Fashion Barometer Friday: Seeking style authenticity
The Fashion Barometer has been inspired by a piece on the BBC News Magazine today, which at the start of London Fashion Week, looks back at the trends that scandalised the masses in times of yore...
View ArticleFashion Barometer Friday: Land of hope and glory?
Recent events back in blighty (especially this and this) have left me pondering the myth of the glorious empire on which the sun never sets, searching to pinpoint a moment when Britain really was great...
View ArticleFashion Barometer Friday: the T-shirt
Guest post from Dressmaker Sibling Isabel Wilkinson Greetings barometer readers! This week’s barometer is more of an ode, or the culmination of a lifelong obsession: the T-shirt. The search for the...
View ArticleDIY Fashion Barometer Friday: Adventures in Eurotrash
Turtley out there Hey kiddos! This week I got my kerazeee 80s DIY hat on when I decided to dip bleach an old denim miniskirt – and guess what? It’s totally a thing now, Jentine from My Edit says so!...
View ArticleFashion Barometer Friday: When is a necklace not a necklace?
From Ollegoria via EtsyOr: when your shirt disintegrates and you are left wearing just a collar. I remember seeing this trend for the first time about a year ago on Man Repeller, back when I used to...
View ArticleFashion Barometer Friday: Stuck in the style cycle & the big reveal
Very occasionally I am permitted to forgive myself for the fact that I never quite managed to leave the 1990s in terms of style, music, or hairdo. Well, guess what guys? Let’s have a round of Smirnoff...
View ArticleFashion Barometer Friday: Trenderiser A/W13
*Dressmaker’s Curve chews up and spits out the best of the seasonal trends for your degustation* The Beetlejuice Effect has made black and white leggings as much of a plague on the high street as...
View ArticleWalking the Walk
They’re here! Catwalk show photos, hot and fresh out the kitchen. Hurrah! In that second one you can see a bit of poor print-matching going on in the groin area – oops. You probably shouldn’t be...
View ArticleAll is Calm
Christmas is coming! For me, that means there are only FOUR WEEKS left till I (hopefully) graduate, and, less terrifyingly, it means the Christmas fair at Eamoda. Every six months there is a student...
View ArticleFashion Barometer Friday: Kimono? KimoYES!
A gorgeous vintage kimono on Etsy Cardigans thought life was cool, the world of chilly breezes and overcast summers was their oyster. But, even for cardigans, pride comes before a fall. Cardigans...
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