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Unemployment the Plus Sides.

There are obviously lots of down sides to being unemployed (the main one being a serious lack of cash) but there are some up sides too. One of the great thing is being able to shop on a week day when everyone else is at work.

On Monday a friend and I went for a wonder around a few of the vintage shops in Edinburgh (picks of the shops to follow soon). Absolute bliss there was no-one in them, if you visit these shops at the weekend good luck in finding anything through the crowds. We were able to spend a lovely day browsing all the stuff and I purchased this bow tie to wear as a head band. 

Another great thing about having no job is being able to wear whatever you want, whenever you want. You have no office dress code to adhere to and no manager telling you your skirt is to short!

What I'm Wearing - Cardi- Gap, Dress- Urban Outfitters, Leggings- H&M Kids Wear, Boots- Topshop, Bag- Balenciaga, Bracelet- Stella McCartney for H&M, Bow-tie worn as Headband- Vintage

And My Love Goes On

Anyone who visits this blog regularly will know of my love for Topshop and their new Autumn collection is no exception. I find their clothes very versatile and looking through my wardrobe I have Topshop pieces in there from about 4 or 5 years ago that I still treasure. 

My favorite from what they have put up online is the check mini-dress I've absolutely fallen for it, I'm not sure if its a little young looking for me I'm going to have to head to the store to see it in person. I'm also loving the little shorts, they'll fit into my wardrobe perfectly but I do already own quite a few pairs of shorts. If I had unlimited cash I'd have purchased all the item's here already, but I don't so I will have to be selective in getting my A/W clothes collection started.

The Realities of Festival Dressing.

Whilst I was in my Internet black hole I was lucky enough to get to enjoy the T in the Park music festival here in Scotland. Now I love a good weekend of listening to great music and drinking beer but while I was there I got to thinking about what its really like to dress for a British festival. Before you go to any event like this you are bombarded with images of celeb's looking great whatever the weather, all the magazines are telling you what the best festival look is and all your friends are talking about what they are going to wear.

Well I feel that the reality is much different especially if your camping. You end up wearing all your old clothes because you don't want ruin all your good ones, and you put on so many layers to prepare yourself for any weather eventuality. By the time the last day of the festival has come you haven't showered for a few days and your happy to put on about anything that will keep you warm and dry!

Lucky for me then that I wasn't camping this year so I thought I'd be able to up the fashion stakes. On day one I wore some hot pants with thick tights, old cowboy boots and my leather jacket. Brilliant I thought, if it got muddy my boots would be great and if it rained my jacket should keep me dry. All went well until we had to que for the bus to get home and it was so cold I regretted wearing the hot pants.

Day two and I decided to learn from my mistake and wear my skinny jeans instead on my hot pants and I put a hoodie on under my leather jacket. Again everything was perfect until the end of the night when the crowd at the last band decided to soak us with beer, making my beautiful leather jacket all sticky and leaving marks on it where it had ran down my back.

I guess what I have to learn from this is to only wear old clothes to a festival because I don't have the cash to buy a new one should it get wrecked, unlike all the celeb's in their designer gear. I'm in the process of trying to clean my leather jacket and I'm sure it will be just fine, if it isn't I will just have to think the beer has given it some character.

Birthday Drinks

I've been getting a bit behind with my posting recently, I really thought that being unemployed would give me much more time for the blog but it really hasn't worked out that way.

Anyway it was my birthday on Sunday so on Saturday night I went out for a few drinks with some friends. I purchased this lovely Mina dress for the occasion in a little boutique called Inis in my home town in the borders. What I didn't realise, was exactly how short it was going to be when I sat down, luckily my heels were very comfy so standing wasn't a problem.

I had a really lovely night and I want to say thanks to all of my friends for making it a great birthday.

What I'm Wearing - Dress- Mina, Jacket- Kate Moss for Topshop, Shoes- Carvella, Bag- Balenciaga, Necklace- From a boutique.

5am For What?

Yesterday all these crazy people were up at 5am for the Next summer sale. The reason I know there were people there is that one of my friends works early on a Saturday morning at saw all these crazy folk with bags stuffed full of things leaving the store.

Now the Next sale is something that I have never understood, why get up so early for Next clothes? The stuff they sell isn't exactly the height of fashion and I've heard that what they do is keep all their junk that they can't sell in warehouses and then fill the stores with it every time there is a sale. Who wants to fight over a dress from 3 years ago that nobody wanted then anyway? Their clothes aren't even that expensive in the first place, why would you get out of bed that early on a Saturday morning for old, dull, inexpensive clothes??? I'm getting into a bit of a rant now but I really have always found it very hard to explain. Maybe someone out there can help me understand all this as I'm very confused!

New Season Lusts

With all the new season clothes coming into the stores I've found myself lusting after these leggings from Sass & Bide.

At £99 a pair though they do seem a little expensive for leggings and I've also just found out that they have a 34 inch inseam leg. I know a lot of people do have long legs but what about all the shorter people out there? I have a feeling there would be so much material at the bottom that I'd just look ridiculous forcing me to cut my very expensive leggings.

For anyone out there with lovely long legs you can pre-order these beauties at Bunny Hug and you should have them some time next week.

Back Soon.

I've been in a bit of a commuinication black hole for the last week and a bit with no acsess to the Internet. I've finally moved into my new flat and our internet will be conected on Friday so I've been gathering up loads of things to say for then.

A Sad Day For Scotland.

In the Scottish Borders where my parents live there is a lot of pride in the Pringle company. So you can imagine the horror when it was announced last week that the factory doors are to close forever.

Pringle was established here in 1815 and many generations of family's have worked in there factory. They started there business making hosiery and underwear and began making cashmere as early as 1870. Their signature argyle pattern has become famous the world over.

Over the last few years Pringle have moved the focus away from the more traditional pieces that they made and have been concentrating on producing high fashion collections. When they first started on the new line of focus I was very excited to think that a company that I grew up with would be showing there collections on the world stage and that people in this area could have pride that they were making these clothes. Unfortunately it wasn't to work out like that, Pringle which is now owned by a Hong Kong based company took its production of its catwalk collections else where and left the Borders with the traditional less focused on and less profitable end of the business.

So its now been announced that Pringle of Scotland as they call themselves will produce nothing in Scotland and that they will keep a few admin staff on here in the Borders so that they can still say they are based here. This idea has not gone down well here as you could imagine and the issue has even been discussed in the Scottish Parliament. People feel that if nothing is being produced here they should not be able to call themselves Pringle of Scotland and that they certainly should not be able to use the Lion Rampant which they have as there symbol but is really a symbol of Scotland. All these issues are in discussion at the moment so who knows what will happen but if production does end up leaving this area it will be a sad day for the people around here.

There's Loads More Out There.

Just before I left Dublin I bought these cute shoes in Primark. I was really surprised how good they looked and that they didn't look cheap at all. This made me think about how we perceive certain shops and how people become loyal to some brands and wouldn't dream of going into others. I find that if I'm walking along a busy shopping street that there are shops I always visit, some that I visit occasionally and those that I have never even been inside.

If I had been in my normal shopping mood I think I would have walked right by Primark that day and I'd have never found these shoes. This is making me realise that I need to break my shopping habits and explore new territory's, there must be hundreds of shops in Edinburgh with unique pieces of clothing all waiting to be discovered.

So it's decided, I get the keys to my new flat next week and as soon as I've unpacked my new shopping adventures will begin.

What I'm Wearing

Top worn as a dress - Topshop, Cardigan - Gap, Scarf - H&M, Shoes - Primark, Bag - Balenciaga

From Inside the Fish Bowl

These last few days haven't given me anytime at all to keep up with the going ons in the fashion world. The flat hunt is on and its serious (saw 4 today)! So I really have to apologise for my absence, unfortunatly this situation is going to carry on for a little bit longer but I do promise to be back.

For now here is my experiment film from my fish eye camera that I was talking about, I'm going to some outfit pictures with this camera and these photos where just me seeing what kind of effects I would get. My boyfriend wanted me to mention that he does have more that one outfit but I always seem to ask for his photo when he is wearing the same thing.