Hello lovelies,

a few weeks ago I visited the Italian Tea party Vitae Essentia in Rome with a few girls from the Austrian lolita fashion club (no joke, we really are an official club here, although not every lolita is a member).
It was held in the St. Regis hotel, which actually was right around the corner of our hotel and the main train station.
The location was marvelous but our event was not very large. We had a separate room for tea and sandwiches which opened up after we satisfied our thirst for shopping and the fashion show. The fashion show was actually in the room with most of the sellers and only separated by a few chairs.

The stage from the fashion show

The other side

Quite a few Lolitas had to stand during the raffle and the fashion shows.

There were fashion shows from My inspiration,  AmaStacia, and two others but I forgot which ones :(. After a small break, we even had a special fashion show from Angelic Pretty.


At the raffle I won a small swan brooch from le petite four.
M. bought so many brooches, but I would have too if I'd wear them. There were so many cute accessoires. In the end I only bought an Angelic Pretty Tops Lucky bag.









My only big critique was that we didn't have any drinks for hours before we were led to the separate room for tea. I was so damn thirsty by the time we were served tea, I had my cup refilled a few times before I felt better. The waiters were already super annoyed because the whole table ordered tea and water so many times.
The ladies from Team Austria and I sat on one big table together and it was super fun. We had three plate of sandwiches and three of sweet treats, we were stuffed afterwards.

The mask is not part of the table decoration

After the food, there was no program and the other lolitas and I made some more pictures before leaving.
Thank you for the great event!

Here are some more picture from the event:

The frescoes were amazing

Team Austria

I wore the dress from Angelic Pretty I bought last year called le jardin des anges in purple and an Angelic Pretty blouse I bought just for this occasion. The sleeves were enormous, I didn't realize that until I wore the blouse the first time. The shoes are from Taobao and were also bought for this event. I tried to stay in the colour scheme white/purple/silver.
I made the head dress myself from polymer clay. At first, I thought I made the stripes too thin and already saw them go all over the place, but they didn't. Hooray. With the cross and the angels the crown had a good stability.
The plan was to wear a stocking with little angels, but they didn't arrive in time, therefore I just wore my favourite ankle socks.

Yes, my fingernails had small angels on them.

All the best,

Auris Lothol