1 Dress 4 Looks Take 75

You know that a release is limited when you stop talking to your boyfriend for five minutes in the middle of waiting for a table at a restaurant on his birthday weekend to buy it. Yup, true story of how I acquired this dress. A few months of production time later The Black Ribbon’s Rococo Rose is with me in all its classic glory. Just in case Meta’s Charlotte JSK wasn’t enough classic florals to add to my wardrobe.

Look 1: Delicate Pink

| offbrand top and earrings | Angelic Pretty Romantic Angel OTKs | Elf Armorie Cupid’s Heart shoes | Cutie Creator Maiden’s Prayer headbow | Enchantlic Enchantilly necklace | vintage bag |

First is an attempt at getting close to a monochrome. Not easy given the base shade of this fabric. I thankfully have enough of similar things to put something together and this is definitely a coord that’d be easy to throw on for a last minute meetup or something. Or even for a solo potter around a museum (haven't done that in a wihle).

Look 2: Tea Rose

| Axes Femme cutsew | Angelic Pretty Cinema Doll OTKs | Laura Ashley shoes | handmade (not by me) headbow | Q-Pot Teabag necklace | offbrand necklace | Risu Rose ring |

Named so not because of the colour of the flower, but because I wanted to infuse the coord with a tea theme. Tbh, just thinking about it makes me want to put the kettle on and brew something nice to go with this. Still keeping it simple and trying to maintain the focus more on the necklaces, but it’s just that little bit more interesting than merely an ivory-based coord.

Look 3: Softly Blue

| Millefleurs blouse | Innocent World OTKs | Modo Prayer Poem shoes | Triple Fortune bonnet | Tiny Passerine Creations The Duches’ Tea parure |

Despite getting rid of a lot of my blue pieces, I am still keeping some and therefore can pull out the soft blue accents from the print. Hopefully. The bonnet is taking this into quite OTT territory, which may be a bit of an overkill. The picture doesn’t seem to do those blue flowers in the print the kind of justice that I was hoping for though and the whole thing looks like it needs a bit more blue, as well as some interest, across the skirt or torso. Maybe the morun x muuna stoik overskirt would’ve fixed that?

Look 4: Fresh Spring

| Axes Femme cutsew | Innocent World Rose Lace Milefeuille bolero | Angelic Pretty Salon de The Rose OTKs | offbrand shoes and ring | Imogen’s Imagination beret | belt from Physical Drop’s Shirring 3-Tier OP | vintage brooch | Wax Poetic necklace |

I see green in the fabric and I add green to the outfit, simple as that. I tried to vary it up a little from the many previous variations by not going for the same OTKs or headbow as I usually do. And let me tell you, I’m very glad that I got that beret, even if it took me a while to realise the Imogen’s Imagination’s beret supremacy.


This soft shade of pink is pretty close to my Victorian Maiden dress, so I will also be trying ideas similar to what I’ve done with that. I can’t necessarily replicate the coords that I put together for that dress because I no longer own a big bunch of those pieces, plus by virtue of being a pattern, this one’s less versatile than a solid coloured main piece. Still, Rococo Rose will find a good home in my wardrobe and I may even (gasp) wear it as a sundress during the next round of heatwaves. It’s not like anyone can stop me.