FOOTBALL JERSEY DRESS

       I wasn’t quite sure whether to title this post ‘Football Jersey Dress’ or ‘Football Jersey as a Dress’. I mean, the only thing that makes this a ‘dress’ is that it’s long enough to cover my butt. Much appreciated. And that’s what I love about it so much. It’s as close to being

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Long Anorak

  I’ve always loved the deliberately disheveled and indifferent feel of the urban anorak, but it was my ex-housemate Rebecca who got me really interested with her infectious obsession with finding the ‘perfect anorak’. You know when you have that feeling that a single piece of clothing, if you found it, could complete your whole

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GRANDMA SHIRT

  I’ve always been oddly attracted to grandma styles – embroidered cardigans, mother of peal buttons, nautical neck scarves and the like. Of course, I’m not talking about my own grandma’s clothing. Having lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and then a ‘waste-nothing’ middle class lifestyle, you can imagine that fashion wasn’t as a-matter-of-fact as it

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BLING-BLING BOOTIES

  There could possibly be no two things as complimentary as the skinny leather pant and studded flat booties.  These days my attention has turned sharply away from high heeled boots to flat, more masculine styles, if only for the latter’s edge factor (looks like I’m going through another one of my anti-girly phases). Of

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Denim Plaid Denim

  In a world ruled by formulas, plaid plus denim equals line dance queen, but denim plus plaid plus denim is a tasty sartorial club sandwich. Add to that a plain white tee and white converse canvas lace-ups and now, for me, this is an outfit that makes sense in all different directions. Weather appropriate,

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New Beauty Fav: Rimmel London Kate Moss Lasting Finish Matte Lipstick #103

Far be it from me to purport to identify lipstick colours by serial number, but I just couldn’t help gushing a little about #103 from Rimmel London Kate Moss Lasting Finish Matte Lipstick collection – a wonderfully chic blue based pale plum pink.I know I’m late getting on the bandwagon with the Kate Moss lippies,

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