A Style Post: 1 O’ Clock Half Struck

Hello all,

As if you’re inside reading right now!

Brightly coloured jeans are what summer is about. I like a pop of colour in an outfit but I usually leave it to just the one piece. However, having received my baroque / polka dot print shirt from Sheinside… (new love for on line shopping) I bit the bullet and went for all over colour.

Oddly, I hadn’t realised that I’d completely accessorised with black, ah well you can’t change everything all at once.

Baroque & Polka Dot Shirt, SheInside.com

Belt, Vintage

Pink Jeans,  Dr. Denim @ BT2

Black Stilettos, Penneys / Primark

Leather Jacket, Topshop

Yours,

Whisty Xx

P.S Recognise any of the details in these photos…?

A Style Post: Mods, Rockers & Mermaid Trousers #2

Continued….

Or are you Rockers?

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post: Mods, Rockers & Mermaid Trousers #1

Ahoy there!

Brighton, the spiritual home of the Mod.

Being a Mod at heart,with a penchant for biker-style leather, there was only one option for what I’d wear for a day trip to Brighton last weekend. I’d have to go with two outfits. A Fred Perry jumper and a Topshop leather biker jacket.

Trouser-wise, that was a no-brainer; a pair of royal blue, shiny, sparkly skin-tight leggings – which were, to my delight, renamed mermaid trousers by a fabulously camp fellow outside an ‘adult store’. I’ll go with that, mermaid trousers, at the  seaside  is too perfect.

Are you Mods…

Jumper, Fred Perry

Chain, Bag & Disco Pants, ORVintage

Lita-Style Boots, Korkys

To Be Continued tomorrow…

Galibardy Jewellery Post

Hello,

It’s turning out to be quite a January.

People never fail to surprise me.

Anyway, on a fashion note I clicked through from the Facebook page I had ‘liked’, to Galibardy.com. Yeah, I was hooked straight away – here are a few of my favourite things.

New for  2012… Animal Magic, brass and enamel rings.

The large brass skeleton hand bangle was mine for the taking (technically it was mine for the buying, but at £25…).

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post – New Shades

Hello,

It’s time for a new palette.

Right now, it’s all rich shades of pale green and blue – seafoam, mintgreen, and icy sapphire, mixed with navy blue and white, highlighted with warm pale pinks and brilliant gold.

Cardigan (worn back-to-front), Warehouse

Skirt, Penneys / Primark

Heeled Loafers, New Look

Gold Chain, ORVintage

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post: Cavemen knew best

Hello All,

Apart from exclaiming, ‘Oh Holy **** it’s cold!’ I haven’t really got much to report today. I’ve looked out at winter, while curled up on the couch, under a blanket, writing all afternoon.

Dressing for cold weather has been a slow learning curve for me, but I’ve finally realised that to keep warm in Winter, I’ve got to go with natural fabrics. Fur, leather and wool being top of the list. I swear I’m reverting to the closet of the Cave-woman,  One Million Years BC, with heels.

Fur Jacket, Leather Shorts, Bucket Bag, all ORVintage

Cashmere Polo Neck, M&S

Necklace, Tiffany & Co.

Boots, Schuh

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post: Autumn Sun… and a thank you.

Hi All,

‘Street Style’ photographs are one of the most significant elements of fashion and style blogs. They’re my favourite part of other writers’ blogs and style posts are the most fun and the most stressful part of my own blog.

It’s a conversation that I often have with other personal-style bloggers; the awkwardness of being out in the street with a DSLR stuck on a tripod, you standing awkwardly in front of it holding your remote shutter release. All the time praying no-one brings you any attention/stops and stares/runs off with your camera. (I for one wouldn’t have a hope of chasing anyone in the outfits I choose to photograph myself in).

It really isn’t very fun and I have to be in an incredibly confident mood to wander about taking photographs of me. I know bloggers who have (seemingly adoring) boyfriends, willing to snap away to their heart’s content (pun intended), which I’m sure makes doing style posts that much easier.

But what it boils down to for me is being lucky enough to have some very patient and generous pals, happy prepared to point a camera at me and snap away. Often in the middle of a busy street, while I’m shouting instructions at them.

I guess I just wanted to say thanks, they know who they are; this blog really would be nothing without them…

Love you guys… Xxx

Blimey, you can tell it’s beginning to feel festive around here can’t you?

Dress & Biker Jacket, Topshop.com

Bag, Belt & Necklace, ORVintage

Tights, Penney’s / Primark

Shoes, KG Kurt Geiger

Yours,

Whisty, Xx

Props to Fafs for these photos.

Style Post: Disco Kimono

Hello All,

All that glitters… I feel like a magpie at the moment. Anything shiny or sparkly and I want it. I bought this kimono in a charity shop and even though it feels like I’m wearing a post-marathon foil blanket, I love it. Any excuse and I’ve thrown it on.

Kimono, Thrifted

Dress, H&M

Socks, Topshop

Shoes, KG Kurt Geiger

Necklace, ORVintage

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post: Dressed Down in Ashtown

Hey All,

Gone are the days of dressing in your ‘Sunday Best’. The Sabbath is now a dress-down day for most of us. Jeans and Tshirts are the ideal uniform for long Sunday lunches and walks in the country, (or Ashtown in my case). It’s about as close to the country as I get to be.

Incidentally the jeans are Beg Borrow or Steal, which have just been released in Ireland, I can honestly say that they are the comfiest jeans I’ve ever worn.

Jeans, Beg, Borrow or Steal

Leather panel Tshirt, Warehouse

Boots, River Island

Cable-Knit Cardi, Once Removed Vintage

Props to Fafs for the photos.

Yours,

Whisty Xx

A Style Post: Bow-tied, village life

I’m developing a bit if a crush on the boyish trend for this A/W. I like the way you can either hint at it or embrace it and take it all the way. It’s rare you get to do that with trends. Right now I’m mixing it up with a 70′s-inspired flared jean. A bow, tied at the neck over a masculine shirt is a my way of introducing boyish into my wardrobe.

Shirt & Bag, Once Removed Vintage

Jeans, Topshop

Boots, River Island

I can’t get over Highgate village…

Yours,

Whisty, Xx