Big Sleeves...Big Hair

It's a good job I saved this dress for today. If I'd worn it earlier in the week there's a distinct chance I'd have taken off and been blown across the Irish Sea.

There is a lot of fabric in these sleeves. If a gust of wind had caught them in the wrong direction, I reckon I'd have been rapidly transformed into a well-dressed kite.




It's excellent fun to wear though. I feel very dramatic.

It barely needs any embellishments either. I've tried wearing a cardigan over it and well, that turned into a giant tangle of fabric. Luckily the dress fabric is a really nice thick jersey so it's lovely and warm just by itself. If I need extra warmth I can always tuck myself up in the sleeves!






Dress - Pearl Lowe @ Peacocks
Shoes - TK Maxx
Ring - Dorothy Perkins sale

An Outfit Post Abroad

I do sometimes think it would be lovely to live in a permanently warm climate. Then I go on holiday, come back with painfully sunburnt upper thighs (remembered to apply suntan lotion everywhere but there) and remember that I actually don't cope that well with dressing properly in hot weather. It would be impossible for me to look even halfway presentable - I'd always be sweaty, covered in suntan lotion or sand or have my hair tied back up so it didn't annoy me. I'm much safer in the UK.

That's a long winded way of explaining why there aren't very many pics of me on holiday wearing anything very nice. I managed a few though:

Please ignore my matronly upper arms. They only ever see the light of day on holiday.

I should take all my blog photos in cloisters.

Or on cathedral roofs.


Dress - Primark via ebay
Sandals - Primark
Sunnies - Marks & Spencer

Beachfront ones are more tricky though. It was so windy this night (hence the scragged back hair) and I kept getting blown off balance whilst trying to stand still and have my photo taken.



Dress - Peacocks via car boot sale
Cardi - Topshop, present from the ever-lovely and generous Char
Shoes - Dolcis
Watch - shop in Barcelona
Ring - Dorothy Perkins sale
Bag - H&M via car boot sale
Toenails - Barry M Spring Green


And despite the fact that this is a total out-take shot (I should have a special folder entitled Alex Arses Up The Self-Timer), I am showing it to you because...duh duh duh... I found some green trousers! Aren't they quite fantastically green? Expect a proper outfit post featuring them soon.


(Pa demanded credit for his photography so here goes - thanks Dad! Awesome holiday companion that you are.)

Impractical Work Wear Part 978

This frock can look fairly normal. Crazy print, obviously, but otherwise quite normal.

Then I move my arms:

SLEEVES!

Fun eh? Wildly impractical for work/washing up/going to the loo etc but definitely fun. And I'm learning new sleeve slinging tricks by the minute. As I type this they're currently thrown back around my elbows like some eighteenth century lady pushing her ruffles back to write a letter. Earlier I twisted them round and shoved them under my armpits. Classy, moi?

Do excuse the gratuitous boob shot - it's the only decent closeup of the fabric. And yes, it is safety pinned together. Entirely too revealing otherwise.

Dress - Pearl Lowe @ Peacocks, sale
Shoes & ring & probably earrings too - Dorothy Perkins
Sunnies - Marks & Spencer

This is the first and probably only Pearl Lowe frock I've bought. It's not her designs I have a problem with, it's the awful shoddy fabric that the dresses are all made out of. This is a lovely jersey fabric but all the others look like Primark's absolute worst and I have no wish whatsoever to buy stuff that looks so cheap and nasty. I like this one though. Obviously, seeing as I bought it...