an actual outfit post

i've not properly posted in nigh on a week... shameful! so here's the outfits from the weekend and today at least!! friday night:

• vest - primark
• skirt - gap
• stirrup leggings - topshop

i've become a bit obsessed with stirrup leggings, when i first bought them, months ago, i only got them because i was in dire need of leggings and topshop had sold out of the footless kind. but now they are growing on me, even if you couldn't see that they were stirrup leggings when i actually put shoes on!! i didn't actually go out like this, i did throw on an old ted baker shrinkfit cardigan and my much-missed and adored vintage suede pixie booties that i bought for £3 in january. sadly friday night was their last outing - it snowed unbelievably in aberdeen on friday night, and as everyone knows, suede + snow = :(
so r.i.p my pretty little booties! i miss them already - i forgot i had them since august and they haven't featured in a single blog... how i wish i'd never worn them on friday!

i'm also becoming very very fond of this gap skirt, even if it is totally the wrong season and country to wear it in now! it hangs and fits so nicely, i sometimes can't believe that i only paid £4.99 for it, when a few weeks earlier it had been £35!! however, had i known that it was going to snow so heavily on friday, this outfit wouldn't have even entered my head... lord knows i was cold!!

and then saturday night i was 'working' in my uncle's pub (i.e. i sang for a few hours, took a break that lasted two hours with some lovely friends, drank one too many tequilas and then attempted to get up and sing again... i was surprised when i actually managed it!!!) this is the outfit i went with, when i was in the pub all evening, i didn't really mind that it was snowing again outside!!

• chiffon blouse - vintage
• skinny jeans - topshop
• ankle boots (not seen) - primark

i know i've used this image before but i forgot to take one on saturday night, i was sat indoors in my pyjamas eating pasta salad and drinking coffee twenty minutes before my gig actually began... i mistook the time and paid for it with rushed poodle hair and crinkled jeans...!

i spent sunday lazing around my boyfriend's house with him until we went for a late lunch at about four o'clock... the snow was still inches deep so we had to dig his car out of the driveway! i say 'we'... his dad took one look at what i was wearing and decided it maybe wasn't practical or fair to make me dig in sub-zero temperatures!

• cardigan - ted baker
• vest - topshop
• skirt - primark
• leggings - topshop
• shoes - h&m

i know, i know, dolly flats are not appropriate snow-bearing shoes. but i packed them on friday, not knowing!!! i paid for it with immobile and purple toes...

and then today, i felt like i was wearing half of my wardobe at once. it was bitterly cold, so i wore two camisoles under my tunic and a shirt over the top, and two pairs of tights and a pair of socks under my jeans, plus coat and scarf and hat, and i was still freezing!!! my college outfit started out like this:

• shirt - primark
• grey tunic - forgotten!!
• belt - 'borrowed' from a friend
• bag - primark
• skinny jeans - topshop
• high heeled brogues - new look

but rapidly changed into this...

i know i said i wouldn't wear them... but it was so cold, so so so cold! hence the incredibly ugly uggs came out and served their purpose - my feet weren't wet or cold all day, but boy, did i look like i had thick ankles!!!! nb: will ONLY wear them on exceptionally challenging days like today. promise :) x