† Bodyline: L340 Review †

† Bodyline: L340 Review † 

Brand :  Bodyline (Direct Link)
Replica: No

Style : One Piece

Colorway : Black

Measurements;
  2L

Length 94cm
Bust 92-102cm
Waist 76-86cm

Dress Information

I'd like to thank everyone for your pm's about this dress, I know I have not blogged for awhile but I hope this review will help you aide your purchase of such an item. Before this image of Venus Angelic was uploaded in the black I did not think much of this dress. The green color way in my opinion look washed out and cheep but on receiving the dress I had a total 160 regarding my opinion. The dress is cotton based with a beautiful chiffon overlay. It  may give the illusion of being smaller but it actually has two sections of shirring on the sides. The sleeved are puffy but I found them a bit short and near resembling a jsk in the shortness. The sleeved to torso has an unusual shape to it and as you can see from the model it is wider like a jsk hence why Venus has the hair covering her under arms. The A line cut is quite beautiful and is not designed for a larger petticoat. This OP is actually designed for women of a fuller bust and even has a shapely bust when not being worn it also has no lining inside and can be uncomfortable so best to wear something underneath if you can. 

I bought this OP second hand without the bow (sadly) and discovered when wearing it that it was near impossible to get into on my own. Shinji was kind enough to aide me when we were on holiday but by placing a simple black ribbon into the zip handle it did the job to dress myself. I also discovered that this dress has a small manufacturing error being a tiny white thread stuck between the cotton and the chiffon at the end of the zip. On a last note I found this dress was actually very short so when wearing it I wore it with an under skirt to increase the length. I will also note that this dress is a bit odd fitting on the body and would not recommend this dress to flat chested,  male *without a bra or fake bust* or tall people. This dress is flattering for busty girls but at the same time it can be really baggy on the waist (check at the bottom for coordinate photographs and dress photographs to see what I mean)

 

 Dress Photographs

Coordination Idea

OP : Bodyline 

Cutsew : Bodyline
Bag : The Great Goth
Overskirt : Handmade

Roasary Necklace : Offbrand and modded.

Since I was heading to Whitby Goth Weekend with Shinji I wanted to try and create an outfit that represented the weekend and its entirety. I did the shironuri technique with my base make up too which took what felt like forever to do.  The chiffon over skirt was made to go with a different dress but I felt that it worked so well with this OP and really helped give it something special. Keeping the religious theme of Whitby I decided to use the coffin bag I bought the Goth Weekend before with the rosary I modded.

After this coordinate idea I actually paired the dress with a bonnet I had handmade and a small silver cross chain to extenuate the headdress. I did find the bonnet quite interesting to wear and I did remark a lot that it was "My cone of shame" *Up Movie Reference* I also paired it with some spiked rocking horse shoes, Modded cross wrist cuffs, black tights, handmade underskirt and was meant to add some black roses but alas I left my black roses at home so I feel the coordinate worn photograph below was lacking and missed that little something to finish it off. As I said above the dress also has a weird shape for the arms so I wore a black cutsew underneath, sadly because the waist was too big to balance the bust the cutsew was puffy/lace bottom down from the under bust so it kept riding up so if I was to wear a cutsew again I'd go for a fitted one instead.

Coordinate Photograph

 Overall I think this is a nice dress but sadly, as I said, I would not recommend this to fellow male or flat chested lolitas unless you plan to wear a padded bra or fake implants with it. Also if you are a tall lolita you may have to wear this with an underskirt so you may flash people your bloomers a bit more than you want to. 

Thanks for reading,
Pleasant dreams~

† ℬodyline : l348 Front & Back Lace-Up JSK Review †

† Review †

l348 Front & Back Lace-Up JSK  

ℬodyline

Brand : ℬodyline (www.bodyline.co.jp)

Style : JSK/Jumperskirt

Size :2L

Year : 2011

Colorway : Black

Measurements;

Bust 94-104cm
Waist 80-90cm

 Price :  ¥4,999 

Dress information

This happens to be one of my favorite ℬodyline dresses but gosh darn does this lovely piece of Eden weigh a ton! This is the heaviest dress I have ever worn and the layers of fabric, despite their beauty make the dress require at least 2 giant petticoats or a metal ring just to keep the dress shape correct. On my first time wearing this out with my beloved I found myself constantly puffing up my petticoat in hopes to make the dress sit right. However now that I have a new much stronger petticoat it should not be a problem.
This dress comes with front and back shirring. In theory this may sound like a wonderful idea but in practice this is also trickier than it looks. Balancing the shirring on both sides is a huge pain but once you get it done right it's fine. This dress is actually bigger than the measurements claimed and now that I've lost a bit of weight I may have to sell/trade this size to buy/trade the size down. Below is a photo of me wearing it (bit blurry) but as you can see the dress was too heavy for my old petticoat.

 
 Dress Photographs

 I personally adore the cotton lace on this dress but i find the bows a bit lacking in construction. I plan to remake the small black bows on this dress so they not only sit better but are better quality. This is 1st gen release, as I have been told the 2nd generation release has better bows and removable waist ties. I will find this out myself shortly as I am buying the black direct from the site just like I did this jsk. I do like the straps on the dress but I find the elasticated straps a bit weird as due to the weight of the dress I found myself pulling the dress up quite a few time when wearing it. FYI I only only worn this dress once for this photograph due to waiting for my new petticoat which I have now (thanks to my hunny randomly buying it for me as a gift).

Coordination Idea

Blouse: Fully Shirred with detachable Sleeves, ℬodyline

Jsk : l348 ℬodyline 2011
Cuff's : ℬodyline
Bag : Primark (Leather bow with pearls handmade and attached to bag)
Shoes : Punk Spikked RHS,ℬodyline

Headdress : Bodyline/Remade
Berret: Bodyline/Remade

Necklace: Skull Locket, Alchemy Gothic
Choker : Reserve Cross, Extreme Largeness

The idea behind this outfit is base a bit on a memory. If you have even been one of those people who used to read the old Gothic Lolita Magazines you would have been drowned in old school coordinates and alternative outfit twists, this outfit sings oldschool. Since I have my new petticoat and a few new accessories I am going to be wearing this out soon to the next meet. The idea is a bit of oldschool with a twist of gothic/punk and modern. The outfit has been personalized with my cross necklace and skull cameo locket however since my rocking horse shoes are spike I may wear my spiked collar to balance that out. I've balanced the white blouse with some black cuffs and should I fit it all on my head I will be wearing some small white horns (not pictured) on my black wig with my headdress. I wanted to wear some stripped tights for this outfit to keep with the black/white theme but this depend on my feeling on the day. This bag I picked up from Primark is lovely and so useful but when I bought it, it felt so lacking so I bought some white leather and used a pearl chain to add a little bling to it. I may not use the berret clip but I will see how I feel closer to the time.

 I also personally love the polka dot theme on the bag and since the theme of my outfit has no print and is quite plain, I think it adds a little cuteness to the whole ensemble. I think the cuff are not for everybody but I feel it adds a bit to the blouse as for me the blouse is quite plain.
 

Trying it on

This is just a quick try on, if you look close enough you may even see my PJ bottoms under my frills. Sometimes when planning coordinates I'll quickly shove them on without a wig, make up or any effort really and this was one of those situations. I am not sure how the cuff's work in practice but they do look interesting I also like the white blouse but I don't know if white is my thing. Wearing 2 petticoats for this heavy thing, think I may edit this dress to have wire/metal inside of the dress lining as it is simply that heavy and takes a lot for the petticoat to take form.

Looking forward to wearing it out,
Pleasant Dreams †

Milky Planet Co-ord

★Milky Planet Co-ord★ 

Dress/Onepiece : Sweet Angel - Milky Planet
Headbow : Sweet Angel - Milky Planet
Bag : Loris - Star Bag
Shoes : Vivvine Westwood Replica's
Tight's : Pastel Pink - Primark
Tiara : Lotus Beauty - Love Forever

Accesories;
Star Pastel Bracelets - Offbrand
Blue/Pink Star Bracelet - Chocomint
White Tuti Fruitie Rose - Mad Hatter's Bakery
Pearl bracelets - Primark
Shooting Star Necklace - Ruby Tuesday