It’s a time of year when we should all be wearing jumpers, wool coats and boots. Yet it has been unseasonably warm. They say an Englishman always talks about the weather, and rightly so as one never knows what it…

I was chatting to a friend recently about really easy mummywear. The kind of clothes you chuck on in the morning, and which survive the general wear and tear of everyday with little ones; sand, food splatter, baby sick, mud, play dough,…

The spring summer catwalks were full of denim, double denim. No longer was denim a fabric just for the humble jean, designers held it up as the “ultimate” fabric of this spring summer season, fashioning it into just about every guise imaginable: Kenzo…

You may have been around the first time flares were en vogue, yes the 1970’s were a time of volume in every sense of the word. Hair was big, beards even bigger, shirt collars long and pointy and trousers were, well distinctly flared.…

In the Victorian era the fashion was dress in a way that showed off your tiny waist and bountiful cleavage, but the idea of revealing a bare foot or ankle was unthinkable. You would have been branded a slut or prostitute for doing so. Today,…

Clothing Retailers don’t want you to go in to their shop and buy a garment, their aim is to get you to buy an entire outfit. This Spring Summer the 1970’s trend is in every shop, and it can be…

If you believed the message fashion magazines, blogs, designers and high street stores sold you that you are missing out unless you buy the latest xxxx then you’d be broke, in need of a bigger wardrobe or perhaps a bigger…