Fashion chat- Dressed up or down??? All welcome!!

piratefairy

There is one on today's blog post, under my home page wud post here but can't until I'm back at the computer in the morning as this phone is a nightmare!

Sharona

daisybella wrote: »

Sharona, I find it hard to wear colour when the weather is like this. Maybe some thick coloured tights would be a good way; Primark sometimes have theirs reduced to 50p a pair!

Ooooh, that's a good idea for a way to ease into colour. Someone at work also said that Primark tights are great quality and last for ages. Quite fancying some purple ones and maybe grey as well - or is that a total cop-out!

Doesn't matter what time of year it is, when I open my wardrobe and see a sea of black and grey I'm a happy bunny.

Although saw a gorgeous scarf in the sale in red and grey - £40 down to £15. Took the grey to the cash desk (soooooooo predictable!) and it scanned at £40. The sales asst. explained that it had been put back in the wrong place, only the red on sale. So bought the red and really glad I did - it's actually so much better for bringing life to the complexion.

Quite loving regal colous - red, purple, bottle green. But also loving the look of the pastels for spring - expecially the more dusty grey-sih pinks and blues (yep, soooooooooooo predictable! :rotfl:).

xx

Queen_of_NO_MATTER_WHAT

They are cute. How long do they take you to make? Do you sell them on ebay?

From the girl who asks too many questions

piratefairy

Um, made a few in an hour this evening, have ordered proper brooch backs to go on them, wad mainly planning on doing them as presents, hadnt rly considered eBay for them, but might sell thru my blog if anyone is interested..wasn't sure there'd be much call lol

poorandindenial

Hello :wave:

I am a first time poster on this thread but just stumbled across it and have spent a while nosing through the blogs that you have and I am loving them.

I generally just fall out of bed and into whatever is clean. Sometimes that is stylish, sometimes not so much (imagine the now dismissed rolleyes smiley here)

Anyhow, I just wanted to say good work on the blogs ladies.

(ps - I am loving the birds too piratefairy, they are really pretty)

piratefairy

Welcome and thanks, poorandindenial! I kinda found that it helped when I started actally listing my outfits as it made me more conscious of what i was wearing with what..as I'm sure you can see from my blog, I'm no stranger tk bright colours and patterns, it's what to put them together with that I sometimes fall down on. My best advice would be to be happy in yourself and wear what you feel comfortable in, rather than try tk be dictated by passing trends..it will all grow from there on..

tsabo

Just been having a look at your blogs and I feel very uninspired and boring now! I usually just wear leggings, long top, Uggs and leather jacket. Pretty much daily, in a variety of black white and grey shades!

I buy accessories but never seem to wear them. And I need some colour in my wardrobe! I'm drawn to the same thing everytime and i'm stuck in a clothing rut
Plan for feb: wear more purple.

poorandindenial

Thanks hun

I often describe my style as 'classic but a bit odd' because my wardrobe is made up of stuff that doesn't really fit in fashions but that I can put together in all manner of ways. I quite like it that way but it does mean that I can go from 'librarian' one day to slightly barmy the next.

I only really discovered colour about 5-6 years ago, before that everything that I owned was black or blue, I almost never wear blue (apart from jeans/denim skirt) now but love greens and reds (not often together). I quite like to have something in my outfit that makes a statement (often that'll be my shoes) and am keen to get into customisation (i can sew, I just don't do it often) and also have a crack at making my own stuff.

I have also been teaching myself to make jewellery, I haven't done anything exciting yet but my tecniques are getting better and I am looking for inspiration for something exciting to make to wear to a wedding with a dress that i tried on, loved (flattering), bought (overspent) and now want something eye catching to wear with it. I was perusing Accessorize this evening and (i think it was your blog) agree that almost everything there can be made fairly easily. My next step is to trawl charity shops for necklaces and bracelets that catch my eye that I can break up and make into an exciting new bracelet.

But all that is when I can be bothered, I love clothes and accessories, but all too often I am in a rut. I am loving looking through the blogs for inspiration. Not in a single white female way, i very much do my own thing style wise, but I love looking at other people's styles for ideas.

I also love make-up but am generally too lazy to do it (my technique is OK but I am sooooooooooo crap in the mornings)

Bloody hell, I do go on. Right, am shutting up now.

xxvickixx

What do your OH's think about this little community?
My DH asked who all these people were on FB and I started to explain... Oh they're just my online friends, you know from the fashion forum...and realised how incredibly sad that actually sounded when I said it out loud lol!

I then (in a desperate attempt to sound rational) showed him the blogs, this is X, she does this wears this etc.

Thought I'd share with you some of his comments!

PF - Oh she's a messy girl just like you!
Goan - DH particularly liked your Hippys use the other door sign, it tickled him!
DB - Admired your style.
Can remember who but someone with a 58? in their name, he thought it was your birth year and said they're surely too old to be fashionable, then saw the blog and said oh, she quite young?

I think he might become a follower too now!

BTW - muffins were yummy!

Mariel

Wow, you lot have been VERY chatty! I'll catch up in the morning, I've spent all night setting up my blog which is now linked from my username if anyone wants to have a look! Can't for the life of me work out how to make the photos go where you want them to though.