Funny that this post title hasn't cropped up before but then again, 2010 I think marks the shirtiest year I've seen since the blog started. Shirty how so? Be it minimalism, a pervading desire to neaten or smarten up or a sustaining influence from menswear, a buttoned up white shirt as a layering device or… Continue reading Getting Shirty
Category: Susie Styles
Nighty Night
"A woman may and does wear pyjamas to quite formal dinners in her own house, to other people's dinners in town and country if you know them well and the more iconoclastic members of the female sex even wear them to the theatre.""Pyjamas – When are they worn?" Vogue 1 June 1931 The quote above… Continue reading Nighty Night
Work It Out
I'm now thinking there is an evil conspiracy amongst knitwear designer to get me working out or more to the point, doing ANY kind of strenuous physical activity that isn't just walking from a to b. Actually, come to think of it, walking might be a stretch – I have afterall been known to get… Continue reading Work It Out
Shopping Strike
Yesterday was the first time in what feels like a bajillion years that I've walked the gauntlet that is Oxford Street and been into each and every one of my 'routine' shops (Selfridges, H&M, Liberty, Topshop etc etc‚Ķ) and done ACTUAL perusing. I realise that after every fashion week, it seems to be something that… Continue reading Shopping Strike