Wolf Whistle

Dreaming of Summer

I'm never content with which season it is - actually, that's not entirely true. I'm always content with Autumn while its Autumn. (Never trust someone who doesn't love Autumn.) But generally, I'm always wishing myself one season ahead, longing for thick tights and cozy knits in June and chiffon and swimsuits in February.

Hello February - apparently you're my swimsuit season.

(via Mille Motts photostream)

These are the vintage inspired bathing beauties I'm currently lusting after.

Violet Bathing Beauty Swimsuit from Modcloth - $90 

En Pointe Bikini aka RUFFLES OF LOVE (£64 each half) from Anthropologie
  

Stacked Odds Bikini (Top £38, Bottoms £50) from Anthropologie

Revival Bikini (Top and bottoms £64 each) from Anthropologie

I already have a blue polka dot bikini but it's just not as nice!

Gilda Bikini (top and bottoms £50 each) from Anthropologie

Leopard print swimsuit £59.50 from For Luna by Esther Williams.

Oh gosh, I've just realised that this exact same swimsuit has been on my wishlist for at least five years. This year should really be the year I buy it, huh?

P.S. This post was totally inspired by someone on my Google Reader's gorgeous swimsuit post but now I can't find it! If you wrote about vintage swimsuits lately, it was probably YOU. Thank you!

A girl of contradictions

HARD

Claude Maus Autumn/Winter 10/11
Womenswear Collection

 

versus

SOFT

Vogue UK March 2010
Patricia van der Vliet photographed by Mario Testino

 

There's room in me to love both.

I don't wear trousers, but I do do shorts

WEDNESDAY = Double florals

Floral top // Urban Outfitters, 100 years ago
Green grandad cardigan // Thrifted
Currently being lived in shorts // Birthday present from my boy
Green tights // ASOS
Second-hand floral DM's // Portobello Road
A necklace // Topshop
Bag // Primark

This is the mini A... I have the HUUGGGE one too!

THURSDAY = giant bow

Bow & heart shaped bag // Topshop
Houndstooth pussy-bow dress // Vintage
Black brogues // Second hand bargain, but from New Look orig

I haven't worn this dress in at least two years. WHYYYY?!
I'm a moron. It's awesome.

MORE BOW ACTION. You love it, right?

I took these pictures in the changing rooms at TK Maxx, where the choice above was SO HARD. I'm a bit of both, I think? DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE.

TK Maxx

When I was younger, my Dad used to take me and my brother over to the giant shopping centre in Milton Keynes. While they went off to the football card tradings tall, I used to spend my time in TK Maxx, rummaging through rails and wishing I actually had some money to buy anything. 

So last night was quite reminiscent of childhood for me! I went to the pre-opening of the re-opening of the super-cute Putney store, which has a boutiquey feel. It's just girls stuff, which is nice!

 

 
 
Shelly Fellows, the TK Maxx Womens outerwear buyer talked us through some of the key trends for next season. (you know them all already though, right? Lace, pastels, nautical... a bit of everything!) Afterwards I talked to Shelly for a while and now I'm actually seriously jealous of her job! I didn't realise that she gets to jet around everywhere, buying every week. Amazing, seriously.

And everyone loved my giant bow. :)

I took loads of my own pictures but I'm having real trouble getting my new camera to download pictures to my laptop. Will put up some of mine tomorrow, though.

Do wish I had realised that my eyeliner was everywhere, though. Didn't notice til I got on the train to leave... whoops. Slick, Amy. Real slick.

The store opens this Saturday and will be playing host to a pair of Powder Puff Girls to treat shoppers shoppers to beauty makeovers and manicures. And there'll be champagne and canapes, of course! I'm going to try and get down there soon because I fell in love with a gorgeous studded clutch. Haha... these events are DANGEROUS.

LOVE

 

I might just post about every single Love cover ever. EVER. Each new issue that comes out I seem to end up commenting on. How do you feel about the 8 models on the newest cover?

  

Amber Valletta and Natalia Vodianova above and Kristen McMenamy below.

  

 

 Daria Werbowy and Jeneil Williams. (Think these two are my favourites. GORGEOUS)
 

I was just looking at them and my lecturer at uni said "This would be awesome if it was the 80's and this was something new." He kind of has a point, no? These are INCREDIBLY 80s.

   

Naomi Campbell and Lara Stone...

...oh yeah: Kate Moss was included too. Obviously. Boringly. Let's skip over her.

 

Love this other shot of Lara, too. She's such a dreamboat, I swear.

 

  So, opinions? Love? Hate? Meh? I like a lot, but agree that maybe it's all a bit too 80's looking.