My Favourite Dress!

Just a quick look post taken from my Lookbook. Here's how I've styled my new ASOS shoes which I recently posted about - with one of my favourite dresses showing one of my new favourite trends - TARTAN! This little number is from Zara for £29.99 which was definitely worth it for the lovely lace detailing around the neckline and hem (and of course the adjustable straps which helped with my 5'4 issue!)

Also, I don't know if you noticed but my hair has had the chop! I think this is the shortest I've ever gone. I'm constantly going back and forth between loving it and hating it. 

Thanks for looking!

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New ASOS Boots

So last weekend I grabbed myself a RIGHT bargain!! Originally £52, down to £17, plus my ASOS Insider 20%
discount - I present to you my new favourite shoes, bought for £13.60!!! 

I absolutely loooove them! I always buy black shoes just because they go with everything and I could never imagine myself wearing any other colour, especially since tights are a fundamental part of my wardrobe. 

My sister commented saying that they looked like my jelly shoes, which if you take in to consideration the strappy, cut-out-ness of them, their small block heel and their buckles, I guess you could say yeah, they do. But they're leather - not rubber, have a pointed toe, two buckles instead of one, and are ultimately a 'boot'. 

The only downside to them is the serious lack of grip - I've found myself in a few near death experiences since wearing them (okay, slight over exaggeration).

And whilst I'm here can I just applaud ASOS for their super fast, AND FREE delivery service. I ordered the shoes Saturday evening, and they were with me by Monday morning. 

Thank you ASOS!

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Check Mate!

I've always had a bit of a thing for tartan and have secretly been wanting to don a stylish alternative of a kilt for some time now, but I've been afraid I would come out either looking like a Scot-gone-wrong or a Halloween style 'indecent' school girl. But now that tartan (and other forms of check-ery) are bang on trend, I can finally go out in Clueless style!

I've put together some of my favourite tartan pieces for you, so you can go and buy them if you like! I myself will try to refrain, although I might have to make an exception for one or two items. 

Check Mate by aderynh2 featuring short skirts

Motel red jacket £55 / Sparkle Fade green plaid jacket £68 / Missguided punk pants £24.99 / Missguided short skirt £19.99 / New Look Green Short skirt £16.99 / New Look Monochrome Short skirt £17.99

(trying out the new Polyvore features - let me know if you'd rather I typed and linked you myself)

It seems I do have a preference for the green tartan over any other. I think it's much more subtle and easier to pull off!

You may have noticed the slip dress isn't linked. Unfortunately the dress isn't available any more (it's from Zara - you might be able to get it on eBay) but I wanted to throw it on there cos I own it myself and I absolutely love it *blog post to come soon!*

Are you a fan of the tartan trend? Leave a comment 

xx

Polyvore

For my Graphic Design course at college we have been given complete freedom over the brief for our current unit, so being really interested in fashion I decided my project would be to create a fashion magazine. As part of that I have to do photo-shoots for the fashion spreads inside the magazine. I've already done a more edgy/grunge shoot with my friend Amy who was an AMAZING model (thank you!!), so now I have opted to do something a bit more clean and 'preppy' for my next shoot. So here are a couple of mood boards I put together on Polyvore for my models (my friends Katy and Andrew) so that they had a rough idea of the style I am going for!

Minimalist (male) by aderynh2 on Polyvore

I'd really recommend checking out Polyvore! It's great for putting together 'sets' like this as mood boards for inspiration, but it's also good for shopping. It compiles hundreds of brands together so if you're searching for something specific you don't have to go through each shops website individually. You can just type in what you're after and it'll come up with that product from loads of different shops, and you can filter the results by price, colour, brand - it makes things so much easier!

Check it out!

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Look: Tropical Breeze

You can buy this dress on eBay for £17.99 here - apparently it's a Zara copy? I'm not sure of this is true but I've seen loads of bloggers wearing it and I really like this shape of dress. I think this will be perfect for summer and my holidays!

My boots are from River Island and have become my absolute staple shoes over the autumn/winter months!

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Look: Same jeans on!

For some reason I struggle to find jeans that fit. I often suffer with baggy-around-the-knees skinny jeans as I'm sure many of us do. But embarrassingly, the biggest nuisance for me is a baggy crotch area! I've put this down to having quite slim hips, resulting in a lot of excess material around the crotch. The biggest culprits tend to be high waist jeans - but I love them! I was just about to start rummaging through the teen section for my ultimate pair of jeans but then came across a pair (albeit not high waisted) that actually fit quite nicely on me, in the form of a £15 pair that I found on sale at River Island. *queue staring at my crotch*

As stated above, my jeans are from River Island. My lace cami can be found at Internacionale for £9.99 and my shoes were bought also in the sale last Christmas from Topshop. They were delegated to the bottom of my wardrobe for quite some time, but I have a new found love for them now. Maybe it serves me right for not wearing socks - but they did give me blisters! :( Hey, maybe that's why they were delegated in the first place.

Where is your favourite place to buy jeans? Leave a comment below.

xx

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Look: Dots & Daisies!!

Another monochrome look from me. I should probably inject a little colour in to my wardrobe!! 

I got this skirt in the River Island sale for £15. The length was a bit out of my usual comfort zone but I really loved it so I took the risk. The annoying thing about this skirt is that it has two slits down the front creating a loose flap that goes between your legs as you're try to walk!!

My cami can be found at New Look - it's become such a staple piece for me! My jelly shoes were bought at Topshop along with my ring. I've never really wore jewellery but I'd definitely like to start so I bought a couple of rings the other day and hopefully my collection will continue to grow. I've always found rings really cool!

Thanks for reading, leave any comments below!!

xx

Look: New Years Resolution

As I promised I am going to Lookbook more so here is my first post of the new year!!

I bought my jumper from New Look in the sale around October time. I've paired it with my new skort that I got for Christmas, also from New Look - currently available for £17.99. My shoes are black leather oxford-style shoes that I got from Topshop around Christmas '12, and my watch (which I only recently found after being lost beneath laundry for a couple of weeks) was a 17th birthday present off my lovely grandparents made by Citizen Eco-Drive. 

I hope you like my look. Very monochrome!!! Feel free to leave any comments below.

Thanks for reading

xx

New Years Resolution

Hi there! It's been a very long time since I last blogged - just over two months in fact (it's shameful, I know) - but that's why I have officially made it my New Year's resolution to try to blog and Lookbook on a much more regular basis. 

I tried to start this off with a bit of a blog re-vamp, but as I'm still a massive beginner when it comes to HTML and CSS coding, my 're-vamp' has so far consisted of re-naming my blog and shifting my side bar to the right (crazy - I know!) If you weren't aware, I was formerly 'Hopeless Whistler' - a blog name which I could certainly not warm to and actually made me cringe a little bit when ever I said it out loud to anyone. So the new year brings a new name for you all: 'Frock Me' (and 'frockmefashion' for my domain as just 'frockme' was already taken *insert sad face here*). 

I don't want to say exactly how often I intend on blogging, because with January mocks peeping over the horizon and a wagon load of coursework stacking up on me, I could find it hard to keep to a perfect timetable. But I'd like to say at LEAST once a week. I can manage that, surely? 

I popped a little link to my Lookbook at the beginning of this post for you all, and you can also access it through my side bar. Again this is something I aim to do a lot more regularly, although my limited wardrobe and terrible camera quality will throw a few restrictions on that. It's terribly time consuming trying to capture a picture where your clothes AND your face look okay, taking in to account you're using an iPhone camera and self timer app to do this. 

Thanks to everyone who read my blog last year, and I hope to gain a few more fans this time round. Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Years. Maybe you could drop a comment telling me what your New Year's resolution is? :)

Thanks for reading, Aderyn

xxx