Pencil Skirt Perfection

 I spotted some printed pencil skirts lately and want them all. These are almost works of art! There is no more flattering shape to the curvier lady either. Well perhaps the A-line skirt would work for the taller curvier lady, it unfortunately renders me very mushroom-like.

Penneys Meadow Print pncil skirt €13

Aztec Ponti pencil skirt £22 River Island

Oasis Kaleidoscope skirt £56 but the most beautiful of all!!!

Topshop tropical skirt £38

Black print skirt £25 River Island

 These last two could easily pass for something straight out of the Givenchy Resort 2012 collection, with their amazing colours and tribal or floral detail. Waaaaaaant!

Little peep at 2012

Very pleased to see my most recent bargain buy on ASOS is very similar to some beautiful dresses and skirts with floral keyhole crochet detailing Louis Vuitton's Summer 2012 collection. And for €22!

ASOS Premium Shift Dress €22

Kate Moss and fellow models wearing pieces from the Louis Vuitton Summer 2012 collection

Lots of 50s housewife detailing in the Spring/Summer collections, knee length pencil dresses from Caroline Herrera, housecoats from Derek Lam, wasp waisted tweed jackets from Burberry. This is good news for average sized women everywhere, there is nothing more flattering than a knee length fitted pencil dress.

Alexander McQueen on the other hand doesn't seem to obviously reference any era. I think he is making fairytales for adult women, he is just pure crazy creative genius. If his Savage Beauty exhibition comes to London I am there! The black corset with stiff collar is almost exactly the dress I have wanted for years and never found. A little impractical if you plan on eating anything for the day but hey! Worth it!

Savage Beauty exhibition pieces

Alternative wedding bouquets

Since my wedding I keep coming across dresses I would have preferred, hairstyles that would have worked better, and now bouquets I would have LOVED if I'd come across them in time! So I'm going to share these to hopefully save someone else that annoyance!

Button bouquet €250 by LillyBudBouquets on Etsy

Leather flower ball €173 BloomRiver on  Etsy

Vintage Brooch Bouquet €242.00 MousePhotography on Etsy

Royal Wedding teardrop bouquet-LillyBud Bouquets on Etsy €490

Butterfly bouquet €230 My Haley Girl on Etsy

Bright designer bouquet Mattheppelstone on Etsy €728-ouch!

I realise these prices are ridiculous but there's absolutely no reason you couldn't copy these, vintage brooches and all, for a tiny fraction of the cost. They're just so cheery!

Sequinned beauties

Spotted this on ASOS. Sequinned but understated, love it!

Ashish Breton stripe sequin top

Although after spending €573.98 on an item of clothing I may not want to look understated!

ASOS embellished top with paillette sequins €71.75

I like this a lot despite the obvious madness, the colour is great and it's very sculptural but it would be extremely unflattering and is more than a little odd. And how the hell would you wash it?

Religion dress with mirrors ASOS €84.79

A less girly take on polka dots maybe? I love the asymmetrical hem.

Lovely winter woolly dresses

I love my winter knit dresses, it pains me to put them away once spring gets that bit too warm. They're cute but comfortable and look perfect with lovely clunky boots. As I've pointed out before I'm not a girly-girl at all so this is a good compromise for me!

Awear piped wool-blend mini-dress €50

Berry colour-tick, peter-pan collar-tick.......of course if money was no object, this Pendleton dress is gorgeous:

Pendleton jacquard mini-dress €263 ASOS

Beautiful Tophop sequinned dress £58

 

Dainty wool and lace dress from Promod €47. Black tights? Really?

Warehouse Colour-block dress €60. Unnecessarily pricy!

AND FINALLY........I think I'm in love.....

NW3 by Hibbs Madeley Metallic knit dress €181

But but but.....it's so pretty!!!

This is just the loveliest thing I've seen in a very long time. And I cannot have it as I am a good foot too short to carry it off!

ASOS berry leather midi skirt €114.71

Leather. Berry shade. Seventies. Midi. Perfection!!

I love coloured leather. Personally I feel with black leather there is always the danger of looking a little Bon Jovi (especially if it is not a very matt black), but adding colour brings it back to just being an amazing natural durable material with a little edge.

Oxblood leather front t-shirt Topshop £50

River Island gold skirt on ASOS €97.84

 Or if you, unlike most of us, have but one hip, this very slim fitting version from ASOS:
 

ASOS gold leather skirt €117.41

Gucci dress €1,800 on net-a-porter.com. Looks like toffee mmmmmmm

The best little navy dress ever, Emma Cook on Net a Porter €725

Halston dress €925 on http://www.outnet.com/

 I want them all!

Want of the Day

I loooooooooooooooooove this dress! I think this taupey-minkey-new plaster colour is my all time favourite, there's something very gentle and classy about it.

Twist & Tango dress €134.61 on ASOS

Have not been blogging at all lately, I am busy having a big clear-out of my wardrobe on Ebay, mostly so I can afford to re-stock it with lovely things! One of which is this lovely top I bought yesterday in Only in Liffey Valley shopping sentre.  Only is a brand I keep forgetting about, mostly because somedays I see absolutely nothing I'd like when I go in, other days I end up taking 7 things into the changing room and wishing I could afford them all. This is lovely though, unusual to find this lovely vivid blue, and it's subtly rock-chick with tiny stars and skulls.
(Can't find pic of long sleeve in blue for some reason so here are both versions....)

Patricia long sleeve €29

Patricia top €19

They do lovely draping, slouchy but flattering cotton and jersey casuals really well and at very reasonable prices, but also have the odd quirky piece hidden in amongst the staples.

Pull Wonder sheep jumper €39

Cape €79

Pantalon carrot trouser in tweed €45. Doesn't the model look great?

Full collection can be found here, can't find their own website!?
I will be back there sharpish on pay day!............