And we're off!

Had my final day of shopping and I managed to talk myself out of buying that preposterously funky dress by virtue of it being admittedly a weird shape (and too expensive), all I got was a beautiful vintage hat from H&M

and a high-waisted skirt from Topshop which technically wasn't new cos I was just exchanging one of my birthday purchases (another Topshop high-waisted skirt that wasn't high-waisted enough!). So that's me! Done for the year.

I'm trying to get back into thrift-shop chic. Today I bought two pairs of trousers from British Heart Foundation with the intention of turning them into high-waisted shorts with the help of a sewing maching and my mum (I have no idea how to use a sewing machine), after having seen instructions in the June/July issue of BUST. The basic principle is that you get a pair of jeans at least 3 sizes too big with a low-hanging crotch, then you pin and sew it and hack off the legs so it becomes a pair of high-waisted shorts (as you can see, I'm kind of digging the whole high-waisted thing). Will let you know how that goes...