Tagged!

Last week tavi tagged me to pick my 3 'perfect life' catwalk looks. It has taken a while because although I keep an eye on what's happening in the designer world, I don't monitor obsessively or follow any particular designers as I know that such things are so far from my life that it can only lead to an appearance of the green-eyed monster! Also, once you start to look, there's so much of it.

Here are the rules:
1. Choose runway pictures from ANY season you like and choose 3 outfits for Day, Evening & Party.
2. Briefly explain why and state the name of the designer & which season the outfit is from.
3. Tag 3 other bloggers once you are done and let them know by posting a comment on their blog.

So first of all, I'm going to cheat! I'm going to pick several looks for each and then maybe nominate a favourite, and secondly I'm going to limit myself to recent seasons, because otherwise I'll be there for years!

Day:



These are Chloe AW 2008, Luella AW 2008, Chloe AW 2008, Topshop SS 2008, H&M AW 2008. Typical me, I prefer the H&M one over the designer ones!

Evening:



These are DKNY AW 2008, Luella AW 2008, Chloe AW 2008. I am loving the combination of navy and black for next season. I can't pick a favourite because I am torn between something close to my regular style (the first one) and what I'm thinking about for the future.

Party:



These are DKNY AW 2008, Chloe SS 2007, DKNY AW 2008. I love cute little mini-dresses, despite rapidly approaching the age when I can no longer pull them off. I think the red one is my favourite because of the colour and the lovely shape.

I tag:
The Clothes Horse
Camille (Childhood Flames)
Annah (fashion art and mess)

Shopping trip outfit

Jacket & vest H&M, skirt Topshop, boots New Look.

ION, I wish the weather would make it's mind up, we're getting several seasons in one day now!

It's possible I have too much time on my hands!

June/July 08 issue of french Vogue or new Bounty advert?!


I shall now go and offer penance for taking the p*ss out of the sacred text. Sorry Camille :-)

A whole 8 hours of summer!

It was sunny today so I took the opportunity to jump into a summer dress when I came back from my daily try-to-prevent-bottom-from-taking-over-the-world walk. Please ignore strap marks and tanlines (I am so classy!).



Dress vintage.

Still no sign of summer :-(

Cardigan Primark, Skirt ebay, vest and tights Topshop, Shoes New Look, bag River Island.

BTW, does anyone else's brain do this? My brain insists that I have items of clothing that I do not and have never owned. It helpfully suggests these non-existent pieces when I am pondering what to wear. The most common misconception is that I have a short slightly military style grey jacket. I have a green cropped jacket, and, somewhere, a pale pink one with pockets and those shoulder strap thingies (sale shopping mistake!), but no grey one. Where did it get this idea? Maybe I tried one on once and the clothing memory area of my mind got fixated on it? I don't know, but it's very annoying!

In other news

I can definitely keep the lovely pink ballerina-ish skirt I was musing about returning due to lack of funds, as I sold the Kate Moss dress I was less keen on in real life on ebay and made a small profit :-)

I have also now discovered that Queen Michelle of kingdom of style has the skirt too, so how could I possibly return something made even cooler by that association?!

Latest style inspiration

This is Portia Freeman, a 19 year old british model. I think her style is really fun and I wish I was young and funky enough to dress like this!

Return to civilization

I am now back in the real world of shopping and gossip :-) This was my outfit on Friday. I was trying to look respectable as I was going shopping for the bank holiday weekend, which included lots of beer for the boyfriend and his pals. I am way, way over the legal age for buying alcohol but I've been asked for ID loads of times recently and always forget to carry any. Unfortunately the outfit has more than a touch of department store shop assistant about it!



Dress old Topshop, cardigan Primark, sandals New Look.

And for anyone confused by the last post, the wearing of orange in the field is not a fashion choice but a health and safety requirement. I was being a marshall at a sporting event the boyfriend was taking part in. My outfits for the weekend consisted of muddy jeans, layers of fleece, wellie boots, and an orange padded coat the size of a hot air balloon, lovely!

Byeeeeee, I'm off to wear orange in a field for the weekend!

An exercise in anti-shopping

On tuesday I went shopping. On wednesday I got my credit card bill. So I am looking at what I bought and trying to convince myself to return things. First is a grey marl dress, that is actually meant to be nightwear. It's basically a very long t'shirt, nothing special but might be a useful basic. There is also a grey vest underneath that again is an unexciting basic:



Item number 2 is this pink/nude skirt. I have this in black as well that I'm saving for A/W and I was thinking of this version for summer. I do love it, but I wasn't sure how I would wear it, especially given that I do not do bare legs above the knee (not a pretty sight!). So I tried to think of summery ways of wearing it, kind of hoping that I wouldn't come up with any and so be able to return it without regret. This is what I came up with, they do all involve tights and so would have to be for chillier summer days, which there are a lot of here in the north east UK:



This has backfired as I now like it even more! It has a knackered ballerina air and makes me think of Degas' Little dancer.



Maybe I should return the black version instead? What d'you think?