Colour Combinations

This is a little montage of images from my week. The reason I show you this is because creating these little montages can help inform your outfit/colour choices from the world around you. For example you could take the key colours in the images and use them to create new colour combinations with your clothes. I love wearing red but using this chart I could experiment with colder blue shades and neutrals.

Charity Shop Blazer

Yet another charity shop find! Admittedly this was bought for a fashion project and was subsequently cut up in the name of art but I thought it was worthy of a blog showing. It was £10 (told you charity shops where cheap) and I thought that had it not been cut up it could of been styled really nicely in a kind of mod fashion. Roll up the sleeves, layer it over your outfit...sigh, oh well R.I.P dog tooth blazer.

Style Inspiration

These are a list of some of my favourite blogs and sites. If i'm stuck for style inspiration or just generally board, i check these sites...

Late Afternoon

Style Bubble
The Beauty Department
Favim
The Sartorialist
Nasty Gal
Thread Sence
Cherry Blossom Girl

Top Knot

The Top Knot is perfect for student living. It's great for hiding messy hair and is easy and quick. All you need is a hair tie and some hair grips to hold it in place. It is best when you slightly mess it up by pulling at loose strands of hair.Here is a link showing you how to do the perfect top knot and is just a generally great site for hair inspiration ...
top knot

Make or customise

If you are lacking money, making clothes is really quite fun. You can design it exactly how you want it, choose the fabrics and it's very often cheaper. If you really don't feel comfortable making a whole garment you can always customize things. You can buy beautiful lace trims to add to hems on clothes from material shops or replace buttons to make things look more expensive.

Shoes on sale

Shoe bargain of the century. These shoes where only £12.00 on the Zara sale. There a great buy as they are on trend and super comfy (well as comfy as a heel can be) Top tip: I often find some great shoes in the sales at topshop, asos, kurt geiger and zara so if you are a student on a budget try and hold out for the sales.

Charity Shop finds

Charity shops are a great place to get some really cheap yet surprisingly trendy clothing. I have found some really lovely pieces that are sooooooo cheap. For instance 1960's heavily beaded top...£5.00, navy spotted top...£5.50 and mossy coloured wool jumper...£4.00. They also have some great structered pieces and I even found an Aquascutum blazer.