regretted purchases

[Anonymous No.7920599]

>be me
>be new to lolita
>thing DOL is a real brand that makes 100% authentic sugoi kawaii lolita
>buy dress
>takes six months to finally arrive
>by then own 2 AP pieces and some offbrand
>horrible paper bag quality
>damn welp

I'm not the only one right...

[Anonymous No.7920616]

Happy regret?
>buying first lolita pieces
>squirrel party is cute and it's not expensive. Let's do it!
>get the OP because I should know what fit I like the best and what will flatter me.
>it arrives and I try it on
>it fits perfect but... I feel so under dressed without blouse.
>decide OPs are not my thing and suddenly regret not getting the jsk instead.
>on the plus I don't waste my time or money on OPs now!

[Anonymous No.7920633]

>>7920599
>buy lots of infanta prints when i'm a noob
>not even that cheap
>find out i don't like tacky OTT prints
>want to sell them, but not at a loss
>welp

and another time, not a huge regret since i still love the dress but...
>listing says original release
>turns out to be rerelease, and the print is slightly different
>too scared to say anything to the seller
>fuck

[Anonymous No.7920699]

>milanoo

[Anonymous No.7920706]

Rabbit cafe. When I was a noob I decided I needed rabbit cafe. In yellow. It matched nothing, it's not even a nice print, but I was obsessed with it. I bought it for like $180 for the skirt and sold it at like $100 loss
> pic is not mine

[Anonymous No.7920719]

>>7920599
pretty much all of the bodyline I own I regret. The only ones I don't really regret are Cinderella bunny and the biscuit one. I have some printless ones and they are just thin as fuck or have terribad lace.

[Anonymous No.7920730]

>>7920699
I bought from Milanoo once and DIDN'T regret it, because I got some really cute well-made shoes somehow.

[Anonymous No.7920769]

>>7920730
I'm pretty sure Milanoo buys the shoes from someone else and sells them for way more.

[Anonymous No.7920780]

Most of my Bodyline purchases. Out of all of them I only really liked that candy stripe print JSK and the platform shoes.

>>7920706
That's crazy. It didn't take that long after its release to go down in value as well, at least in that particylar colourway.

[Anonymous No.7920802]

>>7920769
DOn't knoe, they were $20 and my mom bought them for me, but I still have them now like 5 years later and they look pristine.

Wish I knew where they got them from.

[Anonymous No.7920805]

>>7920802
probably an*tai*na or secret shop

[Anonymous No.7920830]

> Meta LP skirt that I only bought because it was 50 bucks and have worn once
> Cinderella bunny in pink which I now sold

I also regret settling for my 3rd choice colorway in my dream dress. I liked it, but I couldn't stop hunting for the one I wanted, so now I have both, and I'm not sure if I can sell the first one without loss. Ah well.

[Anonymous No.7921043]

>>7920599

>Be a massive weeb in 2004.
>Start wearing "lolita" and buy from ebay shop Honest Dragon China, etc as burando was hard to get.
>Look like a massive ita but think I look so kawaii like most beginners back then.
>Be thankful I never took any pictures and ended up in ita threads.

[Anonymous No.7921067]

>My first Lolita dress was a classic JSK from Surface Spell Gothic
>Mum bought it for my birthday and ordered it using ClobbaOnline
>In the 3 months it took to get to me I switched to sweet Lolita
>Now I have one classic dress in colours I NEVER wear just hanging around in my wardrobe
>Can't sell it cause mum kept asking me if I really wanted it and made me promise I would wear it

[Anonymous No.7921068]

>Be new
>Buy a whole bunch of brand accessories just because too impatient to save up for a main piece
>They're all fucking wtf_burando-tier shit
>Stuck with them forever

[Anonymous No.7921099]

>>7921067
What dress is it?

[Anonymous No.7921118]

>>7920706
>tfw I actually like this print in this colorway and would love to have it

[Anonymous No.7921119]

>>7921099
It was the Dancing Roses Embroidery JSK in blue. I've worn it like once because I don't have the shoes, tights or blouse for classic. It was custom made for me and I'm tiny; 82cm bust and 64cm waist so it's gonna be hard to sell off.

[Anonymous No.7921126]

>be new, but did plenty of research about milanope and how to not look ita
>first purchase was a AP JSK that had just been released
>purchased for $450 USD
>tfw a week later I realized I had been scalped so bad
>two and a half years later i'm still salty

no amount of lurking will ever be enough

[Anonymous No.7921127]

>>7921068
why dont you sell them on?

[Anonymous No.7921138]

>can't find anything I want
>see something at a reasonable bid price
>place bid

two days later
>see something I actually want
>buy immediately
>instantly remember you're still in another auction

Welp, hope I get outbid.

[Anonymous No.7921168]

>>7921119
!! I have a friend who is tiny like you. Do you and looks for custom made petite dresses! It won't be hard to sell.

[Anonymous No.7921179]

>>7921126
What dress was it?

[Anonymous No.7921204]

>>7921179
Glass Bottle of Tears. Quite a fitting name.

[Anonymous No.7921215]

Bodyline's Fruit Parlor replica. I loved it when I was a noob, and it's pretty well made for Bodyline. I don't wear sweet anymore, though, and I cannot get rid of the damn thing.

[Anonymous No.7921245]

Any of bodyline's short sleeve blouses.
I learned very quickly that just because the corset lacing can bring it down small enough to fit one's bust and waist does not under any circumstances mean the already dramatically poofy shoulders will not make you look like a fuckin linebacker

[Anonymous No.7921264]

>>7921204

Sad you overpaid but it's still a lovely print.

[Anonymous No.7921265]

>>7921215
I know this feel Anon.
I spent $60 to get it, to have to sell it for $25 at a con, because it would just not sell. Made the girl who bought it incredibly happy, though (It was her first piece).

[Anonymous No.7921266]

>>7921245
theyre so weird and scratchy too

[Anonymous No.7921296]

>>7921265
I've put it up for $20 in the past. Never sold. My tacky old Bodyline cutsews and ugly shoes have even sold, but not that skirt. I'm not even worried about losing money anymore, I just want it gone. I'd probably give it away to someone who would pay shipping

[Anonymous No.7921330]

Not strictly lolita but I've bought a otome type dress that has a really weird fit and where I live postage costs are massive so I will end up paying even more to have sent back. It was an impulse buy, so shame on me, but it still sucks so, so much. Argh.

I also regret buying a bodyline maid outfit as it will probably be too small and too short. I wanted it in time for Halloween, but no such luck.

[Anonymous No.7921332]

>>7921245
I have L076 and I actually like it - it's probably the only thing I have from when I first got into lolita. It's the nicest of any of the bodyline blouses I've ever owned/seen, and as nice as some of the brand ones as well. Would not pay $40 for it though, bought it when it was something like $27 and even then I thought it was expensive.

[Anonymous No.7921352]

>have a huge hardon for gold prints a la Puppet Circus
>Infanta puts out Power and Throne
>shit it's in NavyxGold too
>but there's nothing I could do with that dress
>decide not to get it but still come back to look at it from time to time
>after a few months I see there's a last one available in my size and colorway
>impulsively buy it
>after it arrives realize that STILL there's nothing I can do with it
>but it's so pretty
>only wore it once in over a year yet can't bring myself to sell it
>regrets but no regrets

[Anonymous No.7921450]

>>7921352
This is what the coord thread is for...

[Anonymous No.7921468]

>>7921332
>>7921245 here, this is exactly the one i was talking about, actually. It was one of my first lolita purchases, and I honestly loved the quality, was really sad to let it go... but I'm just so little, especially in the shoulders and whatnot, that it just ended up looking too absurd on me to actually wear

[Anonymous No.7921473]

>>7921450
Meant it more in a way of "there is no occassion ridiculous enough for all this gold".

[Anonymous No.7921507]

>1 pair of DreamV heels I got shanked on tax for
>2 pairs of shoes in the Bodyline sale in colours I didn't need
>1 pair of An*Tai*Nai or whatever shoes that don't fit
>Fucking DoL Milky Planet replica
The Dream Vs were the worst, I've always wanted some but they just look ugly on my feet and I was expecting a baby pink, not a liz lisa peachy colour.

Tfw after the bodyline shoe sale nobody will be buying shoes on the second hand market at full price for a long, long time. Fucking shoes.

[Anonymous No.7921514]

>be me 14 yrs old
>milanoo

[Anonymous No.7921524]

>>7921245
>linebacker
im pissing

[Anonymous No.7921534]

>>7921507
ugh I almost bought a pair of DreamV heels until I saw my friends irl, such a weird colour

[Anonymous No.7921593]

>>7921118
Its fine, but it doesn't really match anything.

[Anonymous No.7921616]

>>7921215
>>7921296
Do either of you have pics? Id swap it for bodyline strawberry shortcake skirt in black.

[Anonymous No.7921621]

>>7921616
The fuck do you need pics for?

[Anonymous No.7921634]

>>7921616
Sorry, I don't wear sweet anymore and the last thing I want to do is trade it for another sweet skirt I'll never wear.

[Anonymous No.7921779]

>>7921043
>Honest Dragon China
Holy FUCK that just gave me such a nostalgia trip.
Somewhere around 2005 or so, when I was 13, I was BEGGING my mom to buy me this dress and take me to some tiny Florida con. I even planned to get some of those cosworx cat ears with the ribbons in matching red/black and some shiny vinyl knee boots.

Fortunately it never ended up happening.

[Anonymous No.7921784]

>>7921779
Can we like, disown wa as a whole. I feel like it's an entirely different fashion. Like, we can call it "animu kimono" or weeby wa-kei or some shit.

Wa la!

[Anonymous No.7921814]

>>7921621
Because this is anon and anyone could just claim they have the skirt and then send me a dog shit in the mail.

[Anonymous No.7921823]

>>7921814
OR an entire pound of cat shit.

[Anonymous No.7921826]

>>7921823
Or just any pile of shit, seriously. I once got a dress from a seller that just used the stock pic, and a lot of the detachable pieces were missing, bunch of stains, plus it smelled like cat piss. Never again trading without proof.

[Anonymous No.7921848]

>>7921784
There was a girl who did a Hakama inspired coord recently, which looked super cute. There is hope.

[Anonymous No.7921926]

Lyrical dot. I got it when I was into super sweet stuff, and it's really cute, but way too short on me and I'm leaning towards a less sweet style now.
TWICE I had buyers back out because of their mom not allowing them to buy it or whatever.
Honestly I'm so fucking close to either giving it to a noob as a gift or starting an auction at like $20.
I just want it out of my closet.

[Anonymous No.7921957]

>>7921926
That is actually really cute. I cant believe you don't have buyers for it. $80 BIN and you should be able to sell it easily! I would buy it but have zero money at the moment, and won't for a while. Good luck!

[Anonymous No.7921974]

>>7921957
I tried anon, believe me. I think I brought it down to like 60 before just giving up.
It really is a super cute dress though.

[Anonymous No.7921984]

>>7921974
I'd take it for 60 shipped if you live in the US? It goes up to a 98 cm bust?

[Anonymous No.7921992]

>>7921127
Nobody wants them, man. For now I just have them on my teddy bears, at least they look kind of cute wearing them.

[Anonymous No.7922001]

>>7921984
That's what lolibrary says! I'm pretty thin though, so I can't say exactly. Also, It's slightly damaged, if that makes a difference. It's not really noticeable unless you look.

[Anonymous No.7922006]

>>7921779
Wa and Fandom lolita is literally the containment unit of this fashion. Take it as a signpost for who to avoid.

[Anonymous No.7922057]

>>7921826
One anon said she had sold it and the other said she didn't wear sweet. Did you even read the posts?

Also, don't post three times in a row. It's annoying.

[Anonymous No.7922130]

I just discovered that wine red looks disgustingly beautiful against really pale pink-toned skin. Dammit.
Regretting my whole sweet wardrobe right now.

[Anonymous No.7922154]

>>7922130
Same here. I look like I'm dying of some horrible disease when I wear pastels because they wash out my skin tone completely. Even my eyes look glazed over. Deep shades are far more flattering for me as well.

[Anonymous No.7922158]

>>7921215
If its in pink or red skirt and or with the headbow I'm interested.

[Anonymous No.7922162]

Bought some cute ass white shoes but they're only really appropriate for sweet and I only own all black and elegant shit in my wardrobe. Don't even have the confidence to pull off a cute coord.

Plus I'm pretty bummed out that I keep trying to sell off some items I've never or hardly worn, all in fantastic condition, stuff I would still like to wear if I had the confidence or stuff in my wardrobe I could match them to, stuff I've listed for half of what I paid for them (making them the cheapest listing compared to others selling the same thing), taken some great photos (no shoes on bed, no clothes on floor, no period stained bedsheets ala rabbit777) and still nobody will buy. Maybe it's because I have no feedback and my listing is too good to be true? I have no friggin idea, I never expected insta-interest but after a few months and two messages of "how much for shipping?" after I've already listed it and no response of "Sorry, not interested" or negotiation at all.....just why?

[Anonymous No.7922172]

>>7922057
I didn't, >>7921823 wasn't me...
And if YOU read their comments, neither of them had sold the skirts.

[Anonymous No.7922182]

>>7921784
the wa la shit was not cute the first time around and still isn't, give it a rest

[Anonymous No.7922184]

>>7922182
It's a /ck/ meme, I guess they're trying to make it happen here.

[Anonymous No.7922188]

> Angelic Pretty Eternal Rose Bouquet is announced it will be released soon.
>Love the op.
> Only new to lolita mainly wear classic.
>Goes up online, I was out and didn't realise...
>Get on my phone and try to buy the op it sold out but I buy the purple skirt and otks.
>First full price brand items I bought.
> They arrive and look quite pretty...I try on the skirt and it reaches no where near my knees...higher than mid thigh.
>End up selling it and get my money back but to this day I have never bought AP again.
> I mainly wear gothic and occasionally classic now.

[Anonymous No.7922189]

>>7922184
It's from a Key and Peele skit about a Ratatouille.

http://youtu.be/YjZFhzCfbS8

[Anonymous No.7922201]

>>7922189
>Ratatouille
That explains this thing I found last week. I was confused about the rat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7pp4cMUlGU

[Anonymous No.7922211]

The lower half of the sleeves on this thing are just tubes.
The bodice made me look amazing. The sleeves made my arms look like a high school emo in a sweat shirt.

[Anonymous No.7922226]

>>7922211
You could just alter them...

[[e-mail] No.7922255]

>>7921215
>>7921296
I'll take it off your hands for you. Shoot me an email if you want to.

[Anonymous No.7922318]

>>7922226
I sold it already. Wasn't worth the trouble; I have a huge closet

[Anonymous No.7922409]

>>7921330
save it for the bedroom. problem solved anon

[[e-mail] No.7922436]

>>7921296
>>7921215
im interested in pinkxpink or pink red skirts especially if it has the headbow. If it has the brooch ill pay extra. or if someone would be willing to sell the brooch

[Anonymous No.7922441]

>>7921984
I'll take it. I'm in Canada but willing to pay more for shipping.

I actually already have one and is kind of in the same situation as you, but it'd be something cute to force my friends into and twin with me so..

[[e-mail] No.7922446]

>>7922441
Oops dropped email.

[Anonymous No.7922536]

>>7922172
Lol, just realized you linked to the same person twice.

[Anonymous No.7922662]

>>7922211
I knew they'd be shit when I ordered, so I asked for them to leave the sleeves off. I loved the bodice and collar, but hated those ham hock sleeves.

[Anonymous No.7922684]

>be new to lolita
>dream dress is chess chocolate in mint
>"I'm too new to know how to take care of the original correctly. Let me get a replica to practice."
>get an op jia off color in mint
>god I love this print but I can't coord this just yet.
>be me now.
>still can't coord the piece of shit
>want to sell it but no one wants an off color replica

That's what I get for being cautious. It's a cute skirt but I literally am too tall and too dumb to coord it.

[Anonymous No.7922714]

>>7922684
That's what coord threads are for, anon. They really do help a lot.

[Anonymous No.7922718]

>>7921126
are you me
i try to console myself through the fact that the dress isn't as available on markets anymore so it was kind of worth it

[Anonymous No.7922909]

Not something I bought myself but still.

I put an indie brand skirt on my amazon wishlist for Christmas last year, along with a load of other stuff and my grandmother bought it for me.
I'm not even a lolita. I've wanted to get into it for years but haven't had the balls, so I now have this single skirt with absolutely nothing to wear it with. It'd probably even look decent toned down but even then I don't really have much.
I don't want to sell it either, cause it's really pretty, but it just sits in my wardrobe.

[Anonymous No.7922918]

>>7922684
>Literally me but in pink

But I think browns work better with my skintone.
Not that I'll ever wear it in public anyway.

[Anonymous No.7922931]

>Around this time last year, just getting into lolita
>See a cute JSK on the Meta website
>Tell boyfriend about it- "Oh, it's adorable, but lolita is so expensive. I wish I could buy it, but I really shouldn't lol~"
>Christmas comes around- guess what? He went and bought me the dress
>Cut to the present
>The dress doesn't go with anything else in my wardrobe. I've decided on Gothic Lolita as my main style and this dress is mint, sweet as hell, and I only wore it once since receiving it.
>It sits in my closet, collecting dust.

I love my boyfriend to pieces, and I'll never sell or otherwise get rid of this dress, but it just... doesn't go with anything.

>oh, bonus.
>he even bought me matching mint accessories from AP for Valentine's Day.
>this sounds like I'm bragging, but I truly feel guilty about him buying this dress.

[Anonymous No.7922958]

>>7921507
Me too anon. I regret buying bodyline rocking horse shoes in the wrong colour with the sale. Wanted off white, which was sold out so I got black because it's versatile right. Welp I have a mostly sweet wardrobe,mostly in pink so I should have got those instead. I also bought a bunch of cheap accessories for Halloween with the shoes. They arrived Monday.

[Anonymous No.7922990]

>>7922931
Give it another year, and maybe he'll get you a matching blouse and some shoes.

[Anonymous No.7922992]

>>7922909
Go to the coord help thread maybe?

[Anonymous No.7923460]

>>7922714
>implying posting asking for help coording a shitty off color replica isnt going to derail a usually on topic thread with stupid replica debates.
Lel

[Anonymous No.7923468]

>>7922931
But mint x black is fucking adorable. Get a black meta biker jacket to cover half of it and rock it with stompy boots! Unless you're kinda...elegantly gothic, in which case get stompy boots.

[Anonymous No.7923549]

>>7922992
I do have ideas on how to coord it, I just don't have the guts to do it. Sobs.

[Anonymous No.7923555]

>Buy pink Bodyline rocking horse shoes to make an old school coord
>never make coord
>sit in my closet
>foster newborn kittens, keep them in my hobby room (closet with lolita is in that room)
>close AC vents to room to keep room warm enough for baby cats
>summer heat breaks down glue on otherwise brand new shoes, rendering them unsellable due to some separation on the sole

Not only would they be hard to sell with all the sales Bodyline's having, but now they're pretty much ruined. I fixed part of the problem, but i doubt anyone would want them. I'd happily sell for dirt cheap, but then there's still domestic shipping to pay for, and who wants flawed shoes?

[Anonymous No.7923619]

>>7922662
I totally missed how bad they were and I was kicking myself. For some reason I figured they would have like a cuff with buttons or something

[Anonymous No.7923627]

>>7923555
1. Super glue is great for fixing bodyline shoes if the sole is coming off.
2. Take them to a swap meet (just be honest about having repaired them)

[Anonymous No.7923629]

>>7923627
>tfw no nearby swap meets

[Anonymous No.7923632]

>>7920719

I have Bunny Cinderella in two colorways and Sweet Biscuit. Have to say I like them a whole bunch more than the rest.

I really regret getting mirrored Squirrel Party. It's also far too long on me.

I always wanted Dim Light pinafore JSK. I'm elated I got the miniskirt (knee length lol) but... I wish I didn't pay twice the amount others on LM did/original price

[Anonymous No.7923635]

>>7923629
Do you have a local comm at all? If so, you could organize your own.

[Anonymous No.7923651]

>>7923635
I do, but the girls don't exactly have anything to swap. It's in a small college town with 6 truly active girls, and everyone's broke pretty much 100% of the time.

[Anonymous No.7923665]

>>7923635
How does one organise a swap meet? I would be very interested in doing it. I have a lot of items I want to sell or swap, but I live far away from my whole comm.

[Anonymous No.7924831]

>>7922909
Why don't you just wear it with a blazer, tights, and boots? It's not even a lolita thing that way, just a cute skirt

[Anonymous No.7924850]

>>7923555
Do you have pictures of them? I'm a poorfag when it comes to shoes and might be interested, depending on how bad it is.

[Anonymous No.7924853]

>>7923549
Do it anon!

[Anonymous No.7924882]

>>7922211
the only thing i think of when i see that material and color.

dosent surface spell also have other shrek inspired pieces?

[Anonymous No.7926631]

>>7921119
I have the exact same measurements.... Are you considering selling?

[Anonymous No.7926678]

>>7921473
I'm lucky enough to work in a place that lets me wear whatever I want. I usually save my "holy shit m8 that's a bit much" dresses for the corporate/ formal events I have to most weeks, but there have been days I've turned up to work in full OTT goth.

It might just be because I don't give that much of a fuck if people look at me weird, so I understand if this doesn't apply to everyone. I usually decide it's my choice to make occasions to wear ridiculous shits, rather than wait for them to come along, by which I mean "Oh, I feel like wearing this dress, this is now an occasion to wear this dress."

[Anonymous No.7926693]

>>7922909
I don't buy all my lolita pieces to wear, anon. I have a few pieces that don't fit me that I just wanted to own because I like making coords with them on my dressmaking dummy and looking at them. Lolita is a collecting hobby as much as a fashion hobby.

[Anonymous No.7926732]

>diagnosed with OCD, causes me to hoard
>my hoard is mostly clothes
>currently going through therapy to clear as much as possible so I can actually move around bedroom
>during peak of hoarding mania, spend thousands on lolita
>most of it bodyline
>literally made weekly bodyline orders, sent by EMS, so I would get post every week
>spent enough to buy at least five brand dresses, brand new
>mountains of awful bodyline clothes I never wear surround my bed

I hope you enjoy my tears, Mr Yan.

[Anonymous No.7927306]

>>7926732
Whilst this is really unfortunate, there might be hope for you. Try not to wear any of the clothes and keep it as clean as possible.
Make a sales album; be honest about any flaws and only use tracked shipping.
It'll take you a long time to get rid of it all, but if you're willing to still take a loss, you can at least make some of that money back and get that shit out of your room.

Having it around will forever remind you of these big mistakes you have made, but getting rid of it will set you free. And might also make some weebs happy in the process.

[Anonymous No.7927382]

>>7926732
Post what you have.

[Anonymous No.7927464]

>>7927306
Thanks, anon. The dresses I actually wear, I keep separate and hung up. A fair amount of the bodyline stuff is still in packages, and the stuff that isn't, I've either never worn, or just tried on. Do you think choosing a goal dress to save up for will be a good motivator to put this stuff for sale?

[Anonymous No.7927465]

>>7924831
Thanks anon, but I don't really think a blazer would suit it. (Pic related)
>>7924853
Ahhh, if I ever manage to find a job I'll probably try!!
>>7926693
Aye, I'm just a poorfag right now though, maybe one day I'll be able to do this..

[Anonymous No.7927507]

>>7927464
I think just putting it up for sale should be a good motivator. If you're susceptible to bouts of hoarding mania, having buying goals doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense.

[Anonymous No.7928076]

Milkchan replica. I knew the fabric was going to be whatever, all I wanted was just for the print to be decently printed on it. Even that was to much to ask for.

[Anonymous No.7928083]

>>7928076
I really like the fawns legs on this, they have cellulite which reminds me of my mother and gives it a really personal touch.

[Anonymous No.7928190]

Bought a KStar candy print OP before knowing much about lolita. It was on sale and I was on vacation and desperate.