Jacket of dreams....

Black? Aztec Print? Leather? Biker style? Now imagine all of this amalgamated into one item. I give you this AMAZING jacket from the Zara s/s 13 collection. I spotted this today while browsing the Zara website and  instantly decided that come pay day I am definitely purchasing this. Out the window goes my new years resolution to only buy quality classic pieces, this jacket is definitely not what I call a classic wardrobe essential, but I am justifying the purchase as a once a season 'fun' piece that I can throw on over items currently in my wardrobe, like my beige Isabel Marant Dicker  Topshop boots with a grey jersey midi dress.

Embroidered Biker Coat £99.99 - available  here

B&Q chic

Clockwise from top; Coat £89, Jumper £30, Pork Pie Hat £25, Dungarees £100, Leather Shorts £90, Shoes £75, Tee £14
All Topshop

Topshop have some really amazing pieces in store at the moment. I really love the orange, white a black colour palate, I have a dogstooth print bag which I think would really work well with the above pieces. I haven't worn dungarees since my mum got me a stonewash denim pair as a kid from the clubby catalogue in the 90's, but these sleek black ones seem stylish enough to wear without looking like a throwback from a time fashion forgot. I would perhaps advise against wearing the orange jumper with them unless you want to look like a human version of B&Q

Back!

I'm back.....

After a long hiatus from blogging I have decided to make a return to t'internet. I wish I could say the reason for not writing in so long is due to having being busy doing something fantastically interesting but in reality I haven't actually been up to that much. I have started studying again which I guess takes up a lot of my free time but at the moment I don't have any exams coming up so I am free to do as I wish after work usually involves slobbing out on the sofa watching Real Housewives of the OC on Itv 2)I figured my time would be better spent doing something kindof constructive?
Anyway...I was in town today to have a nosy around the shops and see what was left in the sales. I always find that by the end of January, if you are willing to rummage through all the shit left over from the summer sales you can find some really good bargains. Zara is case in point. I often don't even bother to look in Zara for the first week or so of the sales as the discounts are really poor. However come the end of January is when Zara tend to make their biggest reductions and there is usually a lot of decent A/W stock left. In the Aberdeen store where I was at today, over half the store was still dedicated to sale. I picked up this leather  'cutwork' top (as I believe all the fah-shun folk are calling it)  for £17.99 that I had my eye on for a while, but didn't think it warranted the original £39.99 price tag. Despite being faux leather it does look pretty real. Sorry about the awful quality photo and blame Zara for the dirty mirror

leather with holes in!

                                                               
                                                              

Jodhpurs? Trot on...

Summer '96. A sweltering hot day, the perfect setting for a friends 8th horse riding birthday party. Being a slightly fuller figured child (read fat) and by no means petite, horse riding was never going to be my forte. I was nervous as I had never been riding before but nothing prepared me for the god awful ordeal that is jodhpurs. Communal jodhpurs worn by hundreds of other children in the same prediciment as me. An awful shade of dirty camel (little did I know then that I would be working it again in AW 2010) made of a thick ribbed synthetic that looked like they would start a small fire if you ran fast enough. The had that horrid unwashed damp smell that whenever I smell that today I think of them. Camel, tight and ribbed garmets are not especially flattering even on the most litheof limb never mind an 8 year old who was already wearing age 13-14 clothing. Those bad boys were tight. Let me tell you. So tight in fact, they ripped a great massive hole down them during the gymkhana (not quite, but I like to make it sound more glamourous so stay with me). Ground. Swallow. Me. Up. Please. I have never ridden horseback again.
That incident had been pushed to the back of my memory, along with the patterned legging and sweater combos and the trauma of being cast as a cow in the school nativity play 1995. So imagine my disdain when jodhpurs started popping up in the lookbooks for A/W 10. At Dior they paraded suede ones down the runway tucked into riding boots and Paul Smith showcased a black pair. But no matter how many times I see them, albeit nicer ones not always made of that thick rib, I cannot erase the memory of the dreaded jodphur incident of '96. Don't get me wrong, I am all for equestrian style. I am even after a pair of these gorgeous brown leather riding boots which I envisage myself wearing with black jeans and that sold out last year Zara cape coat that I am currently occupied in a bidding war to get via ebay. However I can say this for sure, jodhpurs are one trend I will definately not be working this season or any other season to come. Because not only for the fact I despise them, I would probably end up looking like the right hand picture in them (Hello! camel toe, how ironic given then the nature of the trouser...)
ps. If you are after them, H&M are selling a camel coloured pair for £9.99 which I discovered much to my horror on the back of my Sunday Times Stlyle magazine. Oh no they have even started evading the high street...

Oh Neigh (had to get one in somewhere)

Oh Yay!