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I've got a new colour obsession. So I've had my fun with fawn/well-beige-actually & when I saw a dress in H&M plus this jumper in a perfect shade of well...another tricky colour. I said burnt orange, my mother said red brown and then my friend Jesus instantly named it rust. Perfect.


Unfortunately both the dress & jumper were made out of horrible synthetic things for no apparent reason so I'm still in search of the perfect garment in the perfect shade of rust. Any suggestions?




& to end on a completely different note with, uhr, Spring. This is what I would like to be wearing, especially that one in the middle, which Jay described as Flower Girl Whore. He should go into fashion journalism no?




Thank you number 93.
It kills me there are 93 people who give a shit what I put on here.
I LOVE YOU ALL.

I made both collage's myself from images on Style.com. The first are from A/W 2010 collections, mostly New York designers. Please credit me if you want to use them!

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As prompted by the wonderful M (whose blog you should check out for sure) & because I don't think I've done one for the one's I wear now. Here is a ring post, because I basically wear the same rings everyday with one or two exceptions or substitutions when I'm feeling adventurous.



1. Silver Bar
I wanted a plain 2 finger ring for ages about a year or so ago & couldn't find one that wasn't stupidly expensive. So I went to the ring man (the guy who works in a ring shop near me) & we worked on the drawing & he made this for me.

2. Gold 'Obey' Ring
This is sort of an in joke with me & my boyfriend (eugh I hate that word) because I subconsciously become more feminine the longer we're together...which is never very long. & we have long conversations about feminism. Ah how boring do we sound?

3. Big Ass Citrine Ring
This is my newest edition, the result of an alchemy request on etsy. Man I love etsy. I wanted something along the lines of a Billy Bride ring & in something at the beginning of the colour spectrum. This is absolutely perfect & although in some situations (vending machines, looking in my bag) the way it protrudes is a tiny bit debilitating, it's beautiful & that's the most important thing!

4. Knuckle-ish Ring
So he also bought me this ring in Paris from a shop called Metal Pontu's, which is a gorgeous shop. I'd been looking for something for this finger for a while & they had all these lovely copper pieces but none of them were quite right, but I kept trying on this ring. Anyway we left with me feeling frustrated & then the next day he surprised me with it... I love the way it exposes my kind of chubby finger with such an elegant shape, & the contrast with the other 2 rings.

5. Sugar Skull Ring
Can it be a sugar skull if it's not in colour? Eugh, so yes this is actually his ring. Which I stole from him before we were properly together...& after many a thought on which way round to wear it I settled on facing outwards. & he's said I can keep it now as, "Protection"

6. Lapis Ring
I was lucky enough to tag along with my mum to South Korea about...geez 2 years ago? It was an amazing trip, & the people were lovely even though I was a tall, pale ginger person in a small Asian population & basically stuck out like a sore thumb. We spotted this lapis stone in a shop near where we were staying & got it for some ridiculously low price but managed to understand that it originally came from Afghanistan. But it was perfectly cut in the oval & I love that it has this wonderful fracture running down the middle of it, because I have a thing for imperfection. So when we got back to Bristol my mum got the ring man to set it in silver for my 16th(? Maybe 17th) birthday & it's not really left my finger since.

7. Odd Green Ring
Fresh off the coach from London after seeing him again, I was meant to be meeting my friend but she was late. So I wondered up to the book shops on Park Row & bought too many books & then popped into the Silver Shop after having a double take on a multi layered loop ring that I thought might be long enough for the type of ring I wanted. I went in & she proceeded to get out every single remotely long ring she had, but when I saw the stone in this one I fell in love. I've never seen anything this colour before & she wasn't sure what stone it was (something like weirdly decayed Aquamarine) but it was so unusual. So I spent the last £30 I had in the world on it & added it straight to my collection.

What's your favorite piece of jewelry?

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So remember this post? Well here is the outfit I promised.





Culottes from a vintage shop in Glasgow & jumper from the Scottish shop in Bath. Very fun shouldering old ladies out the way as things got frantic in the sale & they tutted at my short skirt.

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New ring, new ring. I'm sorry M, I will do a ring post. I will I promise.

Apologies on the delay in postage. I went back to college last week & remembered how much I hate art lessons... It sounds wanky but I find it hard to be creative at allotted times 3 times a week. I've also been busy staring mournfully out of my bedroom window watching the rain destroy my flowers. Oh & also reading The Subversive Stitch & trying to consider my future education-or-not plans.

The future freaks me out.



PS. IF YOU WOULD LIKE A FREE COPY OF FESTIVAL ANNUAL PLEASE E-MAIL ME OR COMMENT ON THIS POST. I STILL HAVE COPIES TO GIVE AWAY!

PPS. It's my half birthday today. Woooooo! 18 1/2 exactly. How oddly observed of Mr Jay.

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House of Fraser has killed Biba.


Biba was everything a shop should be. It was the life and soul of 60s clothing & it epitomized a generation, but unfortunately as those of us with experience of great creativity & little business sense know, it's hard to keep that kind of thing going without selling out a little bit. & so it closed it's doors to the sounds of crying in the street (well...my mum at least).




There was the design company Barbara Hulanicki set up to keep herself going & there was the diffusion line for Topshop which I still own one of my favorite dresses from & then the news came in the form of posters on the outside of House of Fraser. A short conversation with the staff revealed that they new absolutely nothing & I don't go into town much so I was worried I might have missed something... The 'coming this September' signs are still up though.




But flicking through the online lookbook and the things they've put on the website I don't think I'll hold my breath anymore. Everything is shiny & it's either too basic for the price or simply too extravagant to warrant it, who do they think their target market is? My mum? Or me? Because I think they got a little confused & then using Daisy Lowe as the model well, that I'm afraid is a step too far.



Again something that I have treasured in my heart for many years (like finding perfect vintage things or aviator jackets...) has been ruined by being turned into something that is supposed to make a lot of money, but at the expense of everything I ever loved about those things in the first place. I'm not saying you have to be poor to make beautiful things (eg, couture) but there has to be a line. Why didn't they employ someone that knows something about the brand other than, "Oh you know, 70s..maxi dresses they're big, who did those? Well Ossie Clark's got money, why don't we buy Biba instead?"

Any thoughts?

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College starts again properly tomorrow. How depressing. Summer is over. But this weekend (today is still the weekend ok? Not Tuesday...) has been rather lovely. Went back to work boo, had to cover someone on Sunday but the wonderous/hilarious/beautiful Amy was there who I haven't seen in about a gazillion years so it wasn't too bad.

& my sister ran the Bristol Half Marathon so me & my mum went down with our 'Go Ruth' sign in the soaking wet rain to see her off. Almost got trapped on the wrong side of the fence. She did it in 2 hours & 20 minutes though so I was well impressed! Can't remember what I did exactly yesterday but Jay was there & everything seemed shiny so it must've been good...

Have just realised the post below sounds like a big spotify advert...
The competition I'm doing is still very much open...

This skirt is from the best shop I've ever been to, in Paris. I also got the pin up girl dress & a silk dress & some other stuff from there too. I know, I know...I still need to do a post about Paris but a friend said they could develop my film for me until they realised it was 120 & slide. Damn those lomos. Eventually, I promise! But the tops from H&M, it was like in their main collection for an age & when I finally realised I had been thinking about it solidly & got over what it was made of & let myself buy it they only had large left. It's ok, I just have to remember to wear nice bras. I don't know what I'm talking about, let's reschedule.

How was your weekend?

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My friend sent me a spotify link to Light Me Up. The new Pretty Reckless album. & I have to say that having fallen out of love with Make Me Wanna Die after overplay on Fearne Cotton & then fallen in love with a random song, Blender by them that was much much better... I've become very intrigued by Miss Taylor Momsen's little side project.

There's something so fakely authentic in her that has both my hatred & applause. Much like Lady Gaga when she first appeared. Being a hardcore Hole fan & being sadly a little obsessed with Courtney Love though, I have to say that if she wasn't 'Taylor Momsen from Gossip Girl etc' I think I would dive full heartedly into The Pretty Reckless & ignore the mis-guided references of their teenage lead singer & her awful extensions. But she is, so I kind of...can't.

From the very loud inhale/exhale of a cigarette at the beginning of the first song (& possibly one of my favorites) to the seemingly only-when-she-sings gravly, husky voice there's something so achingly try hard about the first few seconds, never mind the rest of the album that leaves me feeling a little confused.

But then... I could never see them live. & so does that mean I don't take them seriously as a band? I don't honestly think I ever could unless they did no videos & Taylor Momsen did all their gigs in a bin bag (no doubt studded & bodycon with fishnet suspenders but hey). Because part of me thinks that pretty much all of my friends who can play an instrument & are in 'bands' would make exactly this kind of half-of-nothing try hard, good-but-uncomfortable album if they had the means to make it & get it out there. So maybe it should've stayed in the garage?

Oh & one last thing. The fact that she spends the album singing about drug fueled hazes etc etc & her look is based of heroin chic, when I think we can pretty much all say that the closest she's come to any of these things is playing Jenny Humphrey just sums up my issue with their music. So I will listen. But just on spotify.

You should see this.

PS. Shit I just closed all my tabs. All photos via flickr & weheartit. If one of them if your photo let me know & I'll credit it!