/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9680099
>>9679762

Actually, there’s at least one AP dress that has a black ruffle underneath white lace, and your dress has enough white accents to balance out white lace on black ruffles, so I think that would work out.

The skirt is ~50cm, but this doesn’t matter. When you put the dress on the waist often doesn’t match up with your own waist where you’d put the underskirt, so knowing it’s 50cm doesn’t really help. You may be better off measuring 84 cm from your shoulders down to see where the dress will end at, and then measuring from your waist down to get the right length for the ruffles to start.

OR, if you look up brand underskirts (JetJ’s petale de Rose skirt for eg), you’ll see that they usually do layers of ruffles . This means that if the dress is shorter, you get more layers of ruffles, if the dress is longer, you get less. That way the dress length doesn’t matter, and you can use the underskirt for many different dress lengths.

About toning down the high contrast of the dress, I don’t think adding an overskirt and underskirt will really do it — the bodice of the dress is still pretty bright, and the bows get in the way of throwing a bolero over it. Assuming you’re older, giving a nod to your age is going to be difficult, too, most of the cutesy details are in the bodice bows and such. A lot of times, it’s honestly easier to simply start with a dress or a brand that already looks toned down, I’d suggest looking at IW for toned down cutesy dresses instead of AP if you want to do toned down sweet, it's easier.

If you really want to stick with this dress, what I’d really suggest is a custom sheer overdress, like what VM put out earlier this year or a previous release by Dark Box. But then you’d have to snip the chest and waist bows off your burando (you can keep them in a box and resew them when you want to sell, but I understand not everyone wants to alter their burando).