Coordinate Reviews

 Since one of my goals for the year was to coordinate my main pieces in more varying ways, I decided to put together a few collages of dresses to see how I have been coordinating them.

It was a lot of scrolling through my phone camera!  I just put together the most recent four photos of each dress that I could find.  I don't always take coordinate photos though, so there's some missing.

Blouse: Blue or white
Socks: White
Shoes: Blue or white (but the white ones have since been tossed)

 

I really like how this looks with the blue blouse and shoes,though I think white blouse and blue shoes is good, too.  I'm not sure if this would look good with black at all?  The telephones in the print are a bit darker, but I'm afraid black would be too heavy.

 

I think a lavender blouse would also look nice!  I should have a short-sleeve lavender blouse I believe... unless that's the one I lost in Japan years ago 🙀  Pink shoes should also work due to the pink ribbons in the print... I'll have to try a white blouse and pink shoes or pink blouse and pink shoes! 

Blouse: Teal, blue, pink
Socks: White, blue
Shoes: Pink, blue

I actually bought a pair of yellow shoes for this dress but had to return them due to wrong size (that's a whole other drama story that's not resolved yet) and the proper size is not in stock yet

 

The blue blouse also allows me to remove the yoke piece on this dress!  The teal and pink blouses are a bit transparent, so I have to keep the yoke in place. I think I could also coordinate this with a while blouse as that would match the underskirt!

 I have a short-sleeve white blouse with blue ribbon detail that would work well.  The long-sleeve white blouse would also work, I think! 

KC: Pink, black
Blouse: Black, pink, white
Socks: Black, white
Shoes: Pink, black

I think this dress varies quite a bit depending on what color is brought out.  I also need to wear my strawberry necklace/ring with it more!

 

KC: Black
Blouse: Black, white
Socks: Brown, white
Shoes: Blue

OK I really don't know how to add variety to this dress coordinate!!  I really like this pair of socks and they match well as this is my only chocolate dress!  But I don't have any sax KC or other type of headwear!

I wonder if I could manage pink accents?  Like a pink KC (plain or floral), pink blouse, pink shoes?  I usually carry my pink Swimmer bag with this coordinate as well as Violet in her doll bag and in her matching dress. 

Seeing the coordinates lined up, I think I actually had a bit more variety than I thought I did with some of the dresses!   There's definitely still room to improve.  
Since I haven't got the budget to buy new blouses right now, I will try to play around with the ones I have and think about buying colored blouses in the future when I've got a job and income again.

The other thing that I think could help with variety is actually hair!  I really need to work on adding to my hairstyles!  I usually put in more effort with the yellow outfit due to the larger headbow, but should really try to learn some more styles! 

Since I don't have a hime cut or blunt-cut bangs/fringe at all, I feel like some styles don't look very good on me.  It's time to experiment!