Turning my Back on Black

(Image via Hobbs)

I have been wearing far too much black, for what feels like forever. And enough is enough. I am putting a 100% ban on buying anything black and a 70% ban on buying anything white (my other go to shade). Number one item on my colour wish list is this divine Hobbs dress. The colour is oh so slightly Burberry Prorsum, no? I want.

Pale and Interesting

Pastel colours sing out a message of springtime for me. Of course we are somewhat far from the moment when spring will be sprung, and while the first brave flowers are starting to show their faces in my parents' garden it is due to get cold here from tomorrow. Again, relatively speaking, no polar vortex in the gentle hills of Bath, but still cold enough not to want to be something braving life outdoors.

And not to want to think about wearing baby pink lace. But I can't resist showing you the Burberry Prorsum spring summer collection.

These colours are just so delectable and the cuts so very femme.

As soon as I am brave enough to poke my head above the soil I know what I will be copying wearing.

Except, you know, with more than just big pants underneath…

(Images via Style.com)

A Blast from the Past(el)

Topshop is really working the pastel florals.

(Image via Topshop)

Lace-Up in Arms

So what do you say to a pastel shade brogue for summer? I think they would look awful cute with trousers and skirts/dresses. So I say yes please.

 (Images via Kurt Geiger, Topshop, Hobbs)

Peppermint Patty

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Good old Fearne Cotton has worked out how to bring a pastel into her winter wardrobe. I take my hat off to her.

A Bolt Out of the Blue

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I am not, financially speaking, in a position to be buying an expensive handbag right now, but if I were I would want this one. It's also huge, which I am trying to ween myself off.

So all in all entirely inappropriate, but utterly desirable.

Cry Me a River

 Oooh, exciting! River Island have some real treats coming in. Not least of which are the shoes.

 These colours are delicious.

 And I'm always looking for good flat shoes for the summer.

I'm wondering whether these spiky courts might work for the weddings I've got this summer. I was thinking grey but this colour is pretty neutral and I love how mean they are.

I would prefer these if they weren't espadrilles, but the banding is nice, I even like the jewels which is unlike me. And I'm in the mood for some shopping so one of these pairs might just do the trick. Obviously I would then freeze if I were to try and wear any of them right now but that is merely a detail.

(Images via River Island)

Curse of the bridesmaids

What is it about this time of year that makes shops suddenly think that none of us have any taste and want to wear hideous dresses in insipid, vomitous shades? Ding! That's the right answer! The wedding season. Now, I know that both of us are immune to this sort of nastiness (I wore black to my sister's wedding last year, as well you know) and you have a black satin jumpsuit on the go, but I feel the need to reassure others that there is another way.

My rule of thumb as far as wedding attire goes is that if it looks like you could find it in Coast then DON'T, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE WORLD BUY IT!

(Images via Karen Millen)

And I think that Reiss dress could be added to the bunch. The soft furnishings bent of it is inexcusable, but mostly I think that they should be banged to rights for trying to lure clueless wedding guests into its silky depths. Get'em!