I Haul Therefore I Am

It probably won't come as any great surprise to you when I impart the following information: I shop all the time. My life is basically: Eat, Sleep, Shop, Repeat. But when September rolls around I up my hauling game to even more monumental levels in preparation for the oncoming season. For the last couple of weeks I have basically taken up residence in Zara and only popped home occasionally to check the post and deposit my wares. So, what have I purchased? Top of the A/W hitlist for me (and I think for everyone) is a pair of boots. This time I've gone for these which are strictly to be worn only with cropped flares of some kind or other. Of course now I've bought them I'm getting my eye into flared heels and sock boots (again, these would look so so wrong with skinnies, precipitating the need for a lorra lorra different cropped trews and jeans to set them off to their best advantage). Each A/W I tend to buy enough knitwear to make an entire sheep farm shiver, and I've started as I mean to go on with this cropped sweater (but I realllllly like this from Cos, I just struggle a bit mentally with spending £60 on a jumper). I've also bought this merino wool knit from H&M which is the kind of thing I'll live in all winter. 

Also, whilst on the subject of H&M I should also make mention of these freakin' amazing girlfriend jeans. They are super-comfy and super-slouchy and just ledge. I also couldn't resist another pair of lace-up flats in the form of these nude suedette versions of The Trend That Won't Die. (Although what I'm really truly lusting after are these suede beauts- again- money is the issue and nowt else). I am also slightly obsessed with raw hems at the moment, and yes- I could've chopped up some of my old jeans- but no, only new will do for Little Miss Greedy; so I got these. How's your hauling going? Lemmie know xx

Boots- Zara//Knit- Zara//Girlfriend Jeans- H&M

Lace-Up Flats- Zara//Raw Hem Jeans- Zara//Cacti- Ikea

Bad Girls Do It Well

I've been dying to buy a leather jacket for a while now. Having popped into Whistles more times than I've YouTubed 'Best Song Ever' and tried on the completely heavenly Patti Jacket, I'm still feeling a bit ill at the thought of spending £295. But....I also kinda have a love-hate thing going on with faux-leather jackets. Mostly you can tell they're plastic can't you? However...drumroll....guess who've only gone and made the most shamaze faux-leather jacket ever? Yep, Zara, that's who. *Not That Surprised Face* This little doll just felt so perfect when I tried it on, I just had to go for it. Get yours here. I've also gotta give props to my new animal-print skater pumps from Gap. They're maybe not quite as brilliant as the Kurt Geiger or Aldo ones, but they are deffo the cheapest :) Hope your week is off to a good 'un. Catch you soon xx 

PS Don't people look like dicks when they take selfies wearing mirrored sunnies? It's like...bitch please....I do not want to see your outstretched arm and wotnot...so apols for that...but I thought I'd throw it in due to lack of interesting other frames :)

Jacket- Zara//Tee- Gap

Shorts- H&M//Skater Pumps- Gap

Addiction

Is there such a place as Skort Rehab? Coz I think I need to check myself in, pronto! I dunno what it is about these beauts that's got everyone in lust, but I just can't keep away :) This grey pinstripe version is pure heaven. I've found myself wondering just how many skorts Zara have sold this year. (Yeah, it is a riveting life I lead, you're not wrong). 50,000? 100,000? Quarter of a million? Maybe more? Whatever the number, as long as it's good for the Spanish economy, and good for avaricious fashionistas, then everyone's a winner!

How lovely is this baby that wandered into my shot? He was such a sweetie I wanted to scoop him up and take him home! And yet again I couldn't decide which hat to go with so I did a few piccies with both. (Does anybody need to be seeing my big aul booty? Hell to the probably not, so soz for that- it's just- you never see the back of a skort do you? Judging by this shot it's probably clear why! Anyway, in the interest of full disclosure, I'll go with it). Have a lush weekend, skorting about the place :) Catch you soon xx

Skort- Zara//Tee- Gap

Trainers- New Balance//Sunnies- Topshop

Seasons In The Sun

I can't hold back any longer- the time has come for me to dip my toe into A/W. So I've bought a jumper. And a coat. Even typing those words seems insania. But Zara keep making goggle eyes at me. A bit like the snake in 'The Jungle Book' :) This lil' check sweater is trans-seasonal though (excuses excuses)- in as much as it's 93% cotton *Label Face*- so it's gonna see me through September nicely. The coat though is a different story. I probably won't be able to wear it until October- seeing as how it's boucle and lined and 64% wool *There's That Label Face Again*. However, having seen a very similar (in shape, in collarlessness and in over-sizedness) Isabel Marant Yeti-type astrakhan super-furry-animal coat in Selfridges recently, I'm actually thinking I've been a smart bugger getting it. Ha! This is the coat, (and here's the Isabel M one). Also, here's the jumper (which I will deffo be layering as Zara have done). I've also been searching forever for some perforated black shorts and I finally found these beauts on Saturday. Buzz! 

I'm also sick of the sight of myself in my knackered auld fedora (as indeed you must be), so I pinched this baseball cap off my sis just to try and change things up a bit. It's convinced me that I deffo need a good trucker snapback in my life, as well as more generally a lovely black Saint Laurentish hat to see me through the winter. Hat fairy, hat fairy send me a hat! This one has already sold out- gah! But this babe has got a lil summin' summin' about it, hannit? Time for me to shurrup I think :) Much love, catch you soon xx

Jumper- Zara//Shorts- Topshop

Pumps- River Island//Sunnies- Topshop