“Show me the lace”, is one of my very favourite lines from the iconic 1970’s fashion/horror film ‘The Eyes of Laura Mars’, starring Faye Dunaway and directed by John Carpenter. A film I will not even try to describe the words ‘fail me’…at present…I just love it so much…only to say more to follow on Read More
How do you get hold of your own ‘personal icon’? Why by purchasing a bag in emblazoned with their image across it ‘of course!’ It was two enduring icon bags that ‘seized’ my ‘fashion eye’ whilst out and about ‘minding my own business’ as it were…in my immediate locality. Firstly that eternal icon of pure Read More
On browsing a recent Stylist I was rather amused to find some ‘interesting items’ at what price?? Am I hearing you correctly? £78 for basically a ‘blusher’ just because it’s Tom Ford…it may be good but that’s nearly £80! That’s probably more than you get on the dole these days?? (Hey..I’ve checked this it’s currently Read More
I haven’t been down to my local Charity Shop for a long while…(shame on me), so I thought I better go get back there pronto, to check out what’s the latest ‘fashion scoop’. Where…I could discover by beating my tracks back…to one of my favourite local fashion icons ‘Stephanie’, the Charity shop mannequin! You never know Read More
Neon nice…forget pastels this Spring! If you head down to your local High Street you will not be able to move without coming across some neon…either a whole colour block, or more successfully (in my humble opinion) neon accents with a stripe or a trim, or even a pom pom ‘here and there’. Neon is Read More
“Those mules were made for walking and it’s just what they will do”…so now for my very first ‘Style On Trial’ mules/’sliders’ experiment. Ever since the Gucci mules appeared (and stormed I might add..!) the catwalk in 2015, it is taken over 2 years for this trend to hit not only the high street, but Read More
So it had to happen..at some point…Beige is in! My favourite ‘go to’ colour is now is ‘all the rage’ (well ‘sort of’ according to a Grazia Fashion Feature I ripped out recently). Yes! Beige is back! My ‘Bring Back the Beige!’ campaign must of worked! This understated colour usually strikes a horror chord in Read More
So I’m in a ‘tight spot’ both physically and ‘fashionably’…still not well, and in a form of erhmm…‘exercise’, I was sorting through my collection of vintage tights. I just love the packaging on these beauties, they also have a definite ‘no nonsense approach’ to labelling! With a ‘full panel gusset’ you really know what they Read More
So it happened again…I’ve got the worst ever back pain. So bad..I collapsed..and ended up in hospital…but enough of that, I want to think no more of pain..whilst in hospital I decided to distract myself, to try escape from my current malaise. So I looked back into those old days when convalescence was the ‘very Read More
I’ve been trying for a while…to sell a number of items on eBay and, unfortunately they are not just not budging, after an initial success it seems I’m going through a bit of a lag!! I started sorting through my stuff in January 2015 (2 years ago now…scary!) and bit by bit over the ensuing weekends I photographed, Read More
My big 50th birthday passed earlier this week, (very scary…) and I was lucky enough to get a Vogue from January 1967 as a present, so to celebrate this I’m posting here some fashion images of how things look back then, and fashion wise it was kind of a ‘groovy time’ to be born, oh yes! Read More
When is it a good time to update your look and don a new bonnet? Strike that, beret, no strike that ‘get ahead’ get a hat! With the temperatures plummeting in the New Year I was finding my ‘bonce’ was getting rather freezing…so to remedy this, I took a quick look as to what could Read More
It’s time to embrace your inner ‘glitter goddess’ & stride forward with ‘twinkling toes’, grab a blingy bag & let loose with the ‘fairy dust’…why? Because it ‘tis the season to be jolly’ and to ‘shine like a diamond’ oh yes! The festive season is upon us and it’s time to ‘Sparkle up’ or so Read More
Walking down to one of my usual Charity Shop areas I was very glad, very pleased, and almost ‘ecstatic’ that a new charity shop had opened! This was certainly an exciting discovery, in a time when many have shut down or have been so renovated you no longer realise that is a charity shop! (Not good..). Read More
So ironically, just as I posted a reflection of my deflated feelings regarding Fashion One’s Bridal ‘Special’ last Weekend, I clicked on to the Channel later that day when nothing appears except…a black screen with “This Service is Currently Unavailable”. What? Where has it gone? Whoa..! A TV channel can disappear with no warning? No ‘build-up’, Read More
I have persevered over the last year and continued watching Fashion One, despite that since the S/S 16 shows last year, no more premium label’s appear apart from one or two, which has been very disappointing…it’s all very well showing ‘unknown’s’ and ‘in betweeners’ but to balance this, surely they need to up their game? Read More
