Slouchy Boot Week

Bit of a bumper week, with five (!) outfits posted. And I managed to hit my weekly objective of using an item that hasn't been worn for ages: the overknee boots. So five outfits and four pairs of boots - makes a change...

I've had these boots in my wardrobe for years and I rather like them. I think suede and slouchy is the way to go if you want to do thigh high boots in a classy way. Only problem is that one of them keeps slouching down - and the other one doesn't. Ah well, can't have everything... 
Top: Hallhuber 
Skirt: AllSaints
Jacket: Warehouse
Boots: somewhere in the back of my wardrobe... no idea where I bought them originally...

This dark green plain dress with pleather trim and pockets (I love pockets in a dress, don't you just love pockets?!) makes this necklace really stand out. There actually used to be a chain strand on the necklace, which i had to chop off as it got hopelessly tangled up. 
Dress: Mexx 
Necklace: ZARA

Love this slouchy Whistles dress. It's only thin t-shirt material so I always layer over opaques and black long sleeve top. The Vivienne Westwood inspired boots work really well with it, I think.
Dress: Whistles
Cardigan: H&M
Boots: Marks and Spencer
Necklace: ZARA

I'm so totally behind posting these! Normally not a fan of pleather (bit of a leather snob) but this one feels lovely - and it's animal cruelty free. Thought it might be a bit too much with the necklace but I must have had the most compliments that day I ever had on any outfit - and all from girls (which are the best kind of compliments if you like clothes). 
Dress: ZARA 
Top worn underneath: Next 
Boots: Zara 
Necklace: Stella & Dot

A few things about this dress:
1. It's at least 6 years old.
2. It's from Jesire, a high street label that went bust in around 2011. Kate Middleton was seen wearing a few of their pieces soon after and there were speculations that it could be saved but it then just disappeared.
3. The print totally makes it. They had a simple grey one as well and when I tried that on it looked so "bla".
4. One of its nicest features is hidden: two long "scarves"/ kind of tie shaped thingies hanging down the back. I tried to capture them a few times but just can't.
5. I think this was the first dress/skirt with pockets I ever bought - and I was hooked.
So there, 5 things before 9 you really didn't need to know...
Dress: Jesire
Necklace: ZARA

What I wore today

Really?! I actually wasn't going to do this. The whole: "this is what I pulled out of my wardrobe and this is how I look in it". Partially because I actually don't tend to like myself in photographs (to the extend that people ask "were you there on that holiday?!"), partially because I always think people who usually do share what they wear with the rest of the world via the www are so much cooler than me.

Anyway, as much as I have enjoyed writing about where I like to shop, which collections I am drooling over and what I enjoy to wear, I thought it was getting a bit too... theoretical. So here I am, posing strangely in front of a temporarily re-located mirror, trying to get my outfit in, trying to leave the mess around me out - without it looking too obvious that this is exactly what I'm doing.

Aaaaanyway. Because what actually matters is, what I did wear today.

Right, then:

Dress, Whistles (think AW11)

Cardigan, H&M (SS11)

Belt, Reiss (SS11)

Boots, LK Bennet (AW10)

Watch, Swatch (??)

Necklace, Accessorize (??)

As it was rather cold I wore black opaques & boots and also a thin black long sleeve top underneath (can't remember who that's from).

Even though I am not wearing anything new from this season, I think this dress works great referencing the tribal trend and the belt gives a bit of pretty pastel colour. Besides that, you know that I simply love multi-tonal jewellery!

So have a good dig in your wardrobe and find some gems that are bang up to date - then mix in that latest purchase! ;)