kudos

its very rare for me to actually shop with a purpose. normally i just spend my days being poor and depressed, while building enormous topshop wishlists (actually, i still do that). BUT  for the past wee while i (and my style advisor/grandma) have been absentmindedly hunting for a simple black silk top to go with this ensemble im pulling together for this pish-posh 'congrats on your phd dinner'. no offense topshop, you know i'll always love you, but the amount of crap you put on your 'going out' tops is rather annoying at times. i thought i'd have success is my all-time-favourite boutique section, but no...

behold asos.com... fucking hell, when did you get amazing? i'm always being told how successful the company has become in my uni lectures, but i found it kinda embarrassing that their ethos is based on 'how to look exactly like your favourite celeb except in really crappy polyester'. today i just typed in 'black top' and the perfect black silk vest from gap popped up. not only that, but i found the perfect tshirt by lna, which ive wanted for about a year but couldnt get anyone to ship to the uk...

i think the old head buyer at topshop is now with asos (karen something? i have no idea why i know that) and their list of brands is pretty damn impressive/random, which i enjoy, so yay for them...

well done sirs

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split

obsessions by sprucewink89 featuring Wildfox

1. happy because: new topshop dress! new jeffrey campbell and topshop shoes!

2. sad because: will probably never own the emma cooks, the wildfox tee or coco... but I WANT IT ALL!!

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fangs are fantastic

i totally remember seeing this editorial and thinking, "fucking love it!"...

have just found the amazing wildfox website again, and i kinda want it all... i'm charmed by the fact that they're total piss-takers, especially since they're an american company and sometimes their humour worries me.

now i just have to find a site that'll ship me the 'math sucks' t-shirt, without it costing me £100

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*EDIT* - just realised that this post is rather halloween appropriate... good for me!

babs

this legend was at my uni today. managed to follow her thorugh the hallways for a bit and hold the door for her... yay celeb stalking!

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fashion sos

i am such a loser.

there are many reasons that make this so, but the most recent loser-ish experience i had was trying to be a normal girl and wear a nice dress to a wedding. can i do that? no. i was all trussed up and ready to go in my gold sequin number (already kinda non-wedding appropriate), i moved my shoulders slightly up on the way out the door, and the stupidfuckingbloody dress burst all the way down the zip seam (this is now my 'bad things will happen' dress)!

my brain promptly fell out in panic and i put on this random black dress which, by the time i got to the lovely (christian) family wedding, i realised was no more than a bum-grazer. my friends dad asked if i was even wearing a dress.

i am so unchristian...

(the kind of nun i would be)

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being a girl

i had a proper full on evening of GIRL TIME with my best friend on thursday which involved immense new shoes (which i now realise, kinda look like these bad boys)...

and an evening at the ballet. how cool/lady-like are we? although we did kinda lower the tone by getting excited over our strawberry ice creams and declined a glass of wine coz its 'yucky'... yes, we are that mature.

we were at the scottish ballet's 40th anniverary show and they performed 3 different pieces, which were so utterly stunning that they made me angry at myself for quitting ballet at the age of 10 (they totally loved me then coz i was a stretched out, skinny-limbed child... i doubt they would now, in all my size 12, 32FF glory). we made 2 new friends - the lady beside us with whom we had deep, intellectual dance chat with. and a lady during the interval, who thought i was someone called geraldine... i wasn't.

thank you scottish ballet dudes! especially for the jelly bellys in the gift bag...

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revelation

i watched lolita for the first time last night.

the first half makes it probably the most beautiful film i've ever seen, but then after that it started to make me feel very weird (like when i read catcher in the rye for the first time. i had to stop halfway through). i don't think i could ever read the book. my brain gets so involved in the books that i read, i dont think i would recover.

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celebrations

as my bank account is in credit for the first time in many moons, i have just given myself a hefty pat on the back via topshop.com ...

i seem to be turning into a bit of a goth, but really, who doesnt love a goth? and finally, i am in possession of "theperfectskirt".

continuing on with my middle aged mood, i though i'd share my current read for uni, which is actually making me appear quite intelligent lying beside my bed - "Medical textiles and biomaterials for healthcare"... i think i may just keep it with me at all times to throw at people who take the piss.

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sad old person

for my friend emma's birthday last week i bought her this super cool antoni+alison purse... (i am quite a nice friend, i think. apart from the fact that i was seriously considering stealing it)

i'm going to start bigging up my work again coz i think these brogues are bloody cool:

i do so enjoy a staff discount... although i feel like im losing my fashion student trendyness and dressing like some sort professional mid 40s woman? i keep thinking i need a topshop fix pronto, but then i look at my wishlist and its full of sensible black trousers and silk blouses... and i didnt even glance at the christopher kane collection.

oh dear...

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good things

the past few days have been jam-packed with niceness.

1. was asked by the lovely sarah to write for the lovely new magazine that she will be launching very soon (we then proceeded to walk past each other the next day, where she recognised me as i was wearing my mental yellow jacket... random, random, random)

2. i got to leave work an hour early as a treat for being amazing

3. went to see florence for the 4th time. twas perfect

4. was asked by the scottish ballet to come and see one of their 40th anniversary performances next month. quite random, and quite cool (i do believe ballet was the cause one of my first 'i love clothes and dressing up and all girly things' moments. i started classes for the sole reason of procuring a tutu...)

5. my new lickable watch...

6. reese's pieces... need i say any more?

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