Spider-woman

Here's a rare (so far, at least) picture from my second account - this challenge is called Bite of the Black Widow:

I was poking around looking to see if anybody had a certain spidery-looking Covet Collection vest that I could borrow, and I didn't find that, but I found this one instead, which is just about as good. I put it over the red dress because it didn't show up well over black. (I tried it over various other colors and this was the one I liked the best.) This piece is from Bao Tranchi.

Oh, and this hair accessory is called the Zodiack Crown. I bought it when they were having a hair accessory sale a week or so ago. I wasn't sure if I would like it but I do - it works for things like dark sorceresses (which is what this one is supposed to be) but it also looks kind of like horns. So it's more versatile than I thought it would be.


Now that I've figured out how to get pictures off of my tablet, that gives me more looks to pick from to show here. Most of the time I do different looks on the two different accounts, partly to see which scores the best. I'm getting better at predicting that but it still surprises me once in a while. I need to pick out some low-scoring things to talk about soon!

New "Josephine" historical clothing set

There's a new set of Covet Collection clothing pieces this week - this one is called "Josephine" and it's vaguely Renaissance-flavored. Last season there was a green one (called Giovanna) and I've seen at least one more that was pink.I'd say the pink one looked more Georgian, maybe - a bit later in time, that is - and the green Giovanna set was probably also Renaissance, I guess, but the style is not the same. (I'm interested in historical clothing styles but I'm no expert. Maybe I'll do some homework at some point and try to figure out what the differences mean a bit more exactly. At a guess, I'd say the green set is the style of a somewhat earlier time period. But I could be entirely wrong.)

The day this set was released the "daily" challenge was called The Girl From the Painting. I had already styled a look before I realized this new set had been released, but I went back and did it over as soon as I figured it out. I did check and Vermeer (the artist of "Girl with the Pearl Earring") was active in sort of the mid-17th century - I think Wikipedia said he died in the 1670s. That's my best guess right now about what era they were shooting for with this clothing set, but again, that may or may not be correct.

There are five pieces to the set (sold separately, you don't have to buy all of them):

1. robe - that's most of what you're seeing in the picture above
2. skirt - you can see it over on the right - red over the gold-trimmed white front
3. bodice - as you might imagine, fills in the section over the chest
4. overskirt - gold
5. ruff

(Note that the game requires that you wear either a dress or a top and a bottom piece, and it's sometimes very annoying about this requirement. The skirt counts as a bottom, but none of these pieces counts as a  top or a dress. So that's why that pink bikini top is there, because it tucks underneath, out of sight, and fulfills that requirement.)

The bodice in the picture above is not the one that goes with this set - again, you can see over on the right that it's actually the JosephineGiovanna one. The green on the sides doesn't show under the robe. The one that goes with the set is the same fabric as the skirt here, and I think it's slightly more boring to look at. I like the Josephine one better because the pattern is not exactly the same.

Also, note that this hairstyle is almost certainly all wrong for the period (it's called "Retro Red Carpet" so I think it's meant to be vaguely 1950s). But hair accessories are tied to certain hairstyles, and this particular crown is tied to this hairstyle - think Snow White. There is another version of this with an updo that I can use, but it's silver, and I felt like this bronze-y one matched much better. I swing back and forth between wanting to be historically correct and wanting a good score. I'm sure I'll end up talking more about that! Basically I don't think the average Covet player knows anything at all about what's historically correct, and they determine your vote, so insisting too much on the "correct" styles has a tendency to hurt your scores.

Here's another challenge a couple of days later where many of us used this same set - I did my look almost exactly the same as above, except the hair is blonder (and the shoes don't show at all so I don't worry much about what I use there)!

Later I bought this Renaissance-style hair accessory, and I also used the ruff and the overskirt for this one.

I notice that I used a different "undershirt" in each one of these. I think I just grabbed whatever I saw first that looked like it wouldn't show.

Soccer Club - 5.0 in voting

This challenge was a month or more ago, I think. I'm showing it because this look got a 5 in the voting - a perfect score. (Unfortunately I didn't have the bonuses to go with it to make it a true perfect score.) I think it's really interesting that this look of all of them got such a high score. I think maybe it's that it's very simple and clean-looking - just jeans, the white top, sneakers and a necklace that's not very noticeable. She may have on earrings but you can't see those at all. It's attractive but not at all flashy.

Best Look In Level

Hi, I'm Mel, and I'm a Covet newbie. - Well, relatively speaking, anyway. I'm level 10 and I've been playing for a couple of months. I thought I would set up a blog because I like writing about what I'm doing and there don't seem to be a lot of people outside of Facebook who are doing that regarding Covet. (Maybe I just haven't stumbled on the right places yet.)

Covet Fashion (to explain briefly for anybody who's baffled) is a mobile game which I have been describing as playing with dolls - like Barbies, or paper dolls, if you're old enough to have played with those. They give you a theme and a choice of clothing items, and you dress up your "doll" according to the theme. Then you vote on other people's choices - which is a topic I'm sure I'll come back to later.

 My sister got me interested in playing at Christmas, and I've been playing hard - and mostly with two characters - since about mid-January. I'm not clear on how many people play with two characters, because the game doesn't give you a way to. You have to have more than one account. I started out playing on my Kindle Fire first, and then made another character on my phone. The Fire is a couple of years old and super-slow. (My phone is almost two years old, for that matter, and doesn't have a lot of memory, but it's still way faster than the Fire.) I haven't taken the time yet to figure out how to get pictures off of the Fire so for now the pictures are all off of my phone.

I have had one Best Look In Level - very unexpectedly - so I thought I'd start with talking a bit about that. This was a challenge that was something about traveling with your parents to the Lantern Festival in China. Everything in Covet goes by seasons, and this was at the time when the game was changing over from Winter 2018 to Spring 2019, so you could use clothes from either season. I can't remember whether I had any spring clothes yet at the time, but I remembered these Yumi Kim floral pieces that I had from Winter and I thought they looked very appropriate. (This looks like the real-life dress.)

For the record, here's the message I got:

Added: I forgot to say that I did not get a perfect score on this. I got a 4.82 on the voting (5 is perfect) and I got all the bonuses, so it was a good score, but not terribly near being perfect.