Brand: Replica of Alice and the Pirates

Print Name: Mid­sum­mer Night Dream Ver­sion II

Col­or­ways: Navy, Ivory, Black

Retail Price: Esti­mated $250-$350USD (Non-inclusive)

Rar­ity: (Of the orig­i­nal) Mod­er­ately Rare

Repli­ca­tor: Oo Jia

Price of Replica: $104.50 USD (inclu­sive of ship­ping, and extras)

Over­all Score: 4/5

 

On Tues­day, I received the Oo Jia replica I ordered in Feb­ru­ary. I have never ordered from Oo Jia so this is a first time, unbi­ased review for her and her replications.

I IM’d her via Face­book on the 12th of Feb­ru­ary and received it just about a month later. I have heard of occa­sional delay, so the expe­ri­ence with ship­ping and make time will vary with her.

The pack­age was sur­pris­ingly undam­aged except for what looks like a hole that some­one tried to poke open. The over­all pack­age looked like it hadn’t spent more than a day in tran­sit.

Pack­aged dress shown here. Already, you can see the details of the dress. They look fairly decent.

The first things to come out of the wrap­ping! A head­bow, corset-lacing bodice bows and a pair of Secret Shop socks.

The dress laid out is quite impres­sive. It has vol­ume of its own with­out a pet­ti­coat, and while miss­ing a few minor details, the print qual­ity is sur­pris­ingly vivid and accu­rate with min­i­mal edge blur­ring.

The back of the dress is shirred with the lace serv­ing as the loop­ing for the corset ties. As far as the siz­ing accu­racy goes for this dress, I’d say it was ok. It was a lit­tle on the tight side, but it’s not ter­ri­ble and unwear­able. The zip­per does get stuck (actu­ally, most invisa-zips seem to do this. Or atleast they do for me. orz)

Details in the straps of the JSK.

Hav­ing seen this print in real life, it looks almost real. The actual give away, isn’t so much the print qual­ity itself, rather, the orig­i­nal has a type of waf­fle weave in the fab­ric and because of this, you can see the tex­ture of it from a glance. The replica is printed on a poplin(?) cot­ton and is very smooth to look at. 

The beau­ti­ful sil­ver rose but­tons used to attach the waist ties.

The brand name of the orig­i­nal printed on to the replica. Which doesn’t bother me because it shows who really owns the print.

The stitch qual­ity. Not ter­ri­ble. So far, I’ve only found two loose threads that were prob­a­bly from the bob­bin thread.

On the ruf­fle of the dress, I did find a few weird lit­tle white spots in the print that shouldn’t be there. Keep in mind how­ever, I was scru­ti­niz­ing this dress with pretty much a mag­ni­fy­ing glass.

The only thing I hate about the head bow (actu­ally this goes for the bodice bows too) is that the mid­dle is not secured entirely. Thus, the bot­tom wings of the bow are free to slide around giv­ing them a sloppy look. Espe­cially so for the bodice bows because they are satin and that stuff slides like ice on glass.

Decent look­ing but slip­pery. The pins in them aren’t secured either.

Over all, I really do like this replica. I made a mis­take in the type of JSK I wanted as I wanted JSK ver. I and not Ver II (shown). This was entirely my fault. The extra bow on the bodice does not suit me, so adding a waist belt, helps with defin­ing my shape in the (for me) some-what unflat­ter­ing cut. I give this an 4/5

Alter­ations I am considering:

- A pocket.

- Removal of the bot­tom bodice bow/lacing.

As some of you may know, I’ve been hit­ting the gym again. So far, I’ve lost 5lbs. I’m mildly sur­prised, but I’ve also had a lit­tle help from hav­ing a female gym part­ner. One thing that I have found does help, is doc­u­ment­ing what I’m eat­ing. Even if I am not eat­ing some of the best things one day or another. For the past month, I’ve been using a site/app called My Fit­ness Pal. I couldn’t really stay with Live­strong. There was some­thing about it that was just unap­peal­ing to me and I fell off the band wagon more often than not.

Any­ways, I wanted to share the things that inspire me to be fit. (of course, it’s mostly wish­list items. Oh well. LOL)

 

Mostly, it’s my extreme desire to wear one-piece style minis and salopettes from Angelic Pretty. I’m not a sweet lolita, but the two minis that you see listed don’t really strike me as “sweet” per se. I get more fairy-kei or maybe even gyaru.  I could really see them work­ing for gyaru. (Roma-gyaru maybe? IDK.)

Now, why would I pick dresses as my fit­spi­ra­tion? Why not a per­son or some­thing? Because when you have to rip open a cov­eted and rare print (Lotta deer…) it breaks my heart. It really does. I just forced a dress to fit me instead of work­ing to fit the dress. All I want to do is take it back in and remove the panel I added. Even if I can’t fit any of the dresses shown after I lose weight, I’d like to take Lotta back in and wear it the way it was intended to be worn. That’s just my wish.

My wardrobe is one of the piv­otal points in my every day life. With­out it, I tend to fall into a habit of tank-tops, and flip-flops; sweats and depres­sion. Clothes, lolita specif­i­cally, became an out­let for expres­sion to me. I’m a strong per­son, with lots of career ori­ented goals; but at the same time, I like to be able to doll up, be dainty and just walk around town feel­ing like the queen of France. I trea­sure my wardrobe more than any­thing else in the world.

Fash­ion doesn’t change who I am. It’s always going to be a tool to help define who you are. Your style is unique. My style is me.  So with­out fur­ther ado, here’s my wardrobe and how I wish to develop it.

I have two skirts, right now. Rose Toi­lette from Angelic Pretty and a hand­made skirt from fab­ric my aunt brought me.  I don’t use skirts a lot even though they can be pretty ver­sa­tile.  I think I should have at least 7 skirts. One for every day of the week so that I can alter­nate them more than I can with just two.  I just have no idea if I’d want prints or just plain sim­ple skirts.

I have three JSKs in my closet; Lotta Deer  from Inno­cent World,  Gar­den­ber­ries Rab­bit & Cro­chet from Lief and Sacred Night also from Lief. These three are my main pieces. I wear them every chance I get. I used to have more pieces but I wasn’t as in love with them as I had thought I was. Frankly, I made stu­pid choices buy­ing prints that quickly lost their glamor. While these pieces are highly cov­eted and sought after by many, I was lucky to find them. They’re pieces that make me fall in love with Lolita every time I open my closet.  I will never sell them. They were too hard to find, and in the case of one, just too expen­sive to “throw away” so to speak.

What I hope to add:

• Osanpo plaid JSK from Angelic Pretty
• Robe de Amants from Juli­ette Justine
• Silent Moon from Moi Meme Moitie
• For­est Har­vest from Inno­cent World

 

I have many more acces­sories than this. These ones are just ones that aren’t purss or jew­elry. :ROFLMAO:

My sad closet of shoes. You know, my prob­lem isn’t find­ing shoes at all. I find lots of shoes I want to buy and coord with! My prob­lem is get­ting them in my size. Depend­ing on the cut of a shoe, my size can vary from 8 to 9.5 in US siz­ing. I say that in all seri­ous­ness. At work, there are some stan­dard size 8’s I can wear with no prob­lem, but then if I try on an 8 some where else, it may not fit. True to size shoes usu­ally fit me at a 9.5. Still, not a size that comes read­ily as 7–8.5 are sizes that are becom­ing increas­ingly normal.

I want more shoes. Sim­ple as that. I  don’t get jelly of clos­ets full of dresses, I get jelly over shoes and purses. :D