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June 13, 2014
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Is it hot enough for you?

I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but here it’s meltingly hot. It didn’t look that warm, then I went outside for a minute and a half and immediately came back in where it’s cool and I can see things. As it cools down later I plan to go to the pub and eat pies, which is a weird thing to do on sunny days, but it’s an Aussie Pie Shop and everyone knows it’s hot in Australia, I watched Neighbours, it was always Summer.

Over the last week in the warm weather I have noticed my wardrobe seems to have an easily wearable Summer dress gap that needs plugging. I have a couple, but I can’t wear them every day or people will start to think I never wash them. It’s at these points I always start to think “what the hell did I wear last Summer?”

Anyway, it’s a gap that needs plugging, and today I am wearing one of the new plugs. Apologies for the fact that my foot is still strapped up to look like a cow. I’m in pain, but wearing stupid shoes doesn’t make it any worse, thankfully!

Great Plains

♥ Deer Print Dress c/o Great Plains ♥ Shoes – Carvela @ TK Maxx* ♥ Necklace – Boho Boutique ♥
♥ Sunglasses c/o Glasses Direct ♥

Hugely bright days do not make for easy photography, but we did our best!

The dress is from Great Plains, a brand I actually hadn’t heard of before they sent me an email, and this dress has a cute print of deer all over it. I expected it to be a more eveningy dress, but when it arrived it was actually made of a really lightweight floaty cotton, and although it had sleeves they were, wonder of wonders, loose on my arms and really comfortable to wear on hot days.

I ummed and ahhed over sizes, because I fall directly between a M and a L, and in the end I went for the L, which fits nicely for warm weather, not too restrictive with plenty of room for pie!

deer dress

Another thing I have recently acquired thanks to Glasses Direct is a pair of prescription sunglasses. Oh it’s bliss. I wear contacts, but particularly during hayfever season it’s nice not to have to wear them all the time and to give my eyes a break. This means I spend a lot of time being unable to see, tripping off kerbs and bumping into things as I can’t see without my glasses and it’s too bright not to wear sunglasses. Now, all my problems are solved! These frames are London Retro.

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glasses

Anyway, I’m sorry todays post doesn’t contain interesting and exciting things, but it’s far too hot for that malarkey. I suggest staying in the shade till it goes away, because I am English and I spend all winter desperate for the sun to return, and the moan constantly about how hot it is till it rains, then I can moan about that.

Hey, keep an eye on my Instagram and maybe later on I’ll take photos of my Aussie Pie. V&Oak Magazine, recently included my instagram account in a list of vintage instagrammers that you must follow right now. Apparently it shows a “life lived very much to the full” which I think means I eat and drink too much, so I wouldn’t want to let anyone down by NOT instagramming my pie. If you’re lucky I might instagram my beer too. That’ll be nice won’t it.

I have a full weekend planned too, including watching football at a burlesque event while wearing a corset, Roller Derby and, no doubt, many more food and drink photos, so I’ll see you all on Monday, and I hope you have equally full weekends planned! Tell me all about them in the comments, I love reading about other peoples weekends!

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  1. No Dice Sugar says:
    June 13, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    Your hair colour is lovely 😀 keep it for a little while? x

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  8. Gemma Seager says:
    June 13, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    I might do, it’s a pain to wash out 😀

  9. No Dice Sugar says:
    June 13, 2014 at 2:24 pm

    yey! …….(and boo 😉 )

  10. Tarnia Mears says:
    June 13, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    That dress is a great colour, also as a four-eyes I am well jel of prescription sunglasses.

  11. Beth Ackland says:
    June 13, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    I knew the wardrobe monster really existed!

    • Retro Chick says:
      June 13, 2014 at 3:14 pm

      Totally does!

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  17. Gemma Seager says:
    June 13, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    I’ve wanted some prescription sunglasses for ages, so I’m pretty chuffed with them!

  18. LandGirl1980 says:
    June 13, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    I spy my glasses! The ones I have not worn since I wore them once. I need to remedy that. They look aces as sunnies!

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  26. porcelina says:
    June 13, 2014 at 5:15 pm

    That is the very SAME dress that I have been lusting over for a few weeks!! It looks fab on you. My wardrobe gap is ‘green dress’. So why did I buy a pale blue one today? Hmm. Shopping is not very logical sometimes for me. My weekend plans, since you asked: tonight, staying in, but dressing up and eating/drinking ourselves silly. Tomorrow, car boot sale (woo!) then friends over for dinner. Sunday, hoping Father’s Day card has arrived else will be in trouble. That’s it really, perhaps a spot of gardening too. P x

  27. Sarah Horlock says:
    June 13, 2014 at 9:19 pm

    Those sunglasses are brilliant.

  28. VintageFrillsBlog (@vintage_frills) says:
    June 13, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    The dress is absolutely lovely. Such a pretty colour. Your hair is looking gorgeous too! xxx

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  37. Natalie @ Quirky Vintage Blog says:
    June 15, 2014 at 10:14 am

    I love your whole outfit! the colour of that dress is stunning and goes perfectly well with that pretty purple hair colour 🙂

  38. Elisa Bellino says:
    June 15, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    I’m falling in love with your style! Amazing <3
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  39. Vaida says:
    June 20, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    Love your sunglasses and dress!
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  40. Georgina says:
    June 21, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    The dress looks great on you! We sell Great Plains in the shop where I work. Last summer they did the same dress but with bicycles on which I bought in green (more grass green than this one) and wear all the time. I’ve been lusting after the navy version of this which we have in the shop now – not sure how much longer I can resist!

    (By the way, until now we in the shop thought they were lambs on the dress – oops!)

  41. Pinkmartini says:
    June 30, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    Your dress is beautiful and I like this colour for summer time; perfect. Also your necklace is going pretty well with this.

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Incurable cancer, cocktails & fitness. Size Inclusive Personal Trainer, red lipstick wearer, cocktail drinker. Multiple Myeloma June 2021. Norwich, UK
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