Fabulous New Fashion chat - Dressed up or Down - Everyone Welcome!! (Part 3)

daydreambeliever_3

Alex, you look lovely in the outfit you wore for the wedding at work.

Goan, I'm loving what you've shown so far for Alex's challenge. It's amazing that you've got something for any occasion.

PF, the car is gorgeous.

Alexnikov

Thanks daydream

Ice, I find that they're mostly old lady clothes! I seem to do better with accessories - I can usually find decent shoes and scarves and occasionally jewellery. Clothing is more a case of endlessly searching and finding something nice every now and then. I'm finding car boots a better hunting ground at the moment as they're cheaper and tend to have nicer stuff.

iceicebaby

Alex, are car boot sales really that good a hunting ground? I have never gone to one, put off by the thought of lots of tat!

Alexnikov

Well I'm not the most experienced car booter on this thread but I've never come home without at least a few nice things. Depends on how the sellers have laid things out - most at my local boot sale use clothes rails and they're easy enough to rifle through.

piratefairy

I need to factor in some car booting time! Have just about managed to fit in time to see toy story tomoro yay

lola34

Ice- The secret is to get in and have a good rummage in the car boots, I was at one the other week, the buyer had a pile of clothes on the floor all for £1 each, but stuck in the bag next to the pile was a gorgeous green velvet jacket from Mango, and again with the Charity shops you just need to have time to have a good luck through, after a while its comes naturally- you can spot a decent item of clothing by the pattern or type of material a mile off, unlike Alex though I never find shoes in the CS but clotheswise I do quite well.

Pirate - enjoy Toy Story- don't forget your tissues!!!! just in case. Even my 8 year old neice cried in 3 places she informed us.

No gym today as I think it'll be a bit busy and theres a festival on in town so prob won't get parked, instead I have found a table top sale at the local Salvation Army so will try and pop along later.

sharronloves2spend

Morning ladies, i wonder what the weather will deal us today. Hope the rain stays away or the car booty will be cancelled

Ice, there is a lot of tat at car boots but there's also a lot of treasures too, the secret is a lola said to have a good old rummage. I'm like a pig in the proverbial (sp!) rummaging through clothes. It reminds me of being a child with my mum at jumble sales and she would be rooting through and passing me the pile of clothes, we would go home and pull out thr twin tub washing machine (who remembers those??) and wash all of our 'purchases' once it was all dried and ironed we would have a fashion show. I think my love of clothes began at the tender age of 6. I think i've gone full circle, in my early 20's whilst my older two boys where young, it was new AND designer only. Even the boys had osh kosh this, oillily that. I'm very happy to say that i'm back to where i began, but unlike when i was a child it's out of want not need.

OOOO, i have rambled!!

Keeping it relevant, wearing Jeggings (primark) long blue flowery vest from yesterdays tesco order, gladiators from carboot sale. Dh has said i can 'have' his wardrobe if i clear him a drawer so going to re-organise all my clothes today, now that i have two wardrobes I knew i married him for a reason.

Alex- did you get shoe storage from ikea?? I really need to sort out mine but don't know what to do

Sharron x

_Mia__2

Morning, I managed my shift last night and i'm back at work this morning - boo. Finish at 4 then on to my other job at 6 - the joys :j.

Last night I was on the function bar at work and managed to meet Susan Boyle. Shes tiny in real life lol.

Anyway outfit today is:

Next flared jeans
A two teired jumper top
Black heels.

Managed to book some flexi time for tomorrow so I don't start until 10 - yay!

Alexnikov

Sharron, yup I did. Blog post will be up early next week, as requested

piratefairy

Well topshop don't have the shoe boots in, nor does h&m have the yellow blazer :-/ looks like I need a trip to bham when i get back from camping!
Today's outfit;
topshop pastel floral dress, with cutout back section.
Blue cardi with pink flamingos on, bay
pink irregular choice ballet pumps
various pearl and pink bead bracelets, homemade.

Need to pack a weeks worth of stuff for camp :-/