Peachy Keen: Charity Shop Dress from Gloucester Road

Peachy Keen: Charity Shop Dress from Gloucester Road

I’m having a love affair. It’s not with another man, it’s not with Zara, though that Spanish temptress certainly knows how to push my buttons. No, this rekindled flirtation is with charity shops. After months of nothing catching my eye,…

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Thrifting and Leather à la Man Repeller

Thrifting and Leather à la Man Repeller

This outfit reminds me of Leandra Medine’s Man Repeller blog, back in the day when it was more about outfits that could invoke Marmite-like feelings, and less about meandering thoughts on beauty and lifestyle choices that seem to never quite…

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The Girl in the Cat Hat

The Girl in the Cat Hat

From the moment I saw a Chinese teen sporting a beige felt hat with moulded cat ears in the terminal of Rome’s Fiumicino airport, I knew I needed to procure a cat hat of my very own. A feline bowler…

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Vintage Dresses and Christmas Markets

Vintage Dresses and Christmas Markets

Glastonbury Festival is the last place I’d expect to find decent, work-friendly vintage, but this summer I did just that when my friend Ceri and I stumbled across a stall selling all their vintage dresses for a fiver. Needless to…

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Playing with Proportions

Playing with Proportions

Eight years ago, if you’d told me I’d be wearing a cropped sweatshirt I’d have laughed in your face and then pulled down on the hem of my baggy jumper even further. Before I came to university, the concept of…

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