1 Dress 4 Looks Take 72

Sometimes the stars align in such a way that you see a woodland-themed Meta print on someone at a meetup one day and within a week you’re buying a different woodland-themed Meta print for yourself because the deal was too good to pass up on. I never expected myself to get anything like Lovely Forest because up until now I’d been adamant about not wanting bunny or deer prints. Just goes to show that people can change and that one motif in a print doesn’t overshadow the overall vibes. So let’s get cosy with this!

Look 1: What Came With

| Axes Femme cutsew | Metamorphose Little Squirrel OTKs | offbrand shoes and necklace | Cutie Creator headbow | handmade earrings | Risu Rose tea party ring | Fluffy Tori Tea Party Hard pin |

I purchased the skirt off Mercari as a set with these socks, so it’s only fair to try to coord them together. The shade of the socks is very muted, which thankfully is what the shade of this knit cutsew is. Altogether this combo makes for a look that’s casual and cosy, and still quite bright, just like this skirt.

Look 2: Cosy Monochrome

| Axes Femme cutsew | DreamV cardigan | Pairs Scotland socks | offbrand shoes, earrings, and rings | Cutie Creator headdress | Triple Fortune hair pins | Summer Tales Boutique  necklace | vintage brooch | 

I did say “let’s get cosy”. I’m not sure what about this print makes me inclined towards all the cosy looks (maybe it’s just the season), but I couldn’t resist a more single tone take. The shade of ivory of this skirt is very warm, but in a more of a pink-ish way than a yellow one, if that makes sense? So matching that will be a nightmare, however, I can drown it out with things that are more true ivory and it still works. And look at all these textures!

Look 3: Studying Nature

| Axes Femme cutsew | Amavel cardigan | Innocent World Short Boots OTKs | offbrand shoes, beret, earrings, and brooch | Rose of Sharon hair clip | Fantastic Grim Jewelry necklace | Violet Fane The Apotheque brooch | Le Petit Four ring | Enchantlic Enchantilly Queen Cat Secret Library ring | 

Is this still light academia or already dark academia? Either way, there was no way that I would’ve skipped doing a coord with green given how prominently it features on this print. When working on ideas, I also toyed with a different take, but this was simply more cohesive – in other words, don’t overthink your ideas, kids.

Look 4: Golden Boy

| The Seamstress of Bloomsbury Jive blouse | Angelic Pretty Twinkle Glitter Knit cardigan | Roji Roji socks | Modo Prayer Poem shoes | offbrand beret and necklace | Physical Drop headbow | Amadea Kingdom The Adventurer D20 brooch | Jane Marple  ring | BtSSB Kumakumya |

At first I thought to do something with yellow, since there is yellow in the print. But my actual yellow bits are very limited and gold is just a metallic yellow – so this gold coord was born. For the sake of interest, I decided to accessorise with some bronze, to tie the whole thing back to earth tones and the forest themes of the print. And the boy for good measure because he is technically a bear and thus technically a forest creature (even though Kinnōsuke has literally never seen more than a couple of trees in a park – he is very golden though).

For all the colour possibilities within this print, I really found myself drawn to the entirely neutral base ones with only small pops of colour. I think those coords, whilst not the most adventurous, allow the print shine and I like how they all look so different despite the colour similarities. Having really leaned into the cosy vibes of this skirt now makes me extra grateful that I decided to get it. I should still get a fair bit of use out of it despite the cold weather.