July 2018 - The Doll House Club

Monday 30 July 2018

C4 T4 : Instafamous!

July 30, 2018 cycle 4 , task 0 Comments

Instagram is one of the biggest social media platforms around, filled to the brim with ista-celebrities, super poses, tons of filters, and of course, ads.

We want you to choose an item on Stardoll from one of the following categories - either from the plaza or your suite - and style an outfit worthy of 'advertising' it.

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS TASK, WE WILL NOT BE ENFORCING THE STREET STYLE RULE.

ITEMS YOU CAN USE:

Anything under the 'electronics,' 'lighting,' 'transport,' 'bathroom' & 'kitchen' categories
All beds, seating, and tables

ITEMS YOU CANNOT USE

Animals & animal items, mirrors, posters, music items, interiors, storage items, pals, clothes, nature, suite design items, art & objects, flags

WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU INCLUDE A DESCRIPTION OF HOW YOUR ITEM AND OUTFIT CORRESPOND. You may want to style yourself to match the items colours, or you could make the kind of person who would use the item, or something else you think would work as an outfit for an advertisement of the product.

You don't need to include the outfit in your look, but we will need a picture of it when you submit, so if you use your blog/presentation, you might want to use something your doll can 'hold.'

JUDGES'S EXEMPLARS:

Leighways & Lovefotinh

REAL WORLD EXEMPLARS:

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Amazing scarf, dress, and shoes. Find your Inspiration @ #DapperNDame Pinterest. dapperanddame.com

Image of MADE TO ORDER - Team Pizza Cheer Set (Top and Skirt)

Sunday 29 July 2018

C4 T3 : Feedback

July 29, 2018 cycle 4 , feedback 0 Comments

It's feedback time! We scored both your groups, and as individuals. The final scores of each user (listed below) is an average of the two.

Unfortunately, we do have to say goodbye to CharmedAvenger this time, while AshleighDana takes top individual score, earning +0.5 next week, and her team came out on top, so lostjetty, her team mate and second place winner, gets +o.25 bonus for next week.

AshleighDana - 8.75
Lostjetty - 8.66
ASB10 - 7.45 + 0.5 = 7.95
Alma1902 - 7.64
Aniyah-xxxx - 7.39
Bueno-koekje_xx - 7.12
Green_lady_m - 7.04
xmackennax - 6.12
BibikaEmonik - 6.06
CharmedAvenger - 5.75

Charmed_avenger + ASB10 - 6.83

LUCY - Purple and yellow was a bold, interesting, and very unique choice. I have a pet peeve about colours that almost - but don't quite - match, and both your looks are problematic. Charmedavenger doesn't seem to know what season it is, with a raincoat but an exposed bra. ASB10 has some very nice texture details and an interesting silhouette.

LEIGH - Neither of these do much for me. I don't like yellow and purple together though you did try something unique as Lucy said so props for the idea. But there's so little going on in CharmedAvenger's look and again, the bra+jacket is just so random. ASB10 has layers, which is good, but the rest... idk. I'm just not a fan, it remind me of a clown.

FONTI - To start with the good news, ASB's entry is my top entry of the task! I adore the innovative uncommon style here, you have an eye for the difference! I miss a silver belt, but I love all the items you intentionally and carefully put on you in this lovely quirky outfit! As for Charmed's entry it kinda belongs not to a team outfit but to another planet I'm afraid. The styling is poor, the items have no interest, no efforts in here in general. And you don't look like a team at all, that's my opinion, sorry.

Aniyah-xxxx + Alma1902 - 7.58

LUCY - I like the concept, and the way you've matched details and textures as opposed to simply cloning things. I love that, while the pieces are similar, you've layered them differently (boots under/over jeans for example). The difference between the all-black and all-colour is a bit hard on the eyes though, and I don't love Aniyah's bulky bag with a bulky jacket.

LEIGH - I love, love, love the way you both have similar - yet different - layers! Like Lucy I think the black/red contrast is too severe, it maybe would have been nice to swap bags ... or not, because I don't really like either of these big bags on already bold looks.

FONTI - What an A-wesome entry! I adore Aniyah's outfit, these flying birds over her drives me crazy! Tha black background is a huge support for your team submission, what a cool idea! Also I love your squad's name 'Da Vinci', so artistic! Aniyah supports the project way stronger for my opinion, Alma's outfit is finely worked but looks more poor in creativity. I have a difficult time to match these outfits together under a theme, however the common criteria I can surely see is the artistic approach, plus the secret denim bottom. However, you look fascinating, so I'll go for it!

BibikaEmonik + XmackennaX - 6

LEIGH - Oh no no no no no no no no no. Did you not read the instructions? Or look at the inspo? Like, at all? BibikaEmonik set the scene, and completely neglected the one constant rule of the cycle- S T R E E T STYLE. Not glamour, not editorial, STREET STYLE. Poor XmackennaX - she's not well, and I know from previous cycles that she hates both beige and glamour, yet she had to pull something together to match Bibikaemonik - and somehow, her bulky coat and bag, however awkward, are at least a bit more on the casual side that all-out glam. It's a shame really, since BibikaEmonik isn't giving us a bad outfit, it's just totally not on the cycles' theme at all.

FONTI - I had bigger expectations from your team and I am very disappointed that I have to give you now a low score. Even if your outfits are out of theme, they don't look good, nor as separated outfits or as a team entry. Bad fitting, unflattering colors, weird shapes, poor styling. Where is your enthusiasm, your team's name, your description? I feel like you just wanted to get it done with no efforts.

LUCY - Oh, uh. The other two have really covered everything. Our exemplars, blog and pres should make it pretty clear we want something street-style. BibikaEmonik didn't give us a bad look, honestly - it's just absolutely against theme, and really, XmackennaX just pulled off what she could from it, is what that look seems like. It's a shame really.

Bueno-koekje_xx & Green_lady_m - 7.16

FONT- Hmm, this is an interesting entry, based on some cool ideas (pink clutches, pink feathers, high healed sandals, diamonds!). I like it in general, it's just that the result does not fascinate me that much! The quality level of the 2 outfits is the same more or less, there are styling efforts, textures and layers and I appreciate these standards for being kept. I don't feel your team's vibes however, a description maybe would help but there isn't any. I also think that the use of blue should be in both of you or in none of you. To conclude with another detail, Green's look is more fashioned where Bueno's is more sophisticated. You kinda had it but you kinda lost it. However, it is not a bad team work, I just feel like you didn't try much to nail it.

LEIGH - The feather and lace details are nice, but like Fonti I'm not super into it and the blue in one without either more blue or a contrast colour in the other is off putting. It was a nice idea, but the result is, just a little off.

LUCY - First issue, the shoes. If you're going to wear different shoes, either go totally different, or do the same, not this in-between pairing ... which sums up pretty much this whole pairing. You have some cool elements going on, I like the textures and shapes going on, but you've got this not-quite-twins, not-quite-friends thing going on.

UBER.Girlz.NYC - 8.91

FONTI - What a F-abulous team work for you two! The great thing is that you both look like coming out of a NYC stylista's dressing room! Not like twins, but so equal fashionable! I can see how hard you have worked to nail this task, and in my opinion you look so cohesive as a real double-trouble! You both have sufficient layers, eye-catchy pieces of clothing, you look indeed as a serious girls' squad. You chose a safe base, there is not that much of an innovative creativity for your project but it ends up in a very good piece of team-task work. Your team name, description and photo shoot earn the extra points needed for my judging.

LEIGH - And here is the duo I've been looking forward to the most, and boy did they pull it off too! The small pops of yellow and the little bit of brown is awesome, and you both have really subtle layered details I love. I don't totally dig the bags, though to be fair, stardoll really does not have much yellow items to begin with.

LUCY - Yes, yes, and yes!!! The team name, the various yellow, nude, leather, and check details make for an amazingly paired duo - yet, you both have such distinctly different styles. Like Leigh I don't entirely love the bags but again, yellow is just not very available on stardoll to begin with. I'm also glad you gave us both the edited background and the close-up, plaza versions.

Thursday 12 July 2018

C4 T3: Two's A Crowd

July 12, 2018 cycle 4 , task 0 Comments

Be bold, be daring - be double the trouble! A major trend in Asian fashion is to double up, with your best friend or boyfriend - and it's quickly taking off in the Western world, too!

We've assigned you all a partner, and you have two weeks to come up with, agree upon, and of course, style and submit your outfits. Your pairings are assigned, and designed to be challenging!

Make sure you match, but remember to be friends - not twins! We want to see both of you shine in your own ways, and will be rating you as both individuals, and on teamwork. The exemplars are essential to understanding what this means! You also have 2 weeks instead of 1, to make sure you both have time to communicate.

It is completely up to you how you submit. You can either put both looks in an imgur folder, or one imgur one blog, or both on one persons' pres...etc etc. Just make sure BOTH of you are on time!

Your Teams:

Alma1902 + aniyah-xxxx
BibikaEmonik + xmackennax
ASB10 + CharmedAvenger
Bueno-koekje_xx + green_lady_m
Lostjetty + ashleighdana

You CANNOT swap partners!!!!

DUE: JULY 28th

Please message your partner ASAP. If your partner does not message you, or does not reply to you by JULY THE 12TH (Thursday,) please contact Leighways or Sunnysidessue. If needed, we have two members who have volunteered as emergency partners.

EXEMPLARS:

Fonti & Lucy

Real World Exemplars:

29 Awesome Outfit Ideas From Stockholm's Coolest Street Style Girls | Who What Wear UK

Fashion's Street Style Best Friends via @WhoWhatWearUK

Pin for Later: See the Best Street Style From All of Paris Fashion Week Day 8

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C4T2 : Feedback

July 12, 2018 cycle 4 , feedback 0 Comments

Sadly, Soff pulled out of judging, so our former manager Jenna (kittywaytocute) took over for now. We will be on the look out for a permanent replacement. Both Fonti and Luiza are on holiday, while Lucy and Leigh have had birthdays, so unfortunately this resulted in a few unintended delays, and we apologize for that!.
As your next task takes 2 weeks, we hope to find a permanent replacement judge before it is due. Unfortunately, we can't make any promises.

We also welcome Ashleighdana as a replacement for Dolphin316 as the next task required even numbers, and AD only missed out being a contestant by a coin flip! Unfortunately, we also have to eliminate someone - and, having not entered at all, noismini is eliminated. This tasks winner, ASB10, receives +0.5 for her next score.

ASB10 - 7.68
Alma1902 - 7.5
Bueno-koekje_xx - 7.37
AshleighDana - 7.35
Aniyah-xxxx - 7.25
xmackennax - 7.18
BibikaEmonik - 7
Green_lady_m - 6.93
lostjetty - 6.81
CharmedAvenger - 5.56
Noismini - 0

Alma1902 = 7 + 0.5 = 7.5

Lucy - The lack of backpiece isn't bad, but I do think this could have benefited from a bag. I love the colour choices here, and the jacket is definitely a difficult shape to work with.

Leigh - I wouldn't have noticed the lack of backpiece if you hadn't mentioned it! But the lack of bag... I already don't like that belt, so maybe a fanny pack? And personally I don't really love this, to me it looks like two outfits, the pants+belt and top+jacket got all smushed together. The colours aren't working to me.

Soff - I love the way how you combined the colors, but I think a bag wouldn't be bad tho.As Lucy said also, the jacket looks perfect in your outfit. Good job dear!

Fonti - I love the jacket, it is awesome and an eye trap. Yet I would never match it with these pants. I gave the outfit a low score because I had to look twice to track the dots. I like the shoes' matching but I really miss a bag.

Aniyah-xxxx = 7.25

Lucy - This is somewhat plainer than what I had been expecting. I'm not the biggest fan of the top or the bag. It's definitely very summery and vibrant, and you've included sunglasses and earrings which is nice. I just hoped to see...more.

Leigh - Yeah, I'm with Lucy, this is weirdly plain looking. Without the prints I'd call it boring. Nice to see some small details but layers, even a belt or some sheer sleeves would have made this cooler.

Soff- The outfit would look great with another top. As Lucy and Leigh said above, this is a plain looking , but with a belt and another top would look better.

Fonti - I like your intention to risk with such intensive patterns. I like everything in your look and I feel that it wasn't so easy to make your mix&matching, still you've made it to captivate the attention. What I don't like is that I cannot put it in a place, the half of it would be place by the beach and some details (earrings & pumps) moves it late evening out.

ASB10 = 7.68

Lucy - Why no bag? I love the various layered shirts and the addition of the 'sorry' pin. The two prints go very well together. I'm less happy with those shoes, I would have liked a more sporty, practical shoe since the rest of this is a very casual, hip-hop aesthetic.

Leigh - Oh those shoes, honey no. They're like circus stilts! And with the pants, your bottom half looks like a clowns! I like the top a lot and the pants could have been OK if not for those shoes. And like Lucy I wonder why not bag?

Soff - I would definitely change the shoes. With other shoes the outfit would look perfect. I like the pants and the top, but I was waiting for other shoes whatever. Good job sweetie!

Fonti - You depicted the theme in a simple, yet crystal clear way. Your style makes a difference and I like it. Be more careful with the right fitting (your dotted tulle top should be resized). Keep it up.

LostJetty - 6.81

Leigh - What's with the long shirt and the belt in the middle?! No no no!! It looks so mid-2000s with the wide leg pants and that's NEVER good. And those sunglasses in, what, a winter look? I actually really do love the colours in this, they're interesting and subtle. But everything else is just... not good.

Lucy - Hooo boy. Honestly, I think Leigh's comment nailed this for me. The belt in the middle of a tunic is so random - heck, the fact you picked a tunic with flared pants just screams of something Ashley Tisdale would wear in 2005. And we'd all like to forget about that era. Honestly, if you'd just put the tunic under the pants and put the belt there, it would have been so, so much better.

Soff - I like how you combined the colors dear, but with these belt in the middle it really don't look good in the outfit. As Leigh said, it would never work with the wide leg pants.

Fonti - It is a look influenced from earlier decade as other judges stated but I really like it. Your colors and patterns look so finely combined to me. There are a few details that I loved, such as the choice of your bag-belt-pumps. I would possibly change the top with a chiffon blouse to make it a more safe entry, but not that I really mind yours that much.

AshleighDana - 7.35

Lucy - If this was in your suite, I wouldn't mention it, but since you're in the plaza and have free hair available, I have to say this wig was not your best choice. And I'm not a fan of those shoes. But, I'm glad we can welcome you to the cycle, because I love your use of pastels against black! And you've made wonderfully subtle use of the prints and textures here too.

Leigh - I like the patterns, and really do love the jacket. But is there not nearly too much going on with this? A plainer bag and shoe would have made the jacket look more important which is what stand out to me with this. I don't mind the hair that much, it's short so we can see your whole look.

Fonti - I like your inner suite in blue. The dots' top looks weird to me, like you put it there only because of the task, even if it does not make sense. The bag is ok. But if you wear a raincoat then what are you doing with these open toe heeled sandals. It is a very confusing outfit for me.

Jenna - I like the pink and not the blue haha, I am more of a barbie than bratz doll. I like the layered top but it makes you shoe and bottom plain. Dislike like the choker much too.

xmackennax - 7.18

Lucy - I don't know how to feel about this. I really love this in some ways... but I'm not totally sure the top and pants work together! I would have either used plainer pants, or a plainer top, but then I suppose it would not longer meet the task requirements. Which is a shame, since I love your use of colour here, white boots and jackets are difficult to pull off and you definitely do.

Leigh - I actually like the top and pants! Personally I would have wanted more details here, like earrings and a belt. But the white and red pop out very well and the shirt layers are very crafty.

Fonti - Interesting outfit. I would look at it on the streets. I like the choice of these trousers combined with your dotted up part, cause it is like an impressionistic approach of the task. The blazer with the booties look super fine. The bag is ok.

Jenna - I like this all a lot :) Maybe not the red lipstick with red hair but that's not a judging matter since it's not really bad or stopping the look at all. Yay!

Green_lady_m - 6.93

Lucy - So, one thing I always advise is to read through other people's feedback - because just like Dolphin316 last week, you've totally failed to crop your doll properly. It's not something we score for, but it's definitely very annoying as it makes your outfit seem a lot smaller and makes it harder to see the details in it. But as for your outfit, you've triggered one of my biggest pet peeves - putting gold and silver together by accident. If not for the tassel, you would have been ok, and I would have preferred red earrings or shoes to it anyhow. I love the top half of this with the layering of the sleeves, but the bag is far more casual than this outfit deserves.

Leigh - Crop, girl, come on! Clearly you can, so why do it so big? It's not like you even have anything in that room so why show it? Like Lucy said we loose out the details. The choice of prints is really well done and the black-and-white really looks good on you. I like the layering too but for me the accessories are just a no. The bag is too relaxed, the pops of red just look random and unbalanced, and I don't like such a floaty belt with the structure of the rest.

Fonti - Hmm. Interesting outfit. I like you chose to invest on a Black&White look. Your custom made top is cute and looks even more cute with your pencil skirt. I love your belt and bag. Safe shoes' choice. Smart burgundy pop us. It is not a fascinating outfit to drive me crazy but it is a safe one, so I'll buy it.

Jenna - Yes, I think this is a safe one, the patterns look good as they are but then your items with it are a big no no. The red is very badly placed and the bag is too much chunky and relaxed.

CharmedAvenger - 5.56

Fonti - It is a cool dress, so it's ok that you decided to invest on it ! But why didn't you try on styling it a bit and make something more unique with it ? I feel like it could never be matched with this coat, unless maybe if you had tried more with your accessories to be somewhere in the middle of these two. Very basic entry, you should have worked it more.

Lucy - I'm not a fan of this. I wish you'd broken up all the prints with something, a belt of a layer between them perhaps. The choker is very gothic which makes absolutely no sense with an otherwise business-lady outfit, and paired with the glasses and earrings there's far too much going on around your head. I'll give you props for trying to combine two very awkward items - the dress and jacket - but it just did not pay off.

Leigh - Oh. Well this is ... underwhelming. But also overwhelming, because Lucy nailed it with the accessories, it's all too much and the choker doesn't go. I like that you tried to combine the tiger and spot prints which no-one else has, but that's about it.

Jenna - Oh no :( I see red and black are popular with the cycle now but that makes your looks seem worse when you see the others do the same better. The choker is very bad. The prints were brave but only that is very good. I think you should learn using the plaza and imgur instead and give us a good look that way.

Fonti - It is a cool dress, so it's ok that you decided to invest on it ! But why didn't you try on styling it a bit and make something more unique with it ? I feel like it could never be matched with this coat, unless maybe if you had tried more with your accessories to be somewhere in the middle of these two. Very basic entry, you should have worked it more.

BibikaEmonik = 7

Lucy - What the hell did you do when you cropped this??? What's with the big white, unnecessary square?! Go read Dolphin316's feedback from last week... or Green_Lady_M's this week. The only time a lack of cropping is excusable is if you used the stardoll camera like Charmed_Avenger, but you all used imgur so what's your excuse??? Argh. Anyway, this outfit is somewhat reminiscent of something I've done, and the shapes look a lot like xmackennax's - that's not a bad thing, because I like it, it's just very well-used at the moment. I like the pops of red and the accessories are well done, I don't love the bag but I can live with it.

Leigh - Lucy's done the cropping rant for me, but seriously, I'd like to know why you added the big white square! I just can't figure out your reasoning there. Anyway, I personally am not the biggest fan of the very wide, loose sleeves with the already wide pants, and I don't like the bag much. I do like the necklace and red pops a lot, and the layering around the top.

Jenna - Oh no no, why the white space??? Your look is nice enough, not my style I think so I don't know much I can say here. Again, red and black are on and I think I could get very sick of seeing it this cycle but you aren't the only one with it. Like Leigh I don't like loose top with bottoms. The layers are nice though.

Fonti - Your black to black choice of polka-dots trousers' does not exactly scream for polka-dots' attention! I had to check twice to track the dots, so somehow you have missed the point for me! However, you have a good styling, a fine mix&matching of your clothes, it looks like a cute French style and safe layering.

Bueno-koekje_xx = 7.375

Lucy - Loose on loose is just not flattering, at all. Which is a shame, since I like how experimental this is in other aspects. It's very coachella - with a hint of grunge perhaps. The colours are intriguing and the patterns are subtle but definitely there. I don't think the bangles were really needed given how bulky the bag is.

Leigh - I'm with Lucy, loose-on-loose just makes you look like you're trying to hide something, it's not flattering. But the patterns and textures are cool and I love the sorta festival-witch vibe.

Jenna- This is different! I love paisley and purples but I think Leigh's 'festival-witch' is good for it. Your accessorize confuse me with the chunky bits and then fines bits, better to pick one style I think.

Fonti - You have used the same trousers as BibikaEmonik, the one with the hard-to-track dots and as I said before to Bib. I would have expected a more intensive choice of dots. However you have done a great styling in here! I love it looks like a vintage interpretation, I like the use of purple, the long necklace, the hat, everything. Awesome styling.