Category: Fashion

[unpaid/ad/affiliate] Every single time I wear this sweater, which was a gift from my daughter, I get compliments on it or someone wants to know where it’s from. I don’t know why I haven’t featured it before to be honest. It’s from the White Company which generally I avoid because all their bottoms are far…

[unpaid/ad/affiliate] I usually hold off til Friday for any fashion posts but when you find exactly the right pair it won’t wait because they have a habit of disappearing fast. These are definitely for spring or summer but trousers are my default wear so a nice, slimline pair of crops to wear with wedges or…

[affiliate] I had to fast forward in my head to summer and slopping about in the garden with a rosé enjoying the sunshine and occasionally dead-heading something or other to justify this dress purchase. You know those hot, hot days when you don’t really want to be wearing any clothes at all… but I have…

[affiliate] So, I’ve spent this morning ordering yoga wear from M&S’s new range, Good Move. I literally am that woman in Sweaty Betty breaking out into the aforementioned sweat at paying £95 for leggings. FOR LEGGINGS! I hate leggings anyway and finding loose active wear for yoga is nigh on impossible and I know this…

{affiliate} I’m so thoroughly pleased with my new Fitflop Wonderwellies – I got them from Mr BBB for my birthday (I did ask for them!) – that I thought I’d show you them. They’re so far from the plastic tubes I’ve had in the past in terms of comfort and warmth and they’re definitely needed…

[affiliate] I have finished my Christmas shopping. I am done! I had a few girlfriend gifts left to get and by luck my local TK Maxx had just had a drop of Lulu Guinness. These are selling so quickly so I’m hoping they’re all still around by the time this post goes live. I bought…

[affiliatelinks] I’m doing Friday Treat on a Wednesday because I’m away both Wednesday and Thursday and am concerned that these will sell out before Friday. I’m not joking! I bought a pair of these about three or four years ago from M&S and they were my best ever non-denim jeans. Even though I subsequently bought…

[affiliatelink] I really don’t like dressing gowns at all – I never, ever wear them although I have had several of them as gifts over the years that go off to Oxfam intermittently. I always feel a big strangled in them – they’re always so big, especially towelling robes and if you’re 5ft 3ins like…

[affiliate] If you like a chunky trainer (I do, thank you!), these leopard prints from M&S are just the thing for wearing with jeans and warm knits through autumn. Footwear confounds me at this time of year – too chilly for sandals, too hot for boots – trainers are just about the only transitional shoes…

[productsample/affiliatelink] It’s interesting that these alcohol free fragrances have been renamed as ‘waters’ – I’ve had a quick look to see if there is a technical reason they aren’t labelled ‘perfume’ but can’t really find anything. These (Eau d’Hadrien, Rose Pompon and Petite Cherie) aren’t the first waters from this brand – last year Goutal…

[affiliate] I had an email this week that immediately caught my interest – about Gymtimidation. That’s me! I had that! Dove commissioned a survey about why women feel intimidated by going to the gym to the point that they just never go. I’m a classic case study for this because I put off going for…

[affiliate] Let’s face it, cashmere is a high maintenance material; you have to hand wash it (even machine-friendly is never the same after a spin) but once you’re a convert, you never go back! My cashmere sweaters are the only clothing items I own that I will lovingly wash in tepid water with a special…

[affiliatelink] I’ve bought very little in the sales this year – somehow, the ‘new’ stuff always looks better and I’ve had my head properly turned by a Marc Jacobs x Snoopy sweatshirt that I’ve resisted so far but can’t stop thinking about. The one thing I do actively look for in summer sales is winter…

[affiliatelink] I’m very bad at doing colour – my safe zone is black, white, metallics with an occasional foray into animal print. But, every now and again, brights catch my attention so I stepped out of my comfort zone (for the second time in as many weeks!) and really don’t want to wear anything but…

[affiliatelink] The annual ‘I hate all my clothes’ mood is upon me – I have an absolute safety net of jeans, boots or trainers, white shirt, black jacket or slight variants thereof. It’s rare for me to go flouncy but I met up with my friend Genevieve last night who was wearing such a fab…