It smells like Spring

Kat 2/18/2013 16 Comments Edit

Which means two things.

One - out come the jackets and away go the scarves. As much as I am aware I have an embarrassingly large collection of scarves, by this time each year I am bored to tears of them. My neck feels like it's got rickets. Needs. Sun.

And as if I don't have enough jackets (I am officially obsessed - with lots of things granted, but I shall fess up to jackets today), I simply could not resist this one when I saw it last week in Zara. Truth be told I was actually leaving the store (with a stash of three linen tees in a bag that were reduced to £3.99 each. That scraping sound you just heard was me, crawling along the bottom of the sales barrel). Of course I wasn't really super late anyway and I definitely wasn't even more late for the school run by stopping, grabbing it and paying. Much.

It does very much remind me of my impulse purchase from last year - the navy scarf silk jacket, also from Zara, which was a great buy - one of my fave things from the summer. Hence it was easy to justify this. I think I may even love it more. I got the medium which I think is the largest size they do and as it's TRF, I have to say it's rather snug on the sleeves.

But I simply adore it. May have worn it every day since I got it....... And the weather has obliged me by warming up nicely. I apologise in advance as this will figure a lot in the coming months.

Secondly it means Spring resolutions of the fashion variety. These I am saving for tomorrow. And get thinking as I want to hear yours too......

Since I have been exceptionally slack with my blogging, I have a number of photos from the last week.

Oh what a difference a week makes. To say I was losing the will to live with the snow was an understatement. But it's gone so I shan't dwell on it - I shall save that for if it comes back (hell hath no fury like a woman made to wear snow boots when she should be cracking out the supergas)

Beige linen top - H&M

Charcoal jersey harems - Toast

Chocolate leather jacket - All Saints

Charcoal wrist warmers - Toast

Mustard & fuchsia stag scarf - M&S

Bea suede wedge trainers - Ash

Cross body chestnut bag - Campomaggi from Plumo

Cunningly managed to forget to do my eyebrows on this day which made me look naked. A mistake I won't be making again in a hurry. But I did love the opportunity of sun to wear my Goat cardigan again.

Khaki vest - Joseph

Navy and off white jumper - Zara

Distressed biker jeans - By Malene Birger

Marigold swing cardigan - Goat Library

khaki and black leopard print scarf - By Malene Birger

Black Faridah hobo bag - Marc by Marc Jacobs

Black Ohio boots - Pied a Terre

And for out in the evening with friends

Beige vest - Primark

Cream lace top - Zara

Paint splattered jeans - Zara

Suede & leather black boots - LK Bennett

Black and beige quilted jacket - Massimo Dutti

Tan De Manta clutch - Alexander McQueen

Every so slightly jaded the next day

Nude vest (that's not my flesh!) - Primark

White long sleeved tee - Topshop

Charcoal jersey harems - Toast

Gunmetal hitops - Ash

Quilted jacket - Zara

Black Faridah hobo bag - Marc by Marc Jacobs

Bee necklace - Alex Monroe

And finally, I have found some jeans that I love. In my wardrobe. I knew they were there and I thought they might be ok but they pretty much fit the bill of every other pair of blasted boyfriend jeans that I've tried on. They're not what I had anticipated - I had envisaged them being looser through the thigh and slightly tapered on the ankle but a) they were pretty impossible to find and b) any that I may have come across that were vaguely like that were deeply unflattering. Complete mum jeans with a saggy arse.

So this is my version of the boyfriend jean - as many of you had advised (and what I've been doing for years anyway!) a straight leg jean rolled up.

I did also try some men's jeans on (only in Next) and the results were infinitely better than pretty much all of the women's jeans were (bar the Paige ones which were hardly any different from the 8 year old ones below). It is my mission now to track down some dirty denim 501s.

Love this outfit. Am (hugely excitingly!) heading next Saturday to a fashion bloggers meet and this may well just be recycled as an outfit. It is so so comfy.