/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

there's a themed meet coming up soon and I don't have too much time to buy certain pieces like shoes, different color blouse, etc. so majority of these are just items I already own and can make a decent coord with. throwing that out there first since I know some of the colors may be a bit shoehorned.

should I wear the vest or no? I was thinking of making a rosette brooch to match the rest of the coord? for head wear I also was going to make a head piece out of an actual tea cup. definitely want some ideas as to what colors I should go for when making these pieces - because the skirt doesn't have the border print with the red diamonds on it but since my bag is going to be dark red (it's a bit brighter IRL than in the photo) I would like to bring out that color more in other places. Maybe a red/gold/black rosette brooch to pin on the collar? Would that be balanced as I can be if I have those colors in the bag and socks?

Also not sure about the btssb socks, since like I said the skirt I have does not have that diamond border print, so I'm unsure if those socks are a stretch or not.

As for the teacup head piece, I was going to try to add some pastry/sweets cabochons somewhere (perhaps around the saucer?) to kind of tie in the pastries all over the print? perhaps finding some pastry themed jewelry as well