Cardigan: Topshop
Black Top: Florence and Fred at Tesco
Jeans: Topshop
Boots: Jones Bootmaker
Skull Pendant: Lynsey Luu
Horn of Plenty Pendant: Mom found it on the car park at Dudley Zoo in the 90s. True story. Probably Elizabeth Duke at Argos.
I haven’t posted an outfit picture for a long while. Don’t worry; I’ve still been looking smoking hot. I’ve just not felt like posting pictures of myself. I’m not 100% certain why, but here are some options:
1) Plastering pictures of myself all over my blog still makes me feel uneasy and silly. (With the exception of the ones I had taken by the brilliant Alex Styles that you’ll see on the “About” page of this site, I want to plaster those everywhere with an accompanying note stating: “I look like this ALL of the time”.)
2) My winter wardrobe is a tad predictable – short skirts, opaque tights, skinny jeans, cardigans and riding boots in a variety of combinations. Yawn.
3) It is dark when I leave the house and dark when I get home. I used to take my pictures on my way out in the morning, hence why you can probably see eye snot in them.
I was all ready to put my half-assed attempts at “style blogging” to bed, and then I bought this cardigan. I blogged about my love of sequins before Christmas. Since then, several sequined cardigans had caught my eye, but I couldn’t bring myself to shell out £50.00+ on something I knew would be heavily discounted two weeks later.
Lo and behold, I picked up this ritzy little baby yesterday for a mere £15.00 from Topshop. That’s correct, £15.00. Reduced from £55.00. It is the best bargain ever and I’m going to wear it until all of the sequins fall off (give it a week).
My plans for wearing it revolve mainly around jeans, vests and my new riding boots. There’ll be no jewellery except for my gold horn of plenty (or, as my sister likes to call it, my “sperm necklace”) and my cute skull pedant from Lynsey Luu.
I’m aware of the school of thought that decrees sequins as “for Christmas not for life”. I’m well aware that some people find sequins tacky and vile. To them I say “Look, you’ll probably end up owning a caravan. No judgment in that; caravans are fine, just not for me, as sequins are not for you.”
Today has been a good and exciting day; wearing a sequin encrusted cardigan just felt right.
In other news, this is the first picture I’ve posted of me wearing glasses. The arrival of glasses should really have been item number four on the list at the start of this post. I’ll admit it: they made me self-conscious; not because I didn’t like how they looked, more because I could hardly recognise myself. It was weird seeing my reflection in mirrors and windows. I don’t particularly fear looking dorky or nerdy, I’m self aware enough to know that I am both of those things with or without glasses.
It has taken me a while to get my getting dressed groove back. Certain things just don’t work anymore, especially black pleated skirts teamed with orange polo necks (far too Scooby Doo Gang). A plus point is that I can wear stuff that I would have previously considered a bit too “obvious”. Glasses seem to take a clingy cocktail dress down a few notches on the va-va-voom scale, which, for me, is a good thing.
To wrap this up, I predict that 2012 will be the year of the glasses and sequins. Taking over the world, baby!
BBxxx
*The phrase razzle-dazzle has forever been tainted by the fact that it rhymes with “vajazzle”. Eugh. In years to come, 2011 will be remembered as the “year of the vajazzle”, which is kind of depressing.
Wow, I love this! And only £15? Amazing.