As I eagerly await the arrival of my Irregular Choice Disney Princesses order from last Friday (DPD is keeping me hanging until this evening unfortunately), I'm reviewing the Fairest In The Land Bag from the Snow White range.
This was one of the last teasers we saw on Wednesday, so I covered most of what I wanted to say there, but this time I have my own photos to share. This is a newer shaped bag like the current season Rainbow Thunder. We've seen several new shapes pop up over the past few seasons, with the likes of the box bag (Poodle Oo, Sundae Funday) and belt bag (Jitterbug, Bella Bunny) and this one fits between those. It's not as small or square as the belt bag but not as big as the box bag. I like the size (16 x 22 x 8cm), it's dinky but there's no odd shaping, so you can use the full capacity of it.
The lower part is turquoise metallic, which is used in the strip up the back of the coordinating flats, Whistle While You Work (or Love To Whistle from the kids range). The upper part is a bright lilac metallic which edges the matching Seven Is Company heels. On the lower sides you'll see large gold, glitter stars and the bag is split into two main compartments, each opening and closing with a zip. Each side is separated inside, it doesn't open into one bigger bag.
On the top, you'll see a short fixed red metallic handle with D-rings either side to attach the removable, longer strap. It's adjustable and comes in the same turquoise and red metallics with gold hardware.
The front of the bag is silver, chunky glitter, though as you'll see in the close-up there's oodles of multi-coloured flecks in it. This glitter is very predominant in this collection, used on those shoes I've already mentioned along with the heels of the two Evil Queen styles and the matching purse for this bag. It's really dazzling when you see it in real life. Six of the seven dwarfs work their way around the outer edges of the bag, mainly just their faces or upper body, whereas Dopey gets a full body applique in the centre. Even if you aren't au fait with each dwarf, it would be easy to guess who is who, as their faces are so full of character with Sneezy just about to sneeze, a very cheerful Happy, angry looking Grumpy and so on. It's nice to see so much colour in this part.
The bag is piped in gold metallic all around the front and back and when you turn over, like I said in the teaser, it's a completely different bag. The full back is taken up by a still from the film, with Snow White sitting in the woods with animals aplenty surrounding her. I couldn't resist photographing this in detail, because there's so many cute faces to see. I'm living for that grumpy expression on the deer behind Snow White! Along the top, in gold lettering is "Disney, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". It's beautiful.
Inside is light blue metallic lining with a zipped pocket in one side and pouch in the other. You'll also see the brand labelling; heart shaped with with little birds and a bow and crown and "Disney Princess Collection by Irregular Choice" written. Even the tag is pretty, in a castle shape with the pastel rainbow stripes and "make your dreams happen" written across the top. When you see things like this, it reminds you that there's so much detail involved in these collections and nothing is missed out. The only downside is because this is a Princesses collection, all the tags, boxes and soles are likely to be the same and if the clues (from that very first announcement image and subsequently the boxes and soles) are correct, I would desperately want an underwater themed box with Ariel's face on it for The Little Mermaid! Soles too! That said, I can more than live with the thought of possibly getting mermaid shoes and bags this year. Whilst on the subject (because it's been said so many times, but there's still confusion), there are four more Princesses in this range, but they'll follow throughout the rest of the year and I can assure you it isn't every week like I saw somebody say. Irregular Choice wouldn't be that cruel to our finances!
I can't afford the other two Snow White bags this month, so will hopefully get those at some point. There was just one on the Mulan side and I did order that along with my boots. There's also still a couple of heels I want, but hopefully my list will be completed in time for the next Disney Princess instalment! I've shown the bag below for size reference and you can see just how much it changes depending on which side you wear it. The dwarf side is worn with The Seven Dwarfs Tights and Fantastic Fawn shoes, the back is Still The Fairest Tights and I've reviewed both pairs along with Mulan here if you missed it.
The bag is really lovely but I have to say, the tights are amazing!!!!x
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