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Sale or not sale: this is the solution

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Time to think about the Sale.       SALE SALE SALE 

First: you must look in your wardrobe and decide what you are missing

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Second: you must look for what you intend to buy now. Have a look on your favourite sites or shops, try on, make your list. These are some of my favourite ones:

http://www.stories.com/it/

http://www.cosstores.com/it/

http://www.zalando.co.uk/women-home/

http://www.polyvore.com

http://www.massimodutti.com/gb/en/

https://en-gb.boticca.com/

http://www.margarethowell.co.uk

http://www.toa.st

http://www.boden.co.uk/en-GB/Womens-Clothing.html

https://www.jcrew.com/it/index.jsp

https://www.madewell.com/index.jsp

Third: you must decide what to buy now at full price and what to buy (if still available) in the sales. I think it’s best to buy inexpensive clothes at full price and what you can’t normally afford in the sales.

“Cheap” is sometimes ok but you MUST match it with “expensive”. When I say expensive, I don’t mean “Designer”, that’s not expensive, that’s “crazy”!!!  By the way, I call cheap a pair of 30 Euros trousers. So, if you buy, like I did, a pair of cheap faux leather trousers, this is what you do:

1) you must buy cheap now, not in the sales. The reason being, the state in which both the shop and the clothes are in, when they are on sale. Since those clothes ARE inexpensive anyway, you should buy them in their best state and have time to try them on properly.

2) cheap must fit you perfectly and be something you are not going to use lots, or for years. For example: trendy, colours you don’t normally use.

3) in order to make this specific piece less cheap looking, everything else must be good quality. I have a friend who has a villa and is in general quite well off. In one occasion she was wearing “The Dior pearl earrings”!!

Dior

Dior

Some time later I was speaking to her and other friends and it became apparent that everybody thought that at that time she WAS wearing the Dior earrings. Well, they were fake, bought at a street market for a few euros. The fact is, you want to look expensive, not spend a lot.

Things worth spending on:

1) A pair of jeans. Think, how much use do you get out of a pair of jeans? And, no, they are not all the same, a well cut pair of jeans makes a huge difference. You can find great ones in the sale. Shops must get rid of current season stock because they only have a few sizes left. It takes many years for a style to go out of fashion and will probably come back into fashion again in your lifetime (so, always keep jeans, you never know)

2) Cashmere sweater. This is the kind of item I was speaking about earlier. Wear a cashmere sweater over a pair of faux leather trousers and they will look expensive too! Anyway, there’s nothing like a cashmere jumper to make you feel and look like a “million dollars babe”!

3) Anything black, do I need to explain?!?

4) Handbags. Handbags MUST be good quality. I personally hate those faux leather ones, and also those kind of handmade “things”…. A good quality handbag makes an outfit, as much as a pair of shoes do. You can invest now and find yourself using it in 20 years time. You will know then it was worth spending on it.

5) Leather jacket. Well, what can I say I haven’t already? Too expensive to buy full price and you can always find good, on trend jackets in the sale and pay less. Go for it.

6) Shoes: Have we ever enough of them? I don’t think so!!!!! Buy anything you fancy as long as it doesn’t hurt or isn’t your size (are you reading husband?)

7) Accessories: belts must be good quality, so, buy in the sale. Cashmere hats and scarves too. Leather gloves are one of those things one always puts off buying preferring clothes and also because they are expensive, so buy in the sale as well.

Hope this was useful or at least fun! Buy wisely and don’t buy anything just because it’s on sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

E.

 

 

Festive dressing: Zara

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http://www.zara.com/it/en/

This is going to be the last post on festive dressing. By no means the least important, in fact, as I said before, I don’t believe one should spend too much on this kind of clothing. Of course if it’s going to be something you intend to wear during the day as well or you think you are going to use it for many years to come, than, it is worth investing, otherwise, it isn’t. That’s where Zara comes in, inexpensive trendy clothing, which is going to look great for a “few times wear”.

Here are some pretty alternatives to plain black, I love the mixture of grey, off white and pink, they would be nice all worn together (the colours! not the clothes!!)

And here are plenty of cute black ones:

Finally the leather. Well, I know, I keep on showing leather for the evening… I do think it’s a real alternative to black classic fabric clothes though.

I know you are thinking that perhaps green leather trousers aren’t the best for evening, but, first of all, most places where one goes are quite dark, so you can’t tell they are green. Second, since they are real leather, they cost rather a lot, so, you might as well get a lot of use out of them, which means wearing them during the day too. Now, do you really want to go for the boring black for the day? Well, you might, but if you are looking for an alternative colour which goes with just about any colour, here we are!!

Sorry. Back to the Zara evening wear.

Here are some outfits:

And so on and on and on…. endless possibilities.

Have a lovely Christmas. E.

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Festive dressing: Boden

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Heading for a lot of colours!!!!!

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 http://www.boden.co.uk/#bc

Boden has some great “british” clothing and here are some suggestions:

This is a sweater I have already posted but I love it so much I am going to do it again:

Boden SEQUIN CABLE JUMPER

Boden SEQUIN CABLE JUMPER

Isn’t it just marvellous?!?! It will be great for day time too, a pair of jeans to dress it down and you will look fabulous! A pair of black trousers for the evening instead, the top is the “diva”!!

There are some classic velvet jackets, which are never out of fashion really…

The colours are great and these too can be worn as a day time blazer. As far as evening wear goes though, I wouldn’t do the boring black match but try instead to wear something in a similar shade for the dress or shoe etc. For instance, if you want the pink one, you could add a pearl grey dress and sandals/shoes in a lighter pink. I suppose the silver grey one could be suitable for a black match.

This pair of trousers and shoes would be nice with the turquoise jacket

or with the pink one

and if you don’t want to wear glittery or heels, here’s three other pair of shoes, one better than the other:

Now a few gold things…

Boden EMBELLISHED SPOT DRESS cream

Boden EMBELLISHED SPOT DRESS cream

I would wear the silver sandals with this dress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boden MILANO DRESS champagne sparkle

Boden MILANO DRESS champagne sparkle

 

 

 

This other dress isn’t easy at all, you do need to be nearly perfect in order to wear it… I think this one would be nice with navy accessories, if for no other reason than making  a little more classy rather than “bomb shell” look !!

 

 

Now a top:

Boden METALLIC ORGANZA TOP pale gold

Boden METALLIC ORGANZA TOP pale gold

 

 

Boden The lace up navy and warm pewter

Gold, gold with grey, love it!! And what do you think of these shoes:

They are quite unusual and the style isn’t for anybody, but if you are looking for something different, or you are “different” and do not want to have the usual classic or sexy evening look, than these are for you.

By the way, they are navy, not black!

 

That’s it for now.

E.

P.S. Boden has already some discounts, up to 50%!!!!