Name: I SPENT $1700 ON SELKIE!! Trying the VIRAL Selkie Puff Sleeve Dresses - Are They Worth It???
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Hello there. I'm going to have to start this video off with an apology because I have lured you here under false pretenses. If you know Selkie and you saw the title of this video, you probably laughed and you probably knew what you were getting yourself into. But for those of you that don't know Selkie, it's expensive. Very expensive. It's a designer brand. Basically they became well known online because of their puff dress. It went super viral. I think that the pink one was the first one that really took off online. And since then they've made it in many, many different colors and shapes and sizes. And it's a beautiful dress. Yes. And many companies have ripped it off, or at least it's kind of hard to say really because I got this dress for my friend, Caitlin, a white one, and it looks very, very similar to the white Selkie puff dress. And I was thinking, okay, she in ripped off Selkie.

But then I thought, no, no. A milkmaid style dress with enormous puffy sleeves like this and a big skirt. I don't think that that design is really copyrighted by anyone. I feel like that's a design that's been around for a very long time. But anyway, one of those dresses will set you back like 500 bucks, I think. And I would really like to buy quite a few of those dresses. People have been asking me for like six months, a year. I get comments every day, Alex, please review Selkie.

Please buy the puff dress. And I'd like to, but also I could really only justify buying one of them. And that's not really content. So my thoughts were, if I post this video here and use the ad revenue from this, can probably put that toward buying this Selkie puff dress and maybe a couple of other things. But what I've bought today, these are probably the cheapest things available on

Selkie. So it's not much of a haul. It's really just two things. You guys, you're my like tight knit group of friends. And I trust that you don't mind me only posting about a pair of pants and a sweatsuit. These are called the Black All Day Sweats. I got these in a size small, and these were 150 US dollars, which is 200 Australian dollars. I don't think I've ever paid so much for sweatpants. But the reason that I didn't mind splurging on them is because if you guys saw my fashion over jeans video ages ago, I got these black flared jeans, and they have rips in them. And

I wear them everywhere because flared pants, my favourite thing in the world. But because they're jeans, they're not always comfortable as such. You know, when I want comfort, I mean, I really want comfort. I mean, like I want something that's soft and loose and floppy. But when I wear it out in public, it's not looking like pyjamas. So when I saw these pants, they have what looks like a really big flare to them. So they reminded me a lot of my favourite black pants that I wear everywhere, but they don't have rips in them, which means they'll keep you warm. If you guys don't know, by the way,

Selkie is actually owned and run and designed by the old owner, the owner of Wild Fox. Is that it?

Wild Fox? Or White Fox? No, Wild Fox, which was really, really big in the fashion blogging scene in like 2010. And I loved it. And I own a couple of pieces that I got on eBay, secondhand, really cheap. I've never bought a new piece of Wild Fox clothing. But I think that the person that started

Wild Fox also started Selkie. And there's a lot of similar themes and crossovers between the two. So I do expect these things to be just as good, if not better than what Wild Fox was. And I love the quality of Wild Fox. Now the pants, just pulled them out of the bag. And they do feel luxurious.

They feel really, really soft. They're really stretchy by the looks of this. And they've got a little drawstring, a big drawstring, a very big drawstring. It's got hardware on it. It's got a metal clasp in here. Hey, look, I would have been very disappointed. Well, not disappointed. But if that was just some sort of dingy plastic, I would have been like, you're charging $150 US. This drawstring is elastic, it stretches a lot. First impressions, this actually feels really, really good. Feels very good. In fact, so good that I'm going to put them on. Oh, I like them. Oh, they're cozy. They're not as thick or as warm as I thought that they were going to be. They're actually very thin, but they feel really, really nice. I went into a store and I was just looking to buy some new pants. I'd pay $80 for these, I'd say. The $200 price tag, it might be a sustainable brand, at which point it makes sense that they charge more. These are now officially the most expensive pants

I own. I actually don't want to take them off. They're extremely comfortable, but I do have something else to show you. The next thing, I was very confused about this. This here, I really hope is what it was advertised as. They had this pastel two-piece set in these pictures. And I thought, oh yeah, that's a tracksuit set. And it was $250. And then a bit further down on the page, they had the same thing, the hoodie, and it was almost the same price as what looked like a two-piece set. And I thought, no, no, that can't be right, surely. Have they written the description wrong? Is that the price for just the pants and that's the price of the top? Or are they charging the same amount for a two-piece set as they are for the top on its own? Or maybe the top is different. Maybe there's something different about it. I don't know. I'm under the impression that I've bought a two-piece set here. So if only one thing comes out of this bag, I'm either done or they've written the wrong thing on their website. Aha, it's two pieces. Yes. And it's incredible. Holy ****. Oh God, this is worth every cent. Every cent. I wish you could touch this. It's so nice.

What is this fabric? 70% modal? M-O-D-A-L? Modal. 26% cotton and 4% spandex. What's modal? I've never heard of that before. Says you can work, feast, drink, party, protest, dance, cry, read, swipe, date, love, fight, sleep, breakfast, Netflix, and chill in me. But after all that fun, please give me the care I need in a cold bath. That's adorable. Okay, so this two-piece set,

I think $250 US dollars, I think it was, which is maybe like, I think it's $320 Australian dollars, which would maybe if you just divided the cost in half, you could say, yeah, maybe it's like 100 and something per piece. These feel so nice. That brings the cost of this to basically like 150 bucks. And this Nike thing that I'm wearing, I think this cost more than that from ASOS. This, compared to this, it's like food court sushi versus sushi in Japan. Weird analogy, I know.

Anyway, I'm not wearing a bra, so I'm just going to disappear over there and make sure you can't see me in the reflection of the mirror. Okay, don't, sorry. I'm just going to be one moment.

Please hold. Please hold while I put this. Oh my God. It's so stretchy. It's so nice.

Wow. Okay, wait, wait. My head is stuck in the hood. Hang on. Wait. Oh God. Hang on.

Ah, I can't see. I can't see anything. Wait, hang on.

I, my, this is a hood here and it's, it's so stretchy that it's kind of like stuck. Hang on.

This is amazing. I haven't even looked at myself in the mirror yet. I don't even know what I look like.

Oh, wow. This is my favorite thing in the world. You can't change my mind. Never in my life have

I purchased something that brings me as much joy as this. Maybe aside from Archie. This is under, undervalued. If this was like 500 bucks for this sweatsuit, I'd be like, yeah, it's a designer sweatsuit and it's incredible. Makes sense. It's so cozy. I haven't looked at myself with the pants on yet. So I don't know if it's, it's probably a little bit too much, right? Oh, I love it.

I love it. But you know what? This is quite a lot. Like all of this at once. I actually think with the black pants, probably easier for me to wear if I'm going out somewhere. If I'm at home, there is going to be no stopping me from lounging in this. Oh my God. I don't think I've ever felt so comfortable in my entire life. I'm wearing thermals under the pants, but I'm not wearing anything at all under the top. It's just, I love it. And it's the softest thing I've ever felt against my skin in my life. This is my favorite thing. My favorite thing. I, what was the fabric

I see? It was called moto or something. I'm going to put a thing up there about whatever that is, because I don't know what that is. But anyway, I'm going to zoom you back in now. I'm impressed.

I'm really, really, really impressed. And I hope that this video gets enough views so that I can earn some ad revenue that I can dump straight back into buying more stuff from Selkie. They have this, they got a dress called the Romance Novel. I think that's what it's called. Something like that.

It's just glorious. To me, that design is much nicer than the puff dress. Like the puff dress is cute. Yes. But I think there's other dresses that are on the website that are just so nice but each dress is, you know, at least 300, 400, 500. It's not the sort of company that I can really buy five pieces, 10 pieces from, but I would like to.

Guys, I have amazing news. Oh my God. So it's been a little while since I bought my first two Selkie items. And here I was daydreaming about buying myself a puff dress or paying my mortgage. And now thanks to Skillshare, I don't have to make that choice. Yes, that's right. Skillshare stepped in and saved the day. They sent me an email and told me that they wanted to sponsor a video. And I thought amazing. This is a great brand and I can use the sponsorship money to buy some dresses from Selkie.

So thanks to Skillshare, I was able to buy two beautiful, glorious, magnificent $500 dresses.

So let's have a little talk about Skillshare first, and then I will show you the glorious, the most highly anticipated, the most luxurious and opulent spectacle of lockdown.

So I've been in lockdown since June. Yeah. I haven't left my house once. In fact, I haven't even left my driveway. So I've done my living room up quite nicely, hoping to do the dresses justice. So with that, let me tell you guys about Skillshare. Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes available to help people explore new interests and get lost in creativity. Like a lot of people in lockdown, I've been taking this time to get into some new hobbies and learn some new skills. And if you guys don't already know, I have a plant Instagram account called PastelPlantsPlease. Up until recently, I would have considered myself a bit of an amateur as far as plants go. I bought a bunch of them, tried to keep them alive. Some of them succeeded, some of them not so much. But with courses on Skillshare, like indoor gardening, grow houseplants, veggies, and herbs, I've been able to pick up so many incredible tips and tricks for helping my plants to thrive. Check out my chain of hearts. Doesn't it look glorious? My

Peperomia Pink Lady has never looked better. And my little sad boy Fiddle Leaf Fig has a chance now of looking something like this enormous fake one that I purchased because the little one just wasn't growing. Skillshare has thousands of incredible courses curated for you by professionals in the field. Ekta Chowdhury has a PhD in ecology, so you can see why I would trust her to teach me everything she knows about plants. There's no ads on Skillshare and they're always launching new classes. So whether you're a green thumb or you're just trying to keep your first houseplant alive,

Skillshare can help you discover your potential. The first 1000 subscribers of mine to click the link in the description box below will get a one month free trial of Skillshare. So don't forget to head to the link in my description box below and the first 1000 people to use it will get one month free with Skillshare. So thank you so much, Skillshare, for sponsoring today's video, because if you hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to buy these. Here they are, my friends. And are they not glorious? I know that I said I was eyeing off the Selkie puff dress, but yes, Selkie makes it and does it very, very, very well. But I thought, look, if I'm going to be spending $1,000, I want to make sure that I'm getting something that is so uniquely Selkie that no one else sells it. Or if they do, it's nowhere near as nice. I've had my eye on this dress for,

I think it's been about a year. It always comes in and out of pre-order. You can never just buy it outright. You can't just go on the Selkie website and pick this dress and just pay for it and they send it to you. It's always a pre-order. So I went to pre-order it and had kind of a hard time picking the size that I was going to wear. I would normally wear an extra small and I took my measurements and I looked at it on their size chart and it looked as though I was actually an extra, extra small in this dress. Fingers crossed it actually fits because this dress was $434.

My first thoughts right off the bat about this dress are, it feels so luxurious. Look at this beautiful chiffon. It's got lace around the edges of the sleeves. It's super, super stretchy. This elastic is, well, you know what? It's giving me hope. We've got a little bow at the back here and the skirt. Oh my God. Talk about voluminous. There is so much going on here. This is a huge skirt.

It's a very, very heavy dress. We've got layer one, layer two, layer three, and that's it. There's three layers. This seems too small. I feel like I've been lied to about the measurements. All right, here goes. I'm partially in it, but moment of truth. Will it zip all the way up?

I haven't been lied to. Okay. Oh my God. Okay. I haven't looked in the mirror yet.

What do you think? Can you leave a comment down below and tell me before I've seen myself? If you were here right now, if we weren't in lockdown and we were hanging out right now, what would you say? Would you be like, oh, it's beautiful? Or would you be like, you look ridiculous? Are you hosting a six-year-old's birthday party? Oh, it's so angelic.

Oh my God. Puff dress who? I hereby renounce my title as mother of birds and instead claim my rightful role as queen of the realm. Let me say this. If you are down to your last $500 and you need to choose between rent, food, medical bills, or this dress, I'm not going to advise you either way. I'm not a qualified financial advisor, but I am qualified in fashion.

I may be inclined to lean towards selfie. If you were wearing this dress, yes, you've just spent your last dollar on it, but feeling like a million dollars is surely worth it.

Let's get onto the practical stuff here because as much as I adore it and as glorious and opulent as it is, there's a couple of things that you may want to consider before you choose this dress over paying the rent. I'm quite tall. I think I'm about 5'7", 5'8". Even if I wore the highest heels I own, being my pole dancing boots from Wish, stay tuned for my next video, pole dancing in a selkie dress wearing boots from Wish. I'm now six feet tall and the dress is still dragging on the ground. I suppose if you are capable of walking in 10-inch heels and you're taller than 5'6", then you can wear this without it dragging through the mud.

Where you would want to wear a dress like this, I am yet to understand. Prom, sorry, we call it formal here in Australia, we don't call it prom. I don't know if we avoid calling it prom because prom is distinctly American and we try to avoid anything American, aside from all of your movies and TV shows and music. But would you wear this to your school formal, guys, if you're Australian?

Would you wear it to your prom if you were American? I would. If I'd had the opportunity to go to one, I most certainly would have wanted to... No, hang on, I was going to say I would have wanted to wear a dress like this, but... Wish shoes. Oh God. When I was around prom age,

I was still a goth, so I probably would have wanted to wear a black dress with spikes.

But nevertheless, aside from prom or perhaps a wedding or a photo shoot or a very bougie garden party, it is the sort of dress that you're going to spend a huge amount of money on and probably not wear all that often. It's comfortable enough. The elastic is a little bit tight, kind of cutting off my circulation, but who needs arms anyway? Another problem that I'm finding is that despite the elastic being tight on my arms, it's not quite tight enough here. It is falling down to what is about to be condemned by Susan. The other problem is, for me at least, with my body shape, this little waistline here that has the bow around it is actually sitting on my rib cage. Now, my waist is here. This is the thinnest part of my waist. So ideally, I would like this to be sitting around my waist like that. But if I pull it down to where my waist sits, suddenly it's way, way, way too low here. Something has also just occurred to me that I'm standing here 10 inches taller than I was before, and I'm not sure if my head is actually in frame.

My husband is working from home. He has been for two months. We've had to do a little bit of shuffling of furniture so that he can have an office that I can film without his colleagues hearing me. I can't hear him on the call at the moment, so I'm going to call him up and see what he said.

Dan? Dan knows that I wouldn't be distracting him from work if it weren't a very important cause.

I like that you've chosen a nice accessory to compliment my outfit.

Does it suit? It does, it looks really good.

We get a little spin. I don't know about that. Do you know what I'm wearing underneath this?

Yeah, I'll stay really still, and then you can just do like a one of these, and then you can speed it up to make it look like that.

Oh, that's a good idea. No, really, actually, here, you hold. You know how we practiced when we didn't dance at our wedding? Ready? Wait, hang on. Is it up? Did you want to dance at our wedding?

No. We didn't even have a dance floor. We were like, no, thank you.

No, thank you. So you go like this. Yeah.

Wait, hang on. That wasn't too bad. Okay, if I fall, you better catch me.

If you fall, I will catch you. I'll be waiting. Those dumb wish shoes.

Please sit me in the chair. Oh, God, I'm dizzy.

You agree I am queen of the realm, am I not?

Yes. Yeah. So you know how we have a mortgage to pay? Correct.

How many repayments of our mortgage would you be willing to skip to afford this dress?

Is that a trick question? What do you think it's worth?

Okay. Also, just so you know, Skillshare sponsored this video, so we didn't have to miss any mortgage repayments, but the viewers out there, some of them may have to forego their rent to afford this.

Like we did for your wedding dress. Like we did for the wedding dress.

$600 to $800. Australian dollars at $470.

It's not often that Daniel would justify triple digits for dresses.

Only the wedding dress, really. Pretty well, just the wedding dress.

That's the only one. But if there's a 20 year old out there that wants to get this for her 21st birthday party, you remember what I wore to my 21st birthday party.

What? I was Black Widow, you were Ron Weasley.

Oh. Yeah, I'd say if it was like a, what we call a year 12 formal or a, what do you call them?

A prom sort of event, like, yeah, it's definitely worth it.

If I was to buy a suit, that would cost me more.

Actually, yeah, like a nice suit. Well, when we've had weddings in the past and you needed to buy a suit for a wedding, we paid like $500 for a two piece suit.

Yeah, yeah, when you put it in that sort of context.

Mind you, like, the suit's good for, like, formals, it's good for job interviews, it's good for going out to dinner, it's good for funerals.

Are you saying that this dress is not good for job interviews?

Miss Pastel, I see that you've applied for the role of mother of birds.

Well, my experience in the field extends back at least 25 years.

My first budgerigar was given to me when I was three years old.

Her name is Snowflake, and she was 18 when she died.

Now, historically, if you look at the average age of a budgerigar, they tend to only live between nine and 13 years.

So, I am definitively able to prove that I can look after budgerigars, or parakeets, as they are known in the northern hemisphere,

So, yeah, you may not be able to wear it to a job interview.

It may not be as versatile as a suit, but it's glorious.