Item Name:

-

Brand:

Jane Marple

Release Date:

90s

Recently (2023) I have been trying to curb my shopping habits by tracking and limiting how many clothes I'm allowed to buy. The rules are 3 items max each month- that includes everything from socks to dresses.

This is really helping me save money and spend more intentionally, because each item I want to buy I must think 'do I like it enough to spend a shopping slot on?'

The answer when it came to this dress was yes yes yes! It was being sold by a friend from my local comm and I set an alarm to make sure I remembered to bid on it. I was so pleased when I won the auction and I wore it to my comm's summer international lolita day picnic not long after.

My first gingham love was my primary school uniform summer dress, which was red gingham, so it felt very fitting to add a red gingham dress to my wardrobe.

I like to be able to identify every item so I can catalogue it, but as this dress doesn't have an item number it's proven hard to find an exact release date or product name. Judging by the care tag, other old schoolers with more Jane Marple knowledge have deemed it to be from any time between 1989 - 1993, most likely. This style of tag was no longer in use after the early 90s, so that helps narrow it down a little. It also likely makes this the oldest piece in my lolita wardrobe!