❤ Our Experience with Closet Child! ❤ ★ ★ ★ First Brand Dress!!! ★ ★ ★

We recently made an order with Closet Child for our first ever brand dress! The dress in question: an adorable fluffy ruffly Angelic Pretty JSK named "Lyrical Dot"! When we looked for information on this JSK online (like official measurements, worn pictures, etc.) everything we could find was for the OP, so we thought we'd make a post about both our experience ordering from Closet Child and our opinions on the dress!  ◕ ◡ ◕

Here's our alpaca, Jehan Prouvaire, and Marie the tsum tsum preparing to open the package! We ordered on the 30th of June at about eleven o clock at night! Closet Child then pretty much automatically sent us an email telling us that they would check their stock to see if our item was still available; you're able to pay at this point if you want to and if you do pay and your item is not in stock, it's refunded! That's what we did, just to be safe.  (●´∀｀●）On the 1st of July, we got a message saying it was still in stock and would be shipped out! The next email we got had a tracking number, and with that we were able to track our dress' progress to us in the UK!

'Ooh, it's so pretty and well-packaged...'  whispered Jehan to Marie.

The dress comes securely in a box, wrapped with plastic, folded prettily and neatly! It survived transit super well and arrived to us within two weeks! Unfortunately, we were hit with a very nasty almost £25 customs fee.  (•﹏•) This was especially annoying, as £12.50 of the fee went just to Parcel Force's handling charge! We received a letter from Parcel Force on Thursday 10th July, paid online the charge on Friday 11th, and had it delivered today on Monday 14th. 

Here's a video showing you just how well packaged it was! c: 

Out of the bag, the dress was so pretty Jehan fell over on it! ヽ( ﾟヮ・)ノ.･ﾟ*｡･+☆

Cute cute cute little heart buttons on the detachable waist ties! I'm terrified that we're going to lose a waist tie. ( '3' )

Instead of plain corset lacing over the shirring, there's a series of little ties that can be put into bows, all of which came tied super adorably! ❤ω❤

Detailing from the front!

This lace was so pretty and soft!  ヽ( ﾟヮ・)ノ

Both detachable waist ties and a detachable halterneck! I don't really like halterneck style JSKs very much, so I took it off, but I'm sure with the right co-ord it would look really cute! I'm quite fond of the ruffly little straps it left, though . . .  ◔ ◡ ◔

More lace close up! Teeny tiny little hearts in the lace (that remind me a bit of pawprints!)  ( ⌒‿⌒)

A worn picture featuring an ugly just-thrown-on blouse, which is becoming my specialty. . . hmmm . . . Still, cute cute dress!

Our closet is staring to get super cute! Featuring: Cinderella Bunny, a maid costume, a seifuku, more dresses than one person probably needs . . . hehe! (⊃ ´ω`)⊃♥⊂(´ω` ⊂)

Our customs charges! oAo

Altogether, our dress and shipping cost 6,200 yen - that's about £36! Even with customs charges factored in, this dress cost about £60, which is really really reasonable for an AP piece! Overall, even though we're both really sad about the handling fees and import VATs that are beginning to seem a bit ridiculous, our experience ordering from Closet Child was super positive and we both hope to be ordering from there again soon! 

✿Love,✿

♥Haz & Nat♥