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BJD Plans

I have pretty extensive plans for what I want my BJD collection to look like in the future. Most of them revolve around specific wardrobes that I want to bring into being: I'll give a brief overview of each one here.

1950's Wardrobe: Frugal/Student Edition

Concept: a capsule wardrobe based around an a-line skirt, a sweater, an off-the-shoulder top, pumps, and a beret, to be varied with an endless array of accessories.

Colour palette: black, with accessories in all colours appropriate to the era.

Designer inspiration: Dior's advice for dressing well on a budget, as printed in Elle in 1948.

Hair: brunette, short 'Italian cut', inspired by Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.

The Fashion Victim: Charlie.

black & white photos, left: Audrey Hepburn with a short piece-y haircut, right: a model wearing a black batwing-sleeve sweater with mandarin collar

1950's Wardrobe: Spring Edition

Concept: a working girl's wardrobe, based around a skirt suit with matching hat and shoes, a trench coat, and a dress or two for the weekend.

Colour palette: navy as the neutral base, white and black as secondary neutrals, harmonizing shades of blue (royal, baby, cornflower), contrasting shades of lavender and burgundy.

Designer inspiration: Dior S/S 1950 suit, Heim S/S 1950 coat, Dior S/S 1952 dress.

Hair: same as above.

The Fashion Victim: also Charlie.

left: black & white photo of woman wearing a smartly-tailored dark-colored skirt suit, middle: black and white photo of woman wearing a very 'French Resistance'-type trench coat, right: colour photo of a woman wearing a pale blue pleated dress with matching cardigan

1950's Wardrobe: Fall Edition

Concept: a working girl's wardrobe, based around a skirt suit with matching hat and shoes, a redingote, and a dress or two for the weekend.

Colour palette: grey as the neutral base, black and camel/brown as secondary neutrals, contrasting shades of hunter green and crimson.

Designer inspiration: Balenciaga S/S 1951 suit, Dior F/W 1950-51 coat, Grès F/W 1954-55 dress.

Hair: same as above.

The Fashion Victim: still Charlie.

black & white photos, left: woman wearing a wasp-waist double-breasted tweed skirt suit, middle: woman wearing a winter coat with a very wide and tall collar enveloping her head and neck, right: woman wearing a long-sleeve turtle-neck dress with pleating under the bust, giving a somewhat Grecian appearance

1970's Wardrobe

Concept: a chic city girl's wardrobe, centered on three two-piece dresses and two tweed emsembles, to be mixed and matched for maximum cross-season and day-to-night flexibility.

Colour palette: petrol blue, spring green/white/lilac floral, vermillion, light grey, cinnamon brown.

Designer inspiration: Christian Dior crêpe dress, YSL pantsuit, Betsey Johnson wrap skirt.

Hair: brunette; loose, nonchalant curls; exact style tbd.

The Fashion Victim: requires a Unoa girl small-bust body (as I want to use patterns from Hanon's doll sewing book); might use a non-Lusis Unoa head, or try to hybrid with Limwha/EOS Mono?

messy digital sketch of several items of clothing on copy-pasted models: a petrol-blue bishop-sleeved dress, a light green floral dress with bow collar, a red spaghetti-strap dress with front pleat detail, a grey pantsuit with black belt and Prussian blue/white-check turtleneck sweater, brown wrap skirt with white button-up blouse and loose black bow tie

Victorian Catgirl

Concept: an idle bourgeoise catgirl's wardrobe, covering all proper occasions from breakfast to garden party to theater, during the years 1896-99.

Colour palette: shades of purple, white, black.

Designer inspiration: whoever designed the patterns for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, La Mode Illustrée and Le Petit Écho de la Mode during this era.

Hair: none, hats only!

The Fashion Victim: PIPOS Charlotte, preferably grey, either the R.PI (30 cm) version hybrided with a MSD body, or the M.PI (40 cm) version.

line drawings, left: bare-headed woman wearing a floor-length loose-fitting tea gown with lace sleeves and yoke, middle: woman wearing a plumed hat and a long-sleeved high-necked lace dress criss-crossed with striped bands, right: woman wearing a plumed hat and a dark velvet smocked gown with long sleeves and a deep v-neck, filled in with a pleated white dickie

1919 Wardrobe

Concept: a carefree libertine celebrates the end of WWI by swathing herself in luxurious fabrics.

Colour palette: black, gold, jewel tones, pastels.

Designer inspiration: such forgotten couturiers as Poiret, Doeuillet, and Worth.

Hair: long wavy locks swept up into a Grecian chignon.

The Fashion Victim: Mayakdolls Ichi on some curvy MSD body.

line drawing of woman with short brown hair wearing a petrol blue long-sleeved high-neck dress with decorative frogging and gold belt, waving at a small bird sitting on a blooming tree branch line drawing of woman with short brown hair wearing a fitted pink satin evening gown with greyish overskirt and puff of ostrich feathers at the hip, standing next to a smoking man in full evening dress, staring out into a darkened garden from a lighted patio

The Nutcracker

Concept: frustrated by the quality of the costumes on a televised production of The Nutcracker, I designed my own.

Colour palette: depends on the costume!

Designer inspiration: folk dress of the 19th century, various candies.

Hair: varying ballet-appropriate styles.

The Fashion Victim: Dragon Shell Dolls Cat-girl.