December 10, 2024
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Fashion & Beauty

What Are You Wearing? Warm in Wool

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It’s definitely winter then. Autumn leaves are gone and we’ve got snow flurrys, icy pavements and freezing temperatures. Cotton frocks just aren’t really going to cut it in this weather, even with wooly tights and a cardigan, so if I need to be outside for more than a quick trip from car to door

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Fashion & Beauty

Festive Fair Isle Feet

Christmas is a time for novelty tights. Oh yes it is, sorry! I’m a big fan of seamed stockings for most of the year, with the occasional visit to the opaque tight drawer when the world freezes over, but when Christmas rolls around I just can’t resist novelty patterns. A few years ago it was

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Vintage Girls Party Season Survival Kit

I expect your doormat is aflutter with gilt-edged invitations? No? But surely your mantelpiece is groaning from the weight of all those heavy embossed cards you’ve received? No? When I used to read Women’s magazine a lot I was somehow under the impression that everyone but me spent the entire of December in a social

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Fashion & Beauty

The Countdown to Christmas

Every year I write one of these posts about advent calendars for grown ups in hope. And every year I buy myself an advent calendar from the pound shop on the second of December. Still, I continue to live in hope, and life is nothing without hope. So here’s a selection of some of the

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Fashion & Beauty

Do You Have the Time?

Now I’ve typed that title I am quietly rocking along to Green Day in my own head. But this post isn’t actually about Green Day, it’s about watches. I remember buying myself a watch with my first pay packet. It felt like a special purchase when I was choosing it in the jewellers, I chose

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Fashion & Beauty

Friday Frock Love: The Pretty Dress Company

Last week I got chance to go to a few press days to have a look at next years collections. Often press days are more useful for me to see the quality of things in person and find out about new brands rather than to see what’s going to be in stores next season as

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Fashion & Beauty

What Are You Wearing – 1930s Androgyny

Todays outfit isn’t todays outfit at all. It’s actually the outfit I wore on Wednesday when I went to London for a couple of press days, but the photos are taken in Norwich. Got it? No? Who cares, I like it, it’s a good late Autumn outfit! It’s another one inspired by Lena Hoschek’s Autumn

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Vanity Sizing

"Real Women" – Is Fashion Warping Our Sense of Reality?

Something of a minor storm in a Champagne coupe has been brewing over the last few weeks. Marks & Spencer have apparently ditched their “too glam” models for a selection of “real women” in sizes 8-16 to promote their new shapewear lingerie range. But apparently these “real women” aren’t “real” enough. So The Sun published

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Fashion & Beauty

Happy Halloween!

Mwahahaha! It’s the best holiday in the calendar, even if you don’t get a day off work. Halloween is an excuse for parties staying in with a spooky DVD and a Halloween cocktail and generally not having any obligations to buy presents or visit people you only see once a year. I’ve been looking forward

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