Lolidrobe Reassessment Post 2025.02

What? But I have literally just done one of these! At least one of those three months feels like it has entirely disappeared and never actually existed.

New additions

Moving flats has put a stop to a lot of spending that wasn’t furniture, household stuff or food. I mean, a £120 dress or a £120 wardrobe to move my cardigans from the floor and into someplace more protected is (sadly) a no brainer.

• 3 boleros (2 classic in brown and 1 gothic in black)

Yes, that really is it. I know.

Spring-summer has blessed me with Millefeuilles. Sure, that means that I now have three brown Millefeuille boleros, which is more than anyone needs, really. But more importantly, I have all of the lace patterns now, which felt like it’d be a much harder thing to achieve. It means that I can ease off the hunt a little bit. One day I will hopefully be able to replace some of these with other colourways for a more balanced collection, but at the moment, my inner collector-archivist is extremely happy. Expect a proper appreciation post sometime in the future!

Possible new looks

That being said, with hardly any new purchases, especially as the boleros all somehow crowded into June, there are no new looks to showcase. And we can all imagine what kinds of looks these three would create. So instead I’ll showcase three pictures from the last three months where I thought I was being very creative in one way or another. 

Coord from June.

Coord from April.

Coord from May.

Need list progress

Still no progress here. I keep thinking about putting in an order for a wine underskirt and then it keeps not being a priority.

That being said, I noticed that my brown Sosic Shop heels are peeling along the toe box platform. They are a little bit sweeter than where I’m leaning these days, so maybe, if I manage to replace them with something else (maybe another Elf Armorie or Modo pair?), then I’ll throw in that underskirt to the Taobao order. We’ll see. But actual progress, I’ve made none.

Added brown shoes to replace.
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Current wishlist progress

Did I mention that I scored more Millefeuille boleros? Shell Lace and Pure Smooth acquired, as well as a black Cross Lace (although I’m reluctant to give up my navy Cross Lace, I’ll think on that). I almost didn’t buy the Shell Lace one because it isn’t my size, but I was reminded that I collect these for scholarly reasons and quickly slapped some reason into myself. So here we are, only one Millefeuille left to find, let’s see if we can make it happen this year!

Dresses though… Nope. Come back another time.

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New Year’s goals: progress summary

A relative success with the goals so far, if I dare say so myself.

• Did I get my pieces altered? The work has started. Or started as much as it can given that my seamstress is focusing on other work for now, so two of these are sort of waiting for now. But I’ve sent one piece to Naddine Atelier (IW’s Revival Sweets Teddybear JSK), so there is some movement. Also, I changed my mind on the Charming Town skirt, that’s now getting sold, so one thing fewer to consider. Just leaves Haenuli’s Lovely Memories and AP’s Cinema Doll to alter.
• Have I bought more classic and casual main pieces? Not this quarter because I hardly bought anything. There are still the bits I got last quarter and I am in the process of doing a bunch of sales to fund some replacements, so maybe next time we’ll see some movement here.
• Have I gotten roped into organising anything? Yes and no? I told myself that I’d only organise the Christmas lunch this year, which is still the case. However, since then the Christmas lunch has grown to be a bigger Christmas lunch for the Winter ILD thing. It’s still only one thing though. But yeah, a very grey area on how to consider this.

Writing this as it’s too warm to wear more than one layer, frills remain on my mind, but only in a theoretical sense. They have been a bit on pause because of the house move and because of my ongoing sales, but there’s an air of optimism in all this. My wardrobe is changing in a way that will suit me more. I’m trying to put less pressure on myself, just generally, but especially in terms of what to wear and how. And amidst all this, as my focus has now gone primarily towards writing, everything else has naturally had to take a bit of a back seat. Yes, I still have way too many things going on at once – but more importantly, the things that I dedicate my attention to are all making me excited for the next steps. And that’s the sort of energy that I want more of over the rest of the summer and going into autumn. Hopefully you’ve also found some things that spark your excitement.