If you kiss enough jumper frogs...

..... you will eventually find a jumper prince.  Hallefreakinglujah! 

So I can bring you all of one jumper recommendation.  In one colour.  Which is utterly pants.  A truly pathetic attempt at offering up fatted calves of the jumper variety but in my defence, as I have mentioned before, I have been housebound (she says dramatically) due to smallest RR not going to school full time.  I have, however, had access to the minefield that is online shopping.  

And I have struck gold.  Once.  Which is better than nothing.  And will hopefully be the start of  a fountain of jumper wonderfulness. 

But the best bit - oh the best bit, is that it's.....drum roll...... £19.  Yup, £19.  Ok so I should backtrack slightly and say that this is an every day, bung on, bring your wardrobe up to date, functional jumper.  You will not be sporting it on a girl's night out (she says assuming glibly that you look forward to your girl's nights out as much as I do and use it an excuse to get dressed up to the nines) but it's a great little addition to your wardrobe. If you're going down the plum route that is.... 

If not, just scroll down to something else. 

If you're still here - here it is.  It passes the shape test, the fabric test and the feel test.  In fact everyone that said they liked it today, couldn't believe that it was from Dorothy Perkins and only cost £19 (I am that awful person who says "ooh you'll never believe how cheap it was" rather than nodding sagely and thanking them gracefully for their compliment.)

It's unbelievably billy basic but it's also unbelievably useful and versatile.  I have worn it today and shall be definitely wearing it again before the week is out. 

I also come bearing gifts of a coated trouser variety if you're interested.  I actually went onto the website originally as a friend of mine had the most fantastic coated oxblood jeans on and said they were from Dotty P's!  So I went to order them (just in case - I didn't hold out much hope of them being long enough or a good fit etc etc) and as I am an utter tightwad when it comes to paying postage - it made obvious sense to order a shed load more, just to avoid paying it.  The Husband has rolled his eyes in disbelief  previously at my logic but it makes perfect sense to me.  Of course it does only work if you are vigilant about returning what you don't want (and making sure you don't want it all.......) and ignore the fact that the carpark probably costs as much as the P&P in the first place.  Details schmetails. 

I am desperate for a pair of coated skinnies that aren't black - ideally a grey would be fantastic but there are a pair of carmine high gloss Helmut Lang ones that have caught my eye. However at nearly £200 I'm too scared to order them in case I love them and have to eat toast for the rest of the month.  And send my children up chimneys.

So I thought I'd try these.  And they are pretty darn good.  A great fit for me (nice and high on the waist thank goodness) although they are a couple of inches too short.  But they actually work with ankle boots (so long as I don't cross my legs when I sit down....) and for less than £20 (I got them at the weekend when there was an offer on - worth watching out for as DP's do them a lot) they are definitely keepers.  Not sure whether they will stretch too much or not, but if they do, I shall be taking them back.

Oxblood coated skinny jeans 







Now clearly that didn't take me up to the P&P free limit (ok so maybe it did but humour me, I was on a roll) and so these also slipped into my basket as they were again sub £20 and I was looking for some to wear during the day as opposed to my Cos ones which I tend to keep for the evening.  Coated skinny black trousers.  Which they didn't have in tall so I ended up trying jeggings holding zero hope of them being remotely wearable. 

Well.

These are Amazing.  I adore them.  Completely love them - have worn them all day and they are the most comfortable trousers i've had on in eons.  Not clingy like I believe jeggings normally are and with loads of stretch but not too stretchy they lose their shape.  And for me (not for everyone an issue but a huge bonus!) they're long.  They look like a pile of poo in the photos online but trust me, they're great for the price and for an every day smarter trouser.  They're also not nearly as skin tight as they look in this pic.  See photo of me below wearing them. 

Black coated jegging in tall (also in other sizes on website) 






There are a couple of other jumpers I've got my eye on online - I'm hoping to go and have a look tomorrow (when I return the other sizes that didn't fit!) and will report back.  That jumper fountain should hopefully be flowing shortly....

Now to prove that I love what I had delivered, here I am wearing the jumper and the jeggings today.  Really really pleased with them.  With the River Island vest - an outfit (admittedly not including scarf, bag, bracelet or boots) for less than £40!

Warning this is a truly abysmal photo as it was beyond wet this afternoon and we ran out of time to explore lighting opportunities in the house.  RR1, aka Junior Annie Leibovitz (clearly in need of some training - or maybe she's got her heart set on an M&S online photographer's gig.) insisted that this was ok.  Her insistence may have been somewhat due to her potentially being late for Brownies. 

So here we have a pathetic attempt at me showcasing my new purchases.  





Black ribbed vest - River Island
Plum boxy jumper - Dorothy Perkins
Black coated jeggings - Dorothy Perkins
Fuchsia & blush Camel scarf - Virginia Johnson
Black suede and leather ankle boots - LK Bennett
Tan leather cuff - Mulberry
Stone maxi zip satchel - Anya Hindmarch

I may well wear the jumper tomorrow to try and get a better pic of it.  Hope someone likes it!!