Fabulous New Fashion chat - Dressed up or Down - Everyone Welcome!!

daisybella

You've reminded me I have a cross stitch I could start later

piratefairy

morning all..

i think i'm wearing the dress alex was on about yday - grey rose print, shoulder pads and a pearl chain belt, from Primark..indecently short lol
and a pair of thick grey tights
grey cat ballet shoes, office
and the teal shrug i've been wearing most of the week lol

ugh, feel like i need to sleep for a year, could not stay asleep last night, but then got up to do somehting, and couldnt' concentrate on sewing or reading or anything :S

got a busy weekend planned too, guide training day tomorrow, then in the afternoon, 35 exit surveys to do..hopefully that shouldn't take too long, as i then want to get all the things im returning from last weekend together, and pop to the shops on sunday to do that..then loads of baking to try and fit in for monday night's coffee evening..which means i have to somehow fit in a supermarket trip today..

ETA - tsabo, i'll take some clothes-room pics over the weekend..
and Goan - thank you for remembering to look xx

daisybella

Eek PF, wish I could jet up to you and give you a hand...

tsabo

Forgot to say PF the necklace wasn't in the two Topshops I went in over the past couple of days. I'm going elsewhere today though so i'll keep looking.

Booked the Alice in Wonderland tickets and i'm very excited. Have no idea what to wear though, stress! I'll catch up tonight, hope everyone has a nice day.

piratefairy

eeep, alice in wonderland- i am so excited, but have to wait for my sis to have enough time to come back from uni..
have several alice skirts to choose from lol, since going though a bit of an iron-on patch phase a while back, whereby i customised most things to within an inch of their lives!

thanks for looking tsabo, i keep checking the bookmarked page too just in case lol..

and thanks for the offer daisy..i thankfully work much better under pressure, so hopefully will have a lot or cakes to take with me on monday..

piratefairy

oh my gosh, topshop is making me mad this morning..not only do they have no duckling necklaces in stock lol, also they have these..
http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=19551&storeId=12556&categoryId=126989&parent_category_rn=42351&productId=1580853&langId=-1
i did an easter party for rainbows once, and we made them for each of them, much nicer and turned out a whole lot cheaper than £15!! jeez!

daisybella

that is insanity PF, topshop really have fast lost favour with me for their increased prices.

siaoeh

shwmae! greetings from a newbie in sunny wales :wave: I hear you girls are very stylish and friendly so I thought I'll be a little thick skin and barge in here for some help on an outfit I'm planning to wear tomorrow night for a formalish dinner (not black tie formal, its a bollywood theme apparently, but host said cocktail dress is fine) hope you girls dun mind :A

the dress I have is something like this (pic nicked from ebay, my house is not that tidy!)


as I'm a young-ish thirty-someting shortie (abt 5'1 I think) with short legs (long torso) size 16/14 the dress ends kind of just above mid calf if that makes sense.... and I'm going to wear it with a skirt that has netting underneath to create a swing/prom dress effect...

black opaque tights and here's the problem.. shoes.. I just bought this from DP and thought they might go, give the dress an edge so to speak


I have no formal heels or shoes that aren't strappy sandals that's going to freeze my toes off. so its either these or biker boots, or black platform boots or black mary jane types with chunky sole and heels that look suspiciously like what teenage girls wear to sch (actually I did buy them from the kiddie section so they probably are girls' heels) I'm not very good with heels you see. I'm usually in my biker boots or fitflop mukluk boots or walking trainers/boots...

what do you stylish girls think abt the shoe-boots with the dress? I've sent DH to see if the DP in town where he works has a black pair in my size as I think maybe it being in grey will visually chop off more legs that I can afford? I did wear the full gear and looked in the mirror and thought it didn't look too bad but I might just be too blinded by the new shoes

also I have 2 choices for the top to cover up my less than ideal upper arms :oand to keep me a little warmer... either a fluffly woolly white scraf I got for christmas or this little chifon number

I have this in black and ivory.. just thought ivory would be a nice contrast to the black dress and tights

any advice greatly appreciated hope you girls dun mind a newbie barging straight in with this

frugalfreda

Morning everyone

Lovely, bright and sunny here, good opportunity to get some washing out.

Still in PJs and dressing gown. Baby awake a lot of the night with a cold but she is asleep now.

Bought Look Magazine yesterday - there is a lovely Dorothy Perkins 'statement' butterflies and blooms necklace in it but at £50 I think it is too pricey!

Have a nice day everyone

retro_bluebell

Morning peeps!

im having a major stress as I cannot find my camera!!! Im sure Jasmine has pinched it and hidden it somewhere! Argh- the pics from yesterday are already stored on the computer but cant take any of todays outfit til I find it (if I do)....

anyway today Im wearing:

pink and blue floral tunic dress with ruffles down the front- Next via ebay.
raspberry pink tights
black shrug cardi I wore the other day lol.
silver ring butterfly earrings.
stack of green bangles boought from Primark yesterday.
boring brown boots (so fed up with these but I have no other flat ones except my teal ones and they wont go)
3/4 length sleeve cotton swing jacket with 3 big buttons (very 50's) when I go out (though I wore my wool coat this mornign as it was freeeeeezing!).

Feel very very self conscious today as this dress is not really I dress its more of a tunic so I have to make sure I stay standing upright of fear of flashing! aRGH

I think I will have to just update the blog with pics from yesterday as I doubt I will get a chance to take pics now as Im out all afternoon at Jasmines dance class *sighs* Im having such a fat day too I feel fat, horrible and frumpy