Sports Luxe: Trending

Hoodies, sweatshirts, fleeces, baseball caps, silky jogger pants, sneakers, trainers, bubble jackets, anoraks, bomber jackets, gym pants. Has there ever been a more perfect excuse to mix comfort and fashion?

Blue Floral Midi Dress (Outfit)

Writing this post is like writing an essay the night (read: half hour) before it's due in: you've forgotten everything relevant, you have distant memories that something fun happened around that time and you're life is basically falling apart.

Tim Walker

Whimsical, beautiful, rich, nostalgic.

Should I Buy This?

Gretchen: Well, I mean you wouldn't buy a skirt without asking your friends first if it looks good on you. 

Cady: I wouldn't? 

Gretchen: Right.

So currently on my unofficial mental 'list' of things I want to buy, I have: an oversized black hoodie, a grey chunky knit, straight leg jeans black skinny jeans, a Christmas party outfit and pink pom-pom earrings (bought). I haven't found the black oversized hoodie or Christmas outfit yet, but everything else has been selected and I'm ready to order. 

I prefer to buy clothes online rather than go shopping in store, purely because of the greater variety. Pros: all the choices; cons: serious returning stress. Someone once said (I think it was Oprah), that you shouldn't buy anything unless you've spent two weeks thinking about it. I try to use this as a loose motto to follow - it usually works. I also like to only buy things if I have a specific outfit that I want to buy it for - i.e. if I am looking through my wardrobe and realise that several outfits would look much better with more feminine shoes, then I would start looking for a pair of more feminine shoes (another reason why buying online is preferred). I find that physically going shopping is more of an activity or a day trip and less of a way to productively get something you specifically need.

Back-To-School 80's Style Casual Outfit

I have now done the full circle of maniacal college dressing: the way-too-over-dressed (but let's consolidate ourselves with Oscar Wilde's iconic quote: you can never be too overdressed or overeducated), the gym pants ensemble, the thrown-together leftover mix-matched clothing outfit, the trendy number and the I've-taken-this-trend-too-far look. Full circle.

Did 2015 Ruin Suede?

I've moved on to literally anything but suede.

 

Magpying Vogue: Best SS17 Fashion Month Street Style

Read 'Best' as 'What I can wear to college', and read 'What I can wear to college' as 'pyjama-esque pieces that look like clothes': A Collective

Rosie Assoulin SS17

Rosie Assoulin - the brand, and the outfits - is, in my opinion, the perfect example of fash-UN repelling, without too much of the repelling. 


Her style is what you would aspire to wear on a first date, if you so happened to desperately want to wear those new khaki oversized cotton belted not-Dad-style chinos; and yet still wanted to look and feel flattered and appear somewhat feminine and sexy, but still intriguing, with a sense of creativity and tbh - letting the other person know what they're in for. *pause for a breathe because that was all one sentence*

Not to copy Vogue, but I've selected my favourite Rosie Assoulin outfits and given you a typed commentary, with complimentary post-gym semi-lucid thoughts.

Accessorising A Swimsuit In Delray Beach

Accessorising a bikini top + sarong in the hopes that people will take it as a summer wedding guest what-should-I-wear guide. Or you could wear a bikini to a business meeting (someone test trial this and let me know...).

Basic Summer Whites

White is the new black.

Evening Dressing When It's Too Hot (Navy Fine Pleats)

Evening dressing is stressful enough, without heat. SUMMER SURVIVORS.

Red Converse T-Shirt (Outfit)

I finally ticked 'tie a scarf around a body part below the shoulders' off my bucket list.

Wearing The Nautical Trend In 2016

Anything red, blue or white is a summer classic. I said it.

Blair Waldorf Is Giving Me Life Envy

I would much rather be the Queen B of Manhattan, dishing out very adverse but soundly accurate life advice, wearing couture to feed ducks and eating green grapes with the most vigour; than probably just about anything else.

2 Ways To Wear Subtle Beach Vibes, Not At The Beach

I'm at breaking point with this weather. Stripes and straw for the win though, right?

Things I Learnt From Dolce & Gabbana's Alta Moda Spring 2016 Collection

Remind me again: why wouldn't I want to permanently dress like a gorgeous maximalist Italian billionaire's widow?

In Defence Of Culotte Dungarees

I have embarked on a skinny jeans-free summer. Care to join me in the ugliest, sassiest, most practical and surprisingly-flattering pair of pants on the market: the khaki cropped culotte dungarees. Mine are pinstriped for extra craziness.

Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking.

I have had a reoccurring earnest fear of floral prints every year March-June since Miranda Priestley's hard-hitting revelation. But it's July, so we're in the clear.

A Rainy Summer Take On Street Style

Trousers: the wonderful gift to mankind, allowing for 347 more outfit combinations, perfect for days when the sun cold-shoulders us, rain replaces moisturiser, all while humidity sweats out all the bread you ate last night. 

Pink, Red and Completely Off-Duty

I feel like a walking, talking, extremely comfortable, lazy and underpaid Valentine's Day mascot. Sponsor me.