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When I did a year’s worth of Army Cadets at secondary school, aged 14, I definitely did not see the upside to what I was wearing. In fact, I hated it, mainly because we had to spend the requisite hours polishing boots and creating shiny toe caps with a bit of masking tape, starching our collars and generally making ourselves look ship …
Ok so maybe you weren’t convinced by yellow, but what about pink? Barring a fuschia pink dress that I have worn to so many weddings and parties and loved, I have more or less avoided pink for a long time because I was emotionally scarred by an outfit I had when I was about 7 or 8 years old. It was the first thing I was …
You should practise what you preach really and so this season I am doing exactly that and going outside my usual comfort zone of neutrals to embrace some of the season’s colours, in particular SS16’s yellow. Now, this is not a shy wallflower type of yellow, it is a ‘hello here I am, look at me’ shade and is therefore not for everyone, …
We all know that children and shopping don’t mix but it was half term and I just wanted to pop into one shop very quickly. It was an ill-advised idea and I paid for it. Cue two children, who despite several requests to sit still for five minutes and despite being physically placed on said chairs on multiple occasions, were …
Fashion may always be on the move, but there is something fairly predictable about a spring/summer season and the catwalks. And that thing is stripes. Because for as many seasons as I can remember, they have always been on trend in some form or another. And this season is no different because lo and behold, the catwalks were full of …
I have a leather jacket, a lovely leather jacket that I bought in Paris about seven years ago but it is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Why? Because it is collarless and therefore is now so far from right that I might as well be wearing a shell suit jacket (remember those? My mum and I had colour co-ordinating ones. The …
Well I never thought I would be writing that Sainsbury’s inspired a post … oh the glamour, but it did. The other day when I was doing my weekly food shop, (it has occurred to me that I am one of the few people who still actually visits a supermarket on a regular basis as I just can’t seem to get …
I never thought I would be excited by sneakers but I am. Historically, I haven’t been a huge fan of trainers worn in a non-sports context and, I must admit, I am not totally au fait with your Reebok Classics versus your High Tops, but times have changed and the lady is most definitely for turning. Now top of my wish …
I am broken. With every screechy, shouty episode (of which there have been more than I can possibly count) my two year old has pushed me closer and closer to the edge and now over it into an exhausted, fraught abyss. And now, I fear that the only way out is through alcohol. So today is the day that my …
For many of us, buying denim is like trying to find ‘Mr Right’ – you quite simply have to kiss a few frogs before you find your Prince Charming. Most of us would rather stick pins in our eyes than go jean shopping because it can be such a painful and disappointing process. Why do we put so much stall by finding the …