Obi-Tastic

I remember about four years ago, the Chinese/Japanese trend shown on the catwalk was taken very literally and high street stores all over the place were selling tacky looking cheong sams’ with godawful prints.  Thankfully, this time round, the Far Eastern trend has been toned down a lot and instead of doing the whole hog… Continue reading Obi-Tastic

Florally breaking my heart

You know when magazines mysteriously leave out prices because it’s either a) too vulgar to talk about money since fashion is a form of art darling or b) the prices are so high that they’d shock the bejesus out of readers – well, some like to tell it as it is.  I spotted this Strenesse… Continue reading Florally breaking my heart

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The Resilience of the Gypsy Skirt

London is experiencing a freak mini-heat wave at the moment.  Yesterday, London was hotter than Barcelona at 24 degrees celcius.  So every bit of green space in London was covered with office lunchers, Evian water was selling like hot cakes in all the convenience stores and of course, out came the summer outfits.  Now I… Continue reading The Resilience of the Gypsy Skirt

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Tea is not just for quaffing

Inspired by Softgrey’s suggestion at TheFashionSpot, I decided to experiement with tea-dying last weekend.  It’s basically just boiling up some very strong black tea (I highly recommend PG tips – for all drinking and dying usage!) and swooshing your clothes around in it.  (Remember to prewash your clothes as sweat stains will show up when… Continue reading Tea is not just for quaffing

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