Dress of the Day

Today's dress!

Today's dress comes from Oasis and is a personal favourite. I had been coveting it for a long time, this and one other from the same collection. It's from the London Love Letters collection that Oasis brought out last season. Both dresses were originally £80 each which I think is incredibly steep for an everyday dress. So I added it to my wish list and kept sighing over it for a very long time...

Until I saw they had gone into the sale! Both dresses were listed at £45 so I called up my local stockist to ask if they had them in stock in my size, whereupon they told me that they had a special on that day where they were 15% off the marked price! So I got both for £76.50. Great or what!

The body of the dress is fitted without being too tight, with a concealed side zip, cross back, and I'm wearing a size 14.

All the patterns on the dresses in this range were hand drawn. This one features flowers and postcards of places around London:

The only downside of the dress is that the lining - it has quite a high quality lining in my opinion - sometimes rides up when my bag rubs against my side and I'm wearing tights/leggings. That's a bit of an annoyance.

Sorry, that last picture is a bit low quality!

I'm glad I got this dress - I need to wear it more often! Because of my issues about my weight and the fact that the body is fitted I sometimes worry that I'm too fat in it :/ But I feel so lovely and feminine when I wear it...!

New V&A bedding - blue

The second set of new bedding I bought for my new place :)

I think I might prefer this one to the pink one. The pink one is lovely, and very princessy, but this is simple...

...and the cat loves attacking the pink one and because it's embroidered some of the threads have started to come out of the stitching :/

With its pattern of red roses, white lace, blue pinstripes and tiny blue flowers I think it's girly without being too girly and I can't wait to cuddle up in it tonight!

Sometimes...

...the best pleasures in life are the most simple

Random concoction

Sundries tomato cous cous, lamb's lettuce, hard boiled egg, shiitake mushrooms, chicken sausages, baby beetroot and half an avocado

Dress of the Day: Tuesday (updated)

Yes, I'm behind again... Cause I'm still under the weather T^T

Tuesday's dress was the first of my new collection to be worn.

Jacquard floral floppy dress, size 12, £38

(I don't have a full length mirror in my room, and I don't like to disturb my sis to use her mirror if she's in her room. Besides, she's usually asleep or still in bed when I get ready for work. She's a PhD student so works from home)

*added a picture of the detail on the dress :)

Last week's shopping haul

I'm a bit behind with posting... I've gotten really bad at managing my time! When I'm not meeting up with people or at work my body just seems to want to sleep as much as possible.

Above is last week's shopping haul! I think I'm going through one of my routine "changeover" phases, where I want a new wardrobe, new accessories, new make up... It's probably because I'm starting a full-time job this week. Anyway, all of these are work appropriate (yay!) though the dress maybe is a bit smart for it, so as long as I can dress it down (e.g. with a cardigan and flats and casual day-time make up) then it should be ok.

It actually needs a couple of darts sewn in on the bust because at the moment it's very unflattering.

I'm gonna post detailed pics of each item as I start to wear them. For some reason I haven't felt like wearing them lately, which is silly, cause I've been dying for new clothes. I think I just haven't felt amazing lately (weight issues etc) which is why I've been putting it off.

Also, must apologise for the continued use of phone photos - my camera is still at my parents' apartment.

Quickie

I got bitten by the shopping bug a couple of weeks ago, and my weekend indulgence (post to follow!) has satisfied some of the cravings...

Just checked my bank balance and my money for this month is in. Do I indulge further..? Logic is telling me not to!

Though... I do have my eye on this:

Clinique's chubby sticks! I already have voluptuous violet (#16) and oversized orange (#12), but I have my eye on a red one, either two ton tomato or chunky cherry...

I'll let you know if I give in to temptation...!

New V&A bedding - pink

My new V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) bedding arrived last week! Finally found the time to wash the new set, dry it naturally, and dress the bed up in its new threads :D

It's too girly for my sister but since the pink is pale I like it. Ideally I wanted the silver bedding they had but it was too popular and sold out on Achica before I could get it :(