Review: Shoes by Kelly Scott London and 6 Foot Fashion

If in doubt, wear red shoes. That’s my motto right? So it stands to reason that I would have several pairs of red shoes in my closet and a couple of weeks ago I added another pair to my collection.

Kelly Scott of 6 Foot Fashion very kindly offered to send me a pair of shoes to review so I picked out this gorgeous red pair of heels. They are made from patent leather and have a very subtle sparkle to them when they catch the light.

Kelly Scott is 6’1” and started her site because she was tired of trying to find clothes and shoes to fit her properly. 6 Foot Fashion carries lines by designers from all over the world, as well as their own Kelly Scott line (from which my shoes come). If the quality of the shoes is anything to by, this line alone is well worth checking out. The shoes are well made from high quality leather and they look incredible.

The site carries all of your wardrobe requirements, from premium denim, to cashmere in tall size (where else can you find that in the UK?!) and some lovely dresses.

Shipping is free on orders over £100 although the standard delivery charge of £8 for smaller orders is quite steep. And Northern Ireland is in the UK so why it costs £15 to ship there I have no idea. They also offer international shipping.

Although the market for us tall ladies in the UK is growing, it is by no means widespread at present so any addition to it is a welcome one, and 6 Foot Fashion’s beautiful range of clothing and shoes is certainly very welcome.

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Outfit: Pure and Simple

I managed to fall asleep again after my alarm went off this morning so I was very grateful that I had laid out a dress to wear today. Dress, shoes, necklace, done. Just how you want it when you’re short on time in the morning.

I’ve worn something by Long Tall Sally every day this week so far. That either tells you that I love the pieces I own (true) or that LTS items form such a high percentage of my wardrobe that chances are when I pick something out it will be from that brand (also true).

Navy dress – Next Tall
Navy and white polka dot shoes – Long Tall Sally (gifted)
Silver necklace – New look (sale)
Silver hoops – gifted
Turquoise leopard print scarf – ASOS

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Outfit: The Return of Scarf Season

It may only be August, but Scarf Season is here people. For me, scarf season can last anywhere between 8 and 10 months, sometimes even 12 if we have a particularly bad summer, so I guess I can’t really complain as I’ve been scarf-free since about the end of May. You know what else is here? Getting Dark Before 9pm Season. The nights are drawing in (a bit) and summer seems to have departed these fair British Isles at least for the time being. Don’t get me wrong – it’s not cold by any stretch of the imagination, it’s just quite a lot cooler than it has been and it seems to be raining a whole lot more too.

I love me a good scarf though, and we’ve had an awesome run of summer weather this year so I’m not too sad. Plus there’s always a chance that we might get another burst of summer before September and autumn proper arrive.

I was in casual clothes yesterday as I’ve been doing my first aid requalification course for a couple of days. This comes around every three years and as the training centre is not far from my house and the course doesn’t start until 9am, it means I get a lie in. So, yay!

Black top – Tall Girls (eBay)
Polka dot jeans – Long Tall Sally (eBay)
Leopard print shoes – George at Asda
Silver studs – Primark
Silver and diamante necklace – gifted
Leopard print scarf – H&M

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This Week...

It’s Sunday and it’s time for another Weight Watcher’s-friendly recipe: Porridge Bread. I am shamelessly stealing this from the forums on the WW website and I’ve got all the girls at work into making it as it’s so easy. This is an oat based bread that is 0pp on the Filling &Healthy plan. It makes quite a heavy bread, a bit like a soda bread but it tastes good! It’s probably a good option to eat with soup on a cold day. I’ll try that when it gets cold outside.

You will need:

400g porridge oats
500g low fat plain yoghurt
2tsp bicarbonate soda
1tsp salt (though I use a little under a tsp as I find it’s a bit too salty for me otherwise)

Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix together (just with a spoon, not an electric whisk).

Once it’s all mixed up, put into a 2lb loaf tin and bake for about 45 minutes at 180°C. You may find you need to cover it with a tinfoil ‘tent’ if the top is getting brown too quickly.

And that’s it – possibly the easiest bread recipe in the world. If you slice it into 16 it works out at 3pp per slice if you’re counting points.

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Outfit: Shoeper Challenge 2013/14 Save 84 | A Favourite Jacket

I bet you thought I’d forgotten about the Shoe Challenge didn’t you? Didn’t you? Well I kind of had. And them Amber posted and said she had only a few weeks left and I thought I’d better check my list as I knew I wasn’t done and there were only about three weeks to go. Fortunately there were only two pairs remaining on my ‘to be saved’ list and these purple flats were one of them. These are from Priceless Shoes and were bought one Christmas (about 2008 I think) as I needed some dressy looking flats and I didn’t have any. The satin, pointed toe and bow on these makes them quite dressy I think, and at only about £10 they were ideal. I have the same pair in a bright blue fabric too and they don’t get a lot of wear, but they are always useful to have on standby, especially around the festive season.

Anyway, moving on to my outfit. I haven’t worn this jacket in SO LONG, but since the outside temperatures in the morning have started dropping I decided it was the perfect time to pull it out. I love the nipped in waist and the huge collar.

Grey check jacket – Topshop Tall (eBay)
Black and white stripe sweater – c/o TM Lewin
Jeans – New Look
Purple flats – Priceless Shoes
Purple flower necklace – Dorothy Perkins (sale)
Silver hoops – gifted
Black leather belt – Pieces (c/o Sarenza)

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Outfit: Vintage Dress, Red Shoes

I am back at work in the new office this week and things are settling down now. What is not yet settling down is the air conditioning which seems to be stuck on super hot in the morning and then icy cold in the afternoon. Layers are a necessity and I took a black cardi and leopard print scarf to layer over what you see here.

Red and white dress – vintage
Black leggings – New Look Tall
Red shoes – c/o NOW Discount Shoes
Silver hoops – gifted
Black and white bangles – Scope

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Outfit: To The Rescue!

Saturday afternoon I was going out for tea and I picked out this blue top to wear. It’s only got spaghetti straps and it wasn’t quite as warm out as it has been of late so I put my baby blue shrug over it. I’ve had this shrug since 1999 so does that make it vintage? Almost?

The top was a little low cut for a family get together though but I was reluctant to take it off as I wanted to wear a summery top whilst it was warm enough to do so. Let’s face it, you never know how long the good weather is going to last in this country. (Case in point: Sunday was torrential rain all day.) So it was a white bandeau to the rescue! These bandeaus (bandeaux?) are such a useful addition to my closet and well worth the £2 I paid for each one. It covered up what it needed to and allowed me to wear the top I wanted to wear. Can’t say fairer than that for £2.

These shoes are a favourite pair at the moment. I’ve always loved me some silver flats and these are pointy – something else I love in a flat shoe. The subtle camouflage print makes them just a little bit different though not any harder to wear than a plain metallic.

Blue shrug – Dorothy Perkins
Blue and white top – New Look Tall
White bandeau – New Look (sale)
Jeans – Long Tall Sally
Silver camo flats – Georgia Rose (c/o Sarenza)
Whitby Jet cross – gifted
Silver hoops – gifted
Black and silver bracelets – gifted
Sunglasses – Amazon

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This Week...

I have mentioned the Strava app before, but as I’m still loving it I’ll tell you about it again.

The free version (there’s a premium version you can upgrade to but I don’t like paying for apps as I’m cheap) can be set to running (but I use it for walking) or to cycling. It tracks your route via GPS and at the end gives you a whole bunch of stats as well as showing you a map of where you’ve been. I particularly like that it tells you how long you were actually moving as you earn Weight Watchers activity points for how long you’ve been doing an activity. It will also tell you your average speed, the highest elevation to which you’ve climbed and whether you have achieved your fastest time per mile.

If you enter your age and weight will give you a guide to how many calories you’ve burned. And if anyone else has done part of your route and logged it on Strava it will tell you whether you completed that section faster or slower than them.

Strava is available on iPhone and Android.

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Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Being on holiday from work is great. I have just been chilling out all week, taking it easy. And taking it easy means wearing jeans and t shirts all the time. Wearing the same jeans and t shirts two days in a row.

This was Thursday’s outfit, and Wednesday’s outfit was the same other than the jeans (oh and the shoes – I wore flip flops on Wednesday). I went for a cycle ride on Thursday and this pair of jeans is my new pair of cycling jeans. (They’re not new jeans, just newly promoted to being worn for cycling.) They are super stretchy and the super skinny leg makes them perfect for not getting covered in oil around the ankles. The hole in the knee provides added ventilation too!

Navy and cream stripe top – Zara (sale)
Jeans – Long Tall Sally (sale)
Navy trainers – Skechers (c/o Sarenza)
Navy heart necklace – Scope
Silver studs – Primark

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A Sunny Walk

On Monday afternoon, since I was in my home town, I thought I would take a walk up the large hill that overshadows the town. It’s several years since I’d been up there and the views from the top are spectacular and well worth the climb.

This is the view from a little below the halfway point.

There are still some yellow bikes from the Tour de Yorkshire lingering on to decorate the region for the summer.

The view from the top – told you it was spectacular!

And a panoramic shot of the surrounding valleys

There is always an ice cream van parked up in the car park at the top so I treated myself to a well deserved Calippo lolly before starting my descent.

Although the hill looks big, it’s actually less than a mile from the town to the top so it’s the perfect afternoon walk. If I still lived there I would be up there all the time.

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Outfit: Emergency T and Distressed Jeans

I call this my emergency t shirt as I bought it last summer when we decided on a whim to stay over in Whitby. We had no overnight things with us and as we’d been cycling all day a clean top was definitely in order for the following day. This one was bought in Boyes (an east coast cheapo department store institution!) for all of about £3. Considering it’s something I only chose as it was the longest length t they had in my size, and it’s a colour I probably wouldn’t have bought through choice, I’ve ended up wearing it quite a lot this summer. I like how it fits and the colour is actually OK.

I have this week off work and took these pictures on Monday before I went to see my parents. My mom wanted me to sort out some boxes (one of which turned out to belong to my sister) and I found a bunch of photos from high school.

Khaki t shirt – Boyes (sale)
Jeans – H&M (gifted)
Brown flip flops – Reef (surf shop in Manly)
Brown wood heart necklace – Scope
Leopard print hoops – Avon (gifted)
Silver and diamante necklace – gifted
Wood bangles – Scope

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This Week...

With all the hot weather we’ve been having recently I have been wearing shorts and wearing shorts means exposing my legs. My very white, pale and pasty legs. I long since gave up on fake tan for various reasons, not least being the smell and the fact that I am incapable of applying it without it streaking.

I saw a review on Fleur de Force’s You Tube channel of the Sally Hansen Air Brush legs product a few weeks back and decided to give it a try, having heard many good things about it before. I’m sure you’ve all be using it for years so late am I to this particular party, but just in case you haven’t been, it’s fabulous. It’s essentially make up so there is no smell and it washes off (fairly) easily with soap and water (a little light scrubbing with an exfoliating pad or wash cloth may be necessary). The formula is water resistant however so if your legs get splashed you won’t end up with white patches. It isn’t supposed to transfer to your clothes but I’ve found that it can do, especially if used over sunscreen. Whilst I therefore wouldn’t recommend using it with your super expensive pale coloured dress, it is just make up so it does wash out of most fabrics.

I have been using the Light Glow colour and find it gives my legs a natural lightly tanned looked, matching them to the tan that has developed naturally on arms.

You can buy Sally Hansen Air Brush legs at Boots, but they wanted £10 for it last time I looked and Tesco had it for just £4 a can last week.

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Outfit: Blues

On Wednesday this week I went head to toe in my favourite shade of blue: cobalt. I love the bright vibrancy of the colour and have managed to collect enough pieces in the colour to make a monochrome outfit.

I added my fab Irregular Choice Union Flag shoes because why not? They’re fabric and the weather was dry so it was a perfect match.

Blue top – Dorothy Perkins Tall
Blue trousers – Primark (eBay)
Blue shoes – Irregular Choice (gifted)
Blue necklace – New Look (sale)
Blue bangle – Diamonds and Pearls
Silver hoops – gifted

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