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Lovedrobe Kaleidoscope Print Tunic was £30.00 now £15.00

If you've been reading my blog for the last six months or so you may of noticed a slight obsession of me wearing a lot of shirts or collared styles dresses and tops, the original crisp style of this look is what originally got the inspired juices flowing but I've branched out into vivid prints and patterns where this lovely little piece comes in. Now I'm not one for a lot of colour I actually tend to wear a large amount of black but I'm getting out of that now and when I wear or get black pieces I'm not loving them like I used to which can only be a good thing!

My mum's even encouraged me to purchase this, so its clearly a sign I should! When I imagine how this would work in a whole look (please don't say I'm the only one who does this?) I'd pair it with just my trusty black leggings my new flatforms or flats (which I hope to show you ASAP) and a massive over sized clutch I bought from Simply Be but have yet to use! as it would pull all the colours together and in my head look awesome. I'd probably wear it buttoned all the way up unless it cuts off my breathing when I do, then probably put a necklace under the collar to bring even more interest to the shirt itself. You can buy this from either Evans or Style369 I think and they also have the 20/12 discount on top at the moment so this shirt would actually be £1.80 cheaper!

Well now I feel I've completely talked myself into buying this. I have a really lovely outfit post coming up for you this week, I can't wait to post it!

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Cassius it's over you're second best.

Dress: Dorothy Perkins. Flatforms/Necklace: Primark. Lace Blouse: Charity Shop. Leggings: Matalan.

This is what I wore last night to my brothers "Through the Grapevine" night which happens at a local cafe/bar. We had a live act performing for the first time and they were pretty awesome and just my type of music and not to painful to look at and that always helps! I'll hopefully get some pictures up of them performing soon so you can see for yourselves.

Overall I tend to always choose comfort over style because well I was standing up most of the night as I'm normally on the door as I know all the underagers and you don't mess with me! So like usual I'm sporting my trusty leggings which I can't live without I wear them under everything! In fact is it wrong to say I feel naked without them on? Though I wanted to also wear my new flatforms which you saw in my previous outfit post and I am currently obsessed with so by the end of the night they were pinching on my toes a little but other than that there pretty damn comfy. The Blouse I've had for years but never really worn but I love how it looks over the dress, which I've been layering under a number of jumpers and tops just so the collar is seen. I added detail with the necklace which was from my Primark haul last week. Its perfect for under collars to create a bit more interest and style to the finished look.

These were taken at the end of the night so my make up and hair was more gruesome than groomed. I wore a pink/red lipliner with balm over to create a coloured stain on my lips and fully did my face as generally I only use concealer and powder but yesterday I bought some decent make up brushes in the hope that by using them my skin may improve or at the very least my foundation (when I wear it) looks better. I'd also bought new foundation that day and blusher unfortunately the foundation is a little darker than what I'm used to, but probably works better for my slightly sunned face. I'm also yet again in need of a hair cut but thankfully not because my ombre has gone horrid and dry again, I'm so happy at how soft it is I'm thinking of doing a post on what I use would anyone want to read it? Oh finally incase you were wondering where my title came from my brother played the foals last night and its been stuck in my head since!

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My Shirt.

I thought I'd share with you something I've made for one of my subjects at uni, if you follow me on twitter you may of seen me moaning in great detail about this and worrying over my presentation of it but fear not I did it this morning and it went surprisingly well! My tutor had some good points on pieces I'd done wrong but realised so I understood what had happened. This was mainly a learning curve for future reference. So over all feel I did pretty well, my lovely model is my friend Sophie and she's roughly a size 8 and I think the shirt would probably fit up to a size 12 but the arm holes may be tight as they have run slightly small.

Like I said I just wanted to show you because even though last night I was worried it wasn't good enough I am pretty proud of it, just a shame I can't wear it myself! I know I sound like I'm tooting my own horn but how adorable is the collar, I've got quite a lot of binding and polka dot fabric left so I'm thinking of adding the collar detail to a few plain shirts of my own, what do you think of the idea? Or making them on the binding to wear as necklaces, cute idea or not?

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Inspired.

These are just a few pictures off tumblr which have left me feeling inspired to play around with my wardrobe once again! I love the studded collar so much and I plan to get some off eBay and mess around with a few charity shop tops to see how it works and if they look good I'll show them on here then possibly sell them on eBay! I showed a denim dress with cat print pockets on my last inspiration post but I adore these shorts they are so cute, though my massive bum would probably distort the poor cats faces.

And finally I think its clear now that I'm a little obsessed with cute collars and jumper so when I saw the dinosaur necklace with the lace collar and bubblegum pink jumper I couldn't resist posting it! Yes it's a little geeky and definitely not to every one's taste but that also basically sums me up.

I'll hopefully have another post up tomorrow as I have some pictures from the music night I went to on Friday and what I wore though if you have me on twitter you've possibly seen a few snippets!

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There'll be love and laughter and peace ever after.

This is my second attempt at drawing the dress below. I also did a quick sketch in my journal then transferred it onto a model so the shape flowed better. The drawing still isn't finished I
need to add colour and possibly photoshop it if I have time.

This dress is a uniform for a radio operator in the Second World War. The woman that wore this almost got caught by "the enemy" while carrying her suitcase with her radio equipment in, luckily she was quick thinking and sharp and thanks to he uniform being a pale blue with white trimming she told them that she was a nurse and "the enemy" told her to get out and leave, which means her outfit saved her job from being found out and also her own life. This makes me think can the way we dress really save our lives? well it seems in this instance it can!

The style of this dress is very much like a tea dress its easy to wear and comfortable and if your decoding radio signals 24 hours a day you don't want to not be able to breath in something very fitted. This is what I especially like about this dress, the simplicity of the shape and style. I think its the slight a-line from the waist and the cute intricate detailing on the chest and collar just make it a little more interesting. I am taking some influences from this uniform for pieces in my own collection such as the collar and structure of the dress.

What do you think of this uniform, would you wear it?

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