Kate Moss collection update

I have now seen most of the new Kate Moss for Topshop range in real life. I think the quality is generally better than some of the previous stuff, and it was a more cohesive collection than the earlier ones, but I was still a little disappointed.

The pansy dress is pretty nice and the fabric is fine, my only complaint being that it is a little short, and I'm 5'5" so a tall girl wouldn't be able to sit down without flashing her knickers (it's also less orange than it appears in the photo):



The vest I showed in my previous post is less nice in reality, it's more purplish and a little tacky looking. It would still be cool as part of a rock chic type outfit, but I don't think I could pull it off. They didn't have the ruffled blouse.

The biggest disappointment for me was this dress, which I had actually ordered from the website first thing this morning and would have been the subject of a separate post:



The cotton is quite thin and see-through. The colours are not as intense as in the pictures, there are little sequiny things along the trim, and the, very thin, straps have beads all along them and so are not adjustable. It would be nice as a little beach cover-up but doesn't seem worth £45 to me.

The surprise hit for me was this T shirt:



The fabric is very thin but I like the shape and the embroidery is very neatly done and there are no tacky shiny bits. I still didn't buy it though because £25 for a thin T shirt is still a little excessive, especially as I rarely wear T shirts anyway.

Thinking about it some more, I think my feeling of vague disappointment is because I always expect more from the Kate Moss range than I do from Topshop as a whole. Which is partly because I admire Kate Moss's style and so expect something fabulous, but also partly because Topshop hype it so much and put the prices higher than their regular stock. If the prices were the same, I would be happier about only liking 20% of it. Of course really they should design a collection just for me :-)

Happy Kate Moss Day!

The new Kate Moss Summer collection has arrived at Topshop. I think the collections are getting better, there are a few things I would be happy to own this time whereas usually there is one thing I love and everything else is meh. Although I have so far only seen it online, and last time much of the disappointment was with the quality of the materials. So here are some highlights from the website and I will update when I have been to the shop later:

	A classic Kate teadress, £60
	This is obviously a nod to her white Chanel floaty blouse, £40
	There are always some embelished vests in the collections, but I tend to feel the price is a little high for what is, after all, just a vest, and usually in quite thin fabric, £28.

Oooh, pretty!

Although sunny, it is pretty windy and cold today so I took pictures in the conservatory, where it is nice and warm. Yesterday I spent a very frustrating afternoon trying to take Ebay pictures outside in the wind and did not fancy repeating the experience.

Yesterday's outfit:





Top and skirt Topshop, cardigan Primark. As a note to anyone planning to buy this skirt, I usually take a UK 8 in Topshop skirts but I had to buy this in a 6 to get it to fit at the waist, where I think it really should be, rather than on the hip.

And today's (rather dull) outfit:



Top Topshop, Jeans New Look, belt Dorothy Perkins. Also note little pussycat face at bottom left :-)

Should I sell this skirt?

I bought this skirt on Ebay a couple of months ago. When it arrived, it didn't look like the picture and I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I stuck it in the back of the cupboard and forgot about it. I took it out again with the plan of putting it back on Ebay, but when I put it on and styled it for the pictures, I quite liked it (this happens all the time, I should just stick to taking pictures of things on the hangers!). It's got a rock 'n' roll fairy kind of vibe done like this which I quite like. But on the other hand, it's still mad and the fact that the lining could have done with being an inch or so longer bugs me slightly. And I could do with the money. But it's unlikely to make a lot on Ebay anyway (sadly I am not a super-popular seller like Rumi). So what do you think?





Jacket TKMax, vest and skirt H&M, boots Dorothy Perkins.

Rebel without coordination

I'm sure I'm committing a style faux pas by combining brown and black leather (or pleather in the case of the jacket) but hey:



Dress Topshop, top and boots H&M, jacket some random brand from TKmax.

New discovery

A girl named Tavi left a very sweet comment on a previous post, so I went to check out her blog, Style Rookie. It is fab! Great writing style and adorable pictures:



And then I realized that I recognized her and that she is the friend of Stephanie of Fashion Robot's sister who featured in that lovely photoshoot:



And she's 12!!!!!!! How does anyone get to be that cool at 12?! When I was 12, my mum still bought all my clothes so I looked like a little 45 year old woman in coordinating separates from Marks and Spencer! I am full of admiration, but may also need a little lie down to come to terms with the fact that I am old enough to be her mother!

Today I had thought about writing a post explaining that contrary to appearances, I do not shop all the time, that I have bursts of shopping corresponding with my sporadic income as a freelancer. However, I realized that this is not in fact the case. I just change the type of shopping, highstreet, particularly Topshop, when I get paid, Ebay when I have little money, stuff for my other half (with his money) when I am completely broke. My name is Adri and I am a shopaholic :-)



Jeans and tunic Topshop, jacket and sandals New Look.

The jacket has cute little touches like this embroidered patch on the back:

Finally, an outfit post

Today's ensemble:



Dress Topshop, jacket vintage (well, old), sandals New Look, palest legs in the world mine!

The dress is this one (and isn't it irksome that Topshop.com have switched to Flash animations that you can't copy or link, I had to do a printscreen and edit it):



And a bonus one recreating an outfit from the weekend, in which I went to a nice restaurant and had crème brûlée for the first time, yum! I didn't take outfit pictures at the weekend because my in-laws were visiting and I didn't fancy explaining why I needed to take pictures of myself. They think I'm odd enough as it is!



Dress Kate Moss for Topshop, jacket Topshop, green tights Dorothy Perkins, sandals as before.

Although it is sunny here today, it is also quite windy:

Lookylikey

I realized yesterday that my new haircut is pretty much Katie Holmes hair. Which is amusing because my boyfriend has been told several times that he looks like Tom Cruise (which he doesn't, he just has a big nose!). Where's a celebrity costume party when you need one?!



Picture from http://cocosteaparty.blogspot.com/

New hair!

I got my hair cut:





T shirt Topshop, jeans New Look.