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Fashion Economics
This post starts with a story. At the end of September I needed boots. I spent several hours wandering the shops with a fairly small budget of £30. I tried on every pair of boots I saw, including some I couldn’t afford until eventually decidi...
Jimmy Choo 72 & Project PEP
It’s always nice to see big businesses doing things for charity, and when that charity is Jimmy Choo offering me the chance to win SEVEN pairs of shoes, it’s even nicer. Jimmy Choo are working with the Elton John AIDS Foundation on Projec...
Style vs Fashion – Twitter speaks
This year, for the first time, I have Press Accreditation at London Fashion Week. It’s very likely that I will simply check out the exhibition, and, part of the reason for this, is that I’ve been too filled with fear to approach anyone fo...
Why We Buy….
I’ve read several interesting posts recently on shopping habits and it’s got me thinking about why we buy what we do and how we got there. In the early 2000s I was a student, and I spent a lot of money on clothes. I was a High Street Hone...
Mary Queen of Charity Shops - The Retro Chick Review
Last night I watched with interest the first episode of Mary Queen of Charity Shops. I was intrigued to see what Mary Portas, with her great track record in retail would make of the jumble sale mentality of Britains Charity Shops, and a little curiou...
What are they saying? Ethical & Eco Fashion
I write a fair bit about ethical fashion. Whether that be recycled, second hand and vintage clothing or designers and retailers trying to produce their fashion more ethically and responsibly. Over the last year I’ve written about swishing, ethi...
What are you wearing? Vintage wiggle dresses at a Charity Ball
White Wiggle Dress - Vintage Blue Crystal Earrings - Vintage, borrowed from my Mum Blue Crystal Bracelet - Borrowed from my Mum Silver Snake Belt - A gift. Satin Clutch, Peep Toes & Net Hair Bow - New Look Those of you that follow me on Twitter ...
Top 5 Tips to have fun with no money
Photo Courtesy of Jeff Keen When you have no money, whatever the reason, it’s easy to resign yourself to a life of 10p Supermarket noodles, (economy) beans on (economy) toast and endless sit com repeats on TV. But it doesn’t need to be t...
Happy Red Nose Day 2009!
Yay! It’s finally here, Comic Relief Red Nose Day 2009! I love how the whole country gets behind it and joins in the spirit of the occasion. Twitter today is awash with people talking about things that are happening to raise money at their plac...
Can Cheap Fashion be Ethical Fashion?
Photo Courtesy of My Life Story via Flickr Today I have heard the news that Primark has created the role of Ethical Trading Director and appointed Katherine Kirk, previously from Gap, who were themselves the centre of a sweatshop scandal, to the rol...
Slinky Silk
As a luxury fabric silk is surprisingly practical. It’s one of the strongest natural fibres, it’s absorbent making it great for warm weather or active wear, but has a low conductivity meaning that it keeps warm air close to the skin and k...
You’re the one for me, fatty….
It’s the beginning of a shiny new year and every where you look are new exercise DVDs, slimming clubs and people jogging in band new gym kit that won’t see the light of day until next January. It seems to me that somehow, we’ve crea...
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, May 1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, ...
Bloggers Unite for Refugees
Sometimes it's really easy to forget how good you have it. In general I'm guessing that most of the people reading this have access to clean water, food, health care of some kind, a roof over their heads and that they know the whereabouts of their fa...
