November 29, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Fashion & Beauty

Friday Frock Love: Prints of Animals

That’s Prints of Animals, not Animal Prints. Today Retro Chick is going a bit twee, because there’s nothing I like better than a frock with a cute print* Elephants, cats, dogs, birds bees and butterflies all make excellent novelty prints and I’ve been searching out the best ones I can find. I know his is

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Fashion & Beauty

Spring Inspiration

Spring is on its way! The sky might still be a little grey right now, and I’m still in my big winter coat, but there have been glimpses of blue skies and daffodils and I am totally ready to start planning for spring and even *whispers* Summer. I’ve been pinning a few things to my

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Food & Drink

P-P-Protein Power

One of my health goals for this year was to improve my diet, and in particular eat more protein, less fat and be more organised with eating around my exercise sessions. I’d never thought of using protein supplements to do this, I’d just planned to try and include more lean meat, eggs and seeds in

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Fashion & Beauty

Lady in Red

Today I’ve tried to save you from yet more photos of me in front of my fireplace. Roll on summer when I can go and find an interesting variety of places to prance around outside in daylight when I want to show off my frock before I go out for the evening. Initially I did

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Vanity Sizing

One Size Doesn't Fit All

I remember the first time I realised I was a “weird” shape. Except I didn’t really realise it at all at first. It was around 2001, I was shopping for a pair of black trousers and couldn’t get a pair to fit in a single shop. Some wouldn’t go over my thighs at all, and

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Top 10 Places to Shop for a Vintage Inspired Wardrobe (Some of them Might Surprise You…)

“Vintage Inspired” is a funny old phrase. Sometimes I’m not sure exactly what it means anymore, but it’s still a phrase I use to describe my wardrobe. I take my outfit inspiration mostly from the elegant styles of the 30s and 40s, the feminine fancy of the 1950s and the youthful fun of the 1960s.

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Fashion & Beauty

Jump on the Merry Go Round

Paperself, my favourite place for random eye decorations, have a new design of eyelashes out! I first tried them out last year and totally fell in love. I’d seen papercut lashes before but never really thought of them as practical, or something I could make work. They seemed sort of extreme, and while I’m not

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Helen Grant and Women in Sport

I don’t know if you’ve seen it today, but the Sports Minister Helen Grant is being quoted all over the news as having suggested Women should take up more “feminine” sports, like cheer-leading and roller skating, in which they can look “glowing and radiant”. I followed the stories back to this interview in the Telegraph,

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Fashion & Beauty

Fantasy Shopping at Jarrolds

I do love a bit of fantasy shopping. It’s like real shopping but without any of the “Oh I can’t afford to pay my bills” guilt at the end. Here in Norwich we have a pretty amazing independent local department store called Jarrold, and they asked me to do just that, a bit of fantasy

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