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

RainyWednesday

Hi everyone,

allotmenting and chores today. So today's outfit is

blue and white checked shirt (£7 primark)
wide leg denim jeans (£20 Miss Selfridge)
bronze star stud earings
Silver star hairclip
crocs for up the lottie

pokerface123

Hope you don't mind me posting. I'm trying to have a 'new start' in terms of looking after myself - had a manicure and pedicure this morning!! It's my birthday tomorrow and I'm going out with some girly friends (newly ish single and struggling sometimes!)

what I'm wearing now:
royal blue vest from topshop (2 for £9)
dark denim jeans from next
white birkenstocks

what I will be wearing later :
fuschia pink dress from river island - one shoulder, brooch on shoulder, tulip skirt, quite short!
black 60 denier tights
new black peep toes shoes from monsoon £55
black clutch bag which matches the shoes from monsoon £30
massive stud earrings in the same sort of pink as the dress

I'm trying to take more care of myself and how I look, starting with my clothes! Wish me luck...

lostinrates

pokerface123 wrote: »

I'm trying to take more care of myself and how I look, starting with my clothes! Wish me luck...

Good luck!

I always find skin a good cheap place to lavish attention on too, ( I find honey fce masks brilliant, and egg white not bad)

daisybella

goanmad wrote: »

Tres stylish! :rotfl:The evening outfit sounds much more attractive!

Hope everyone's enjoying the glorious sunshine today. Just back in from a car boot sale and BF is in the process of making some veggie sausage sandwiches before we lounge about in the garden all afternoon reading the papers.


Today's outfit is:
Black cotton shortie playsuit with bird print (£4 from a sample sale)
High leg leather gladiators (£3 Indian street market)
Brass, woven and wooden bangles (collected over the years)
Two chunky gold-tone rings (Ex-Accessorize via car boot sales)
Brass dangly disc earrings (Women's co-operative, India)
Black Celia Birtwell tote bag with floral print (chazza shop 50p)

Enjoy your weekend!

xx

Can I come and live with you please? Gorgeous sounding outfit too!

pokerface123 wrote: »

I'm trying to take more care of myself and how I look, starting with my clothes! Wish me luck...

Welcome, I'm quite a newbie too
I love your mission of wanting to take good care of yourself, you are very worthy!
Have a fantastic Birthday tomorrow (incase I forget to wish you a great day then)

:beer:

goanmad

Hello Pokerface123 and happy b'day for tomorrow _party_

daisybella wrote: »

Can I come and live with you please? Gorgeous sounding outfit too!
:beer:

You're welcome! My friends always ask if they can have a rummage through my wardrobe whenever they call round, keeps me on my toes searching for outlandlish items to keep them happy!

Alexnikov

I know it's far too sunny and summery today to be thinking about autumn accessories but for all the hat lovers out there, M&S are selling a truly gorgeous black felt cloche. It looks stupid on me though, wah!!!

I'm feeling a bit bored by all my clothes at the moment but I don't see the point in buying anything new just yet. Weightloss is still going well and I don't want to buy new stuff until everything is really far too big to wear anymore. So today it was lots of old stuff:

Black jeans
Yellow pumps
Green and yellow leaf print top
Yellow short sleeved cardi with flower shaped buttons
And, as I fancied a change, curly hair - I put it up in bendy rollers overnight

RainyWednesday

Alexnikov wrote: »

I know it's far too sunny and summery today to be thinking about autumn accessories but for all the hat lovers out there, M&S are selling a truly gorgeous black felt cloche. It looks stupid on me though, wah!!!

Oh oh, I bought this as a treat the other day! I have dark straight bobbed hair and it just kind of worked. I'm very lucky as I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it

Alexnikov

Oooh fab! Do you feel all 1930s in it? It just didn't quite fit my annoyingly large head :rolleyes:

I bought a lovely teal knitted tea cosy type beret instead so I'm not too miffed, honest :rotfl:

RainyWednesday

Morning

Fitba for me today but still tried to make a mini effort while still layering up:

Topshop skinny jeans (a present from OH last christmas - brave man!)
A white slouchy t shirt - wide necked so hangs off one shoulder IYKWIM (£20 Surfers Against Sewage)
White with black collar and stripes detail vintage adidas zip up tracksuit top (a present from OH)
Red Mac style coat (£17 I think Primark, with slightly 70s wallpaper design buttons - added by me )
Brown Glad sandals (£20 New Look)
Multicoloured bead necklace round wrist (ancient)
Bronze star stud earings
Brown box style handbag (accessorize sale years ago)
Black and white scarf (football club shop )

Have a great Sunday peeps x

lostinrates

I need help!

I might need a swiming costume this week, I have two, bith have issues. One is a very prosaic black and pink number, with a bosom shelf, not cups, this is decent and unexciting, and might be my best bet but I hate it. I have a second swimming costume that is slightly more glam, its only M and S, pink paisley sort of thing, ith a halter neck and under boob tie thingy. Neither really do much for my boobs, (next time its cups not shelf) but I don't want to buy another as I'm really trying very hard to lose weight and ti have three barley used swimming costumes is even more stupid than two barely used swimming costumes. The pink one probably looks worse, but ''feels'' better. I'm going to try some judicious stitches for a bit more shape/support (particularly at the front where the v is too low, goes beyong the tie, and gapes, I thought a few stiches where its meant to meet might help).
I am aware confidence is all, especially when one is overweight to make looking good in swimwear impossible, its a damage limitation exercise...I don't know which to wear. I'm guessing most of you will say black and unglam for the slightly better support....and if you do it will make plumoing for that easier.