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Vintage Toes

If there's one thing that can cheer a girl up then it's a trip to the shops. If there's one thing that can cheer this girl up then it's a beautiful piece of vintage clothing.

There's just something special about vintage, finding that one off piece that no-one else will have, the jealous looks as you stride proudly through town in that gorgeous vintage coat, or when someone asks where you got your dress from "Oh it's vintage..." little else beats that feeling.

I've just bought my second ever pair of vintage shoes, both pairs although dating back to the 1970's have been brand new although it doesn't stop the fact that you can't wear them like new shoes. I learnt that the hard way, I have a beautiful pair of broken 1969, 1" heel modette shoes. The soles split and aren't repairable.

I did vow never to buy vintage shoes again but i'm terrible for breaking promises to myself when it comes to shopping. The latest pair are from make lemonade, a beautiful online vintage store with very reasonably priced vintage clothing.

My favourite pieces on the site right now include:

This cosy looking grey fluff jumper, and:

These beautiful 70's platforms.

You might want to check the website out quick as come the first week of December, Make Lemonade will be launching on the ASOS marketplace and you never know how quickly stock will be flying off the Make Lemonade stand!

Movember - Every Man Deserves a Little Bit of Luxury

Movember started in 2003 in Melbourne Australia, the idea was to bring back the mustache and to raise awareness of mens health. They were inspired by women who raise awareness of breast cancer and wanted to do the same thing for men.

So here's the plan, on the first of November, hereafter known as Movember, men began to grow their mustaches and will continue to do so until the end of the month, it's day five now, i'm sure no-one will mind if you start late!

There are Mo parties throughout the world, you can organise one yourself! Just browse the official Movember website for details here All procedes from the parties and also sponsorship for actually growing your Mo go towards prostate cancer charities. You can also donate directly onto the website.

So men, grow your Mo's and ladies so you're not left out, why not try a mustache themed item this month. For example, drink your tea from this mustache mug!

Or wear this delightful Tatty Devine mustache ring, just one item in a collection of mustache based accessories for men and women.

Here's some inspiration for you all to grow that Mo!!!

Hercule Poirot - David Suchet

Rufus Hound - The best Mo in comedy

And there is no way I could have left out the sexiest Mo in film and television - Tom Selleck

Lanvin for H&M

It seems that everybody’s been eagerly awaiting the launch of Lanvin for H&M, which will be in over 200 stores worldwide from November 23rd. Now personally I don’t get the big fuss. Ok, ok I know it’s designer and it’s available on the high street but after seeing the collection, there isn’t really much that I would even try on, let alone buy.

‘The Show’ is a 4:25 minutes long advert for the collection, and is a rather confusing mass of models going about their rather odd business in a hotel. Oh, and everybody’s wearing and is seemingly obsessed with Lanvin for H&M.

H&M may be one of the most successful high street stores in the world but these cut price designer creations are far from high street prices. The lowest priced dress being £99.99 and a man’s tuxedo jacket is £79.99.

Lanvin are the latest in a line of designers to team up with and produce collections for H&M, others include Jimmy Choo and Karl Largerfeld.

This is one image from the campaign, and who better to explain the story behind it than Alber Elbaz, the man who’s head all of these designs came from.

Wish list

I make lots of little wish lists in my head, some of the items I manage to get but most unfortunately are very much out of my price range. These are the top three items in my mind at the minute.

Swedish Hasbeens
Not just any Swedish Hasbeens, these exact Hasbeens! Neutral peep toe super high. They cost £129 from Urban Outfitters and are exactly what my shoe collection is missing. The wonderful blogger Mademoiselle Robot often sports her Hasbeens and i'm always infinitely jealous.

The shoe fund starts once Christmas is out of the way and these are the only pair I want encasing my feet in 2011.

The Parka

The parka is back! This simple coat has so much history around it it has almost become as iconic as the people who launched its popularity time and time again. Mods, The Who, Oasis and now it seems everyone from Fearne Cotton to Jennifer Aniston wants in on this huge trend.

Who wouldn't want a parka, they're fashionable, comfortable, warm and practical! This one costs £70 and is from Oasis.

Leather Shorts

Leather is everywhere and in so many beautiful forms; T-shirts, dresses, skirts, bags, boots, coats, trousers... but my favourite leather item is these £140 pair of leather shorts from Urban Outfitters. Look how soft and comfortable they look!

And as an after thought, my three wish list items would look perfect together with a white T, some opaque tights and chunky knit socks!

oH! Henry!

I have a confession to make, so i'm just going to take a deep breath, stand up and say it: "Hello, my name's Kayleigh and i'm addicted to shopping!"

You may laugh but I actually believe this to be true. I went into town the other day because I had an hour to spare between lectures and ended up buying hand cream and nail polish. Ok so the hand cream makes sense, winter's fast approaching and that unfortunately means dry hands but I did NOT need the nail polish!

Then today I had an interview at CC in Debenhams, to get out of the shop I had to walk past the H! by Henry Holland section and accidently spent £40! I don't mean to do it but I love Henry Holland, there was a sale, I was attracted by some extremely beautiful deep red penny loafers (as you can see above) and I even tried to justify it to my housemate by saying "I did buy two t-shirts for my sister, and the shoes were £25 so it's not THAT bad!"

I know there are people out there with some serious shopping addictions, being thousands of pounds in debt and i'm not that bad yet, I'm in no debt, have no credit or store cards i'm just worried that i'm heading that way!

Any kind of shopping excites me, even food shopping, I could spend hours in a supermarket looking at all the things I could buy and they'd be mine. Well if i'm like that with food you can imagine what i'm like with clothes and shoes, or my other passion - books! Amazon must love me! But I am sensible with Amazon, I don't actually spend my own money. I complete surveys online though http://www.valuedopinions.com/ and when you make £10 you can choose a voucher. This is how I fuel my book addiction!

Unfortunately, I can't do the same with clothes!

Yay for Yayer!

I love finding new shops, interesting, little known hidden treasure troves. Usually in the form of vintage shops and charity shops. You can't beat a good charity shop.

There are a couple of online shops that I like to frequent when i'm sitting front of my laptop taking a break from whatever it is I should be doing, which is most certainly not internet shopping!

One I discovered very recently is Yayer. Somehow one of the shops owner found me on facebook and so I thought i'd take a little look. I actually fell in love, or maybe that should be in lust with all of this beautiful new and vintage clothing.

Straight away I ordered this space wave t-shirt which is very cool and arrived very quickly. They had a short offer of free uk postage and packaging which I also took advantage of. I really wanted to order an olive green military look blazer too but unfortunately it had been sold. Which I was disappointed about but as i'm moving into a new house tomorrow, my bank balance most definately wasn't disappointed!