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As anyone who’s ever planned a wedding will know, choosing bridesmaid’s dresses can be a right pain in the proverbial, especially when you have a selection of women with different sizes, shapes and tastes to cater to. That’s why Lynn Lugo’s Create Your Own Bridesmaid’s Dress service is such a great idea. Using the easy online dressmaker tool, you get to choose colours, shapes and embellishments to create the dress (or dresses) of your bridesmaid’s dreams. It’s a great way to get different styles of dresses in exactly the same colours and fabrics, and once the designing is done, the dresses are made to order and delivered to your door. So no whining bridesmaids to deal with, and no crimes committed against fashion.
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Ever walked into a party only to be faced with another girl wearing the same dress? D’oh! Don’t worry, though: help is at hand in the shape of new website 20ltd.com, where the merchandise is so very exclusive, dahlink, that only 20 units of each item are ever produced. That won’t quite eliminate the problem of the "same dress shocker", of course, but it’ll make it a lot less likely to happen. The site doesn’t offer just fashion – in fact, there’s everything from rare motorcycles to wallpaper – but with a range of fashionable names such as Lonchamp and Emilio Pucci available, there’s plenty to keep fashionistas happy. The jacket in the picture is by Derek Lam, and is £990.
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Just to show Topshop there’s no hard feelings, I’ve just added these to my special "I Want!" file. Red shoes are my weakness, and I the little cone heel on these ones makes them a nice alternative to all of the ballet flats I keep buying lately. Great with skinny jeans, a flippy summer skirt or even shorts, and £40 at Topshop. Just don’t wear them with the big ol’ tunic is all I’m saying…
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When I whine about all of the unflattering, sack-like dresses in the stores at the moment, this is the kind of thing I’m talking about. Now, I can’t imagine ANYONE looking good in this – neither the skinniest of size 0 models or the curviest of curvy women. Because this? Is a sack. It’s just a sack, and most of us don’t really wear those too much, do we? If you like it, it#s currently reduced to £15 in the Topshop sale. I wonder why?
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I just found my must-have summer jacket in River Island, so of course I raced home to write about it (well, I couldn’t afford to actually buy it this close to pay-day, so writing about it here was the next best thing) … and found that they didn’t have it on the website. These? They’re not it. Sorry. They are pretty cute, though, no? I’m imagining them with this seasons flood-length jeans (in black), a great big pair of dark sunnies, et voila – a cute, sophisticated summer look a la Audrey Hepburn. I’d probably buy both colours, but then I? Am crazy.
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While I generally tend to stick to traditional "goes-with-anything" black or tan when I’m buying handbags, lately I’ve been a-hankering for a bright red one, and if I was going to buying a red handbag, this ‘Ramona’ tote bag by Jimmy Choo would probably be the one I’d go for. I love the floppy, squashy-ness of it, and I love the colour (although it does strike me as more of a winter bag than a summer one, for some reason) – gorgeous. Of course, unhappily for me, I only ever get to buy Jimmy Choo handbags in my dreams, and given that this is £1495 at Net-a-Porter I guess I can just dream on, for the time being at least…
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So, maxi dresses – what do you make of them? For me personally, these are to be avoided at all costs – not because there’s anything wrong with them, pe se, but because, as a bit of a short-ass, anything longer than knee-length totally drowns me. The dress on the left of this picture, with all of that billowing material, for instance, would leave me looking like nobody’s child, and while I love the print on the purple one second from the right, it would probably drag along the ground behind me, leaving me looking like an extra from some weird costume drama. So, for me, I feel like fashion has gone out of the frying pan and right into the fire, with the move from unflattering tunics to – in my case – equally unflattering maxis.
But that’s just me. I know lots of women are big fans of the big dresses – are you?
(Oh, and if you are, you’ll find all of the ones pictures at Dorothy Perkins)
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