December 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Fashion & Beauty

Friday Affordable Frock Love – New Look

Although I rarely shop on the High Street I do love to drool over pretty things as much as the next girl. New Look is one of my favourite stops when I do shop the High Street. Their shoes, particularly, I find amazing and affordable, I can pretty much always find the style I’m looking

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Define Your Style ❤ Part Six ❤

Evolution To be honest, you’ve really done the hard bit. In the first 5 parts of the series you established what suits you, what styles you are drawn to, how to incorporate that into your every day life and built up a small capsule basic wardrobe of outfits and accessories that you love and can

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Luscious Lingerie – Vintage Inspiration

*sigh* isn’t that just gorgeous? It’s Rigby & Peller’s Platinum collection created for their 70th Anniversary. It consists of a padded retro style “bullet” bra for £109 and high waisted ruffle back briefs £89.95. Now that’s lots of money, but Rigby & Peller have been making underwear for 70 years, hell, the Queen buys her

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My New Mulberry Dress & a Charity Reminder

Eyeliah at Style Symmetry invited everyone to her virtual birthday party this year. Never one to turn down the opportunity to get dressed up, and considering I don’t have to actually fly to Canada to attend, I decided that it was a party I just couldn’t miss. I even took balloons! I also thought it

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Define Your Style ❤ Part Five ❤

What Do You Need? In Part Four we looked at your existing wardrobe to try and create a small capsule wardrobe of items you like and suit your shape and your style. The next step from there is to look at the items you need to lay your sticky paws on to be able to

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Retro Chick Style Icon – Poirot

Who says my style icons always have to be girls? I’ve been just a tiny bit in love with David Suchet’s Hercule Poirot since some point in the late 80s when I heard him tell someone that he wasn’t a “bloody little frog” he was a “bloody little Belgian” He exudes a particular kind of

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Four Things I've Always Wanted….

…But Never Had. You must have these things? The things that if you had it would perfectly finish every outfit, or that if you had it would make you feel like a proper Princess, or would be the perfect dress for all occasions or you just really, really like. I’m not talking about those things

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Define Your Style ❤ Part Four ❤

What Do You Have? Parts two and three should have left you with a rough mental picture, and possibly a more specific list, of the kind of style you would like to have and how to make that style practical for you. That’s useless, of course, without a wardrobe of clothing to make it a

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All The Fun Of The Fair

Last Saturday, January 9th, all the way back in 1768  Philip Astley staged the first modern circus in London. As a mini celebration I spent Saturday night watching circus themed films (Big Fish is a good one) and eating candy floss (yes, I have a candy floss machine, I’m not sure why either) I love

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