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Roses in the Rain

October 14, 2013
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You can never have enough Little Black Dresses.

I fell in love with todays’ dress back in August when I featured it on We Want All the Dresses. It’s from Phase Eight and has a real 1940s Mexican inspired vibe, with embroidered roses on a wide waistband and a crochet bodice. I obsessed about it a bit, and set up several sale alerts in the hope it would drop in price and I’d be able to afford it.

Then at the end of September I got an email asking me to take part in a Little Black Dress challenge with Debenhams, and I noticed Debenhams stocked the dream dress, so I took my chance as a poor self employed person to get my hands on the lovely dress. The good news is that the dress is now on sale, the bad news is that I have checked multiple online stockists, and they all only have a size 8 remaining. (Update: Phase Eight have let me know that the dress is now reduced even further and there’s more sizes on the Phase Eight Website)

dress❤ Phase Eight Lena Dress c/o Debenhams ❤ Bracelet c/o Debenhams❤
❤ Shoes  – Stylist Pick* ❤ Earrings – Abilu Creations ❤

I decided to pick up the rose embroidery with roses on the toes of my shoes and in my ears. Don’t worry, I also had a coat and an umbrella because the weather really was rotten!

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embroidery

Early on Saturday evening I took my new dress in to try some American style smokehouse barbecue food in a new pop up restaurant in the Ten Bells in Norwich. Harbercue will be open at the Ten Bells on Friday nights, all day Saturday and Sunday lunch times over the winter. The Ten Bells had also put together some rather yummy cocktails to go with the food.
I had Bacon Old Fashioned, made with bacon infused bourbon to go with my smoked beef brisket in a brioche bun. We also had the most delicious beef ribs and a plateful of sides to try.
harbercue

ribsThen, to finish the meal I was offered a pickleback chaser. What, you might very reasonably ask is a pickleback chaser?

Well it’s this.

pigglebackThat’s a shot of bacon infused bourbon, and a shot of, erm, pickle juice…..

I can safely say it’s probably the weirdest thing I’ve ever been asked to drink. But, contrary to the look on my face, it was actually quite nice. It was sweet, but sour at the same time. I’m not sure it’s going on my favourite drinks list, but it was certainly an experience!

bourbonchaser

The other thing I did with my weekend, was run the Marriotts Way 10k, in under an hour, whoop! But if you want to see and hear all about that (there’s video!) you can pop over to Lipstick, Lettuce & Lycra.

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  1. Gayla says:
    October 14, 2013 at 11:51 am

    oooo! That rose dress is just gorgeous and I love your rose earrings. Beautiful!
    Now, I’ve had pickles on the side of bbq brisket, but never that chaser combo of bacon infused bourbon accompanied by a shot of pickle juice. Interesting.

    • Gemma says:
      October 14, 2013 at 12:07 pm

      It was quite nice, but I still think someone was just winding me up to see if I’d drink pickle juice!

  2. Vicky says:
    October 14, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    Love the dress! Have sent the link to my friend in the vague hope she can get her hands on one for me 🙂 got to keep up the wardrobe cloning 😉 I guess pickle juice isn’t that far removed from the olive brine added to a dirty martini……………..

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    October 14, 2013 at 12:44 pm

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  4. Vickie Maidstone says:
    October 14, 2013 at 12:44 pm

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  5. Annora Thoeng says:
    October 14, 2013 at 1:33 pm

    What a lovely dress indeed! I really really like it! I do agree that it has a certain Mexican feel to it 🙂 I love the bodice though – so delicate and elegant!

  6. Chi Arnold says:
    October 14, 2013 at 3:14 pm

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  7. jennyvintage says:
    October 14, 2013 at 5:01 pm

    That is such a beautiful dress.

  8. Retrochick_uk says:
    October 14, 2013 at 6:09 pm

    New outfit post on the blog. A gorgeous @phase_eight frock & drinking pickle juice with @harbercue & @tenbellsnorwich //t.co/qGERPRHLbT

  9. overflowingklc says:
    October 14, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    @Retrochick_uk did you know you were in this week’s north norfolk news?

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    October 14, 2013 at 6:30 pm

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  11. Tracey O'Connor says:
    October 14, 2013 at 6:30 pm

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  12. BettyRaeVintage says:
    October 14, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    @Retrochick_uk @Phase_Eight @Harbercue @tenbellsnorwich Really enjoyed your new blog post, the lace design on your dress is gorgeous!

  13. Phase_Eight says:
    October 15, 2013 at 9:28 am

    @Retrochick_uk @Harbercue @tenbellsnorwich looks gorgeous!!

  14. Harbercue says:
    October 15, 2013 at 11:46 am

    RT @Retrochick_uk: Outfit Post on the blog today featuring embroidered roses and @harbercue food //t.co/eIMitBt6KP

  15. AFisherClark says:
    October 15, 2013 at 12:09 pm

    RT @Retrochick_uk: Outfit Post on the blog today featuring embroidered roses and @harbercue food //t.co/eIMitBt6KP

  16. Harbercue says:
    October 15, 2013 at 12:25 pm

    In a roundup of her weekend, @Retrochick_uk writes lovely things about her visit to @harbercue launch >> //t.co/rY9jVtuhU3 #ribs #retro

  17. Fleur says:
    October 15, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    That is stunning!

  18. elkee says:
    October 16, 2013 at 3:35 pm

    Wow congrats on the running! And that dress is incredible.

  19. Mim says:
    October 29, 2013 at 4:54 am

    That’s a really lovely dress. How did you find phase eight’s sizing? I always find I have to go down a size.

    (I think the bodice is guipure lace, btw – it’s definitely not crochet.)

    • Gemma says:
      October 30, 2013 at 12:04 pm

      Ah, thanks, I’m not good with fabricy things!

      I found the sizing fine, I ordered the same size as usual and it fits perfectly, certainly couldn’t have gone any smaller!

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