Wedding Outfit Ideas #2

♥ Dress - Chi Chi Georgia Dress (honestly, Im'm in love) - here

♥ Shoes 1 - eBay - here

♥ Shoes 2 - BooHoo Helen Cuffed Ankle Two Part Heels - here

♥ Shoes 3 - Faith Litchfield Navy Metallic Heeled Sandals via ASOS - here

♥ Shoes 4 - eBay - here

I've already spoken about the two weddings I'm going to this summer. I've posted my ideas for the first wedding here, from when I bought my dress in the ASOS sale earlier in the year. Honestly, since then I've been looking for the dress to wear for the second wedding on a weekly basis. The first wedding was relatively easy to plan for as it's a conventional, inside, sit down dinner, disco / band later on, hometime wedding. However, the second is Nick's brothers, it's in a garden in the middle of summer and I'm going to the registry office with them at 10am in the morning and will be in said wedding outfit until I go to bed at around 1am that night. That's a 13 hour outfit!!

So far, it's been one of those occasions where I know exactly what I want, just, sadly, no one's made the dress yet! I had my heart set on a long, navy dress (which would be practical and pretty for an outdoors wedding) with something going on that made it a little different from just a 'long navy dress', maybe a sneaky slit up the skirt, or maybe it would be backless, or perhaps it would have a few delicate bits of sequining on the arms. My inspiration is Kate Middleton, who I personally think wears long, formal dresses perfectly. She doesn't look OTT, like a celebrity at a film premier trying to break any fashion ground, she always has a certain air of relaxed glamour and she is just effortlessly classic. Please see below for pictures evidence...

(Disclaimer: obviously I would never look like this because she is perfect)

I thought there would definitely be a market for this sort of dress as K-Middy is England's national treasure. But no! I couldn't find anything. I'm sure if I had Kate's budget I'd be able to find the perfect dress but as I'm a poor(ish) gal it's not going to happen.

So I changed tact and, I still wanted navy but opted for knee length instead, I wanted a skater style dress but chiffon skirt rather than anything with structure. And I found this lovely dress from Chi Chi London. I've not heard of them before but I came across some of their other designs on ASOS, they do a lot of similar dresses in a range of colours so if you're looking for an occasion dress then I'd check them out. Although, I've not actually ordered and tried it on yet so I can't comment on the fit or quality but for £75 I'd hope for it to be pretty good.

Now the decision is just whether to go for rose gold or navy sandals.... argh!

Until next time :)

Cheeky BooHoo order...

I may have just placed a sneaky BooHoo order.... 

I fell into the usual trap - I watched a couple of haul videos on YouTube earlier which just made me think 'aaaah clothes, aaaaaah internet shopping', and now here we are. I added over one hundred pounds worth of items to my BooHoo basket before taking a step back and putting my thinking cap on and realising this was a bad idea. Mainly because there's that thing coming up... what's it called??? Oh yeah, CHRISTMAS! Which means I need to be sensible with my monies. So I removed quite a large portion of my basket and stuck with these three:

1. Grace Deep Plunge Velvet Skort Playsuit - I'm thinking this will be perfect for a night out at the weekend. Plus I have some killer new boots which will look awesome with this. I would recommend the old trick of ordering two sizes of playsuits on BooHoo. When I've bought playsuits before I've fit sizes ranging between 8 - 12 on there so it's always good to order an extra just to see.

2. Ellie Pom Pom Trim 3/4 Sleeve Swing Dress - I just love paisley prints, which is my only justification for this. I could do without the pom poms but I suppose you can't win them all.  

3. Anne Embossed Velvet Smock Dress - And this one is sorting me for Christmas day! 

I know I've bought two items in berry red velvet which is normally something I would stop myself from doing, and when I was having my 'basket cleanse' I would've made myself choose just one. BUT in this case I really liked the red velvet and thought that since the playsuit is very much a 'going out' outfit which I would only wear for a proper night out (not just a meal / drinks), it would be ok to get a more casual dress in the same material that could either be dressed up or down depending on the occasion. 

As I said, I had much more in my basket that I got rid of, but two dresses worth an honourable mention are:

1. Penny Peacock Print Smock Dress - Really cute pattern here which I think could be quite versatile and wearable both in and out of work which is always good. The only reason it didn't make it into the final basket was simply that I only wanted one patterned dress (the embossed flowers on the velvet dress don't count!) and I preferred the paisley one above! 

2. Una Fox Print Pleat Front Skater Dress - You know how we talked about my cat collection? Well I also have a pretty significant fox collection too and I can't resist things with foxy patterns on like this adorable dress. However, I feel this would be one of those purchases where it's all fine and dandy and cute until I actually try to wear it. I feel like I would end up looking like a small child. Also, I've just bought a fox print scarf (so that will have to satisfy my fox print needs for the time being).

Until next time :)

The Cat Collection #4

The next instalment of my cat collection comes in the form of this Topshop dress. I bought it a good year ago and to be quite honest I haven't worn it as much as I should have for the money it cost! If I remember rightly it was around the £30 mark, which if you ask me is pretty steep for what is essentially a cheaply made jersey dress.  But - I'm not going to lie - I bought it purely for the kitty cat on the top half. And as with my previous cat collection post, I really did try and resist this one. I saw it numerous times in store before I finally caved and bought it. I think it was when I went in one day and noticed it wasn't in its usual location that I got a bit worried that I'd missed my chance, so when I saw it had just been moved around I jumped at buying it. I almost wish that cutie pie face were on a cushion because I would get more use out of it! 

Anyway, I did actually wear the dress the other day - I found it lurking in my wardrobe when I was having a clear out and decided I wasn't ok with getting rid, so made a promise to myself to wear it. I just wore it for a casual day shopping with my friend, and that's definitely what it's perfect for. Thumbs up to Topshop on this one!!

Until next time :)

I love an Urban Outfitters sale (plus a discount code!)

(L: Cooperative Knitted Dress in Daisy Print - R: Cooperative Pleated Dress in Gingham)

I just wanted to share this with the interweb because I bloody love OU but sadly I hardly ever buy anything from there because it is so darned expensive! I've been eyeing the gingham dress up for an age and I was watching Faye from FayesFix yesterday (Sunday is a great day for lazing around and watching YouTube, isn't it?) and she featured this dress in her haul, which just trigged all my memories and the feelings came rushing back. Then she said it was in the sale and I was immediately on the OU website ordering it. Then I thought, 'ooh I'll just have a little peruse and see what other delights are on offer' and I saw the daisy print dress. I'm not sure how it'll be on, but I thought it might be quite good for work in the colder months. I sometimes struggle with work wear because I want to look smart but I also don't want to look like every other person in the office, or older than my years. Which is the effect more traditional work wear can have on me (granted this is partly due to the fact I look about 12). But I thought this was a respectable length but still quite young and fun (and at £20, you can't really complain).  

Also, UO currently have a discount code floating around the internet for £10 when you spend £60 (the code is LETSFEST if you're interested). These two dresses didn't quite make it up to £60 (in fact the order was bang on £50) so I decided to see what else I could find to bump my order up to £60 so I could get the £10 off. Basically I was looking for anything that I quite liked for £10 so I could feel like I got it for free, which is always great. I ended up getting this phone case, which I really enjoy. It got the price up to £62 so I got my £10 and only actually spent £52. Yay! I mean for OU that is pretty good. The full price value of the two dresses was £97, so I got them for almost half price.

What are your favourite OU picks at the moment?

Until next time :)

ASOS Wish List - Spring Sale Dresses!

1. ASOS Skater Dress With Wrap Back In Peacock Print (Was £28/Now £19.50)
2. ASOS Skater Dress In Paisley Jacquard (Was £65/Now £19.50
3. ASOS Dress In Textured Knit (Was £42/Now £21) 
4. ASOS Shift Dress In Spot (Was £32/Now £19)

So I got a lovely email from ASOS the other day saying that they were doing an offer to have extra 20% off sale items. I promptly got excited and then immediately forgot about the email until mid-week when I decided that I might fancy a new dress to wear at the weekend. Of course I went straight to the ASOS sale pages and filled my basket full of dresses, I then whittled it down to these 4 and went on to the checkout... only to realise my code had expired.

Worst.Feeling.Ever.

I can't quite justify spending £79 on 4 dresses I was only going to buy because I had a 20% off voucher so I am just going to stare at the above picture and imagine that I have bought them. 

Although having said that, I really, really enjoy numbers 1 and 2 so they may well just find their way into my wardrobe at some point soon. Maybe towards the end of the month when I don't feel quite so guilty about spending?

Whats on your spring wish list?

Until next time :)