/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9975469
>>9975336


I'll be real with you, I wanted so badly to give concrit directly on her thread, but I just stared at the screen for the longest time finding more and more wrong things.

I thought I'd drop a simple "the fit looks bad, maybe start with learning how to draft or use a commercial pattern". Then I looked closer and all the lace and shiny satin was crap and I thought maybe I should also add "use better materials, chose something desaturated and stay away from bright colours". But wtf is that front lace up design, maybe I should also tell her "don't copy anime, look at actual lolita dresses and pay careful attention to detail." And then it hit me. She had on a blouse underneath that wasn't pressed, wtf is that crumpled collar, wtf is that bunching under the shoulder straps, are the buttons unevenly spaced or is the blouse bunched up in front because of bad fit? How do I even fix this? How do I tell her to throw it in a fire and start over because there's no saving any of that? How do I gently word "oh honey your girlfriend kinda sucks, really badly, and she should start over from scratch, and maybe try harder to make actual real clothes instead of thinking lolita is some kind of costume play where as long as you have fun then people give you asspats and tell you your shitty construction is an awesome fairy dress and then you play believe".

........Yeah. So. In the end I just kinda closed the window and let other girls tell her about how crappy their own first dress was. There's nothing you can do for the whole outfit except trash it all and start over, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to say that diplomatically.

No idea why it was at 7 upvotes when I saw it though. That was before other girls started commenting about their own terrible first dresses.

>>9975353

I think someone did actually make something cute with it, but otherwise I agree, the colours are way too bright and it usually turns out like shit.