White
leather biker jacket – Miss Selfridge
Pink sequin
skirt – Topshop Unique
Snakeskin
boots – Zara
Grey T-shirt
– Miss Selfridge
Oversize
clutch – Martin Margelia for H&M
My first
attempt.
I’m a sucker
for a sequin and this skirt ticked all my boxes.
Oversize, pale pink Paillettes on a pencil
skirt (blimey!! Try saying that when you’re drunk...not that I ever am….) in my
favourite mid calf length
…and how much you say??....In the sale??..
reduced from £250 to….What?? £40??... I’ll take it, it fact I’ll take two!!
(ed: Stop now.)
I felt a bit
like a mermaid – albeit one with a fashion focus, and seeing as it was my first
attempt and at an early stage in the proceedings, I allowed myself a comfort
blanket.
I teamed the skirt with one of my favourite
things in the whole world – no, not Michael Fassbender or George Clooney – just
a simple grey T shirt. You can never have too many of those babies, as my
collection is beginning to demonstrate.
And finally – A
way to wear a white leather biker jacket without looking like an extra from a Miami
Vice party scene.
Thought it added a bit of edge to an outfit which could quickly
have become sickly sweet.
Some print
for texture.
My favourite snakeskin boots make a reappearance .
I had fun
with the accessory choice, and seeing as I felt like I had just fallen out of a
sweet shop, what better way to carry about all my gubbins’ than in a giant
sweetie wrapper?
Oohh, the
irony…
All in all, I
didn’t find this too strange.
In fact, I quite
enjoyed it.
Don’t get me
wrong. I’m not adverse to a bit of colour, but neon's are usually my drug of
choice.
Pastels
have never really been on my radar. They always felt slightly insipid and a
little draining. Colours that couldn’t quite make up their mind what they were…
-‘Am I pink,
or am I white?’ - you know??
Neon's seem
more committed somehow. They go in hard…and then they take the ball home…
But yes, my
pastel pink pencil skirt has wooed me into considering the lighter shade of
colour
It is a
girlie option, but I can make it my own.
Yes, they could be my friend.
All photographs by John Lawrence
