Step Away, That Dress Is Mine!

Well, that's what I think everytime I see someone pick up a dress that I like love in We Love To Boogie.  No-one's actually tried it on yet, but if they do, I might cry.  Or grab it off them before they can pay for it and run away, Road Runner-style, down Byres Road.  Anyone who buys that dress will be my Coyote.  Meep meep!

Might try it on next time I'm in and see if it fits, I'm not sure it'll be big enough for my boobs.  At least if it doesn't fit then I can stop lusting after it.  There's also a pair of trousers that look like jammy bottoms that I quite like.  I can already tell this job is not going to be lucrative for me.  Wages in pocket; wages back out pocket and the dress is mine.

Tonight is a sofa-lovin'-CSI-watchin'-jammy-wearin' chill out.  I bought a tub of Mackies Honeycomb ice cream and I think I'll get that in the next ad break.  Good times.  My mum says I'm like that Abbey out of NCIS.  I quite like her, so it's OK.  The big event of the night will be CSI: NY, mostly for the hot men than anything else to be honest.  Ice cream, jammies, and Carmine Giovinazzo.  

Lazy Saturday night of joy.

Interview Day!

Yup, today's the day!  Have my interview at We Love To Boogie this afternoon at 4pm but I'm just getting ready to leave the house cause I'm coffee (oh, and cake!) with MM at Kemball & Jones, first.  Yums.

So I'm wearing my new black top that I got from Byres Rd Oxfam, my H! by Henry Holland black skirt, pearls, turban, red patent shoes, blue bag and, because it's such a lovely sunny day, my lovely sunny yellow jacket.  Awesome.

If there's any way to ruin the feeling of glamour, though, it's sure to be the stinky 44 bus that I'll have to get all the up there.  I could get the train then the subway, but really the bus is quicker.  Also, now that I think about it, I doubt the underground is much nicer than the bus anyway!  Must take a book to get me through the 20 min side-street-hell that is the Cathcart leg of the 44 route.  Tiny riverside streets, with cars parked on both sides, and a trundling bus trying to get round the tight corners, only to come face to face with another bus going the opposite way.  Then begins the reversing back round the corner to let the other bus through, and then... we start all over again.  It's a killer.

Annoyingly I've just started a great book (The Help, by Kathryn Stockett) but my version is paperback but hard back-size - and weight!  Might have to take something smaller just to stick in my handbag.  My mum's old Agatha Christie novels are great for that, they're light as a feather!

Right, time to go.  Wish me luck!

Fantasy shopping

Here's a good way to pass the time, and indulge your clothes fantasies: fantasy online shopping!  As long as you don't hit the wrong button and accidentally buy something, it's a safe, guilt-free way of getting your fashion fix!

As I might have mentioned, MM is having a cocktail party on Friday night, and we're all wearing fancy dresses and getting all 'dolled up', to borrow a phrase from my mum.  Now, I already have a dress to wear, but I decided to have a look about online and see what I would buy, if I had all the money I wanted!

First stop is a boutique called Vivien Of Holloway and seems to specialise in retro-style dresses.  There are some lovely 1950-esque halternecks, in all sorts of colours and prints.  One that caught my eye was this red one (red - what a surprise!) Unfortunately, I can't seem to load a picture of it here, but if you want to check it out, follow this link.

Now for some pics!



Dolly Dagger

I like this one, in a similar style, from a shop called Dolly Dagger .  Like I said, in fantasy land money would be no object, and it's just as well, because this dress comes in at an eye-watering £152.  This shop does a nice range in accessories, though, and has things like buttons and badges from £4; hair clips; bags; purses, etc from £10 up to about £70.  This bag here also caught my eye

Dolly Dagger

and it comes in at £69.

Dolly Dagger also does some cute cherry print napkins and table-clothes, coasters, apple-shaped chopping boards and lots of other kitchsy items, nice for gifts though not so good for cocktail parties.  So, moving on...



Candy Says



... To Candy Says, and first up is this simple black number with a lovely pearl collar.  This one is £42, and is floor-length with a split up the left thigh, and panelling in the wasit.  So a bit Audrey Hepburn-wears-Victoria Beckham, then? 

Whilst Dolly Dagger does retro-style dresses, Candy Says seems to be authentic vintage, which means that you might not get something you like in your size.  I think more careful hunting would be needed if you were to buy from Candy Says, though from what I can see, the prices are pretty reasonable. 

This 1960s lurex monochrome maxi also caught my eye.  It might be quite hard to style, because any other detailed accessories or shoes would swamp the look and could leave you looking a bit frumpy, but I think with a pair of pointy black stilettoes it'd be a killer!  Don't forget some nice smokey eyes to go with it, mind!

Closer to home, I found this multi-coloured sequined dress from We Love To Boogie in Glasgow.  I'm not usually a fan of structured dresses, or any dress with an uneven hem-line, but I do like this one which manages to combine being red and multi-coloured, plus it's beaded!  What more can you ask for in dress?  I like the uneven hem on this cause it's the same as the beaded pattern, and I love this over-the-knee length: not a mini, but still with a nice flash of pin.  For S/S this year, I hope to be mainly wearing mid-length skirts:  just above the knee, or the 'midi', which falls half-way down the shin.  Being a smout, I'll be teaming these with heels, of course!

Well, that's passed a nice couple of hours for me, and now the laptop is running out of juice, so I think I'll end it here.  Very much looking forward to MM's party, good cocktail-drinking, fancy dress-wearing times!