September 25, 2008 • 8:48 am 5
No. But thanks for the offer (which arrived by email).
It’s all a bit Dove advert.
But at least better than this (which I saw in Heat), models recruited from amongst Katie Price’s fan base.
All that said – you can never knock the Bravissimo undies. Best bras in the world.
Filed under: Advertising, Branding, Clothes, Fashion, Food
July 15, 2008 • 12:23 pm 0
Big Birdie Skirt from Clothkits
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Clothkits is back! Woohoo! I am dashing out the door to buy a sewing machine before I forget how dreadful I am at sewing.
I was a Clothkits Kid – and loved it.
Many years later, we were having a summer bevarage en-famille in a beer garden and wondered over to a car boot sale next door….
There we found mine and my sister’s Clothkits wardrobe for sale at a considerably marked-up price! My mother’s handiwork had stood the test of time.
See more at Seventies fad of kit clothes is born again and Is home made better than off the peg? and while we’re having an ethical bent see Chazza shops entries at CK’s Random Ruminations (Happy 30th CK).
March 5, 2008 • 5:08 pm 0
We came, we bounced, we conquered – well we racked up more laps than the team competing at the same time as us! (This was, by the way, at lunchtime in a very busy shopping centre.)
This is clearly a very flattering photo – sponsor me at http://www.mysportrelief.com/caseyatmiddleton and you can see the far less flattering action shots…..
A debt of gratitude is owed to fellow team-member Max who supplied trainers and a snug, supportive top. I’d forgotten we were doing it and had arrived in a wrap dress, non-sporting underwear and black high-heeled boots….
Filed under: Caption Competition, Charity, Clothes, Exercise, Shoes
December 7, 2007 • 12:49 pm 0
Follow up to http://caseyleaver.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/intranet-distraction-oubay/Â
You can almost picture the festive scene….
Enter small child home from school with mud artfully splashed up back of trousers and trailing satchell behind them.
Small child: Mu-um, oh yeah, we was s’posed to get costumes for the play…
Anyone got a child’s monkey outfit for ages 3 – 5 years I can borrow or buy for my daughter’s show next Wednesday?
Star outfit. Does anyone have one that I can buy? For children’s nativity play. Asda did them for a fiver but sold out.
Filed under: Children, Christmas, Clothes, Internal Communications, Work
May 22, 2007 • 5:38 pm 2
I was watching How to Marry a Millionaire last night, and clothes-wise out of the three it’s got to be Betty Grable for me.
Almost from start to finish she’s wearing a kind of Dior
tiny-waisted full-skirted New Look – which is kind of odd as fashion
historians tell us:
The first Christian Dior couture show was scheduled
for 12 February 1947. Clothes were still scarce and women wore the
sharp-shouldered suits with knee-length skirts that they had cobbled
together as makeshift wartime versions of Elsa Schiaparelli’s slinky
1930s silhouette. The Paris couture trade, which had dominated
international fashion since the late 18th century, was in a precarious
state. What it needed was excitement and Christian Dior delivered it in
a collection of luxurious clothes with soft shoulders, waspy waists and
full flowing skirts intended for what he called “flower women”. “It’s
quite a revelation dear Christian,” pronounced Carmel Snow, the editor
of Harper’s Bazaar, the US magazine. “Your dresses have such a new
look.”
What makes it odd is that the film came out in 1953…
May 2, 2007 • 11:15 am 6
Today
I am wearing two suits. I am wearing the size 16 jacket of one and the
size 14 skirt of another. Both are identical except in sizing.
Which makes me distinctly apple-shaped – type II diabetes and heart attacks on a plate anyone?
Who would like the other half?
(£25 or less to a deserving cause!)
Interested parties please leave a comment.
August 14, 2006 • 12:53 pm 2
Writing about web page http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB/local_home/wednesbury.html
Now, if I’d told you about this last week you would have laughed at me. But now I bet you’re jealous!
In fact when I bought my Big Slipper last year I was so pleased with it that I bought my sister one for Christmas!
My dad christened it The Big Slipper in honour of the Billy Connelly sketch.
And given that the weather has turned I’ve had an opportunity to wear my ‘Big Slipper Blanket’.
They’re so cozy that I don’t care that I look like across between an old dear in the local nursing home and Demis Roussos.
In fact sat here, in the air–conditioned office, in my autumn work wardrobe (seriously), I wish I had them with me now.
Autumn is my favourite season – but it doesn’t traditionally start until after my birthday next week …
Come
to think of it – that’s probably why I like Autumn. I associate it with
new beginnings, buying Autumn wardrobes (a hang–over from buying new
school uniforms) and spending ‘birthday money’.
In fact,
this weather is all my fault in the first place – I bought a lovely
free–standing hammock about a week and a bit ago. It had no sooner
entered the house than the clouds rolled in.
Pictures courtesy of the IKEA website
