Costume Drama

Calling all parents!

If you are dressing up your children for Halloween head to H&M for the best Halloween costumes for children I have ever seen. You can choose from tattooed sailor, mermaid, Marie Antoinette (with pug handbag), Mr & Mrs Beetlejuice, skeleton and bat.

They are amazing, don't you agree?

It is part of the All for Children collaboration between H&M and Unicef and 25% of the proceeds will go to Unicef so it's not just about beating all the other mummies when your kid rocks out the best damn costume at nursery. (Even though they will.)

Now, if only I could get them to make me an grown-up-sized mermaid outfit I would be as happy as a clam!

(Images via Trendland)

Cut From the Same Cloth

When I was a little girl my mummy dressed me in the cutest dresses. And I loved it. I was a very girly little girl and really would have been happy if I could have worn a party dress and patent leather ankle strap shoes every day.

Some of my favourite dresses were by Clothkits. And seeing those clothes is so evocative of my childhood. Look how cute they are.

(Images via the-lark.blogspot.com, Elle UK)

So even though I might not particularly like this dress the fact that it reminds me of one of my favourite Clothkits dresses (I once had to go to hospital with a broken arm in it and was so relieved that the sleeves were wide enough and wouldn't have to be cut in order to put the cast on) makes me feel warm and fuzzy.