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Audiere Bullies

What are your thoughts on minaudieres? You know, the hard jewelled clutches. The ones that Judith Leiber makes.

Like this:



I think they are utterly hideous. Particularly because it is an incredibly expensive way to appear kooky. Whereas I think they just make you look as though you have more money than sense and absolutely no taste:



A case in point.

Or here:



Honestly, Marc Anthony's face says it all. Hid. E. Ous. No?

And yet, and yet... While scanning about vaguely for a cute clutch I found this from Reiss.



And I adore it. It is so delightfully useless.

Or there is a slightly more reasonably priced one from Accessorize (which is obviously not as nice).



Would you avoid me at a party if I had one of these in my paw?

Guiness Is Good For You

Via Style.com

Is she wearing those bonkers contact lenses again in your picture?  Is she taking style tips from that dude from the Prodigy now or what?

I want the armour loving ice queen back, please!

Via Style.com

Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread

(Image via Haneli.com)

Geez! Now Daphers is in on the act. This collection is clearly the go to for all those fearless fashionistas out there.

Can you imagine going to a party and finding someone dressed like that? I think I would choke on a god-damned canapé. She looks A-LARM-ING.

So Bad It's Good

Well, I think you should go as a villain, because that is always going to be more fun. And if you are really down on being the designated sexy cat for the evening (even though I think you might well be delicious at it) then my first choice of a bad girl would have to be Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker.

Just One Coat

Via Olsen Anonymous

How ruuuuude of me!  I didn't respond to your leopard coat post.  I did mentally.  As I read it I was like, 'Aha, yeah I reckon it's a go-er.  Ooh yes, that one is nice akshully' etc etc but I saw this picture and I realised that I hadn't passed that thought process on via the gift of the C.O.N.C.  So yes!  I think you would look great in one!  Do it!

I love a leopard coat.  I try them on all the time but they don't look right.  I think it's because of my hair and the full-eye-at-all-times approach I take to life.  You see, you posted Ashley looking lovely in that coat and now MK has nabbed it, (which Ashley looks a bit pised about if I'm not wrong?) and she's not working it quite so well is she?  I think it's because she also appears to have borrowed one of Shaun Ryder's hats for the occasion.

Hey ho, either way it just goes to prove that they work for some and not for others.  Even if you are like, almost the same person.  Hmmm.  I'm going to move on, but yeah get one, cute!

One more thing: I very much like Ashely's jewelled slippers.  Sinderella eat your heart out.

Cat Got Your Tongue?

 (Via Sodahead.com)

I almost forgot, our Christmas Party is fancy dress and we've just got the theme. Heroes and Villains. Any ideas for a low budget outfit gratefully received.

There's always that jumpsuit I had for the wedding, but then I'll be the obligatory sexy cat won't I? Groan.

I'll be the covered up original version though not one of your Halles or your Michelles. But...oh...GOD! I can't do it. I just can't. Please help.

(Isn't Julie Newmar the best of all the Catwomen? I mean, SERIOUSLY! And she even has time to accessorize before leaving the house to do her dastardly deeds.  Aces!)

Trail Blazer

(Via Marie Claire*)

NO! You're still waiting for that? That's just too much! Yowza.

Yes! Get that bad boy out again. I love that dress! And yes to the boot, how I love that boot. Bravo bravo, j'adore!

Now I know what you mean about the boyfriend. Here is Billie Piper wearing a successful one and looking marvelous. (Talking of Billie, have you seen that Belle du Jour reveeeealed herself this week? The papers are full of it! Does anyone even care? Larks! Leave it people. Katie Price is back in the jungle, THAT'S where our attention needs to be focused! I don't have time for ex high end call girl authors right now. I'm busy trying to work out of it's the cheek fillers, the lips or the eyebrows that are the problem.)

All too often a boyfriend can go wrong though. I mean....such is life, you know? I am a fan of pincering at the back to nip in a bit, but as you HAVE an actual waist I'm not sure that you would really need to do that. I think keep looking. But if you don't find anything will it matter? I know that you'll be lovely and warm from doing the running man on the dance floor after your first sniff of shandy...no?

* I love this bag. It makes me feel sick akshully. I'm sure my life would be better, my hair more bouncy and full of volume and my skin more dewy if I were able to run around town with this slung over my shoulder. It's a 'price on application' Cavalli. Sob!

My Morning Jacket

Well, you know the thing with the sequin skirt, yeah? And how you told me I must buy it, yeah? You know, the one from La Redoute, yeah? This one?

Yeah?

Well, it was a fiasco. What with the irrepressible influence of Grazia and La Redoute's unpreparedness the skirt that I ordered a few weeks ago has not even been dispatched yet.

And of course in the meantime I have gone off the idea of it somewhat.

So I need a plan B for the old fiesta del crimble.

And in these times of crunch I thought, what the Dickens! Why not wear something I already own. Yes! Quaint, I know.

And if there is one item of clothing in my groaning wardrobe that cries out for another outing it is my silk one shouldered leopard print Studio 54 dancing dress.



Remember?

I thought I could rock it out with these:



And some sort of blazer.

Such as this one:



Or this one:


(Images via Whistles)

But you know boyfriend blazers? Yeah? Do you know why they are called boyfriend blazers? Because they don't know how to deal with curves. Not that I'm suggesting that boyfriends don't (although I have encountered some who don't but their experience as boyfriends was probably fairly limited), but clothes made for boyfriends certainly don't. Sorry, am I rambling...? Basically I tried one on recently and it was terribly shapeless, which if you also have no shape probably hangs delightfully, but for me it looked, from behind, rather like two energetic puppies wriggling about in a black sack.

So I am not entirely sure, but I think a fitted or short jacket would be all wrong. Can you shed any light on my quandary? Too kind!

Romancing The Stone

I have and I L O V E  I T.  The woman is a bloody genius, I tell you!

And she looks so...PRETTY!

(Via GagaDaily.com)

I mean I wouldn't like to be a house guest of whoever thought up the premise for the video but that's beside the point.

Labour of Love

Have you seen the Lady GaGa Bad Romance video yet? Needless to say it is awesome. Plus she is wearing the Alexander McQueen antediluvian sea monster shoes in it.

What's not to love?

Coo Coo Ka Choo

I was in Hennes yesterday (buying a tuxedo babygro for the nephew, obviously) and saw the Jimmy Choo stuff. I can't say I was that impressed.

The whole thing was summed up by a girl in front of me who was chastising her friend by saying "I don't know why you would want to spend so much money on something so gross." I couldn't agree more.

If loving Chloe is wrong... I don't wanna be right!

(Images via Go Fug Yourself)

Origa, Me?

(Image via Daily Mail)

I think she wore that to try and hide the fact that she was reading her speech off some concertina'd paper.

I don't like it at ALL.

Hot Spot

(Image via Go Fug Yourself)

Doesn't Ashley look the very most in her coat?


(Image via Oasis)

Do you think I could carry off a leopard print coat? If I accessorised it with lots of black cat's eye liner, leather gloves and a touch of class?