Hello lovelies,

what can I say, I finally managed to go to the Zeitentanzball Vienna, a historical ball in Vienna, and it was amazing.

It all started back in 2025 when I got the message from an acquaintance that the registration for this Vienna historical dance event had just started and if I'm interested, I should register now. When I saw the message I immediately registered. I was so excited because I also like the theme of this year as it was “Fairytales”, which is perfect for a historical costume ball.

The text from their website

The text from their website

So my goal for a few months was think about a fairy tale and turn it historical. I played with some ideas (Princess and the frog, Frau Holle, Goldmarie, etc) until I landed at Sleeping Beauty or Dornröschen, in German. My concept was easy: mash something from the 18th century together with lots and lots of roses and boom, that's my sleeping beauty costume. 

I remembered that I made a robe á la francaise back in 2018 and I didn't like the outcome as it was so boring. Here is the dress from 2018 and here it is worn. Look how boring it is.

 And here a picture from 2018:

So, where to begin with the transformation of the dress? My first step was ordering roses and some twigs. And shoes.  I wanted pink matching shoes that would fit both this outfit and also my historical fashion-inspired wardrobe and other Japanese fashion outfits.

Then I started to pick open the seams of the ribbons and the decoration of the whole dress and the stomacher and set them aside.

Initially I had the idea of making my own lace for the stomacher. A great idea if I had more time. This time my project was not time sensitive but there was still no time to make my own lace. Just for this I made my own pattern. It is based on lace from a stomacher I found on Pinterest.

As you can see, the top part was a bit of a mistake but the bottom part already looks really nice. I could not figure out what stitch was used for the middle part so I just went for a honey comb ground. The idea that I could make my own 18th century lace was so thrilling for me, I was one step closer to full-fill my dream of making my own lace for the dresses.

As the stomacher was the most elaborate part of the dress, I also wanted it to look fantastic. For this, I found some amazing white lace in my stash. I added it to the stomacher and decided, there was still not enough bling. So I added beads, and afterwards, smaller rocailles beads and then I finished it off with shiny rectangular beads.

Once I was happy with the blingness, I added bows and roses. And the stomacher was officially done. 

The dress was now void of any flounces and decoration. It looked empty and sad, but when I finished adding the roses, it looked like a completely new historical ball gown.

Who is she and what did she do to the other dress? I felt so satisfied with the transformation. It really looked like an enchanted forest where Dornröschen sleeps in the castle. It was not difficult sewing the roses onto the dress. I took a thicker thread and just want around the leaves. It was much trickier trying to sew the harder branches onto the dress. 

My shoes arrived in time and while they didn't look like the picture, they were marvelous - and a bit too big for my tiny feet.

And now the only thing left was dressing up and enjoying the evening. 

The arrived with an uber as I didn't want to take the public transportation in this look. We were very early and had to wait almost 45min for the doors to open. 

When the doors opened the dance master Pia led us in a circle into the room until it was filled with people. The historical dance room was an amazing room that was a bit unexpected to find as the outer exterior was quite ugly. 

We danced and danced and I was happy we went to the dance-preparation two nights before. After a few hours of dancing there was a food break. There was a lot of meat and cheese, greaves, and greaves with potato. Definitely nothing my partner could eat so he ate one Bretzl. Poor him.

And here is the room, waiting for the midnight event to start. Look at those amazing costumes! I recognized Frau Holle, Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot, Frog Prince, and so much more. Other's were not as elaborately dressed as we also had a woman dressed as a cat in leggings. What I found more interesting was that there were a lot of older people (60+) and people my age but only a few people younger than us. We actually expected to see a lot of people our age, no idea why. 

 

And now, mesdames et messieurs, the moment you have probably waited for. My outfit! It was a successful all in pink look. 

I love how perfectly the shoes match the underskirt. I had an amazing evening and I hope to go to more balls and historical dance events in Vienna, now that I know they do exist! (Although mostly organized on Facebook where I deleted my account. Dang.)

And here is a short reel I made of the event: 

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Hello lovelies,

it's a new month and that means, a new video! This month is bobbin lace time and I made a small sunflower. It was a Christmas present for my significant other and I was happy that he enjoyed it. Now we only need a place to hang it. 

The video is a compilation of three different lace streams on twitch, cut up and shortened for youtube. 

Enjoy!

  

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Hello lovelies, 

it was time again for another b&b organized by the wonderful team of Lolita Verein Österreich at Blauer Salon in Vienna. It's such a wonderful event! It is always the highlight of my lolita year and a staple of the Vienna Lolita community. 

We arrived around 11:30am. I had 12 items to sell so I paid my 12€ fee, 1€ per item with a 20€ cap. 

After you bring your items you can browse the other clothes that are there. The clothing racks for dresses, blouses, and skirts are divided between lolita clothes and jfashion clothes like liz lisa. Whereas accessoires and outerwear are not handled separately. This mix of Lolita fashion and japanese street fashion makes the bring and buy not only popular with Austrian lolitas but with all J-fashion fans.

As the event goes until 4pm, most of the people went for lunch at 12pm and left the clothes in the attendance of the club.

We ourselves went to grab some delicious food at dancing noodles, a Chinese restaurant just near the salon that offered food with authentic North-chinese hand-pulled noodles. And the noodles were really good! 

As we had to leave early, I collected my cash from the register. I had sold 3 items for a total of 115€. Nice! But I also did spend 140€ on the clothes plus 12€ fee. So it was not really a plus but nevertheless, I had new clothes! Buying second hand at events like this is one of my favourite ways to enjoy sustainable Lolita fashion and slow fashion in general.

And here is my haul:

I bought this blue Axes femme dress as I just loved the print. It's a bit long for me but that's okay. For a second hand axes femme dress it was a bit on the expensive side with 70€ but I did not care. I wanted it as Axes Femme pieces are always in high demand at J-Fashion second-hand events.

Then I got a new cream coloured Liz Lisa cardigan. I am always out of cardigans so I am hoarding them. I bought it for 25€. 

The top is from Ank rouge and is just a short crop top, perfect for layering under JSK in Lolita and J-fashion styles. The price was 20€. 

And then of course, the bonnet. Isn't it pretty? I adore bonnets, they are one of my favourite accessories for classic and sweet Lolita coords. The friend who sold the bonnet told me that she herself bought the bonnet at a bring and buy but she didn't wear it. And it was a shame too just keep it in the closet, so she sold it for 25€. A steal for such a pretty thing!

And here is my coord for the event. I wore my quaint lass OP, braided up my hair and wore a baby the stars shine bright headpiece. The necklace is from Metamorphose temps de fille, it's already quite ancient in lolita years. 

I just had to change the shoes as it was too cold for such flimsy shoes. 

Tell me, what is your favourite item from the haul?  

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 Hello lovelies, 

sorry for the videos back on back but I didn't know what to write about and then time flew by and suddenly, the first days of February were upon me and I hadn't posted all January. 

This video is short and sweet and I present the clothing in the Marie-Antoinette exhibition.  

 

Please watch to the end as my watch time is horrible!

 

And if you are interested in a shorter versions, here is the shorts:

 

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Hi lovelies, 

sorry for the absence, I had a  two weeks christmas holiday and spent most of it like a marmot in its nest. I was sleeping or gaming all day at it was magnificent. 

But, I finally managed to make a new video! Here, I am unpacking my clothes from Lacemade, Liz Lisa and the taobao brand Resplended Galaxy. 

 

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Hello lovelies,

 the Kochkulturmuseum (Food culture museum? 1:1 translation, no idea if it makes sense) announced a new Victorian Tea-time event. And Pi, Hias and I decided to even though it was somewhere in lower Austria. Usually for events like this we stick to Vienna but we wanted to borrow my parent's car which would make the travel cheaper. In the end, we had to borrow a sixt car for five hours and had to pay 122€ plus gas. Ugh. We started travelling around 1.3pm as it took an hour and the event started at 3pm.

It was foggy af, actually it has been foggy since in the beginning of December. We arrived and still had an hour left so we fled into the nearest warm shop, which was a bakery and bought bread and christmas cookies. The doors were opened on time and we had took the lift to the second floor. There, we entered a super cute room which was decorated with the red plates I knew. 

We immediately got this tower of sandwiches at our table, cucumber sandwiches and relish with cheddar. Latter was definitely my favourite. 

Continuing with the food, we also got artichoke and mushroom pies which were really good. I am not a fan of artichoke but I liked it. The pie was moist and tasty, but definitely nothing I would want to do at home.

And here is the cucumber sandwich. We also got three different kinds of teas - one white and two black but since I am also not a fan of white tea, I really enjoyed the other two.

 After stuffing my face with sandwiches, I went over to the sweet treats. The scones had no clotted cream but raisins in the dough so this was the only one I ate. Definitely not a fan of raisins.

 We also had a plate of gingerbead and buttery shortcake, and then plum pudding, which was lit on fire with enough alcohol to probably set the whole room aflame. Afterwards, we got a mug of wassail, a hot mulled punch. My sister and I were more fond of the non-alcohol version of it.

And, of course, a picture with a wonderful filter giving the room it's pastel colours back. I am wearing my baby the stars shine bright dress called Flower Garrett Juliet Onepiece, long version.

 I have been to two different Tea parties now and have to say that the ambience was great at both places, as was the food but the quantity of food was much greater at this party. What I liked more last time was that they set your Christmas pudding aflame on your table, that didn't happen this time. They set it aflame on another table and dimmed the lights. It would have been even better if they did this at every table.

All in all though it was a wonderful afternoon with plentiful of good food. Hias was so amazed that he asked that we go to the next event too. That was great as he had showed no interest in 2023 when I asked him to join us for the first Victorian tea party. 

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