Let It Rock

I've noticed lately that i've started using this blog as more of an online outfit journal than a place for me to post ideas and tips for looks, so to the very few readers who do actually bother to read my blog, i'm sorry.

I'm going to get back to what I initially intended to do with this thing and post my ideas and tips in the next entry.

Ok. I've started, so I may as well continue . . .

As most people are aware, yesterday was Valentines Day. The ever so commercialised day where everyone is encouraged and expected to buy cards, cheap toys and flowers for their loved ones. Contrived and twisted mainly by manufacturers to make a quick buck. It's funny to think that the origins of this day began all those years ago with the killing of a martyr. Not the most romantic beginning to a story.

This wasn't the outfit I wore yesterday, but it ties in well with my current post.

Headband: Vivienne Westwood

T-shirt: 'Let it Rock', Vivienne Westwood

Trousers: Joggers, All Saints

Boots: Boxing Boots

When I put this look together, i was having a bit of a 'lazy day'. The joggers are from All Saints womens department (Somewhere i'd recommend everyone to take a look, but i'll go into that later) and have a corsetted back to the waistband, which you can tighten to your own comfort, it makes them a little more quirky, as well as the 6 small buttons down the front, which are completely aesthetic. They are mega cozy.

The t-shirt is yet another one from Vivienne Westwood. I love her slogans, prints and style, but lately have realised that she is becoming a lot more commercial. I think i'm going to stop buying her t-shirts and only really save my money for the pieces which are more unusual, quirky and unique.

These boxing boots have caused quite a stir here in France. A few weeks ago I wasn't allowed into a bar. My students constantly stare at them. I've even had people shaking their heads at me in the street. My problem is that i fail to see what the dispute is with them? I just put it down to the lack of 'creative influence' in others.

Womens Wear
I mentioned before about the womens section of All Saints. Whenever Ben and I go shopping, we always give the womens sections a quick scan also. You would be quite surprised at what you could find if you look hard enough, sometimes they even just jump out at you. Vests, trousers, t-shirts, even accessories and jewellery. I would totally recommend looking in both sections the next time you go shopping.

Slogan Overload

I decided to put this outfit together just after we arrived back in France. It's definitely not a look I would wear out here, but back home in England it would have most certainly made an appearance once or twice by now.

I love the different prints, textures and overall colours of this outfit.

Being a big fan of layering and combining different accessories, it enables me to achieve a different result each time I put a look together. I used arm warmers with fingerless gloves and attached badges to both my scarf and self-made sleeves, adding a more personal stamp on the look.

Headband: Chaos, Vivienne Westwood

Scarf: Vintage

T-shirt: Topman

Arm Warmers: Black Wool, H&M

Fingerless Gloves: All Saints

Trousers: Extreme Drop Crotch, Triple S

Propaganda Pirate Boots, Vivienne Westwood

Badges can always give an outfit that extra little touch. They're cheap, personal and in abundance. You can mix designer brooches with 50p badges if they look right together. There are hundreds of sites on the internet where you can design and choose your own images to have made into a badge or pin. Even photographs!

I chose to wear the scarf due to its colour, plus it's really warm. My headband is one of my most favourite accessories I own, however it's not getting as much wear as i would like it to. Maybe it's a keeper for back in Engand . . .

Tits & Tartan

I'm aware that i have already blogged these trousers, but i love them!

T-shirt: Tits, Vivienne Westwood


Trousers: Anglomania, Vivienne Westwood
[With matching belt]


Boots: Seditionary, Vivienne Westwood

The best thing about these trousers is that you can wear them any way you like.

For instance, the above outfit, i wore them high waisted ruched together at the front with the belt. The excess material at the front can be positioned to however you like.

I bought the t-shirt at Worlds End when we went back home during December, i love it, but don't really think the French would approve, so it's a keeper for the summer back in England.

For this look, i decided to leave the front of the trousers with no belt. The inner waist band holds them up with great support, so there's no need to tie, pin or hold them up with anything but the buttons.

The t-shirt is from the Anglomania + Lee line.