Taobao reviews: Flower, Surface Spell, Isos and more
I made another group order for Taobao in november, last week the parcel arrived.
Here are some reviews about my items.
Flower
I wanted a specific blouse from Chess Story, but since it was sold out, I dared to order from Flower. Their quality varies from item to item, so I was very anxious what I would get.
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The fabric is a nice, soft chiffon. It´s veeeery see through, so I can only recommand it for wearing it under a jsk!
The lace is very soft and good quality, probably the best one I ever had from Flower ^^
Ribbons are from normal satin ribbon, nothing special but not bad either.
The sleeves are detachable. Since the blouse was made for my measurements, I also gave them my upper arm circumference, since I have big arms.
The short sleeves (which have sewn-in elastic band) fit a bit snug, but they fit good. The extra sleeves are much tighter (and have also elastic band, there are no hooks or buttons or whatever to apply them). Since I´m not happy with how tight they are and I don´t like to wear the long sleeves as they are, I´ll sew them together.
There is shirring in the back, which looks really bad because of my small dress form. On me, it looks not that bad, but I don´t like it that much, so a second reason to wear it under a dress, BUT the shirring makes this blouse extremly comfortable to wear! There are also two chiffon straps with small buttons included. It took me and my friend some time to figure out what they are supposed to be. You can see it on the right side, you can use them for a neckholder. Unfortunately, the buttons don´t stay within the (much too big) elastic loops, and if they stay, it looks strange because of the location of the loops. I simply won´t use it.
Detail picture of the loops and the sleeves.
The sleeves are well made and look gorgeous when worn. Funny thing is the large ribbon in the middel. As you can see at the stock pics, there should be only one bow. They just didn´t cut the ribbon that is inside the sleeves, so maybe you could make them tighter in that place. I will either cut them or make a second bow with them.
It took Flower around one week to make the blouse and it fits, fabric and lace are very nice, so I would give this 4,5/5 points (not so good fitting sleeves -0,5).
Surface Spell
My christmas gift from my parents. I bought the white blouse to match with this.
Judgement Day JSK (blue velvet)
I totally LOVE Surface Spell and their dresses!
This is pure love. I ordered it custom made and it really fits wonderful. A bit wide under the arms, but that makes it even more comfortable.
Length, width and so on are perfect. Velvet, buttons and embroidery are great, the ribbon is a bit thin, but also very pretty.
6/5 points ^^
Foxcherry
Bought here some accessoires to match the JSK. They have many velvet items, but most of them NOT in dark blue.
Please note: The blue of these items is lighter than the JSK, but still dark enough to match.
Ring
Necklace
Headdress
Ring itself is adjustable and a little bit thin, but should be ok if you don´t adjust it too much.
The Bow is fixed very nice but still flexible. Widest part is 11cm (goes over my whole hand).
5/5 points
Necklace is made of light plastic pearls and solid silver metal parts. The crowns between the pearls tend to twist around, which is a bit annoying when you wear it.
Otherwise really pretty in reality. Necklace is 63cm long, pendant including crown charm is 5,5cm long.
4,5/5 points
Made of very soft tulle which is finished with a soft and pretty cotton lace. The main part is also made of soft cotton lace, two plastic roses which feels a bit velvety and a velvet bow with pearl chains. The pearls are the same as in the necklace, the velvet ribbon is the same as on the ring. The backside is finished with a pretty flower fabric on solid cardboard and has a clip to attach it to your hair.
5/5 points
Bonus:
Combination with necklace and headdress
Isos
I bought a bag for college/daily use, which is also suitable for classic lolita outfits, and a blue-grennish one for sweet outfits.
Black bag
Blue bag
With tag - with strap
The bag is well made of patent leather. Mine has a small dent from the shipping, but is otherwise great. It has a front pocket without any closing, a big main pocket with a zipper and a small side pocket with zipper inside the main one.
There is also a pocket inside the lid, but since you move it a lot and can´t close it, it´s not really usable.
I haven´t tried yet how much weight it can handle, but the bag itself is very sturdy and also the strap seems to be durable, so I´m very positive I will use it a lot.
5/5 points
Very cute bag with some tassels for decoration. The color is somewhere between blue and mint, the stock pictures shows the color very good.
Again, a zipper on the main pocket and a side pocket, this one without any closure.
Very well made like the other bag.
5/5 points
AND I got one of these card cases with every bag (one pink, one brown). Very cute and handy for my new credit card^^ I guess you could also get one of the rubber hair bands.
Shop
Bought some lace for a friend, all of it great quality. This is lace I ordered for me, to make a headdress for the blue JSK. (color fits perfect!)
Lace
Bought 1m and got 1,07m, so you get what you pay. Together with the other lace, we received some very cute small fabric flowers as a free gift.
The lace is very soft and the color is exactly like on the stock pics.
5/5 points
middot
Ordered two cutsews... or so I thought.
"Cutsew"
Why oh why do I always fall for items from these cheap shops. -.-
I wanted a cutsew with sewn-in collar and thought these were fine.
Bought one in black and one in white, size XL.
The whole thing is made from cotton fabric. It´s a nice fabric, the pintucks are fine, the buttons are ok and the lace is soft and pretty BUT these are no cutsews, these are some kind of shirts.
You can open it on the side with a hidden zipper and open the buttons on the neck to put it on. And there is the problem. The measures on the site says XL is for 170cm height (which I am) and 96cm bust (which normally fit fine), but if you really have this measures, it´s super difficult to put it on (not to mention the trapped feeling when you finally have it in the right place) and even worse trying to wriggle out of that damn thing without cracking all seams. With jersey farbic this would be awesome cutsews, but like this, I can only hope to sell them with a smaller size than me.
For fabrics etc. 4/5 points, for the rest... next time I´ll translate every fucking sign in the description to make sure NOT to get simple cotton again!
Not totally Lolita related items
Deco den shop
Some decoraion items for my new phone cases. The nail stickers were a gift from the shop.
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Fast shipping to my agent, usual good quality, cheap and a cute gift. My friend ordered sometimes more than one bag of a style, those were always connected so you don´t have to search.
5/5 points
Mobile phone cases shop
Bought 4 cases (purple, black, white, green) for my new phone.
Huawei U8800 Ideos X5
Nice colors, good fit to the phone and a matte, bit rubber-like surface.
The black and purple one will get decorated, the other two will get some painting...
5/5 points
Hopes this helps you =)
If there are any questions, feel free to ask.