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Dressed and Pressed - fashion, shopping, style, shoes and stuff
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I dont wanna die, I sometimes wish Id never been born at all...

Not since the death of Freddie Mercury have I felt so acutely the passing of someone Ive never met and do not know. Im not one for knee-jerk reactions to celebrity deaths and I almost didnt write thi...

12 feb 10

Valentine's. It's all (red and pink) pants.

Guess what folks?! It's VALENTINE'S day soon. Got that? VALENTINE'S!!! Do you like what I've done there with the shouty caps, and the exclamation marks? Do ya? Do ya?? Welcome to my world, where I ha...

06 feb 10

Spring awakening

I love musical theatre. I love it for all the reasons that people who hate musicals hate musicals - the spontaneous bursting into song, the dance routines, the costumes, Andrew Lloyd-Webber (okay, ma...

02 feb 10

Is it a dress, is it a jacket, is it a... hot mess?

You know me, I have love for the Margiela, and experimenting is never a bad thing, but I honestly don't know what I'm supposed to be feeling looking at this other than "I think I feel a migraine comi...

31 jan 10

Material Girl - So bad it's good

Clothes so bad they'd make a first year fashion student weep, more queens per square inch than a San Francisco gay pride parade, Dervla Kirwan playing a class A fashion bitch with more ham than a pan...

29 jan 10

What do we think about... winter shorts

So amongst other fun things last weekend, I spent a leisurely pub lunch with K debating whether it is strictly necessary to wear shorts in the winter.Let me just state for the record that I am in the...

21 jan 10

Lady Ga Ga called...

She wants her shoes back!Image via Refinery 29 Subscribe in a reader

19 jan 10

Apocalypse Now-ish

Earlier on this week, I read on the Disney Roller Girl blog that ugly arse clogs were big news for summer. Judas Priest!I had barely got over that particular shock when hot on the heels (cloggy, unco...

07 dec 09

Feed me Feedburner!

Like the blogging world and his wife, I have a problem with my feeds. Basically Feedburner have seen fit to "disappear" my entire subscriber list, so if you haven't had any emails from me this mornin...

04 dec 09

Buy, buy, buy!

So, as I was saying. Lovely friends and readers are sending me information about designer sales stuff happening in London in the next couple of weeks. This list I got from Sahar an avid Dressed and P...

03 dec 09

Sell, sell, sell!

'Tis the season for sample sales and what a bumper crop I have for you. I love it when friends and readers just send me stuff because they know that I'll want to know. In the past couple of days I've...

03 dec 09

If wishes were horses...

It's the first day of December and by rights you should be receiving your first hit of the legendary December Daily Outfits but since the entire weekend was taken up with yet another packing and movi...

02 dec 09

Take it off, take it all off

The scramble is on for you Christmas money folks. Go get yours! Current offers:Warehouse 20% off till November 28Code: FRIEND09/TREAT09Best buy: Embellished tunic topHouse of Fraser Brand event 25% o...

25 nov 09

Fine jewelry with bite

I'm picky when it comes to spending proper money on jewelry. I like it to be chunky and/or unusual. I'm not a huge fan of diamonds - for the obvious and myriad other reasons. I don't usually do gold ...

24 nov 09

Love x Love +Beryll

When I got these photos through from accessories designer Sigmar Berg of +Beryll, it was like he had been reading my mind. Or, possibly, my blog!I just love the hard edged, spare beauty of these piec...

23 nov 09

Junk junky

There are few pleasures in life to me than finding a huge junk shop and then foraging for hours, just ferrting about, looking at stuff, imagining who might have used it before. A packed to the rafter...

20 nov 09

Happy trails!

So I've become a bit of a cycling fanatic in the past year. I've gone from the now infamous white pumps incident to actual daily commutes to work and travels on my bike at weekends. I'm really loving...

19 nov 09

They're exclusive, I'm excited

Okay, I'm excited. I'm frequently excited so no news there but ask me why. Why am I excited? Well I'm excited because I've been invited to the fashion press preview of Vonrosen. They're sending a car...

18 nov 09

Black dog

I've been thinking about my decison to change my style up and start working a mostly black wardrobe. Upon reflection, it's no coincidence that my once chaotic, loud, colourful clothing choices have b...

17 nov 09

Victim of their own success

So Uniqlo launched it's +J collection of affordable luxury knitwear today. All the items are avalable online, with a selection appearing in the flagship shop in Oxford Circus.I've been trying all mor...

01 oct 09

Outfit of the week 07/04/09

Isn't London wonderful when the sun is out. After a couple of days of sunshine (finally!), people actaully smile at you on the street, the chat to you on buses and you in turn gurn at screaming toddl...

09 apr 09

Leaving the tag on*

I'm very bad with blog Tag posts. I used to not get tagged at all but then when I did start to get tagged, I'd either completely miss it or just not get round to doing it. This time I have space and ...

09 apr 09

Guilty Pleasures: Crank 2

I love Jason Statham movies. They are always a pure slice of adrenaline-fuelled, testosterone-ridden campness. So when I saw this trailer for Crank 2, I had to post it.No, it's not fashion, but when ...

09 apr 09

Shoe Lurve - Bronx wedge gladiator, £68.50

Boots, they look good on most people and really go well with summer denim. One problem though, they are essentially cold weather wear. No matter what we tell ourselves, the denim shorts/summer dress ...

07 apr 09

Fringed benefits

As I mentioned in my outfit of the week post earlier this week, the High Street is teeming with fringe at the moment. Fringing, tassles - call them what you will - those dangly strips of silliness se...

04 apr 09

I want it now! Topshop rainbow brief case, £35

I have long held the opinion that no matter how much you may like what you do for a living, some days work is just... work. And it's a non-stop, angsty, stressy slog that starts the moment you leave ...

03 apr 09

Make your legs smile

I know that leggings get a bad rep, especially patterned leggings. But I think that's because people sometimes people take them a little too seriously and let their body hang ups get in the way of a ...

01 apr 09

Outfit of the week 31/03/09

Hark! What's that sound? Why, it's the sound of distant jungle rhythms that herald this week's outfit. Yep, helped along by Louis Vuitton and that atrocious grass skirt confection last seen on Madonn...

01 apr 09

Quick housekeeping update

I've been using blogrolling for my links for years now but last year they started fannying around with the system and doing what they called :"updating", which turned out to be another word for: "sne...

29 mar 09

Matthew Williamson for H&M preview

I'll state for the record now: I'm not a huge fan of Matthew Williamson's designs. That whole "Club Tropicana does Eurotrash in a floaty dress and jewelled tones by the Riviera" look is not really wh...

28 mar 09

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