Summer Frocks and Pies
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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!
♥ 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!
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.
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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Your hair colour is lovely 😀 keep it for a little while? x
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I might do, it’s a pain to wash out 😀
yey! …….(and boo 😉 )
That dress is a great colour, also as a four-eyes I am well jel of prescription sunglasses.
I knew the wardrobe monster really existed!
Totally does!
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I’ve wanted some prescription sunglasses for ages, so I’m pretty chuffed with them!
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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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
Those sunglasses are brilliant.
The dress is absolutely lovely. Such a pretty colour. Your hair is looking gorgeous too! xxx
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I love your whole outfit! the colour of that dress is stunning and goes perfectly well with that pretty purple hair colour 🙂
I’m falling in love with your style! Amazing <3
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Love your sunglasses and dress!
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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!)
Your dress is beautiful and I like this colour for summer time; perfect. Also your necklace is going pretty well with this.