Green Giant

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Call me crazy but I kind of love Jennifer Lopez's cropped and voluminous suit. I don't love the shoes. Not keen in the slightest in fact. And I wish that the trousers didn't have the tight cuffing. But otherwise I think it is pretty interesting and boy does her midriff look good.

It's not Easy Being Green

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I am becoming borderline obsessed with owning something green. It is just a colour that is immediately going to breath summer into my wardrobe. And right now I really need that. A boost of colour that these trousers from Toast would deliver. The shape looks a bit tricky though. Fingers crossed that they will work for me and that all my dreams will come true. Well, at least the ones about, um, green stuff.

The Green, Green Grass of Home

I urgently need to get some colour into my wardrobe. I realise that I am following a similar path to the one I did a few years ago and I need to make it stop. For my own well being. It went something like this:

- Wasn't feeling great about myself

- Started putting on weight

- Started wearing lots of black and dark clothes

- Started wearing shapeless clothes

- Felt worse about myself

- Ate some more...

You see where this is going. Well at that point I picked myself up, dusted myself off and booked myself a trip to the mountains, did lots of training, felt loads better about myself, got a bit thinner, felt loads better about myself, started wearing lots of colour and fitted clothes, felt on top of the world.

So I've done all the negative things on that list again and it is time to put a stop to that and put a more positive spin on things. And I think a lovely easy way to do that is with colour. So what about this Topshop number? Yes, I know it is shapeless but baby steps, you know?

The colour is heaven. I really love it. Less sure about the fussiness of the straps at the back, but chances are it will be covered by a cardigan to start with, so maybe that doesn't matter.

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And talking about the cardigan, I've had my eyes on this one from M&S. It is bright and jolly but are the colours too similar? They definitely look so here, but in real life I remember the cardigan being a slightly bolder shade. Those two could work together without me looking as though I was turning into the hulk, couldn't they?

Green Day

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Green is not a colour that I spend too much time worrying over. It is pretty, but it isn't super common for clothes. Although I did once own a bottle green M&S men's cardy that I adored and wore to death until it was basically all holes. Which, of course, made it all the cooler because it was when grunge was in fashion and what teenage girl wouldn't salivate over baggy, scruffy clothes that you could smuggle yourself away in far from prying eyes?

But with the little dribble of a/w that is starting to come in to the shops I have been spotting green and I think I might quite like it. Particularly for knitwear.

Although with the Ralph Lauren dress above being as gorgeous as it is, maybe evening wear too. It's a beautiful colour, but it knows it, it can hang back, wait to be noticed, not like those exibitionists like pink that are shouting for your attention before you've even walked in the door. It is a bit more subtle and sophisticated and grown up, wouldn't you agree?