Sod's Law.

When I have a reasonable amount of money there is nothing I like, when I have £4 in my 25p purse, there are fashion gems galore.

Exhibit : Brogues for £15 from New Look they have been reduced from £25 and I have wanted them for ages. I actually want them in black and white, very Fred Astaire, but they didn't have them on the website.

Exhibit B: Acid wash skinny trousers from Toppenshop, also £15, well £13.50 with my student card. They only had one pair, in my size! they were mcperfect I tell you. they're stangely soft as well. If I couldn't have them, I'd have these, £25 from topshop again but they're jeans and Topshop jeans tend to sag.
We had a right charity shop spree and heck they were rife with goodies! Wendy-May got a lovely skirt an top and I consoled myself witht this £2.50 dress (skirt to some) which is rather a WTF pattern (apologies for stealing this from Susie)

Seriously if I had the moolah it'd be spend spend spend, there were thousand of floral dresses and skirts. I suppose this is just my fault for being lazy and not getting a job but I am trying to concentrate on my exams you see. And as for my my vow not to buy any more clothes for a while, well that certainly worked.

Blacklisting the fool!

You may notice that The Sartorialist has been removed from our links. Susan and I were looking at said blog and were disgusted by how he picked apart a girl. If he didn't like her style why would he take pictures of her?
He claims she needs a make over, saying that the boots she's wearing make her legs look shapeless. He clearly doesn't understand the meaning of the word. The nicest thing he could say was "At least the dress is savable but that neckline combined with her hair does nothing for her long neck." He suggested "Since she is a student I thought we would also go to Gap or J. Crew", so he thinks all students should shop in the same places?
And as for changing her hair - the colour is one I've been wanting to achieve!

Anyway! Susan and I decided to use our free period wisely and take photos of what we wore today! Unfortunatly Pammy was unable to join us.
Susan:
Jeans-Topshop, Skirt-H&M, Top- Charity Shop, Long sleeve Top- Gap, Denim Jacket- Charity Shop

Wendy-May:

Tights- Marks and Spencers, Shorts- Susans Wardrobe Orginally from Gap, Yellow Top- Topshop, Black Top- Zara, Green Totally Lovers Top- Pamela's Wardrobe Orginally from Zara. Once again I am hardly wearing any of my own clothes! 3 wardrobes may as well use them!

Also, we are working on the Tag. Hopefully it will be up soon!

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Internet shopping how you torture me!

For a while I have wanted a Brownies t-shirt, not the new ones though! The old kind one i used to wear in my days of learning to sew, bake and care for others! My little sash was full of so many badges! I went on ebay, after finally setting up an account and I managed to find a Brownies top, not only in my size but in my very limited price range, with only 30mins left to bid! Of course I had only just set up my Ebay account and hadn't realised that setting up my paypal account would take a long time indeed, 7-9 days to be exact!Susan was trying to help me while she was on the phone but as I'm useless I lost out! and now I can't find one!

Then yesturday I was browsing the Topshop website. I should not do that.

I saw this again.

Everytime I see it I convince myself I need it. And my good friend Miss A was not helping. Even at £45 she was trying to convince me it was neccesary to get it. She can be the devil. I may have to wait for the sale!

I also saw this in the last chance to buy section, I like it but they don't have my size and I don't have the money!
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I'm afraid they just weren't dressed for the beach

Because sometimes, your friends are your biggest inspiration.

Pamela is the red haired one, Wendy-May the brunette. We often dress a bit over the top, but i think this takes the biscuit. I Love it.

Deacon 4 Daks

If what i am reading is correct this current seasons Daks by Giles Deacons Luxury collection will be the last. It's not my favourite collection ever but it was pretty good. Apparetnly they want to concentrate on the ready-to-wear collection. I like a bit of Luxury to look at, not that i ever go anywhere glamorous enough to wear such things, even if i did i'd have to sell something very important to get it. But hey it's nice to look.

Is it just me or do these look quite similar? Top Dress for Daks Luxury collection, Below from previous New Look 'Gold' collection.

On a totally different note i have been getting my daily dose of ebay and came across this Vintage Lace Skirt that i love love love. The price at the minute is certainly affordable but it still has 3 days left. We'll see....

OMWord Urban Outfitters is coming to Leeds!!! Oh yeah no more ridiculously pricey train fare to Manchester just for Urban Outfitters. Wooo yeah i'm excited! I don't know when it's opening though... oh well at least it's coming at all!!!

Honey I Shrunk my skirt!

Or at least I tried! I bought this skrit from H&M and I tried to shrink it as its rather big! The shrinking didnt have much effect, if anyone has any ideas of how to do it I'd be trés grateful!
So this week Pammy gave me this item from River Island to incorporate into my outfit.

I wore it with knee high socks, purple tights from Primark, and my top half is all Topshop-I've just realised! Again I didn't really dress for the weather but I put on a pair of long gloves - or "arm warmers"- from Marks and Spencers and I was ready to go!

Yesturday I managed to rip my vertical striped tights from Oasis before I had enough worn them, hopefully if I wear them with black ones underneath you wont be able to see the actually ladder as much!

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Calling America

My t-shirt draw after dress up time.

America, not usually a country I turn to for inspiration, though there are some excellently stylish people out there, I mean you US bloggers obviously, but a lot of the population leave a lot to be desired. When it comes to style I'm quite patriotic, I know we also have some highly unstylish and downright fashion embarassments in the UK, but there is a lot here to love.

So anyway I decided to keep an open mind and attempt some outfits inspired by the Americana trend, and the shoot in the April issue of UK Elle. Its not exactly Americana, in fact when I asked my mum what country she thought I was channelling in the first outfit she said Poland, so yeah, thanks mum. I mainly went for denim with blue, white and red with a few American Indian touches.

Here's what I came up with.

I wore this last oufit today, prompting comments about leather trousers. It's more than a little bit inspired by, is it Ashley?, Olsen except wothout the anorexia, sunglasses and Starbucks. I intend to get some American Apparel leggings when we go to London for a school trip, as my Primark ones are a bit battered.

Ok, this is a big step for me, but I've resolved not to buy any clothes for a while. This is partly due to the fact that all I hav in my purse is 21p and a load of old train tickets. But also because, doing this dressing up made me realise I actually have rather a lot of clothes and a lot of them can be updated in some way. I want to be more inventive with what I already have, armed with a wardrobe and lots of bloggery and magazince inspiration here I go kids!

Gladiators. Are you ready?

I'm not sure that i have mentally prepared myself for it being brought back, it's only been 8 years since it was cancelled. Sky One are resurrecting the UK version and it'll be back this May. If you're not familiar with it, it's basically a programme about testing how strong and fit you are. Members of the public volunteer to go head to head with the professional Gladiators to see if they can get to the final and win some money. It's the cheesiest thing you will ever see. It went off air in 2000, probably because of all the steroid abuse. But it's back this spring with new hosts Kirsty Gallacher and Ian Wright. Don't worry now it'll be the same referee John Anderson, he's still going strong!

'Oh dear oh dear' I say. It'll be one of the programmes that i know i'll end up getting hooked to. To be fair i grew up watching it on a saturday tea time along with It's a Knockout! Oh the nineties. I'm rather intrigued to see what they'll do with it actually. Though i'm reluctant to watch it due to the overload of lyrca all in ones. There are American and Australian versions of the shows that are still running, i can't say i've ever caught either of them.

Speaking of TV, did anyone see the first episode of the new show Pushing Daisies. It's on ITV in Britain. Everyone i asked today hadn't watched it. I really wanted to discuss it with someone because i think it's going to be very enjoyable. I think Anna Friel is stunning, a good actress and wears some really stylish clothes in it.

Also the shows about a pie maker so it's bound to be good. What particularly impressed me though was how they, sort of, stylised it. I don't this is the correct word for what i'm trying to describe hmm. there was a kind of cartoony magical colourful effect going on. Well you'll just have to watch it to find out what i mean!

Spring and such

Lately I have been channeling spring and that meant that I have not always been dressing appropriately. So today I was happy to see the sun. However i was not happy to see that Pammy was taken ill as she missed one joyous psychology lesson (and I'm a little jealous she got to stay wrapped in a duvet).
As i was feeling all springy I couldn't help but wear my floral dress from Zara, which I seem to have been drawn to a few times in the past weeks. I also wore a dress us three found hiding in a charity shop for £1, a bargain if i ever did see one! The zara dress is rolled up slightly so that you can see the blue charity shop dress, then i just put on some dove grey tights and ankle boots! It seemed to confuse a few people that I could actually be wearing two dresses at one time, but the fact they want to wear uggs confuses me.

Anyway I can't put off doing my sociology any longer.

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Disco Disco

We are now three, it's very exciting stuff! The 3 of us went out for a friends birthday meal on saturday night and this is what i wore. Jacket On. Jacket Off.

Dress - Charity Shop, Cardigan - Men's Primark, Boots - New Look, Socks - M&S, Necklaces - Miss Selfridge, Vintage and New Look.

I bought this dress the other week in a charity shop in Leeds, at the same trip i also bought a white dress from H&M. I had an outfit planned for college today including said dress but unfortunately illness has taken me down, rugby tackled me to the sofa all day in fact, so i was unable to wear it today. It had a trim around the bottom but i unpicked it last night, i'm not one for the added bit on the end of items i prefer straight lines and this trim was all sticky outy and not correct. I just need to hem the dress now and then i will most certainly be wearing it alot, it'll probably take me a while to bother getting the sewing machine out so for now i'll just wear a skirt over the top!

I love cheap charity shop finds, the dress i'm wearing in the photo only cost £5. Finds like this are the best.

I also found some victorian style vintage boots on ebay that i've fallen head over heels for. Unfortunately they were going for like £30 and now they have gone forever. I will remember them always...