tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24622831797888918432024-03-14T05:12:56.337+00:00kook.Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.comBlogger388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-41992548764052068502015-02-17T15:36:00.006+00:002015-02-17T15:36:55.704+00:00Daydreaming<br />
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I went to the Meadham Kirchhoff sample sale in December. The end of last year was a weird time for me, I had a major breakdown and was severely unwell mentally. I was prescribed anti-depressants which I am still taking now. It was a hard time.</div>
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I heard about the sample sale when I was in a much better place, my side effects from the meds were wearing off and counselling was going well. I saw Edward's post on Instagram about the sale and I was desperate to go. I was talking about it to my house mate when I realised that there was actually nothing stopping me from going if I really wanted to. I only live about two hours away and I had no commitments that meant I couldn't go, so I booked the tickets and googled the post code of the studio and the tube route I would have to take.</div>
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So I went! I bought something!</div>
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Before I got there I was constantly looking through both Edward and Ben's Instagrams for pictures of what would be on sale. I knew if I was going to get anything at all it should be something from the Spring/Summer 2012 collection, because that was my favourite of theirs and it changed everything about how I relate to clothing. When I got to the studio there were so many beautiful pieces and it was such a lovely, overwhelming experience to see their work in the flesh, to touch the fabrics and inspect the tiny details that you can't see from a photograph. There were only letting ten people in at a time and because I'd got there quite early I came in with the second lot. I kept trying to find something from that collection, but I could only see pieces that I was less keen on. Then I saw this collar hanging slightly above a rack of clothing and I knew this was it. If I was going to buy anything at all it should be something I was totally in love with.</div>
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I know I'm prone to exaggeration, but this honestly was one of the best days of my life. They were playing Destiny's Child on the speakers and had tinsel curtains all the way around the entrance. It was so incredible to be in the place where my favourite things had been made, and now knowing that they don't have enough money to continue designing it feels even more special (but still so sad).</div>
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I also bought a pair of knee high socks from the same collection. Partly so I have something that doesn't have to be looked after quite so much as the collar and partly because the packaging was so beautiful.</div>
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<i>Collar - Meadham Kirchhoff, jumper and skirt - Missguided, headscarf - gift.</i></div>
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I keep the collar wrapped in tissue when I'm not wearing it. Now that the duo are no longer making collections because of their lack of money, it feels like a museum piece. In fact this is what Ben said to me when I handed it to him to pay. I said I just wanted to frame it and he told me I should wear it because it needed to be worn, and I think he's right. His assistant said that I was buying a piece of the brand's DNA. It feels so true. For me this was the collection that started my love and obsession for the design team and is also the one that propelled them into the mainstream. It feels like their essence.Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-61041719045187195042014-09-17T10:00:00.000+01:002014-09-17T10:00:00.938+01:00New things.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I went on a solo holiday this summer - nothing special, just a little tour around some places I'd never been to before & meeting up with some people along the way. I went to Bath with my mum (on a plane, which I hate), did some work experience at the museum she works at and wrote about it <a href="http://www.lb-magazine.com/#!From-the-Inside-Work-Experience-at-Bath-Fashion-Museum/cmbz/AA0707EE-AC94-46B0-87DA-FD47749FC234">here</a>. I went to London on my own (which, I'll level with you, as a northerner both scares and infuriates me), survived staying in a pretty gross hostel, went to lots of art galleries, met up with friends and basically burnt holes in my shoes. I also went to Peterborough and got a tattoo, but I'll show you that later.<br />
When I was wandering around waiting to meet up with my friend Laura, I tried on a bunch of stuff at a vintage shop I found when I was trying to find a Costa. I bought some new things, and here they are.<br />
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I own lots of blue skirts already and it's becoming a bit of a perverse in joke with myself where I keep collecting them. This one made into the collection because the stripes are cute and I don't have enough things I can wear belts with. Also, I actually think it's super plain and I'm really into that at the moment. Making up for my mid-teen obsession with wearing as many patterns and bright colours as I possibly could at once, I guess.</div>
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This belt is fairly new too. It's holographic and snakeskin (fake, obviously) and therefore the perfect match for this feather necklace I wear like, all the time.</div>
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I have barely bought anything new this summer - it wasn't a conscious decision to save money or anything, but I think when I have free time I am just less inclined to spend it looking for clothes online. I think when I have stuff to do that I'm stressed about/want to avoid (hiya uni work!) I buy things to make myself feel better, for something to look forward to. I like this! but now that I think about it more I really want to concentrate on self-care that doesn't require spending money on material things. Not because I don't like the material things - I really do - but because I want to focus on taking care of myself in a way that doesn't depend on buying things and that I can actually carry on doing when I don't have any money. Also, I want to focus on having clothes that I wear all the time and that I really love.</div>
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I also bought some super ridiculous comedy shorts. Mainly because they are actually quite cute but also because they made me laugh and I still treat getting dressed as some kind of dressing up game, apparently. They feel a like clown shorts because there's just <i>so much fabric</i> going on, but also the pattern gives me serious kid's party vibes? They're actually a really weird piece of clothing, they fasten through a zip inside the left pocket and have unbelievably tiny pockets for how large the legs are.</div>
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I bought this crop top (and another one in cornflower blue) from Asos when I was in one of my essay avoidance fugs. I wear them both all the time, I feel like I've ascended to another level of dressing to be honest. Charlotte 5.0, the era of the crop top.</div>
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I didn't take a coat with me on my mini expedition because I was going to the south and I didn't expect it to be cold or wet. Spoiler alert, it was both. So on my way to catch one of the nine trains I caught that holiday, I bought this Emergency Coat. It's cute and will definitely be worn a lot, so I don't feel that bad about getting it.<br />
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It looks nice in the sun too.<br />
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<i>Top - Asos, shorts - Rokit vintage, skirt - Rokit vintage, mac - Topshop, necklace - Tatty Devine.</i></div>
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I'm driving back to Sheffield this weekend, and I'm pretty excited. I like seeing my family over summer, but I do feel like I'm stagnating here and I just don't think I take care of myself as much here as I do in Sheffield. I'm also looking forward to third year, but kind of getting super scared about how much work I'm going to have.</div>
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More new things from me: I wrote something for the Style Con about breasts and clothes and body politics. I've been thinking about those ideas for ages now & I'm glad I managed to get the courage to pitch it somewhere. It also made it into the Fashion REDEF round up, which is pretty cool! Anyway, you can read it <a href="http://www.thestylecon.com/2014/09/05/breasts-body-politics/">here</a>.</div>
Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-81237851240078533062014-08-18T12:24:00.000+01:002014-08-18T12:24:45.511+01:00Squares and lace.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello! I feel like I'm on a bit of roll with my outfits lately, so I have another one to show you! I bought this shirt a couple of months ago when I was on my serious gingham binge and I really love it. It actually feels very preppy & a little bit more androgynous than the blouses I usually wear.</div>
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(I tried to match the squares with my unmade bed, which kind of worked?)</div>
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Also I can finally show you this lace jacket I bought! I got this forever ago & I wear it so much, it's kind of surprising that it hasn't made it on to here yet. I saw it in an H&M catalogue literally about two years ago but couldn't find it until last winter. I love it so much, it goes with everything. I especially love it with this outfit because of the mixed patterns and shapes. A very preppy, soft but boxy feel, right?</div>
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<i>Shirt - Asos, jacket - H&M, skirt - vintage/DIY, hairband - DIY</i></div>
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I took these pictures just after making lots of horrid phone calls, this is my "I'm super stressed about bills, being an adult is awful please make it stop" face. We've had such a nightmare trying to sort out the bills for our new student house, the tenants who lived there before hadn't paid anything for months & owe like £500+ & we've had bailiffs come round to try & get money off us. NOT GOOD. VERY STRESSFUL. I have been hyperventilating lots.</div>
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I'm quite excited/stressed at the moment because I'm sorting out lots of travel plans for August. In the space of two weeks I'm going to be in Manchester, Bath, London, Peterborough (to get a tattoo done!) and then back home. I'm really looking forward to going to London because I've not been in ages, and much as I love being from the North, there are so many art exhibitions & things on there that we just don't get up here. So, if anyone knows of any cool (and preferably cheap/free) things to do there please let me know!</div>
Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-41756887954166745052014-08-04T23:12:00.000+01:002014-08-04T23:12:05.801+01:00Sepal, petal, ovule.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy August! August always feels like a weirdly anxiety-inducing time for me - it's far enough into summer for me to feel guilty about all the things I should have done/should be doing (like reading for my dissertation) and close enough to September for me to be worrying about it. But also it's summer!! So I should be enjoying myself!! My dark circles are being sponsored by Netflix and blank Microsoft Word documents.</div>
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I really wanted to show you my new favourite top! I've been wearing this thing so much since I bought it I can barely remember what I did without it. This is my first purchase from Sheinside and I'm actually pretty impressed! It's really cute and such a blatant rip off of Christopher Kane's SS14 collection that it really makes me think that the fashion industry needs to tighten up their copyright laws (not that I'm complaining, as if I could ever afford the real thing).</div>
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See? Isn't the picture on this top such a good double for the Kane one? Minus the sequins, obviously. I loved this collection so much when it came out - all de-constructed petals and anatomical diagrams you could cheat on a biology exam with (as astutely pointed out by one of my friends). I wrote something about it <a href="http://www.libertybellesheffield.com/london-fashion-week-ss14/">here</a> for Liberty Belle ages ago and I'm so pleased I finally have something that looks a little bit like it in my wardrobe. I think it looks perfect with these vintage shorts, I hardly ever wear these to be honest but when I saw the top I knew the yellows would work so well together.</div>
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Also, I have really been enjoying trying out new things with my outfit posts recently. I always felt a bit out of place taking pictures in my bedroom, it never looked quite right somehow. This painting outside my room felt right though, and I really want to start taking pictures in more fitting locations! (Hence the outside photos from my last post).</div>
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Sigh. Completely besotted with this skirt and its 3D petals.</div>
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<i>Top - Sheinside, shorts - gift/vintage, headband - gift.</i></div>
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I bought this beautiful set after a tip off from the lovely <a href="http://www.mermaidens.blogspot.com/">Kailey</a> - the sequinned Oasap version was sold out & she sent me the link to this! It's so cute but unfortunately the skirt is just a bit too big for me, so I'm selling it on <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/cimlah42/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=">ebay</a> & depop (@charlottekook) if you fancy having a bit of knock off Christopher Kane in your life (:</div>
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Change of scene for today! I thought the colours in this outfit really matched the flowers in my garden so I thought I'd take a trip outside today.</div>
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I have been looking for a skirt with braces (a suspender skirt? harness skirt?) for ages and I was so pleased when I finally found this one! It is such a cute shape with a lovely flippy (if very, very short) skirt. I've been trying out wearing it with lots of different things but I think this blouse is my favourite because the sleeves look so sweet poking out of the straps slightly.</div>
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The colours and the shapes in this outfit (collar, braces etc) really made me think of the uniforms and the colour palette in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, aka one of my favourite films I've seen this year. Actually the lilac particularly reminded me of Mendl's the patisserie, but I think I actually must have been remembering the colours wrong because it looked a lot pinker than I thought when I was trying to find pictures for this post! My hair and lipstick were bright pink but it was too light outside to properly capture that on camera. If I had to come up with a concept for this outfit though then I would say "Lolita inspired 50s diner waitress who stumbled into Wes Anderson's pastel filter". Or something like that.</div>
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The details on this blouse are so pretty! I love the embroidery and the scalloped edges on the pocket and collar. I added the bears myself because this blouse looked so much like the pink one I wore in <a href="http://thoughtsfromanotherkook.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/strawberry-shortcake.html">this post</a> which had yellow bears on to cover a rip and I really wanted them to match.</div>
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<i>Blouse - vintage/DIY, harness skirt - ebay, headscarf - gift, socks - Topshop.</i></div>
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Goodbye for now!</div>
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Hey! I bought a new glittery Daisy Duck print tshirt and I want to talk about it!</div>
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I'm bleach blonde now! (Or I will be until I get sick of my roots creeping in.) I cried for a solid ten minutes when I got home after this haircut, properly sobbing in the mirror. The hairdresser straightened it into a horrid, flat shape and I can't deal with my face when there isn't a mane sticking out from it, it brings back too many memories of middle/high school unhappiness. I could feel myself tightening up in the chair as she cut it too short and I had to wear my sunglasses walking home because I knew I was going to start crying (and I did). Strangely enough though, I really like it now! I can't tell if I was being melodramatic or having a disassociating panic attack, but I cried in my housemate's room whilst two of them (both blonde) told me how nice it was, something I normally would never, ever do. I don't know why I'm writing this out other than to tell you that I guess I'm growing? Generally I hate to involve other people in my emotions, but I'm becoming looser now and more ready to let people in. Also, my does actually look pretty cute, I think. I went out that night and a stranger came over to me in the toilets to say I looked like Marilyn Monroe - a blatant lie designed to make me let her skip the queue, but obviously I am ridiculously shallow and it worked.</div>
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My outfit is entirely from Asos today. This seems so strange to me; I never would have bothered to post an outfit that was entirely high street a couple of years ago, because I had this weird feeling that that wasn't me, that I couldn't truly be posting/wearing something that was entirely myself if other people could buy it too. Which is very awkward and snobbish, and I'm trying to relax out of this now. However, I do have this vision in my mind of the ideal pair of pink denim vintage shorts that would go best with this shirt, so maybe I'm not over that weird snobbery <i>just</i> yet.</div>
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I thought all the photos I took of this outfit were really boring, so I made these unbelievably dreadful, funny collage pictures (that actually took an embarrassingly long time, because technology will never be my thing). I kind of felt that a print so unashamedly cheesy - because it is, and I love it for that and myself for choosing it because I never would have a few years ago - needed to be shown in a light hearted, ridiculous way. Moving forward, moving forward.</div>
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I am so into crop tops these days, <i>so </i>into them. I bought two plain ones in lilac and blue a couple of weeks ago and when I tried them on it truly felt like I was being awakened. Settling into my narcissistic skin a bit more, I think.</div>
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Goodbye from me and Daisy, see you soon.</div>
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I feel like I'm becoming terribly sartorially predictable recently because my last post featured something gingham and, well, so does this one. Sorry! I've actually become a bit obsessed with the print lately, I wrote <a href="http://www.lb-magazine.com/#!YOU-CAN-WEAR-GINGHAM/cmbz/FE5C9E3A-2319-4DEC-85DF-1116FF5D3E17">an article</a> about it and bought about three different pieces in (pastel) colours as "research".</div>
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I bought this ugly/cute smock dress several months ago now, but I've been doing a lot of thinking about how I feel about it. (Yeah, sorry, pretentious fashion nerd alert). I don't own many things in lilac, mainly because when I started my intense pastel trajectory I had lilac hair. The zoomed in checks are really cute and I love how weird the shape is.</div>
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I really like the way it looks like a weird parachute. It looks like it doesn't fit properly, and I think that's so funny. My legs looks very spindly (like those Salvador Dali elephant sculptures) and my body looks like it might topple over from the imbalance. I'm trying to dress in a way that is more comfortable and that seems to include being less precious about whether it makes my body look good or not. I was thinking back to when I was about 15 and I used to watch all of those fashion shows on TV, the ones that tell women how to dress for their "shape" which basically means "correcting" it to resemble the ideal, hourglass figure. It's strange how obvious that misogyny is, but at the same time how little it is actually called out or even noticed. Even before I recognised the gross body politics I remember thinking God, how <i>boring!</i> If you like something, why can't you wear it? Why do you have to care about how it makes your body look? Obviously I know I have a lot of privilege in this area because I'm pretty skinny, but as my own way of questioning those awful dressing standards women are expected to adhere to I'm starting to actively think less about what "looks good" and me or what is flattering, and focus on what I actually want to wear.</div>
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My best friends bought me this Tatty Devine necklace for my birthday. I love it so much and the quote is so perfect for the way I've been feeling lately. That whole <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/562910-your-body-is-not-a-temple-your-body-is-the">"your body is the house you grew up in"</a> thing is so poignant I think, and I love that this is what they thought about for me. One of these sent me a very unsubtle message a few weeks before asking me "hypothetically" what my favourite quote was and, because I'm an English Literature student, I replied with about ten really long poems and book quotes before he told me it had to be less than 200 characters. They actually chose this one for me all by themselves and it couldn't be more perfect if I'd chosen it myself.</div>
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<i>Dress - Asos, tights - Asos, shoes - Syd & Mallory's Emporium, shorts - ebay, headscarf - vintage, necklaces - vintage/Tatty Devine.</i></div>
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Some more new things! Bunny tights and jazz style shoes. I wish I'd taken a close up picture of these because they're so cute, the little holes you can see are heart shapes and they have jagged edges around the ankles.</div>
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Hello! Sorry it's been so long since my last post, I don't really have any exciting excuses, just deadlines, reading, etc etc. Oh, student life!</div>
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Trousers! I know! This might be the first time I've ever worn trousers in a post on here? I mean, I can't be bothered to trawl through my archives but trouser sightings on here are pretty rare indeed.</div>
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It feels so weird wearing trousers considering I've basically only worn skirts for the past four, maybe more, years of my life, but they are so COMFORTABLE! Like, why didn't anyone tell me?!</div>
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I think this is another way that my style is becoming a lot more comfort orientated. Not in a very deliberate way, but I know that I just want things which are easier to wear, ie not skirts that need petticoats underneath, or polyester vintage things that are going to make me sweat all the time. So, I'm not sure which version of me this is (3.0? 4.1?), but I'm kind of enjoying being here.</div>
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I got them way back in November (I was shopping with my mum & had been saying how I wanted to buy something other than skirts, then they appeared & fit perfectly. Fate, I tell you.), and then in February (maybe?) I was reading one of my mum's Vogues at home and saw this spread all about gingham as a trend for next Spring/Summer. Now, I'm not saying I'm a trendsetter but, coincidence? I think not. It's just like that time I bought a pink coat in a charity shop for £1 and then next summer they were the ~thing~ to have. Maybe Anna Wintour should start following me round with a notebook, I don't know. Anyway, I've actually become completely obsessed with gingham and have bought two more items in lilac and mint. Classic me. Also love the Meadham Kirchhoff reppin' on the left [heart eyes emoji], my favourite look from that collection.</div>
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(I scanned this spread very badly from the runway edit bit of Vogue, then photoshopped it via Paint. You are welcome)</div>
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Matching the colour of your jewellery to your hair is pretty standard, right? I went to a Hole tribute gig last month (celebrating 20 years since Live Through This came out! It was amazing! Glitter everywhere! Boys in dresses and tiaras!) and someone has brought a whole bunch of sparkly kid's jewellery for people to take, so naturally I went for the hot pink holographic bracelet. </div>
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<i>Top - ebay, trousers - vintage, shoes - DMs/Amazon, socks - Topshop.</i></div>
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Such a #fashblogger sorry but I find this really funny!</div>
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<i>Blouse - vintage/DIY, cardigan - charity shop, belt - charity shop.</i></div>
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I am so in love with these trousers, they're just so versatile while still being pretty unusual. They seem to go so well with so many things in my wardrobe (fate!) and I can't decide which outfit is my favourite so I took a few extra pictures. So, yeah. Enjoy more of my face!! This one is pretty much my favourite combination of shirt and cardigan, only with these trousers instead of a skirt. When you find a formula, stick to it I guess.</div>
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<i>Top & headscarf - both vintage, earrings - H&M, poor lighting - me.</i></div>
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This top is new as well, I bought it just before I came back to Sheffield from my favourite (and like, only decent) vintage shop in Newcastle for very cheap. It's quite oversized and floaty so it doesn't really photograph very well, but I'm kind of obsessed. I love the ridiculous clash of pink and red tones here. Still works though (not that I'd be bothered otherwise, obviously!).</div>
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I have lots of things I really want to post about (and lots of work to <strike>do</strike> avoid), so hopefully I will be back in this internet space soon.</div>
Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-16749925183041788742014-04-22T23:18:00.001+01:002014-04-22T23:18:40.847+01:00Deckchair life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Hey! Long time no see (sorry sorry sorry!).</div>
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I bought this skirt at a vintage fair last weekend, it is several sizes too big but I couldn't say no to something cute in pastel (will I ever?) and it's tied within an inch of its life at the back.</div>
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I haven't taken pictures outside for like, ever, and I think it's very obvious why: squinting all over the place and very flyaway hair. But it was SUNNY! Also this gives you the chance to see my Desperate Housewives-esque very plain lawn, including dead trees and shrubs planted by other people.</div>
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The stripes really remind me of the ones you see on deckchairs in historic seaside towns, ones from washed out 1950s postcards from Blackpool or Margate. Faded but still resolutely summery. Do they even come in those colours any more?</div>
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(Really, really have to get better at hiding that remote, don't I? Anti-professional til the end I guess.)</div>
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I've been buying a lot of pieces lately that are a lot more comfortable than things I used to wear. Less polyester nighties and more comfy long skirts and trousers. I feel like I'm in a really transitional period in terms of my style right now, which is why I need to actually get my act together and document it more on here, I don't want to miss it!</div>
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Adorable jelly shoes from Asos that are 100% going to be driving my aesthetic this summer. They have them in lots of shades, but obviously the pink was too perfect to ignore.</div>
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<i>Blouse - vintage/DIY, skirt - vintage, socks - Topshop, jelly shoes - Asos.</i></div>
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I'm trying to organise my time a bit better recently, spending less time faffing around and actually doing things which I love and that are actually productive. This past week I've been watching all the Wes Anderson films I haven't seen before, organising all my saved likes into a Pinterest (which you can have a <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/charlotteimlah">look</a> at if you like, but it's mainly for me to collect things so I have a solid set of references) and I've actually been doing some exercises. I've also been planning things for the ~future~, because I have to accept that I am 21 now, apparently. Positive vibes, etc etc.</div>
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I know London fashion week was aaaages ago, but I have been thinking about Ashish's Autumn/Winter collection pretty solidly since then and I really wanted to write something about it. Or, I really wanted somewhere to blurt out some of my incoherent fashion feelings about it.</div>
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Oh gosh. So pretty, so many things to say. Frothy, sugary, ruffly goodness in the sweetest pink possible. The glittery patterned underskirts and blunt edges are killing me. Actual 21st Century, post-heiress/post-Bling Ring looks. So, so dreamy.</div>
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I am definitely not one for monochrome but these beautiful, glittery creations could change my mind. I think iridescent, sparkly white is becoming one of my favourite concepts, I actually just bought a pair of glittery socks that look a lot like this skirt fabric and I can't wait to put them on and pretend to be wearing this outfit. I love that you can see the lights running through the skirt on the right, it kind of feels like an off duty princess in a dubious nightclub kind of outfit. Also, tiaras as an everyday accessory are starting to seem more and more plausible.</div>
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I love these outfits so much! They're so 90s avant garde princess I can barely handle it. The all over body denim frills are killing me, and the chunky gold chain & pearl straps are something I really want to DIY (but will definitely fail at miserably). I feel like this collection is really innovative, I mean I've never seen anything like this before and it's so, so beautiful. The second look is incredible, how does that crop top manage to look so floaty and spiky at the same time?! And these are possibly the only pair of sweatpants I can ever see myself wearing.</div>
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All the sparkles and the denim really reminded me of Missy Elliot's outfits in this video:</div>
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Missy forever, etc. Early noughties style is so coming back in and I love it. Cannot wait for all the sparkly things from my youth to start being sold everywhere.</div>
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I love the mix of casual/sportswear shapes with the unbelievably decadent, dripping sparkles everywhere. The outfit on the right was so beautiful going down the catwalk, I was just sat watching in awe. I like how you can see the light up platforms more here too, apparently Ashish are doing a collaboration with Topshop soon and a version of these shoes will be available in the collection! Keeping my eyes peeled for news of this way in advance.</div>
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These looks are so good I honestly feel like I might be tearing up. I need an all sequin two co-ord or mini dress in my life like, now. The pearl and gold bead edging on these pieces feel so regal to me, I don't know about anyone else but I am getting a serious Elizabeth I vibe from the neckline on the right.</div>
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This is my favourite look of the collection, I genuinely gasped when I saw it coming down the catwalk. Layered sequins and layers and layers of sparkly, wedding cake netting. Breathtaking, really.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Hair, beautiful hair, that is like pre-makeover Mia Thermopolis meets St Vincent meets pastelgoth. So many goals I can't even tell you about them.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I actually wrote a piece featuring this collection for the Sheffield uni women's magazine, which you can read <a href="http://libertybellesheffield.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/fairy-tale-fashion-hits-high-street.html">here</a>. At the meeting, my editor said she thought of me as soon as she came up with the fairy tale idea. My reputation for glitter and pink as everyday looks clearly precedes me.</span></div>
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Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-70022451265879439052014-02-28T00:56:00.000+00:002014-02-28T00:56:00.213+00:00Glitter clown.<div style="text-align: center;">
Hey! Told you I'd be back super soon. Actually being true to my word this time!!</div>
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This outfit is one of my favourite things I've put together recently, I'm kind of obsessed. I bought this skirt about a year ago but I don't think I ever showed it to you. It makes me feel a tiny bit like Cher Horowitz, which can only ever be a good thing.</div>
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I'm really into the mix of textures in this outfit, the shiny/matte weirdness of the skirt just works against the rougher patterns in the jumper & tights. Also, I like how the hearts and the little sections in the jumper knit are vaguely the same size. The little things, you know?</div>
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I have been so into glitter eye make up recently! I bought three pots of glitter from <a href="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/thebeautyboxboutique/">this ebay shop</a> last month and I think I'm definitely going to stock up on some more because they're so cheap and really pretty. This one is lavender, although you can't really make that out here.</div>
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Also, I told you I'd be going back to pink didn't I? Just can't stay away from that candy floss girl aesthetic, I guess.</div>
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(Your girl is terrible at make up/face shots)</div>
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<i>Jumper - vintage, skirt - ASOS, tights - ASOS</i></div>
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Dorky pose because I am super cheesy and perfectly okay with it.</div>
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<i>Jumper - Topshop, skirt - Meadham Kirchhoff for Topshop, necklace - Tatty Devine</i></div>
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I bought this jumper on a whim while lazily browsing the sale section in Topshop. I thought it was absolutely adorable, like it was made of care bear fur or something. ("It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!" basically). I bought it mainly because I thought it would be really funny to wear this with my hair exactly matching the colour, and it is! I like to think of my outfits more thematically these days (not every day, and particularly not when I've left myself only 20 minutes to get to a lecture), and this seemed so dreamy.</div>
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This jumper is one of those pieces that just feels to easy to wear, so many things in my wardrobe gravitate towards it. <a href="http://www.tattydevine.com/shop/by-product/necklaces/pegasus-large-necklace-iridescent.html?">This necklace</a> is one of them. My mum gave it to me for Christmas and I have barely taken it off since. It's so beautiful and goes with so many things - it's iridescent so it changes colour depending on what the light is like or what I'm wearing it with. I know you can't see it that well here (I forgot to take proper close up photos because I'm terrible), but I'm planning on doing a proper post dedicated to some new piece of jewellery I've acquired lately. I went through a weird period of not wearing any at all, but I've got back into it in a big way recently.</div>
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My hair isn't green any more, but I still really like how my hair matches the jumper exactly here. I like being able to have an obvious charter of my life. I like this as a perfect snapshot of who I was at this point in time. I am 21 now, but I was 20 here. I believe in constant reinvention and re-evaluation of myself. I used to be so static and so set in my ways, convinced that I was always going to be the same and that I didn't need to change. I think I was scared of growing up, scared of becoming an adult when basically I didn't really want to be alive. But I'm more positive about my capacity for change now, I am even excited by it. I did not like this hair colour, but also I loved it because it allowed me to really think about who I consider myself to be. Does that make sense? I mean that even though I didn't particularly liked it, it let me see other versions of myself. I like being able to literally see myself changing, and hair is such an obvious way to see that change. I feel like I really needed that, I have relaxed a lot more now and I am not as precious about myself. By that I mean, if my hair looks rubbish, it looks rubbish. I kind of revel in it, actually? Like here I love that my roots kind of match my eye liner. Time passes, things change. This is just a moment and it will pass, but the strength that I have now will only get stronger.</div>
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I'm writing this quite late, can you tell? I'm going to go to bed now, but I will see you soon for more outpourings of my heart in relation to clothes.</div>
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These photos are super old now, but I thought I would show you all what I bought from the Meadham Kirchhoff collaboration with Topshop!</div>
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I set my alarm to make sure I was up in time for all the pieces to be released online, even though I was pretty sure I knew what I wanted I didn't want anything to sell out! I deliberated over the eye print dresses for a while, but decided my bank balance would not have been very pretty afterwards so I bought this pastel pink rainbow skirt! I'm so pleased with it, the pattern is so subtle and pretty, the lace at the bottom is a really lovely touch too.</div>
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(I actually wrote some things about the collaboration for the student magazine, the news piece is <a href="http://www.libertybellesheffield.com/news-meadham-kirchhoff-for-topshop/">here</a> & the little review is <a href="http://www.libertybellesheffield.com/review-meadham-kirchhoff-for-topshop/">here</a>)</div>
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The label from my skirt! When I was searching through pictures of the collection I was so sure I would be a Cherry Blossom as the (obviously, pastel) pieces seemed the most suited to my wardrobe. I've kept this label & put it on my bedroom wall, just taking my MK love that extra step further <3 p=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Goofy/terrible poses forever. I wore this outfit to go hand an essay in & then sit in the library. I really like dressing up to go to the library, feeling like I'm dressed super cute always helps me work I think. Or, at least makes me get distracted by my own reflection in my laptop screen (sadly not really joking here!).</div>
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<i>Blouse - vintage/DIY, cardigan - charity shop, skirt - Meadham Kirchhoff for Topshop, tights - Topshop, hairband - DIY.</i></div>
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I've gone off this hair colour recently (I'm going back to pink soon!), but I really like it here.</div>
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This skirt fits so perfectly with my wardrobe, I'm so excited to try it out with different pieces! I bought it in a size down because Topshop skirts always seem to sit on the hips and I much prefer being able to wear high waisted pieces.</div>
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I also bought the glittery stripey tights, cherry socks & this eye print tshirt, although I did send up sending the tshirt back because the shape didn't quite feel right to me.</div>
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I know I said I would be back to posting more regularly, but then... didn't, but I have a new laptop now (my other one tragically, finally bit the dust a few weeks before Christmas) so I will hopefully be able to post more often! See you soon xx</div>
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Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-62803623506760952702013-12-13T16:40:00.001+00:002013-12-13T16:40:27.461+00:00Washed up.<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello! Just a short post this time to show you my new(ish) hair colour & new favourite blouse.</div>
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I have been wearing this outfit so much lately! This picture is super washed out (sorry) but the blue in the skirt matches the blue of the blouse almost perfectly, and the whole outfit seemed to fall together when I dyed my hair a shade up.</div>
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The blouse has such adorable alphabet embroidery in light blue, aqua and white. I think it might be a children's blouse as it's pretty tight (and kind of unflattering tbh, but that doesn't bother me!) and has a weird sizing label. It only set me back £4 and it's just so cute!</div>
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I did really like this colour initially, but I've gone off it a lot now & I'm pretty sure I'll be going back to pink/lilac soon. It was a good experiment though and I'm glad I did it, just so I could see what it was like having sea monster hair for a little while. Also, it matches my glittery blue eyeliner exactly! FYI, I used Bleach London dye (available in Boots) in Washed Up Mermaid mixed with conditioner but it still came out pretty bright. The colour has lasted quite a long time but it's pretty patchy as it develops so quickly on your hair.</div>
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Next post is going to be featuring my Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop pieces, eek! Prepare yourself now for some next level twee-ness.</div>
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Hello again! I said I had lots of posts planned and I'm very excited to be sticking to my word. This skirt has to be one of my favourite things I have ever bought. I saw it in Topshop's summer campaign and checked their website pretty much every day until it finally became available.</div>
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I was really worried that I had built it up too much in my head & wouldn't like it any more once I could actually close my hands around it, but that was not true at all! I am so in love with this skirt I feel like I need to frame it. The lace is so pretty and has these wonderful pink watercolour splashes across it, as well as tiny gems in blue, pink and green. You can only really see it faintly here, but the underskirt is light green gingham, which is so cute! I try to be really careful about wearing this as it's so nice I really don't want to ruin it, I have paired it with a few things but I always keep coming back to pairing it with this 80s tropical print top as the colours just fit so well.</div>
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<em>Top - vintage via ebay, skirt - Topshop, tights - Topshop, brooch/necklace - vintage, cardigan (below) - vintage via Etsy</em></div>
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Very sorry for the absolute state of my room! This corner is just where I bundle everything that just gets in the way. I really want to put a couple of posters up on the wall behind me but I haven't really found any that I like yet, although I have put a few on my Christmas wish list!</div>
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When I saw the skirt in person, the little gems instantly reminded me of this vintage brooch. I think it is one of the most fascinating pieces I own but I never really wear it enough as it's pretty heavy and tends to drag my clothes down, I really like threading it onto a necklace chain like this though.</div>
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I think this outfit is one of my favourites I have put together in a long time, everything just seemed to come together so effortlessly & looked as if they were made to be worn with each other. Last term in a conversation about Mad Men one of my tutors said that I must watch it (I don't! I probably should!) "because of the way you dress". From the glimpses of the characters' wardrobes I have seen, this outfit does seem like I could have stepped off the set. Very pastel 1950s secretary finds the sequin drawer. Predictable me, basically.</div>
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As you may/may not have been able to tell, my hair is slightly different in these photos! I've been trying out setting my hair in rollers & it actually worked quite well this time (although it looked a bit better later in the day)! I still have to work on it a bit, especially at the back, but I really like the way it looks and the way it changes over a few days. Having said that, these photos are from about a month ago & my hair is now blue!</div>
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Hello! It seems that I accidentally went for two whole months without posting on here, oh dear. I am really disappointed that I haven't been able to write here, when I first moved to Sheffield we didn't have any internet in our house, and even though we have it now the signal is always breaking off. My workload has been pretty heavy too (I currently have three essay deadlines within a week *cries*) so I have been a bit too stressed out to post. I am going to try and make some time from now on though, as I hate giving all these excuses!</div>
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I wanted to show you all my new coats! I am very picky when it comes to coats (and clothing in general, really), but I have recently acquired some completely adorable ones. My mum bought this one from a charity shop (for a £1!) for me a few months ago, but I hadn't worn it until recently because it's a little bit big and I wasn't sure if I liked it. On a whim, I decided to wear it for the day at uni & promptly got three compliments, so it's definitely a keeper.</div>
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It's slightly too big for me, which along with the shoulder pads makes me feel like a camp Herman Munster. Which I obviously love! You can't really see it here, but it has a lovely glittery thread running through it which makes it extra cutesy.</div>
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The second coat I acquired recently has yet to actually be worn out of the house! I've been obsessed with those clear macs you always see very cool Twiggy-type girls wearing in 60s photographs, and I finally found this one (which has such a Louis Vuitton SS14 vibe!) on pretaportobello.com. Maybe I will wear it soon, when we next get a spot of rain.</div>
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I really like the idea of being able to see my outfit underneath! Does anyone else get a bit annoyed having to put your coat on top of an excellent outfit? No? Just me then!</div>
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Sorry for the bad lighting in these photos! I have yet to really work out the best place to take pictures in my room, it's a slightly odd shape and has sloping ceilings and walls so there's not that many places I can actually stand up properly. I have a few outfit/clothes posts planned (including showing you what I got from the amazing Meadham Kirchhoff for Topshop collection, eek!) but after that I think I'll do a little room tour to show you what it's like!</div>
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In my last post I said I was going to do a details piece on a dress I bought recently. As you might know about me, I am a huge Meadham Kirchhoff groupie and a few months ago I managed to pick up one of the pieces from their Topshop collection (relatively) cheap on ebay.</div>
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Here it is! I love the shape of it, and how it really hasn't got a shape at all. I like that it isn't trying desperately to be flattering, I have such a growing dislike for all the (mainly male, mainly high end) designers who talk about wanting to fit a woman's shape in a flattering way. It just feels so, I don't know, such a boring and restrictive way to look at dressing. It's much more fun to not care about that at all (not to mention it's so male gaze-y for designers to think that way!).</div>
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The layered, jagged skirt.</div>
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Sleeve detail with beading and sequins.</div>
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I love these little glitter discs! They remind me of those white chocolate sweets with sprinkles you get in pick & mix places.</div>
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I like the layers here, and how you can see the glitter peeking through the thinner parts of the lace.</div>
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I love the really excessive portions of sequins there are, they look almost like fish scales or like, a cool skin disease or something. I like how they're matte instead of shiny, it's a bit more unusual. A wry nod to decadence, to be shiny would be too much, but there's so many of them that it's kind of too much anyway. (A good kind of too much)</div>
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A sleeve.</div>
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I love all the unfinished edges and how it looks almost ragged. The mix of the opulence and the ripped, jagged edges is really interesting I think.</div>
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The back of the bodice. I like how it almost looks like a contour map.</div>
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I'm moving back to Sheffield for my second year on Monday so I'm not sure how often I'll be posting, I will try though. I want to write something about Meadham Kirchoff's SS14 collection because I have a lot of thoughts about it (like, why only white models?) and I want to put them all somewhere.</div>
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*FAVOURITE NEW OUTFIT KLAXON*</div>
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I bought this playsuit from Etsy very, very impulsively. I was having a casual browse late one night, saw this and decided an hour later (because that's what I call impulsive!) to buy this for myself as a little "yay for doing your first year of uni and yay for getting a 2:1!" present. Treat yo' self, basically. It's one of the most expensive pieces of vintage I've ever bought (most of that was bloody postage costs though!), and I'm so so happy with it! I was really worried about it not fitting, but it looks amazing on me, let's face it.</div>
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I love how unusual it is, I've never seen anything quite like this before. It's kind of 1950s Barbie does space travel air hostessing, you know what I mean?</div>
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Pin up pose/outtake, you decide. Also sorry for the mess on my bed! I am the laziest human ever and my tidying regime basically consists of moving things from my floor to the bed and back again when I need to sleep.</div>
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The buttons on the back are so adorable!</div>
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It has been quite tricky to undo in a rush though, so leaving plenty of time before bathroom breaks is a definite must!</div>
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Back view. The shorts have little straps, so the legs can be either rolled up or down! I definitely prefer them shorter for now, but we'll see. It also came with an adorable detachable belt which adds a lovely bit of waist detail.</div>
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Me being really happy with how great my wardrobe is right now. I have to say I haven't worn a piece of clothing that makes me feel as confident as this does in a long while. I just love it! It makes me feel powerful but also cute as hell, and I think it's important to own clothes like that.</div>
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Speaking of clothes! I'm selling a few pieces on ebay that I've been hoarding, they're really lovely but they just don't fit me and I can't bring myself to alter them! There's some beautiful vintage pieces and some Topshop, River Island & Primark cuties too. <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/cimlah42/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686">Have a look here!</a></div>
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(I know all I post is outfit posts these days but I just have so many pieces I love that I haven't shown you yet! I'm going to do a details post of a very beautiful dress I bought a few months ago, and then I will sort out some posts before I go back to Sheffield. Peace and love, peace and love)</div>
Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-14976341600883787372013-08-26T17:10:00.001+01:002013-09-07T18:04:29.022+01:00Nostalgia for outfits/versions of myself.<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello! Time for Part Three of my Alteration Series.</div>
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This skirt used to be part of a dress I loved when I was sixteen, I think there's probably a (very embarrassing) outfit post of me wearing it floating about on here somewhere. On of the straps broke a while back and couldn't really be repaired, but I didn't have the heart to throw it out because A) I am ridiculously sentimental about clothing, and B) I always thought I would change it up into a skirt one of these days - and now I have!<br />
You can't really see it properly here because I was lazy and took these pictures without using my tripod, but it's really cute I promise! Also, I am inadvertently matching the colours of my room perfectly.</div>
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<i>Blouse - Dorothy Perkins, skirt - Motel/DIY, necklace - gift.</i></div>
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I have been sitting on these pictures for a long time because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to say about them. The fact that both of these pieces are recycled items from my past has made me do a lot of thinking about how I think about my appearance now. I feel like I'm in the middle of a transformation in the way I dress, moving away from an all pastel aesthetic into a brighter, more varied array of clothing. I do love pastel shades, but I feel like I had been using that colour palette as a means of restriction - a few times I looked at clothes online and found myself thinking "oh that's nice, it's not pastel though" as if that some how diminished how much I should like it. What I guess I'm trying to say is that I think I was forcing a strict identity upon myself, through clothes but also myself as a person. I want to move away from this now and become more adventurous and explore vintage dressing and presentation more (a few of you might have seen me with my hair in rollers on Instagram, this is part of that exploration and growth). This series of alterations I have been doing has also been a step in that direction, the skirts and dress I have shown you recently are a step towards my hopefully more open approach to dressing. I just want to have fun again, I think. Last week I started looking through my blog archives because I was feeling nostalgic for the enthusiasm I had for blogging last year, and I was also missing the way I looked back then (in <a href="http://thoughtsfromanotherkook.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/rose-tints-my-world-keeps-me-safe-from.html">this post</a> specifically). I have had this weird notion in the back of my mind that Summer 2012 was my peak and that I will never look better. Obviously, this is a really odd and stupid notion, because growth matters. Change matters. I feel like I am in the halfway stages at the moment, my style and my approach to it are going to continue evolving and this blog is going to be the site of it.<br />
I have been really apathetic about blogging lately and sluggish in showing you all new, pretty things that I have bought because I have been taking the time to think a lot more lately. I have been a bit confused about lots of things, some to do with my style - because I do think that is worth thinking over and deconstructing - but my personal life as well. I am not going to share much about it here (because I'm not sure what I'm thinking myself, but also because I don't really want to), but know that I am a little fragile right now and that, even though I do want to write about things here, I do not really have the energy to post a lot right now.<br />
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Plaid on plaid.</div>
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Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-54373979769742031302013-07-30T21:55:00.001+01:002013-09-07T18:03:13.765+01:00Pretty in pink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Hello! I said many moons ago that I was thinking about doing some small reviews of some make up I've bought recently, and today I have finally got around to it! This post is going to be pretty picture heavy, so prepare yourself accordingly.</div>
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These are the four lipsticks I own. Up until about four months ago, I only owned one! Pretty shameful to be honest, it's pretty much one of my make up staples.</div>
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(They are in the same order here as they are in the pictures below)</div>
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<i>Rimmel Kate Lasting Finish Lipstick </i>in <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Rimmel-Kate-Lasting-Finish-Lipstick_1230439/">16</a>.</div>
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This one is my favourite! It looks a lot more subtle here than it does in real life, but it's a lovely pale pink which feels kind of like a grown up Barbie colour (so basically my aesthetic in general). It has fairly blue undertones which is great because I am so not one for coral/orangey shades. It's also pretty moisturising but does fade a bit during the day.</div>
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<i>Rimmel London Moisture Renew Lipstick </i>in 130/Oxford Street Fuchsia (they don't have the shade, but other ones are available <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Rimmel-Moisture-Renew-Lipstick_847102/">here</a>)</div>
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I really, really love this colour but the formulation of this lipstick is not good at all! It takes a lot of applications to get the colour to really build up and get full coverage, and it can look quite patchy if you have dry lips. I would recommend wearing lip balm underneath for definite with this one because it can settle into lines in your mouth pretty easily (which I think you can see a bit here). I do find it quite disappointing because this is the most expensive lipstick I have bought (£6.29 at Boots, but I bought it in a 3 for 2 offer with the other Rimmel lipsticks). Having said that, I do love the colour (which is slightly more purpley than it looks here) and I like that it makes my eyes look really blue.</div>
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<i>Topshop Lipstick </i>in Mischief<i> </i>(they don't sell this exact shade any more but there are other similar ones on <a href="http://www.topshop.com/en/tsuk/category/make-up-431/lips-471#pageSize=200&catalogId=33057&viewAllFlag=false&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId=208567&langId=-1&beginIndex=1&storeId=12556&parent_categoryId=208495&refinements=category~[211515|208567]">their website</a>)</div>
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My sister bought me this a fair few Christmasses ago (I think when their make up range had just started) and I really love it! Definitely my favourite red shade that I own. Its slightly raspberry red which I really like because I feel like that works with my <strike>ghostly</strike> pale skin, it kind of makes me feel like a Snow White/Marilyn Monroe hybrid, if that makes any sense at all. The formulation is really creamy & it is pretty long lasting, however it is very bad for bleeding out. I blot it several times when I apply it & I've also started wearing lip liner with it too (but more on that later).</div>
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<i>Rimmel Kate London Lasting Finish Lipstick </i>in <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Rimmel-Kate-Lasting-Finish-Lipstick_1230439/">22</a>.</div>
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I haven't really worn this lipstick much, but that's mainly because I prefer my other red. As you can probably see, there isn't much difference between the two but this one is slightly less pink and a bit darker.</div>
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Swatches! Same order as before, natural light.</div>
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And flash.</div>
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Also, I thought I would show you my lipstick holders! I picked all of these up in charity shops gradually, at one point I owned all three of these but only one lipstick.</div>
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I also bought some glitter eyeliners recently! Glitter, yaaay! I bought the turquoise one for my burlesque make up expecting it to be a bit rubbish as it was only cheap, but I was actually really impressed & went back to buy it in some other colours.</div>
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<i>Collection 2000 Glam Crystals </i>in 5/Le Freak (other shades available <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Collection-2000-Glam-Crystals_1016814/">here</a>)</div>
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I really love this liner! It's such a pretty colour & it's really easy to apply. It's easier to put on than the other two, I think because the glitter is finer and it glides better over the lid. Very long wearing too considering it was so cheap.</div>
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<i>Collection 2000 Glam Crystals </i>in 8/Dancing Queen (other shades <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Collection-2000-Glam-Crystals_1016814/">here</a>)</div>
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Really love the hot pink colour, but it does look a bit odd when my hair is bright pink so I don't wear it very much.</div>
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<i>Collection 2000 Glam Crystals </i>in 11/Shake It Up</div>
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I kind of regret getting this one because I don't think I'll wear it very much, it looked very purple in the shop but it's more like a dark blue on which is a little bit dull for me. I mean, duller than the other shades! Can glitter even be dull?</div>
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Swatches!</div>
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Also, just thought I'd do a quick round up of the rest of the make up I'm wearing here. I don't really wear make up around the house, like ever, but when I'm meeting people or going out for the day I put a little bit on.</div>
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<li>I never used to colour in my eyebrows, but I barely go out without doing so now. The <i>Benefit Brow Zings </i>in <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/benefit-brow-zing_857046/">Light</a> are so good! I find the wax really good for shaping my eyebrows and the powder is great for darkening/filling in gaps, as my eyebrows are pretty light on their own. It comes with two brushes and a set of tweezers, but I just use my own tweezers because I find these ones too small and fiddly.</li>
<li>I'm kind of on a mascara hunt at the moment. I got this free sample of <i><a href="http://www.boots.com/en/benefit-theyre-real-mascara_1231677/">Benefit They're Real!</a></i> in Elle magazine & I have heard good things from other people but honestly I'm kind of disappointed. I really don't like the weird spiky brush and I never feel like I get it on thick enough on my lashes, which i like because mine are pretty thin. I like the colour but I find that it's really difficult to actually take it off too.</li>
<li>I had a discount code for The Body Shop & I'd heard really good things about their <i><a href="http://www.thebodyshop.co.uk/make-up/lips/lip-line-fixer.aspx">Lip Line Fixer</a></i> so I decided to give it a go. It works just like any ordinary liner, except it's invisible so it can be used with any colour. I really love it and I use it whenever I'm wearing lipstick, especially with the Topshop one above as it really stops it bleeding out onto the skin around my lips.</li>
<li>More new additions to my beauty routine from The Body Shop are this <i>Eye Definer </i>liner in 5/White and this <i>Baked-To-Last Blush </i>in 1/Petal. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing with the eye liner, but I quite like the way it makes my eyes look a little bit brighter. I love the blush though! It is really shimmery and the pale pink is much better than the coral I was using before (a free sample my mum didn't want, my apathy with make up is so painful). It comes with a highlighter too, which looks great on my cheekbones.</li>
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Okay, so amateur hour make up review is over, hope you enjoyed it!Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-9214556144716212612013-07-13T00:25:00.000+01:002013-09-07T18:02:52.737+01:00Moonrise kingdom.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Hello again! I have another outfit post for you all, shock horror! This is sort of Part Two of my Alteration Series (if we're going to be fancy and give it a name).</div>
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You know some outfits that just seem to fit perfectly together, but still feel amazingly effortless at the same time? Yeah. This one. I really like all of these elements together, the colours of the headscarf and the skirt match almost exactly, and the heritage style prints of the skirt and the top (which I appreciate is bloody hard to actually see), plaid and toile de jouy, go together surprisingly well. I actually got two compliments from two women at two separate bus stops on this look, so thank you small town ladies!</div>
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Front.</div>
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I bought this skirt in a charity shop for £7 a few months ago, and it was so long it was past my feet! Last week, me & my mum took it in a bit at the waist and then shortened it a fair bit. I'd been mulling over for a while about whether to keep it more or less the same length or to change it completely, as I know some people think it's very taboo to alter any vintage garment beyond recognition. I was speaking to my mum about this and she said that although vintage fashion is a Really Big Thing now, actually it has been around for years and people have always altered clothes to be slightly different than the garment it was before. I have not really altered that many vintage items beyond repairing them slightly, or altering them to fit me. The pieces that I have changed the most have either been charity shop buys, like this one, or very plain blouses. It's a tricky one though, as I would never like to alter a really beautiful, fragile item or something with any real value, sentimental or sartorial. What do you think?</div>
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Back view, the pattern on my top is (rather annoyingly) much brighter on the back. Damn you Topshop and your dreadful quality control.</div>
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<i>Top - Erdem for Topshop, skirt - vintage/charity shop, headscarf - you know the drill.</i></div>
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The skirt is quite unusual as it has all these little plates with agricultural scenes on them. They kind of remind me of Brownie or Scout badges, hence the eyeliner as I felt like a weird Suzy Bishop/Sam Shakusky hybrid.</div>
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(Also for some reason all the pictures I took came out very dark, so the only decent ones I had were all of me doing the same pose, very sorry!)</div>
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Things I have been busy with/doing since we last spoke:</div>
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1. Buying a fair bit of new make up, which is very unlike me! I might post about it on here, if that's the kind of thing people would be interested in reading? I'm determined to start wearing make up more often, which you might be able to tell from the eyeliner I'm wearing in these photos.</div>
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2. Started writing some articles about feminism for a magazine my friend from uni is starting up. The first one is a piece about burlesque dancing, and the other is going to be a background piece/interview with a long term reader of the feminist magazine Spare Rib as a precursor to its impending relaunch/rebranding. I really need to get on with this because I've been putting off writing them for ages now, but I feel like I'm at the point where I have too much to say so it feels difficult to actually get it out of my head and onto (electronic) paper.</div>
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3. Sorting out my ticket for Tramlines! A festival in Sheffield where three of my favourite bands happen to be playing on the same day, and it's only £6! Very excited and being very dorky by writing out the times and stages all of the bands I want to see are on so I don't miss them.</div>
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4. I moved into my new house in Sheffield, which is lovely! It's very clean and bright and I live on the top floor which is almost like a penthouse flat. I have a skylight and sloping walls/ceilings and it is the room in the house everyone wanted, so, yay for that! Also I discovered that the house has an old abandoned toilet outside with a gargoyle on the roof! SO COOL! If you follow me on Instagram (@strawberry_charlotte) you'll probably have heard me blabbering on about this already, but I really was very excited. Also, my new room looks like it will be good for outfit pictures, so get ready for more blogging from Sheffield!</div>
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5. I am also in the process of listing new pieces in my shop! I have been neglecting it for the past few months because of uni and other things, but I really want to make & sell more pretty things this summer. Please have a look <a href="http://www.strawberryfieldss.etsy.com/">here</a>! (:</div>
Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-69398425730829691182013-06-29T23:33:00.001+01:002013-06-29T23:33:29.060+01:00Let's go swimming.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Hello! I have another outfit post for you today, with another new/old addition to my wardrobe.</div>
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These rather wonderful vintage shorts! I love these, and I feel like they perfectly match my aesthetic at the moment. I realise that's a really pretentious ~fashun~ thing to say, but I love the pastel block illustration and I feel like it really fits with my personal reclaiming and championing of femininity through clothing. I'm also trying to break out of my own cycle of clothes buying at the moment too, by choosing things that are slightly different to what I'm wearing right now. I feel like for the past few months, maybe even this whole year, I have been quite restrictive in the way I choose clothes, not buying anything that doesn't fit with how I want to present myself. Not that I've actually bought much! I do want to change this a bit more though, by just relaxing a bit more and being more creative with colour and silhouette. It might not be a change noticeable to anyone but me, but I think that's fine. The way we perceive and think of ourselves will always be different to the way others view us, literally here in the case of how I dress myself. These shorts seem like a nice bridge between the pastel-obsessed me and the still pastel-obsessed, but slightly more relaxed me. The shape is not something I have really worn before, but I like them and I think they look really lovely with this blouse.</div>
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The print in close up. It's a repeated pattern of three swimmers in slightly different styles of pink, blue and turquoise swimsuits and pink and turquoise swimming caps. I just love the print, and I've never seen anything like it before. The shorts feel pretty modern, so I don't think they're any earlier than the 80s, but I still feel like they are an homage to those 1940s and 1950s postcard swimsuit babes.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZByZtQt4XYw/SmNIPbrKzxI/AAAAAAAADCE/OIgT9AREYfw/s400/1288738277_a084e58649.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZByZtQt4XYw/SmNIPbrKzxI/AAAAAAAADCE/OIgT9AREYfw/s400/1288738277_a084e58649.jpg" width="331" /></a></div>
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I bought these shorts for an amazingly cheap £6.50 in a beautiful vintage warehouse me and my friends from Sheffield found. We went there for a photo shoot for a very exciting magazine my friend is setting up. Each issue is going to have a theme, and the first is feminism, so basically my ideal theme! The photo shoot (starring me!) was a twist on the idea of the vintage housewife being a thing of the past; me in a vintage kitchen with smeared lipstick, holding a potato masher and growling menacingly. I haven't seen the pictures yet, but Sam is very talented so I am looking forward to it!</div>
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<i>Shorts - vintage, blouse - vintage/DIY, cardigan - Tesco, shoes - H&M, socks - Topshop.</i></div>
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Also, I am so excited about these shoes! I was browsing in H&M the other week and saw them in the sale, the only pair left and in my size! An absolute stroke of luck considering I've been looking for a pair like this for a while.</div>
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As I'm sure lots of you know, Google Friend Connect will no longer exist on Monday! So if you want to stay updated with my blog, please <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/en/blog/2801577">follow via Bloglovin</a>. Thank you! (:</div>
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Also, I thought it was about time I made an email for the blog! So if you wish to contact me (and I am quite friendly, I promise!), the address is charlotte.kook@gmail.com.</div>
Charlotte.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16574715344526770261noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2462283179788891843.post-37045422632146610792013-06-24T19:49:00.001+01:002013-06-24T19:49:38.026+01:00Girl power.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I bought some very cute brooches a couple of weeks ago, and I thought I would share them with you!</div>
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I am so in love with this girl power brooch! You can't really see it too well here, but it's got a really pretty glittery sheen. I am starting to build up a collection of feminist brooches, and this one is such a lovely addition.</div>
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The girl who makes them is really talented and she does custom listings too. She had this brooch listed in pink and I sent her a message to ask if she'd consider making it in lilac and she made a new listing for me right away! Please visit her shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/cryybaby">cryybaby</a> because everything is adorable, and also it will stop me bankrupting myself to buy everything in it.</div>
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I wore it a couple of weeks ago when me & a few of my girls from my block surprised another girl for her birthday. This was a couple of days before my last (and only!) exam, and it was a really nice night! We went to a cocktail bar in town and hid in a booth until she arrived.<br />I pinned the brooch to my lace jacket, which I have yet to post about on here! I think I'm going to do a full post on the outfit I wore that night because I was just so pleased with how it came together. Let's just say it would be in my Greatest Hits of outfits. It does make me miss my pink hair though!</div>
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This is the second brooch I bought from her shop, and I absolutely adore it! Ab Fab is one of my favourite TV shows, and Patsy is such a good character. I wore it here with my vintage jacket from <a href="http://thoughtsfromanotherkook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/how-much-longer-can-i-get-awaywith.html">this post</a>.</div>
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Hello! I am back in Newcastle for the summer now, and I have lots of plans that I am determined to carry out before September. One of my plans is to learn how to properly alter clothes, instead of just handing things to my mum when it all gets too difficult! I've bought lots of clothes in the past, mostly vintage, just because they're pretty and not because they actually fit, so this summer I am going to try to alter them all on my own.</div>
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This dress is the first piece I have finished! Well, my mum helped A LOT but I'm slowly learning. I bought this for £7.99 in a charity shop just round the corner from my student accommodation, I really will miss being just a two minute walk from a thrift shop!</div>
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It has a cool spotty pattern which really reminds me of hospital gowns. Which, in a strange kind of way, I quite like. It feels like a costume from a weird 1960s psychological thriller film.</div>
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It has a really 1950s housewife vibe (although my mum says it's definitely from the 1980s), which I think really works with the hospital patient/thriller type thing. Very Stepford Wives, I feel.</div>
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I watched Addams Family Values for the umpteenth time yesterday which I think really influenced my thoughts about this outfit. I really love the character of Debbie, like the way she is dressed as the typical, demure 1950s housewife, but turns out to be a warped serial killer. I really love that subversion of the submissive wife trope.</div>
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My hair is really hilarious at this point. It really needs cutting, bleaching and redyeing, but as I am currently trying to get a job I think I'm going to have to make the difficult move back to brown. The pink era could be over!</div>
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More housewife vibes from this glow in the dark ironing ghost my brother got from a Kinder egg like 15 years ago. I made this into a necklace a few years ago, I think it's so adorable.</div>
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Pin up girl poses forever. (Open bathroom door ruining everything forever)<br />Hopefully be back soon, I have several new clothing items which I am excited to post about! Also, I realised I recently reached over 300 followers on this blog, which is so amazing thank you everyone! Although I have no idea what is going to happen when Google Friend Connect disappears, so who knows what will happen then!</div>
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Hello! I've been really absent from posting, I'm sorry. I have been busy, but I know that I've felt a lot less motivated to write on here recently. I think because I haven't been thinking about clothes and putting outfits together that much, like I haven't bought anything at all recently or really felt like I've put an amazing outfit together. I think I have been in my head a lot more recently, I'm coming to the end of my first year here and obviously that has put me in an introspective mood. I have been making lots of lists in my mind for things I want to do this summer, and I know that one of them is altering the pile of clothes-waiting-to-be-altered I have at home, so I will definitely be sharing my exploits there! I think this year has been a lot more about me finding out who I am away from home, self-discovery in more of an internal way than through clothing, which is how I definitely feel my self-discovery was manifested last summer. I think what has put me off posting is because I feel that Summer 2012 was kind of my ~peak outfit wise & aesthetically, and a lot of what I've been doing and dressing like has just been trying to get back to that and recreate it, but it can't be recreated because, as moments do, it passed. But I've had a realisation now that I do want to move forward, and so shall be dressing and thinking accordingly.</div>
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Okay, wow. That turned out a lot longer than I expected it to be! I guess I have just been having a lot of thoughts on this recently, and it isn't necessarily something you can talk about with people. Thanks for reading that whole thing, if you did! Anyway, I thought I would share with you something that I've mentioned a bit on here before, which is quite exciting, I think!</div>
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I'm part of the Burlesque Society at my university, which is just a little society here! (I'm going to be Treasurer and Inclusions Officer next year too!) We've been planning for a few months now to put together a small showcase evening for charity before exams, and I thought I'd share with you some pictures from the night!</div>
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(The charity is SYEDA, South Yorkshire Eating Disorder Awareness, which is a really worthwhile local charity)</div>
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Group photo on stage before all our guests arrived. We wore Miss Sheffield sashes for our opening group routine, which was a beauty pageant themed dance that turned into a fight over the crown!</div>
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Silly faces, of course!</div>
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Me and Anna, my dancing partner.</div>
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Me during the routine! I was in a duo routine with Anna, but I cropped the photos to just me because she doesn't know I'm posting these! Our routine was to Don't Rain On My Parade by Shirley Bassey, hence the umbrellas. We wore plastic rain ponchos (which were really clingy and horrible, actually) which we ripped off (literally!) halfway through. I was pretty nervous before going on, but actually it was so much fun! I loved it, it was such a good experience and I'm really glad I did it.</div>
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There was a part where we had to take a stocking off one leg with our other foot, very difficult but I managed it!</div>
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...aaaaand the mess we left on stage! For our big finish, I threw a big cup FULL of glitter over Anna! It's almost two weeks laster now and I'm still finding bits of it in my hair and on my clothes! It's all over my floor, obviously.</div>
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I thought I would do a little make up review of the eyeliner I wore for my routine (not that you can see it!) I bought it specially for this and it was quite cheap, but it was excellent and I'm going back to buy it in some more colours after handing my essay in tomorrow as a treat! I've also been thinking of doing a review of my (small!) lipstick collection for a while now, so let me know if you'd like to see that too! Goodbye for now, I promise I won't leave it too long next time (:</div>
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