A Complete Fashion Experiment...Please Don't Try At Home

So i got so bored on my half term holiday that i decided i would basically update a t-shirt i own and have never worn.  Simply because i knew it would entertain me for at least 45 minutes.  This is the starting product, a strange fitting, mildly bat-winged t-shirt with a very awesome Aztec themed print...

I know just awful right.  Well i  must be honest...it doesn't get much better than the Roman Army skirt like top i created.  I just loved the print so much i couldn't bare to get rid of it and i wanted to have a bit of fun.  I do think that the best description for it though is a fanny flap if i am totally 100% honest.  Decide for yourself...

Please ignore the state of my bedroom just a little bit of a mess.  

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Grab a piar of ethical shooooes!!

So i believe my destiny in life is to make a difference.  I know that it is one of the most incredibly cheesy lines you have probably heard repeatedly over from friends and in magazines and celebrities who talk through advisors, but it is true.  I constantly see myself making a difference with the geography degree i intend to start and hopefully complete at uni next year.

One area i am desperate to make a difference in is fashion.  I want men and women all around the world in fashion to realise that the industry is destroying the world.  When i say the world i mean literally as in the environment and my Carbon Footprint as well as Humanitarian rights across the world, of the people sitting slaving away in thousands of factories in the developing world.  

I just discovered this event on the Toms website.  And if you have not heard of Toms, for every pair of awesome comfortable amazing shoes you buy, they send one pair to a child desperately in need.  Incredible.  

So they have a special charity day and event they have started called 'One Day Without Shoes' on April 10th.  The point of which is that you spend all day wearing no shoes to make a statement, raise awareness and also make you realise how hard life is without a pair of shoes.  

Check it out here

http://www.toms.co.uk/onedaywithoutshoes

If you find the event toolkit page they provide downloads for stickers, stencils, t-shirts, posters, banners, street art, and hundreds of ideas!!

Here are some of the amazing products they sell , i basically just want them all!!

Just so you know i am a total maths geek and so these shoes are absolutely beyond and magnificently perfect for moi!!

Anyway go look and hunt because i can guarantee that once you have bought some you will not stop.  

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What kind of world do we live in?!

So i have been browsing the web all weekend in search of a staple dress for the year.  You know how you always have a dress you feel most comfortable in, or a skirt or shorts or any piece of clothing.  I, as you will soon discover, am a little obsessed with ethical fashion and being eco-friendly, including Fair trade and all that jazz.  So  thought, with the help of my sister i would try and find a dress which is ethically sound and is also awesome.  

There was just one flaw in this investigation.  That type of dress does not exist!!

I am being serious you either buy something lovely but boring and too simple, for example...

Or you make yourself look beyond hideous wearing a dress which i am sure has taken a lot of time to make and is very well made, but you would look depending on the rest of your outfit like a huge poo or an old soggy tea bag.  

I mean really.  I just don't know what to do and am beginning to feel so amazingly lost in the world.  HELP!!

If you have any ideas, help, advice, proposals anything i would love to hear it!!

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You Gotta Love A New Necklace!!

This is my beautiful....well i suppose not beautiful new necklace, but exceptionally edgy and innovative necklace, which only cost 15 squid on ASOS.  Buy it, it is so amazing and actually really light.  But it comes with a warning.  if it is cold outside and i mean zero degrees, do not wear directly against skin...your head might actually freeze and fall off.  

I Can Never Dress For the Weather (Ha it rhymes) (Well kinda)

 Well today i thought i would wear my long black knitted skirt which is very comfy and all.  I ran around the house getting ready for college and then with about 2 minutes till the bus came i left the house running before realising it was raining and then later it started to snow.  I mean really on the one day that i wear socks and not tights.  How ridiculous.  So by the time i had walked to school from the bus stop my ankles were orange with a numb sensation.  

 And sorry about the facial expression below i just had a very sudden urge to grrrrr at the camera!

 These are my fantastic pink Underground creepers.  They are fabulously comfortable and so awesomely original.  I believe that everyone should have a pair.  They have a 2 inch platform i believe.  Not sure but when i don't wear them everyone comments on how short i seem to be suddenly.  

 So my sister-in-law has recently opened a beauty salon/parloury thing.  She can pierced ears and all so she did my second set of piercings which i am very happy with, but they hurt a touch so i haven't put a first set in yet.  

 This is a close up of my top i was wearing today.  The green woven one is from Primark and the yellow shirt from ASOS.  Again making the strange face below is a apparently a favourite of mine.  Sorry about the flushed pink face had just been working really intensely in my study.  (Secretly i had been grooving to some funky tunes).  

 I also love to wear lots of necklaces at once, which the picture shows on the left.  I would tell you where they are from but i cannot remember.

Above are my lovely painted nails which have chipped excessively quickly.

Collar Tips. Everybody needs a pair of collar tips.  these are my incredible ones from ASOS.  They have spiders on them and so everyone looks at me weirdly but they are amazing.

 The camera photos i am not sure why i posted are just a bit cool i think.  And the random one from above is of my slightly funky up do whilst i was doing geography revision.  I have discovered that hair looks quite amazing in the dark taken with a flash.  

So i was walking around taking photos when i just started taking photos of my door.  I have such a random selection of pictures on it its quite unbelievable.  I especially love Alvin with his little finger puppet holes.  

 I had to declare my undying love for Frozen Planet to you.  I have it on DVD, i have the free poster and the calendar.  basically i am mad about David Attenborough and he is my secret husband.  Above i have a DIY necklace holder my Dad built for me.  I bought some little birdy hooks and he nailed them to a painted block of wood.  they are really rather exciting.  

Also i think it is quite exciting i collect my train tickets and stick them to the inside of my wardrobe door.  Do it and then look back through them all one day and you will remember all those trips you have been on.  Anyone have any other fab ideas for exciting displays/posters on your walls??  Please share.  

My eye make-up for the day was particularly simple and looked a touch like i have a black eye since i used purple eyeshadow, but thought it looked dark but in a bright way.  

xx

Just a little about what my blog shall hopfully grow up to be...

The point of my blog is really to make all those fashionista's out there and the millions of women who are not a size 8 to realise that you can be fashionable. Think of it this way, designers only design their catwalk pieces so small because then they save money on fabric. That is the only reason. I want my blog to represent the curvy woman and all that silly stereotype stuff about a natural woman being curvy.

My favourite word to describe a curvy woman, from the BBC show Miranda, is 'Voluptuous'. There is no better word, combined with 'undulations'. So next time you say to your subconscious "oh dear god i am fat", think oh no i am not i am simply "A voluptuous woman!"

Here i have just posted a few pictures from my collection, to show you how i am a bit of a wacky dresser although i am a size 14. i don't give a damn. You know i have had two people recently say to me that they wish i had my dress sense, not that that is what i dress for, so people envy me. But the fact that they said that to me in front of a group of much skinnier and taller girls the same age made me feel so great. I want you to remember that!!!

Please ignore the bowling shoes!! Not flattering when you have size 7 feet. Actually looked like a giant clown!!

My favourite shirt of all time. From a charity shop. you shall be seing a lot of that in time.
Leather Jacket: La Redoute (?)
Green Crochet Top: Primark (Don't shop there anymore since i have gone all ethical fashiony)
Elephant necklace: From a friend. (Believe it is from Mallorca)
Ring: Dorothy Perkins
Scarf: From a humungous collection i have inherited from my Mother and Grandma
Love Necklace: Animal (Was so surprised)

Leather Jacket same as above

Bodysuit: New Look

Pleated Midid-Skirt: Charity shop. Proper Granny one and all.

Beetle Necklace: H&M i think. Present from my sister.

Scarf same as above

These are my awesome denim Levi shorts which i bought from Beyond Retro. They have amazing leather pockets at the back which were done by Beyond Retro. They update vintage. SO cool!!

And just to warn you i do not care about tights with holes and ladders, but people seem to go nuts about it around me.

xx