Miss Filigree

Although autumn is already here I haven't had the inspiration to write this post, simply because it's still so warm! I'm still harvesting tomatoes at Halloween, it's crazy. However considering Christmas is less than two months away I figured I should get writing anyway, before I end up posting the winter one before this one! Dressing for autumn stylewise Tartans Tartans and autumn fit together like autumn and apple pie. Or autumn and pumpkin spice, if you will. You can wear them all sorts of ways too, from Angelic Pretty's pastel tartans with glittery threads to bold reds in oldschool Baby to Moitié's (yes, they've done tartan!) very subdued wool. Plus they come in all colours of the rainbow, so even if lolita pieces don't usually come in your favourite colour you won't have a hard time finding a tartan one! Creams and greys Out with black and white, in with grey and creams! This palette looks wonderful with the dulling su...

Little disclaimer: in this post I'm mostly talking about Angelic Pretty, because they take more cues from trends than other brands within lolita, and they're the brand I know most about. I'm not ignoring other brands, they're just not quite as quick with making trendy pieces, and some of the pieces I talk about (eye masks anyone?) wouldn't fit with their aesthetic to begin with.  Also, everything here is just my opinion and based on what I personally have seen! Maybe you disagree, and that's fine. With that out of the way, enjoy! Sometime back, I was browsing old blogs looking for outdated posts, I love how you can see how much lolita has grown and evolved from old blog posts. I came across a six years old post from Lolita Blog Carnival about underrated colours in lolita, and while the vast majority of the posts linking to it had been deleted, four or five still worked. Of those, two mentioned grey as an underrated colour. And indeed I do remember that ...