Are pastels still a fashion trend? I feel like they are because whenever I walk past fashion stores here like Valleygirl and Forever New, they're always full of pastel clothes but ugly tones of pastel. I wish shops stocked more nice pastels of colours like blue and lilac instead of orange and yellow. Anyway, the theme for day 26 was 'Pretty Pastels' which simply means to create an outfit featuring a pastel colour palette. I ended up doing some designing and created this adorable pastel coloured tee with the Animal Crossing design that unlocks when you scan in Animal Crossing amiibos or cards. The design is cute and I used a blue and pink palette as I love wearing those colours together. I paired the shirt with some pink and white colour items and a cute rainbow bracelet.
The theme for today was 'An otufit inspired by your favourite musician/band' and I was excited for this theme. It was a challenging one not with trying to find an outfit, but with trying to pick an artist to theme an outfit from. If you have been following my music posts, you will know that I have many favourite music artists and groups. But I decided to go with my number one favourite solo artist, Dream Ami. Previously I reviewed Dream Ami's single Lovefool Sukidatte Itte which is one of my favourite singles by her. So I decided to theme the outfit around an outfit she wears on the single cover and promo material. Here are some pictures of Ami I used for reference and the short version of the MV for the song if you are interested in hearing the song.
Promotion Material
Single Cover
I kinda already had an idea of the outfit I wanted to create once I decided on using Dream Ami as my inspiration. Since this is one of my favourite singles, I already knew an outfit in the game that matched her outfit. There is a dress from Chorale that matched the appearance of the red dress Ami wears. Whilst the sleeves aren't the same length, the off the shoulder appearance of the dress matches Ami's. For the shoes, I just choose some generic red heels and I got my character's hair done to match Ami's hair style.
Originally I though about doing a preppy theme for one of the days but I decided to narrow down that idea to 'Blazers are perfect for a school day' to make it a bit more challenging. The idea was to create a school uniform inspired outfit that featured a blazer item from the outer item category. So course I turned to Brooke Bridge for inspiration which is home to the school school. Here is the preppy inspired outfit I created built around a navy blazer. I used to be a huge fan of this style of shorts in Fashion Forward but I honestly haven't used them that much in Styling Star.
The theme for day 23 is 'Build an outfit around your favourite bag' and it didn't take me any time to figure out what my favourite bag in the game is as I already knew. There is a line of bags available from Raven Candle (the Striped Rose Bag) that are some of my favourite items in the entire game. But there is one colour of the bag that is my number one favourite and it is this beautiful blue and pink patterned bag. Here is a photo of the bag from the Exhibition Hall.
Now here is the outfit I created using items that fell under the Baby-Doll theme. I matched up items from Marble Lily and Raven Candle. At first I thought about using a dress, but then whilst searching through the items I remembered this tiered skirt from Marble Lily that matches the colour scheme of the bag. And there is even a inner/top to match the skirt! Ended up taking quite a few pictures of the outfit as I was pleased with how it turned out.
A common theme players use for inspiration for outfits is cosplay, so that is the theme for day 22. The prompt is pretty simple: Cosplay Time! So it's just creating an outfit based off a character from real life or whatever form of entertainment i.e. anime. I'm not really into anime so there wasn't many characters I could think or. I used to cosplay years ago for conventions but I don't do it anymore as I kinda lost interest and it was an expensive hobby. So I was pretty boring today and just picked out an outfit from Purple Moon. Decided to be a pirate for some reason, maybe as an excuse to wear the silly glasses and moustache set. I did the photo shoot at the Cake Shop as a joke that the pirate was looting the place. And I also want to point out how funny the first pose is. I hardly use it but it makes me laugh at how random it is.
When trying to think up themes for the challenge, one of my original ideas was a vampire theme. However I decided to make this a bit more broad and changed the theme to 'Halloween comes early! An outfit inspired by the supernatural and spooky'. I thought supernatural would have more interpretation than just vampires and I felt a bit inspired by the Sims expansion pack Supernatural as well. In the end, I did create a vampire inspired outfit as I already had an idea of the kind of outfit I wanted to create. Plus it finally gave me an excuse to use this mask from Raven Candle. I do think we need more masks in the game, but I just never end up using them. Anyway, here's the gothic style outfit I created that was inspired by vampires.
We all have our favourite styles in Style Boutique and then there's our least favourite styles. And the theme for day 20 is all about least favourite image/style with the prompt being 'Wear an outfit from your least favourite style'. My least favourite style may come as a surprise to some people. It's the bold style. I just don't really wear this style much and some of the items from the image (mainly AZ-USA) just look a bit poorly designed so I avoid using them. There are some great items available for the bold image, I just prefer dressing in girly or preppy looks. There is one bold outfit that I really like that I once gave Yolanda as an outfit at the boutique. So I decided to copy that outfit for my own outfit for the theme. The outfit has a bold purple colour to it and uses some of the new items available at AZ-USA.
