I occasionally visit Lakeside shopping centre to do my sideline, which is a secret…shhh…! I’m not particularly a fan, I would prefer Bluewater if I had to choose, but well, it’s okay to have a look around. Browse and not buy! I missed their free fashion magazine the last time I visited, completely forgetting it Read More
Well, I got them both for free, so I can’t really argue. One I found on a bus, which was the Wallpaper magazine R.R.P. £10 and Stylist, which I’ve not seen for absolutely ages. I used to get this free once a week at the tube station, now I found it dumped on a newspaper Read More
Whilst scrolling on my phone I read with interest that “second-hand fashion is set to surge in coming years” and “could overtake fast fashion”, hello? have they not seen my blog??! LOL! With environmental concerns it’s the obvious choice and anything that puts fast fashion in its place has to be a good thing…but to Read More
With the depressing wet weather (like is it ever going to stop raining…) and the on going crazy political crisis I thought I would distract myself with ‘flower fashion’, where a flower motif unsurprisingly is the main feature. Starting with a vibrant red rose to burn through the misery, red always makes a bold statement Read More
Baseball hats? No…not in my ‘normal’ fashion repertoire, I have never worn one ever. Never even thought of wearing one and my goodness it just wouldn’t suit me…but that does not stop me noticing a good number of mannequins donning a baseball hat recently, including one rather rude one…They have had some bad reputation in the Read More
I’ve been making the effort this summer to get up early on a Sunday morning (no easy task…) to go to a variety of boot sales around my local area. Some very large, some small, but all containing a ‘bountiful’ of expectant interest…in that you have no idea before you go what you’ll find or 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
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
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
It’s warm and it’s cosy and it’s fashionably ‘posy’ it’s a fake fur jacket with no sleeves, it’s a Gillet! And why am I bringing this up now? Well..because..in my town and the surrounding areas, you literally can’t move for seeing them..they have almost become a ‘uniform’ even toddlers are wearing them! Though I will Read More
This week’s date came round to my pre-booked coach journey to Margate, a day trip paid in advance for £18 return, so I got myself ready and waited in anticipation for the arrival of the coach. It was probably was one of the hottest days this summer, with a predicted temperature of 30 ºc (which Read More
(This post was prepared before I heard the tragic news from France of the massacre in Nice. In tribute to the French people, their customs and bravery I decided to upload this feature. To the noble nation of France we salute you). Read More
So on a recent visit to my local High Street (as usual) I walked into River Island, (I don’t go there often..so that was one surprise!) and the second ‘surprise’ was – what was ‘confronting me’ on arrival? A mannequin who in my eyes has more than a look of that eponymous fashion mogul Anna Read More
On a recent visit to a Town nearby, whilst I was browsing an ‘antique-style’ stall (style as it was old ‘n’ new, odds and ends etc) I came across an arresting image entitled ‘Fashion Repeats Itself’ from a sheet of The Illustrated London News dating from 1872, and I knew I just had to buy Read More
