Hi! Ah, I think my asks keep getting eaten. I've sent a few over the course of the last couple of months, so here's to hoping that this one goes through! I was wondering what your opinion of Bodyline's l482 is? I positively fell in love with the matching bag (bag 185) and I was planning to get both in black! But I'm worried about the skirt and how it looks a bit shiny. I was told to study the skirts carefully, and the 'polyester cotton others' part has me worried. Can you help please? ;n;
I think both are really cute and that print is really adorable, but I don’t know if I would use the bag and skirt together. I just feel like the bag would disappear and that it would be better to use a bag that compliments the skirt but doesn’t blend in with it. Now of course that doesn’t mean that you can’t get the bag and use it with other things, I have two AP print totes and I like to carry them outside of Lolita just to add a fun detail to outfits.As for the fabric, it really isn’t very shiny at all, Bodyline is just notorious for taking bad stock photos. “Polyester cotton others” just means that it’s made of polyester, cotton, and something else. A lot of Bodyline’s pieces just say “polyester others.” The skirt itself is probably polyester which doesn’t automatically make something bad! There are varying degrees of quality that polyester can come in and Bodyline’s usually isn’t too bad these days. It has improved a lot over the years but sometimes you’ll still find it in use in some sections like their “separates” section which I usually recommend avoiding because they use lower quality materials so they can charge less for a whole outfit. I’m not sure where the cotton comes into play in this case, possibly the lace but I can’t find a good enough close-up picture of it to tell. The “others” would then be things like the little pearls on the bow.
