Bear Knuckle Fight

 Top - Oasis 

Skirt - Dorothy Perkins 

Doc Martens - Charity Shop 

The standard looking-down-with-hand-on-hip pose gets boring after a while so I thought I would try something out my comfort zone. I had more fun taken these. Even though the jumping shot is blurry I liked the effect. Let me know what you think! I fell in love with the top as it's the closest thing to my own dogs with the little poodles on it. I searched a while for a good denim skater skirt so as soon as I clocked this on the site it was straight in my basket, it has a zip at the back which gives it just that little bit extra. I have to say that the real stars of this outfit are my Doc Marten shoes. Since getting the boots last year I keep looking at the shoes but all the styles I liked were always at least hitting the £100 mark! Whilst wasting some time in a town I never go to I went into a charity shop and found these. There was no price on them so having seen Docs in vintage shops for £20 I thought that would be the highest I was willing to pay. The shop assistant went to find a price and came back with £4, naturally I snapped them up. They had a white mark across them but that came right off. They are obviously an older style as there is no yellow stitching or embossed logo. For £4 who cares?! I don't! I noticed that they were doing black without the yellow stitching so nobody will even notice.

 Rings - Forever 21 

Nails - Essie 'Plumberry' 

Necklace - Birthday Gift 

What's your best charity shop find? 

More Than Conquerors - Bear Knuckle Fight 

Waiting Game.

Coat - Vintage 

Dress - Dorothy Perkins 

Shoes - Urban Outfitters 

Necklace - Pretty Cuckoo 

I wore this to meet a friend from college and her adorable little girl for lunch a few towns over. It is also so nice to catch up with friends you don't get to see very often. You may or not notice that I've (well.. the boyfriend) managed to fix the problem I had in the last outfit post of my purple tights turning up black, use his SLR camera instead as it has got settings to change how the colour comes out.  I also wore a grey cardigan but it didn't photograph well and is just a grey cardigan. 

I am loving this dress and not caring that curvy, big boobed girls aren't supposed to wear stripes! Personally I think anyone can wear stripes and it is all down to the shape and style of the piece of clothing, not the stripes. The dress is on of the fit and flare range of dresses at Dorothy Perkins. I had bought the same style of dress last year in blue with white stars on it and it is completely different in that it is thinner jersey material, has shrunk and faded in its hundreds of washes. The newer fit and flare dresses seem to have been made with much thicker material and seems to have more shape to it. I am rather upset that my local Dorothy Perkins and Evans are shutting down which was quite a shock to me and the staff it seems. The necklace was bought last summer at a market stall in Glasgow called Pretty Cuckoo, It doesn't seem to be on the website anymore. 

 

The title of today's post is a song by The Cooper Temple Clause - Waiting Game  from the album Make This Your Own. Everything appears to be a waiting game at them moment, but hoping that some luck will come my way soon. I will never quite get over the fact that I discovered them after they had already decided to call it quits. This has happened to me quite a lot with bands, Death From Above 1979 to name another. It is annoying as I will never get to see them play live and going to gigs is basically my hobby. Who knows maybe they'll get back together one day!