I don’t know about you but that totally passed me by. National Underwear Day was apparently held on 5 August 2011. It must have been a low key event. I didn’t celebrate the day with any special underwear of my own but neither did I see any evidence that my neighbours were marking the occasion. Apparently it was a day when I should have been asking myself whether I have the right shapewear or whether I should dump those knickers with the dodgy elastic. Oh well, there’s always next year.
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I am short sighted and have been wearing specs since my early twenties. I’ve had the Harry Potter style frame, the Deirdre Barlow frame, the frameless frame. I’ve had the sunlight adjusting lens and every coating you can think of. But nothing, absolutely nothing, captures my heart more than sunglasses. It’s reached a point where, if I were to buy another pair, I’d probably buy them secretly because even I know that no one woman needs as many pairs of prescription sunglasses as I own. Yesterday I popped in to the optician to make an appointment. He had just had a delivery of new styles and showed me what’s popular at the moment. It seems frames are getting bigger again and I’m not at all sure I’m ready to make the move back into those deeper styles nor am I too keen for the ‘stronger’ look of large black frames. So it seems likely that if I make a change, it will probably be towards Ray Ban who apparently do more than sunglasses. In fact, these frames might be just what I need to release my inner sixties child. According to ClaimTheFrame.com Ray Ban are the top selling brand this year with Diane Von Furstenberg a close second. You heard it here first, girls!
Cath Kidston had me dancing up the street this evening. In case you don’t know who she is, Cath Kidston is a British fashion designer whose range includes lovely floral bags, aprons, wellington boots, and various household goods.
That’s finally about to change because today I listened Cath Kidston on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young. Cath came across as so warm and practical, sincere, open, funny and smart, that you couldn’t help but wish you could have dinner with her and listen to her stories all evening. Her school stories were particularly funny. She talks about her ‘fabulously naughty’ sister and tells a wonderful story about coming top of the class in Latin because she drew the best Roman soldier wearing a toga. Sadly, Cath’s father died young and she attributes some of her success to her attempts to make him proud of her. She speaks movingly about her experience of cancer and not having had children. It is a wonderfully warm and wise interview and, at the time of writing, is available as podcast from BBC’s website or from iTunes. I enjoyed it so much, I won’t feel guilty about buying this bag next time I see it. And what was I dancing to? Monty Python no less. Always look on the bright side of life … tee tum, tee tum. PS If you like the bag, check out the Cath Kidston range on www.cathkidston.co.uk
If, like me, you have a high instep, your Fitflop style options have been limited up to now, it’s time to take another look because the new Fitflop Hooper has a little adjustable velcro strip under the buckle that will give you that all important centimetre or so. All of which means you will be able to purchase the right size and, if my experience is anything to go by, your Fitflops will be a lot more comfortable as a result. I didn’t realise what I was missing until I started wearing the Hooper. The leather strap has a nice soft underside and there is none of the chafing that I blogged about last summer, Solving the Fitflop Toepost Dilemma. In fact, the Fitflop toepost dilemma has been solved in a much more effective manner with the introduction of some other new styles including the Gogh clog and the Positano and Gogh slide sandal styles. If you’ve been holding off thinking Fitflops weren’t for you, it might be worth taking another look. I did, and I liked what I found.
Despite the recession, it seems Irish fashionistas are still not getting the value available to our sisters in the UK. This sad fact came to my notice when a dress featured in the May 2011 issue of Good Housekeeping sent me scurrying to the laptop to try to purchase it online. The supplier, Marisota, was new to me but I found them easily on Google and a quick brose for ‘dresses’ on their site turned up the little khaki number that had caught my eye. It features a chain detail on the shoulder – a nice nod in the direction of this summer’s military trend – it is machine washable and it has those three-quarter length sleeves that are the joy of menopausistas everywhere. On the Marisota website, the dress, described as ‘Joanna Hope Shoulder Detail 41 in’ (KB495 XM) costs Stg£66 in my size. Not bad, considering it ticks so many of the boxes for me.
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