Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Outfit: October 25th – Navy and Green

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I feel like the scarf elevates this outfit from being just another jeans and t shirt look to something a little more polished. Not that I needed the scarf, it’s red hot in my office. Which is a good thing – I’d rather that than it be freezing like some places I’d worked.

I think I need to be on the hunt for a new pair of slouchy tan boots. This pair is about four years old and is disintegrating from the inside. The trouble is that they’re just too versatile and they go with pretty much everything, so I wear them all the time in the autumn and winter. Case in point, this was the second day in a row I wore them.

Cardi – Primark
Top – Long Tall Sally (sale)
Pants – F+F at Tesco
Boots – Steve Madden (c/o Sarenza)
Scarf – Fat Face (gifted)
Necklace – gifted
Earrings – Primark

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Monday, October 30, 2017

Outfit: October 24th – Navy Dress Files #1

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I have come up with a number of ways to wear this navy dress for the remainder of the autumn season, and I will be showcasing those in the following weeks. A plain little dress like this is one of the most versatile items you can have in your wardrobe – you can layer over or under it, add different accessories and footwear, tights, no tights, it’s almost endless.

So the first look with this dress is a striped jacket and tan boots. I keep passing over this jacket recently, thinking that it’s more of a spring/summer piece but of course it isn’t.

Jacket – TK Maxx
Dress – Long Tall Sally (sale)
Tights – Falke
Boots – Steve Madden (c/o Sarenza)
Earrings – Ziggy of Clevedon
Necklace – gifted

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Friday, October 27, 2017

Outfit: October 23rd – Burgundy, Stripes and Tan

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This outfit is totally pinched from Audrey over at Putting Me Together. I often steal Audrey’s style, she’s one of a handful of bloggers that I follow who is totally relatable and whose style is fairly simple – like mine I hope! So, a simple fall outfit with neutrals of navy and tan, and a pop of burgundy which is my favourite hue of the season. All these pieces are old – the top is spring 2016, the pants I’ve had at least five years, if not longer, and the boots are from last fall.

Today's outfit inspiration- www.puttingmetogether.com


I am waiting on getting my hair cut again. I loved the shorter length in the back so I’m going to go for the same thing again, perhaps a little shorter this time! This was my attempt to enhance my natural waves with gel spray – I’m not sure it worked out very well but at least I gave it one day off from being tortured with heat! The good thing about styling with product though is you can wash or brush it out and just start again the next day.

Cardi – Primark
Top – Primark
Jeggings – Dorothy Perkins Tall
Boots – Primark
Necklace – gifted
Earrings – self made

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Outfit: October 19th – Plaid Shirt Dress

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A plaid flannel shirt is very autumnal and I feel like a plaid flannel shirt dress just elevates that to the next level. This particular tartan reminds me of the kilt my mom wore when I was a little girl – it came out every winter and she would pair it with her navy blue Guernsey (a heavy knit sweater particular to the island of Guernsey) and thick tights. I like that I can team this with navy blue and burgundy. I sized up as I often find that button down dresses and skirts will pull over the hips if the garment is not on the larger size. Sizing up also helped me with the sleeve length.

Cardi – Primark
Dress – Primark
Tights – Falke (TK Maxx)
Boots – Steve Madden (c/o Sarenza)
Belt – River Island
Earring – Ziggy of Clevedon
Necklace – Scope

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Outfit: October 18th – Stars and Stripes

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Back at work after a long weekend, I was confused about what day it was and told at least two people that a colleague doesn’t work on Mondays, despite the fact it was Wednesday. I was off down south for the weekend at Pack Monday Fair with my friend S.

This outfit should have had burgundy tights with it, but I couldn’t find a pair of non-fleece lined burgundy tights so black ones had to suffice. It’s getting more chilly out, but it’s nowhere near fleecy tights weather yet.

Dress – Long Tall Sally (via Facebook)
Cardi – F+F at Tesco
Boots – Primark
Earrings – Primark
Necklace – gifted

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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Outfit: October 12th – From Desk to Dancing

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This is what I wore to work, then to go and see Bucks Fizz (or The Fizz as they are calling themselves now) at the City Varieties. I have long been a fan of Bucks Fizz, despite being just two years old when they won the Eurovision Song Contest. When I was growing up we had some neighbours who were sisters and were a few years older than my sister and me. They would often pass things on to my sister and me that they have grown out of – Barbie dolls and My Little Ponies to start with, but later clothes and a bit of vinyl, which included a Bucks Fizz album. It was always exciting to get a bag from these girls – they were older than us and therefore cooler, so anything they had given us was worth wearing. The same followed for their taste in music – despite not really knowing who Bucks Fizz were (although Cheryl Baker was enjoying a career on children’s television doing Eggs and Baker and Record Breakers by that point so I knew who she was, I had no idea until then that she’d been a popstar though!) when we were presented with the 1982 album Are You Ready? it was obviously worth a listen. Well I loved it! We didn’t have much pop music in the house then so that (and the Shakin’ Stevens album that came with it) got played and played.

Anyway, when Mike, Cheryl and Jay reformed as a group a few years ago (The Fizz is a better name than Formerly of Bucks Fizz which they had to call themselves previously due to the Bucks Fizz name being owned by the fourth member of the group who was still touring under it) I was very excited and my sister and I have now seen them live three times.

This is what I wore for work, then I switched out the cosy cardi for my black faux-leather jacket, put my hair up and I was good to go.

Cardi – Primark
Top – Dorothy Perkins Tall
Trousers – F+F at Tesco
Necklace – gifted
Earrings – Primark
Shoes – La Redoute


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Monday, October 23, 2017

Outfit: October 10th – Striped Dress, Red Boots

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If you want some budget red boots get yourself to Primark. They have these, a low heeled pair and some with higher heels as well I think. And I’m betting they’re all under £15. This pair was just £12. And they are very red. Which is a good thing, as one of my life mottos is ‘if in doubt, wear red shoes’. (The other one is ‘life is too short for handwashing’, in case you were wondering.)

This dress is short, but with black tights it’s just about passable. And it has stripes and long sleeves (properly long sleeves, as it’s a Tall). And it’s fairly neutral so it’ll be remixed with lots of things over the coming season, I promise you.

Cardi – New Look Tall
Dress – Long Tall Sally (via Facebook)
Tights – Primark
Boots – Primark
Necklace – gifted

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Friday, October 20, 2017

Outfit: October 9th – All From Primark

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I love me some Primark as much as the next girl, but recently it has started to take over my wardrobe as evidenced by today’s outfit which, bar the tights, is all from Primarni! (Or Premier Mar-ket as my friend S likes to call it.) If you have watched more than one of the countless Primark Haul videos that I can’t get enough of on You Tube then chances are you will have seen this skirt. It comes in at least 4 or 5 colours (it seems like every time I go into a store it has been released in a new colour) and almost everyone on You Tube has one. I didn’t know that when I bought mine back in July though, I just thought it was a nice little skirt and for £8 you can’t really go wrong. I think it’s supposed to be high waisted really, but I sized up a couple of sizes so that it would sit lower on my hips and in turn give me a little more length.

The sweater is last winter Primark and the boots are this year. I almost bought the tan version a couple of weekends ago but the studs are gold (that’s the only thing keeping me from getting the red ones too, well, that and the fact that I’ve yet to see a size 8 in the red) and I decided I didn’t really need them.

It was finally time for thick tights the second week of October and so out came the grey ribbed pair which are still going strong after about five years of wear. Well done H&M.

Sweater – Primark (sale)
Skirt – Primark
Tights – H&M
Boots – Primark
Necklace – gifted
Earrings – gifted

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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Outfit: October 6th – Cat Shirt and A Lesson About Prince of Wales Check

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This shirt was bought back in March for Comic Relief and has been languishing in my closet ever since. It may be a Comic Relief shirt but it’s also a nice length white top with a cute cat picture on the front and I thought the grey and white would pair nicely with this blazer, which it does.

Speaking of this blazer, I have just Googled to find out why Prince of Wales check (which this blazer is) is so called. Apparently that’s just a nickname – the fabric is actually called Glenurquhart check after the valley of Glenurquhart in Scotland where the Countess of Seafield first used it to outfit her gamekeepers (according to Wikipedia that is). The nickname comes from when the fabric was popularised by the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales (he would briefly become King Edward VIII prior to his abdication in 1936, before being styled the Duke of Windsor). So now we know a little about the history of fashion’s current favourite check.

Blazer – Primark
Top – TK Maxx
Jeans – Primark
Shoes – ASOS
Choker – Primark

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