Week 12 in a FM Girl's Diary...

Feeling festive, tucked up with Vogue and an advent Calendar my Mum gave me 18 days late, I browse the beautiful adverts I get t an article on 20 Fashion New Years Rfesolutions.

It reminded me back to the 1st of January, when slightly worse for wear with a terrible hangover I came up with my own.

1. Take no nonsense from people.

2. Try even harder at everything I do.

3. Forget about what everyone else thinks.

The third one I feel has mostly affected my wardrobe. Gone are the days when I would buy a beautiful statment pi

ece then shove it to the back of the wardrobe for "the right occasion". Because lets face it, there never is a right occasion.

I took some advice from my friend Megan, who always looks great - it was simple but then when you think about it it's totally true. She is alwasy inundated with phonecalls from me before a nightout of "should i wear this?", "is it too dressy?" and her answer - "Just wear it". And it's true, who cares what anyone else is saying.

Just to finish here is a fantastic piece I found while shopping which gives Christmas Jumpers a whole other definition;

Merry Christmas!

Over and out with a pout x x x

Week 11 in a FM Girl's Diary...

Bloomingtails, pet-a-porter, you've heard all the jokes before.

As I pondered on inspiration for this weeks blog, my little puppy - looook isn't he cute -who wil be one on Christmas day attacked my laptop. Which reminded me of Julie's suggestion for me to do a blog on dog clothes - seen as Alfie will one day own a Juicy Hoody, that I am sure.
Love it or hate it - it's everywear form Paris Hilton designs to your local Accesorize. Theres even a pet fashion week in New York. Cute or tacky? I'll let you decide...

Posh Pooch

They do say pets look like their owners.

Hawt Dawgs!

Nautical Puppies!

I#m convinced :)

Over and out with a pout x x x

Week 10 in a FM Girl's Diary

After last weeks post, I was desperate to see what shops are doing to beat this boring "Topshop's selling a red jumper, so we at River Island will sell a red jumper" attitude all the shops have at the moment.

It wasn't hard to find that many designers and brands are offering a customisation services. This is a cardigan designed on the Ralph Lauren Website. If you can make out the small writing on the bottom left hand corner, it does indeed say Erin.

Other brands to do this are NikeID, where they have a huge range of trainers, hoodies, bags, etc. to customize, and although not essentially my cuppa tea, desperate times, desperate measures.

Even Topshop London are providing a customisation service where items can be embellished, torn, sewn up to create an individual garment.

So Fashion retailers are realising the need for individuality? Well they should make their clothing more individual in the first instance then. Rant over... for now!

Over and out with a pout x x x

Week 9 in a FM Girl's Diary...

Jacobs and Juicy and CK and Mulberry, Those are a few of my favourite things.

A trip to Edinburgh reminded me of the things I love the most but unfortunately (or fortunately for my student loan) I don’t often get to see in Aberdeen.

The new Mulberry Charlie bags with limited edition Christmas leather – metallic cracked blue were one of the cutest and most affordable too. "Quote from Father - "I am not paying £150 for something that resembles a pencil case!" hmph)

But as I shopped amongst the high street and the designer shops I found a re occurrence in almost every store – you could not find one ting individual to one store. Every time I tried something on I was scared to purchase it in case the one in Topshop was slightly nicer or cheaper or fitted better.

To purchase something individual is getting even harder and before while people may have looked at purchasing something a little more expensive with a designer tag in order to have something no one else had. But why pay for Gucci and Mui Mui boots when Steve Madden does exactly the same for a tenth of the price! Although thanks to my flatmate I have been lucky enough to parade around (Indoor only) in her real Gucci studded boots.

Santa baaby....?

Over and out with a pout x x x