It's been a little while - I've been off following The 1975 on tour so this entry is a little late. Last month I followed Facebook's recommendation and ordered a box from the fashion subscription service Lookiero, which was due to arrive with me on 11th February. Hermes actually brought it to me on the 12th and it looked like this:
Inside, everything was neatly packaged up in tissue paper with a note on the top from my personal stylist, Kerry, which explained the outfits she'd picked out for me.
I was worried that the selections would be very generic and not my style, but the note touched on a lot of the things I'd said I was interested in, which was promising, so I carefully unwrapped the first parcel. As you can probably see in the above picture, the first item was leopard print:
This camisole is from 'This Film's A Must', who I haven't heard of - actually, I haven't heard of any of the brands I got sent. I do wear this sort of top fairly often and I thought the pattern and the trim were cute, but when I tried it on it was a bit too big. I intentionally didn't look at the prices of the items until after I'd tried everything on and was surprised to find that the cost for keeping this cami was £29.70, which seems very steep for a basic item like this! Since it doesn't fit, this one isn't a keeper.
Next in the package was this Soyaconcept velvet t-shirt. It looks grey in the photo but is actually khaki, a colour I like but don't own. I definitely told the site that I love velvet - I have enough black velvet clothing to make a few head-to-toe outfits - but when I tried this on I wasn't sure about it. I think I see velvet as a fancy fabric (even though I wear it to work all the time) but t-shirts are more casual and a t-shirt made of velvet felt a little bit strange, like it was too decadent to wear to the shops but not formal enough to wear on a night out. It was the cheapest item in the box at a sale price of £16.03, but as I can't see myself wearing it, I'll be sending it back.
I was very apprehensive about the next item, these Tiffosi jeans. They're 'one size fits all' and, looking at them, I laughed at the suggestion that I'd be able to wrench them over my thighs. However, incredibly, they made it! As someone who exclusively wears black jeans I was surprised that I liked the dark blue - I've tried blue jeans on periodically over the last few years and decided I wasn't ready to accept them into my adult life. The only problem was the waist; I'm a super high waist kind of girl and these are regular fit so I'd feel really uncomfortable in them. At £49.99 I'd have kept a high-waisted version of them, but I'm reluctantly returning these. Tiffosi do sell on Amazon though and it's possible that they do these in different shapes so I think I might order a pair in my chosen style and see what they're like.
The next item didn't photograph well but I was excited about it. It's a black leather jacket (although it almost looked grey in the box) by Carmakoma. I definitely told my stylist that I wear a lot of black and leather jackets are very much my style; in fact, I've been willing this horrible winter weather to end so I can put mine on again. There was a lot that I liked about this jacket, especially the 80s-style square shoulders that appeared when I tried it on. It looked cool with the zipper undone and the sleeves pushed up, which is how I wear my leather jackets. What I didn't love was the two poppers at the collar - they was annoying when they were flapping around unbuttoned at my neck and I wasn't so fond of how the jacket looked zipped up. I was definitely in two minds about this one but I thought about the jacket I have hanging in my wardrobe and decided that I don't like this one enough to have both. The price was fair at £45 and I'm now on the look-out for the perfect square-shouldered soft leather jacket with the lapel shape I like, but sadly this isn't it.
The final piece is this sequined pencil skirt from The Bohck. Kerry the stylist said she'd picked this to match with the jacket and camisole for an 80s-inspired look - I'm sure I said I liked 80s and 90s fashion. The sequins are a little scratchy but the skirt is stretchy and comfortable. When I put it on I wasn't sure whether it suited me or whether it felt like it was announcing my stomach to the world but I liked the way I felt in it. I usually wear a dress if I'm going on a night out - I have a couple of 'nice tops' but I usually just pull my jeans on with them, so this skirt will be a welcome addition to my event wardrobe (not that I go to many events). It cost £34.70 which is double what I'd normally pay for something like this on the high street but I decided that this was the thing I would most like to keep.
Overall, the Lookiero stylist nailed my style - there was nothing in the box that I didn't like, and most of my issues with the items were little things like details and slight size problems rather than being clothes I would never ever wear. If I'm being honest though, I think I might be keeping the skirt because I feel guilty about someone picking out things for me only for me to send everything back - I wanted to like something enough to keep it. I think that guilt complex might be one of the reasons that fashion subscription boxes like Lookiero (and Stitchfix, which Facebook is advertising heavily to me since I clicked on Lookiero) do well. I'm not sure I like that feeling and if I continued ordering boxes like this I could see myself amassing a collection of clothes that cost more than I would normally pay, which I won't wear as often as things I've picked up in Primark or uncovered in a charity shop. For that reason, although it's been fun filling out the survey and having someone send clothes they think I'd love for me to try on at home, I'm not going to get involved in fashion subscription boxes again.
Let me know if you've ever tried a service like this and how it turned out!
R x
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