Wish Lists & Dream Dresses: Angelic Pretty

Dream dresses are something most Lolitas have. They are often rare or expensive items that for the most part they can only dream about owning. Wish lists, on the other hand, are simply the dresses that you would eventually like to get your hands on. They might be rare, they might not be, you just wish you had them.

While most Lolitas make lists like these, in the past I have never really bothered with it. My tastes change a lot and I can never stick to whatever kind of Lolita shopping list I make. Recently though, I have put a little more thought into making up a list of things I would seriously love to have hanging in my wardrobe. Instead of doing them all at once, I will be doing an occasional post about the pieces I want most of all. Today's post is a rather short one about Angelic Pretty. I'm not typically an Angelic Pretty fan, I don't get excited when they release new prints, I just generally don't care all that much for them. It's probably just because I'm not very good at being a pastel rainbow of a Sweet Lolita, I like my Sweet Lolita to be a bit simpler. But there are a small number of Angelic Pretty dresses that I really do love and would love to be able to call my own.

Rose Toilette

My #1 Angelic Pretty dream dress, completely overshadowing the other two on this list is Rose Toilette in red. Either the OP or the JSK is what I really want. What is it about this dress that I love so much? A lot of things. The print is gorgeous, I love how simple it is compared to recent AP prints, nothing is tipped over, there are no unicorns barging in, just a row of perfume bottles along the hem. I am also a huge fan of the vertical stripes! I'm a sucker for vertical stripes with Lolita, and if I didn't restrain myself my whole wardrobe would be nothing but vertical stripes. They just look extra pretty and delicate in this design. As I said, red is my dream colorway of this dress because the deep red is just gorgeous. AP rarely releases red dresses, and it's very nice to see Sweet Lolita in red. Besides the print and the gorgeous color, the cut of the dress is just lovely. It's not overly simple, it has a cut and style as detailed and lovely as the print. I am a huge fan of the solid gathered top, and I think it balances nicely with the wide print on the hem.

Secret Garden

Secret Garden is a rather old AP print, from around 2006, when they were still doing screen printing but just before they moved to multicolor screen printing, so it still has the look of a much older AP dress. This is on my wish list because I have loved this print for a long time! Back in the day Fan+Friend used to sell a rather crappy knock off of this dress, that was always extra long and the images weren't so much screen printed as they were iron-on-transfered onto the dress, so they always looked yellowed. That is where I originally saw this dress, but once I found that it was a real Lolita dress I realized that it could be so much better than the F+F version. I have actually never seen the original dress for sale! I'm sure it goes on sale originally, but I have always missed out completely on it.

Wonder Party

While I've always liked Wonder Party, for a lot of the same reasons as I liked Rose Toilette (the neat and even print, the vertical stripes) I never really thought too much about it until I went looking for pictures of it. It really is a beautiful print, as well as a unique cut and style. The black colorway is very pretty because it's black and a blueish gray, which is very unusual for AP's black colorways. I've come to realize that this print is sort of my "substitute" Rose Toilette because they look so similar but this one is a little cheaper as well as sold a little bit more.

These are the handful of Angelic Pretty dresses I would just love to have. What about the rest of you? Do you keep detailed and ever-updated wish lists? Or do you just have a preferred color or theme that you keep an eye out for? What specific Angelic Pretty dresses (not just prints!) do you wish you had? Saying "All of them!" doesn't count XD