Look 1: Check Mayhem
Coat: Zara / Jumper: Ralph Lauren / Shirt: Ralph Lauren (second hand) / Scarf: Winchester Christmas Market stall / Jeans: Topman / Chelsea boots: Dr Martens / Tote: McQueen at the V&A / Phone case: Sighh / Watch: Daniel Wellington
Something you should know is that when I get dressed in the morning, I style my entire outfit around what coat or jacket I'm going to wear. Black jeans tend to follow (97% of the time) and then I fill in the rest of the gaps depending on the accents of colour.
I recently bought this coat in the Zara sale (*swoons over half price savings*) and instantly became obsessed with it. I love the subtle greyscale check and as you can see, it started somewhat of a snowball effect with me piling on two additional checks (three if you count my phone case (I do)). I wouldn't have it any other way, though. The more check, the better.
Look 2: Toddler Man-Child
Jacket: 'Vintage' store find *shudders* (Blue Rinse, Leeds) / Roll neck: Topman / Jeans: Topman (ft. DIY sandpaper rips) / Weekender bag: Fred Perry / Chelsea boots: Dr Martens
This jacket is my everything. I own another one that's very similar to it and I find that they're ridiculously easy to style as the statement piece in a monochrome outfit. That, and the fact that they're so cosy and comically oversized really lends them well to the whole Peter Pan 'I-don't-want-to-grow-up' thing that I have going on.
Look 3: ...Too much tartan?
Coat: ASOS / Turtle neck: ASOS / Trousers: Topman / Brogues: Topman / Bag: ASOS
The eagle-eyed amongst you will recognise most of this outfit from the iconic photos Cat and myself took last year. I'm somewhat of a serial outfit repeater and I can safely say that I've gotten an awful lot of use out of this one. The fact that the tartan in my trousers and bag match PERFECTLY despite being from different places will never cease to satisfy me. In fact, it makes up for the small rip in the left knee that happened when I fell over when walking to campus one day. Smooth. Sassing around Exeter's cathedral green in this outfit was definitely a high point in creating this post.
Photography credit goes to the wonderful Yvette, otherwise known as irony-completed on the YouTubez. As well as shooting this post, we also filmed a lookbook video for her YouTube channel; it's going to be up in the next few days so you should definitely subscribe to her to make sure you don't miss it. Vetty's YouTube | Twitter | Instagram.
Thank you so much for reading this post, it really means a lot to me. I'd love to do more posts like this in the future so hopefully you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together!
your style is so on point that it hurts a little bit. where did you get your dungarees and black/white striped turtle neck?
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! I got the dungarees from a retro clothes shop in Exeter and the striped roll neck is from ASOS
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DeleteBloody love the Toddler Man-Child jacket, especially with the turtleneck. This was a great read as usual, and it's really lovely to see you branching out and trying something new! :)
ReplyDeleteI love it too, it was such a brilliant find! And thank you so much, I'm really looking forward to doing more posts like this and maybe some other new things in the future!
DeleteGreat read! These sorts of posts are always useful for ideas, I find - Toddler Man-Child is especially good! I see you've ripped your own jeans - is there a specific method you used? I can never find good ripped jeans because most skinnies are really baggy on me!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! What I did was lightly mark out with chalk (a pencil would do, though) where I wanted the rips to be and then I'd take them off and make the rips by rubbing the jeans with sandpaper. It creates a really nice frayed effect as opposed to if you just took a knife to them and made a really clean cut!
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ReplyDeleteCan you please tell me wear you found he grey check coat? I looked by it's brand but couldn't find it
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