We apologise for the delay...

Due to a technical difficulty (namely that Scarlet is computer illiterate and her hubby isn't here at the moment to fix the upload issue) there will be a short delay with yesterday's post. And maybe today's. Who knows really. For some reason my computer is now refusing to recognise my camera as a suitable device. I guess they had a fight? Some kind of domestic? Who knows what goes on behind closed doors when I'm not here.

Anyway, to make up for the delay, here is a photo of a lovely duck.

Spanish flair

I guess I know myself better than I thought I did. As you can see, no weekend post has been forthcoming. Procrastination at its best people!

I did get one photo from the weekend, and that was a selfie of me wearing my adorable teddy/mouse/koala beanie. There hasn't been a general consensus on what furry critter the beanie represents, so it's still up in the air. It's adorableness has not been disputed.

Today to work, I wore a skirt that I didn't realise I hadn't shown you! It's a Lolita piece from Milanoo (which they no longer sell, hence no link) but everyone calls it my 'Spanish' skirt. I have to admit, it does have a Spanish feel to it, so I can't really deny it.

It's hard to see in this pic, but I had some lovely patterned fishnets on to go with it, and some big dangly earrings I got from Lovisa on sale (again, no link as they don't seem to stock them anymore). Totally over dressed for work, but this is how many fucks I give about that.

Double whammy

I was tired yesterday so even though Christian took my photo, I couldn't be bothered booting up the ol' puter to do the post. That means tonight you get two photos! Aren't you lucky!

I'm feeling pretty tried tonight too, so there won't be much chit chat on this post. Aren't you doubly lucky!

Thursday was wet and stormy and blue.

Today was a casual goth kind of day.

Have a great weekend! I'll post if I get around to it, but my track record of posting on the weekends isn't exactly stellar...

Blast from the past

So, according to one of the nurses at work today, I looked like I stepped right out of an 80's music video clip.

It's the gorgeous Librarian Assistant dress from ModCloth which you may remember from this post. The weather has cooled down a lot, and so I figured I'd wear a pair of tights so colourful, they can't even be compared to white :-P It's a pity my hubby is so much taller than me though, as the dress only comes to my knees but from the angle he takes the pics, you can only see me from mid-shin down. There was a lot of red!

Apologies for the lack of a smile. It took me well over an hour and fifteen minutes to get home today (usually takes me roughly 35 mins) and all I wanted to do was get out of my clothes and into some jarmies. Perth drivers are complete morons when it comes to the rain :/ I was royally miffed!

The cadinal sin of tights

Okay, so maybe not the worst sin (that would be thinking that tights are pants. They are not. And by pants, I mean trousers, weirdo people from the UK) but I broke a pretty big one today.

White tights.

There is an unspoken rule that white tights are for school girls and grannies. No one knows whence the rule came, but it whenced it's way into our lives and heads roll when the rule is broken. It's a bloody, and gory scene, let me tell you. Children hide behind their mother's skirts and tweens desperately click away on their mobiles so they can upload to Instagram later. Grown men cower, and old timers are hard pressed to one up the scene. Dark days, my friends. Dark days.

Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating just a little. Maybe.

I thought I could get away with it. I'd wear my orphan Annie dress, my lovely new red shoes that arrived yesterday, and the white tights would be a lovely balance of red and white.

This plan hit a slight snag when I realised that my lovely new red shoes were too big. Guess which dimwit ordered the wrong size? Okay, all is not lost. I can wear my new black Mary Janes. It's not too bad, is it?

The Regional Manager was in today, and she always passes comment on my outfits. If they're not over the top enough, she calls me 'as boring as bat shit'. A lovely dress flounced up with a petticoat isn't enough for her - she wants bright tights and big shoes. She looked at me today and said 'Oh, I don't like those white tights.'. I responded with 'Well, to be fair I was originally wearing red shoes but had to take them off as they were too big. It looked much better with the red shoes.'. She shook her head and said 'Oooh, I doubt that.'

I went to the nurses for their opinions, and it turns out that that it was pretty universal. White tights look too much like surgical stockings to be taken seriously. My bold decision back fired and slapped me in the face with a dead fish. Lessons have been learned today, my friends.

On a completely unrelated note, I have a lovely pair of US size 9 red shoes, never worn for sale for $50!

 

You know you want to!

Great Scot! That's a lot of frills!

I think this is my new favourite dress.

Pretty, huh? It's from my latest Milanoo order and it's pieces like this one (and my new shoes that you'll get to see tomorrow) that keep me coming back to this site despite my many issues with it.

I love the bar wench neckline and bust. I swoon over the tartan print. I adore the frills. So many frills! The cap sleeved have captured my heart. Is it possible to wax lyrical any more over this dress?

Probably. But you're looking bored so I'll stop.

Bask ion the glory of the dress people. Bask.

Review of Milanoo

I promised a review post this weekend, and that's pretty much all you'll get from me. Yesterday I was out and about, not wearing anything fabulous, just awesome lol I didn't get a photo, but it's my new hoodie from Red Bubble with this on the front.

 

Today I'm actually staying in, lounging around in my jarmies, drinking peppermint lattes and listening to some sweet sounds that my mate, Eselle has put up on his Soundcloud page.  You should check him out, he's pretty good. My faves are The Flow and Six. But enough digressing...

Milanoo.

More specifically, their Lolita collection. For those of who who are unaware, this is from the wiki page on Lolita fashion - Lolita fashion is a fashion subculture originating in Japan that is based on Victorian-era clothing, but the style has expanded greatly beyond Japan.^[1] The Lolita look began primarily as one of modesty with a focus on quality in both material and manufacture of garments. The original silhouette is of a knee length skirt or dress with a "cupcake" shape assisted by petticoats, but has expanded into various types of garments including corsets and floor length skirts. Blouses, knee high socks or stockings and headdresses are also worn.^[2] Lolita fashion has evolved into several different sub styles and has a subculture that is present in many parts of the world.

I've bought many items from Milanoo over the years, and to honest, I've found it extremely hit and miss. 

I love their shoes, and the quality of those is amazing for the price you pay. If I could even find anything of the kind here in Perth, I'd be paying at least three times the amount I pay on the site. Yes, there are some horridly garish shoes on that site. For instance, there is such a thing as too many bows...

There is also such a thing as just plain silly. 

There is also the 'Oh, God why? Why does this exist?'

 

But if you tread carefully (pun most definitely intended), you can get some unique, comfortable, affordable shoes. 

The clothes are what I've had the 'hit and miss' part with. The sizing is all over the place, and I just couldn't get it right. It's a Chinese run site so yes, their sizes run very small. Though the shoes are wide enough to fit my enormously wide German feet. And a bracelet I got from there was so big it just fell off my wrist. So now I just picture a country of tiny waisted, flat chested women running around with huge clown feet and their stupidly big wrists dragging along the ground.  

I only just figured out the other day why I was having so much trouble with the sizing. Take the dress I wore on Friday for instance (that is stubbornly refusing to be bloody centred!)

 

The sizing chart won't copy over here so let me give you the measurements for the XXL (the size I got). 

Bust - 115-117cm

Waist - 95-97cm

Hips - 123-125cm

Now, take this outfit below (which also refuses to be centred).

I fell in love with this a while back, saw it came in XXL and was about to buy it when I saw the size chart for it.

Bust - 90cm

Waist - 68.4

Hips - 96.3

Now...that's a bit of a difference. In fact, the first dress is roughly a US size 16. The sizes for the second dress are equivalent to a US 8. That's FOUR dress sizes difference! For clothing not only from the same site but made by the same people. You understand that there can be some variation in sizes between brands (but generally not four bloody sizes difference) but to come from the same factory? That's just asking for trouble.

I'm really not too sure what they were thinking, and not being a fashion designer, I can't make any educated guesses. As a consumer, I just know that it's bloody annoying. 

The quality has also been hit and miss. Some of the items I've bought have been very well made, others...not so much. One dress I got was so thin that even with a petticoat underneath, you could see right through it. Another that was supposed to be long sleeved actually came with the sleeves completely detached. They were more like gloves, I suppose. It was weird. Anyway, if your not going to sew the damn sleeves on, you should explain that in the item description. A blouse I bought arrived with most of the buttons bearly sewn on. Another blouse had a decorative bow on the front that actually turned out to just be held in place with a safety pin.

You get my point.

The other gripe that I have about the site is the processing time. When you place an order, you're told that international orders will take 7-10 days to arrive. Fair enough, you say. That's pretty standard. What they don't tell you, is that this time frame is once the order has been processed. It can take weeks for your order to be processed. One order I placed took over three months to reach me! I was in the midst of arranging for a refund when it did turn up. 

Overall, as much as I love some of the items I've gotten from Milanoo, I'm going to give it 2 Scarlet Stars.

Is it a doll? Is it a cake? No, it's Scarlet!

Today was a girly kind of day, and what better to wear than one of my newly arrived dresses from Milanoo?

This frilly piece of total girlyness is, depending on how you look at it, totally adorable, or horribly garish. Since I'm wearing it, I'm sure you know which is my opinion!

I didn't get any negative comments about it today, so I think people at work liked it (or they're just too nice to say anything, which is probably more to the point). However, there were descriptors used, and with a dress such as this one, well I'm sure you can guess what sorts (even if you can't guess, you've probably read the title so...). I was told by several people that I was very Alice in Wonderlandesque today. I didn;t quite see that but still. I was also told, again by more than one person, that I look like a doll. It's Lolita fashion, so they got it pretty spot on. The lovely Tania said I looked like a cake. I pissed myself when she said that. Because it's true!

I had some trouble finding tights to go with this dress. Not because I wasn't sure which colour to go with (black or white were the only logical choices) but because I had so much trouble finding a pair of plain, black tights in my vast collection of tights. Pink - check. Purple - check. Heart pattern - check. Stripes - check. Tartan - check. Fishnet Spiderweb - check. Black with silver glitter spiderwebs - check. Red fishnet with roses - check. Blue - check. Black with diagonal patterns - check. Black with diamond pattern - check. Nude with roses - check. Where the fuck are my plain, black tights???

I did eventually find them...

I also wore my bird cage earrings which are totally adorable and are one of my staple pairs of earrings. I got them from Lovisa and I love them.

If I survive been eaten by random wedding guests, I shall do a post this weekend reviewing Milanoo. Stay tuned!

Pinkie!

Today felt like a Pinkie kind of day :)

I had a parcel arrive from Red Bubble and inside was my new Pinkie Pie shirt. Watch out for evil zebra enchantresses!AJ is by far my fave pony, but Pinkie ties for second place. Unfortunately, I forgot that my gigantic boobs tend to distort images on tees so she looks a little weird, but oh well. It's Pinkie! She's always a little weird!

I paired it with one of ChicStar skirts and some gloriously bright pink tights I picked up at K Mart. Everyone knew exactly where I was in the office today - even with their eyes closed!

I also had a parcel arrive my Milanoo today so I have new pretties for you tomorrow. It'll be a bumper post as I'm also dyeing my hair again tonight. Yay for change!!!