build around 1900s and most of the furniture is about 30 years old. I tried to modernize the flat but the progress is so slow. But for 2019 I said I really want to tackle this problem and use my extra money on new furniture and a good electrician.
The first item I want to buy is a new sofa and M. and I visited four different furniture stores before we decided to buy the very first sofa we saw at the first funiture store, which coincidently was ikea. I am a huge Ikea fangirl so that is really no surprise.

My outfit for that day was another Valentines coordinate but this time not lolita but larme. I haven't worn larme in a very long time, actually I think I didn't wear it in 2018 at all, shocking!
The skirt is from Swankiss and the pullover from H&M, or as a friend called it, titty window.





All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

sometimes social media also has its good sides. Yesterday I found this amazing and relative new vintage shop in Vienna called magic oyster vintage, opened in March 2018.
It is near Mariahilfer Straße, the longest shopping street in Vienna and therefore relatively well located.
I visited the shop today after work and was thrilled. The shop keeper was super friendly and even made me a cup of tea. There was no other costumer so I could chat with the shop keeper and browse to my hearts content, and there were so many items. I was in my own personal heaven.
The price range is normal for Austria which means I didn't find an item under 70€ but no worries, cards are accepted. .
The white dress I bought was already very "cheap" with 79€.
I also found cute hats, corsets, dresses and shoes, not only old but also new vintage brand like collectif or what katie did.







When I entered the shop I thought it just had one room and a smaller ajourning room with the dressing rooms but no! It has another huge room with underwear and even more vintage clothing.



Adress: 21, Esterházygasse, 1060 Wien
Opening house: Tues-Fr 11am to 7pm, Sat 11am to 5.30pm
Homepage

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

another month, another Teekränzchen.
This time we visited a Cafe called Daniel Moser's cottage. It is located in the 19th district which is infamous for being a more a more expensive and pretentious district.
The restaurant was full when we entered at 1pm and only cleared a bit when we left at 4pm but we had our own little booth which was wonderful.
I ordered the burger and the fries and latter was really good but the burger was boring. It was small and the avocado sauce was only in the middle. The chicken in the burger was tough and hard and all in all it was a let-down for expensive 14€.
M. ordered an apple cake and at least this was really good. It tasted of cinnamon and reminded me of apple strudel.



Group picture!


My outfit was a late valentines inspired one in red and white. I finally had the chance to wear my metamorphose dress again and it fit perfectly with the red blouse I made for a meet-up in Manila. It only needs red lace, I still haven't ordered some. The red roses on the shoes are from shoe clips I made for a cosplay. Good I kept them.




Have a nice week,

Auris Lothol