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Todd Lynn x Topshop Tux Jacket / New Look Wrap Blouse * / New Look Coated Disco Jeans * / Hvnter Gvtherer ‘Lacustrine’ Necklace /
Birds N Bones Taxidea Claw Ring / Birds N Bones Mus Hip Ring / Bracher Emden Bag / New Look Leather Flats *

The highstreet is really winning me over with it’s denim offerings lately, and that’s a big thing to admit for a former denim snob. Admittedly they don’t last as long as my more premium pairs, but when the fit is this good and the price is a tiny fraction of the cost, I really don’t mind having to buy replacements more often.

This coated pair from New Look are my latest favourites, they are so super stretchy and comfortable that I could almost forget I even had them on! Thanks to their stretchiness they’re also properly skinny all the way down to the ankles, and they hold their tight fit incredibly well too. They fit like a second skin and the coated leather-look denim makes simple, casual outfits like this look deceptively dressy. As far as I’m concerned, any piece of clothing which makes it look like you’ve made a lot of effort but actually feels like you’re wearing your oldest, most worn in version is an instant favourite!

I’ve been wearing this jewellery combination constantly since these rings from Birds N Bones arrived, and I’m hoping to do a dedicated post showing them off properly soon – just as soon as my chewed up nails grow out so I don’t have to try to hide them to stop them spoiling the photos!

MuuBaa Biker Jacket / SheIn Waistcoat * / ASOS Dress / Elemental Luxury Quartz Necklace / Jones Bootmaker ‘Yazmin’ Boots * / Balenciaga City Bag

Sometimes the simplest pieces can be the best, this waistcoat is pretty much a rounded rectangle of felt with two holes cut in it for your arms to go through, but I’ve been layering it under and over all sorts of things for a little extra warmth and interest lately. It’s so easy, I feel like I’m going to have to make myself a few more variations on this.

I mentioned in my last post how I ended up blowing most of my cash at the Clothes Show almost straight away on two leather jackets. This is the second jacket and I knew I needed to buy this one as soon as I tried it on. I have been looking for a biker jacket like this for years now, you would think a standard leather biker would be an easy thing to replace, but it’s really not. I am kind of particular about pieces like this and until now I hadn’t come across a single one that quite measured up to my old one. There was always something not quite right about the others I’d come across that stopped me from buying and I was starting to feel like I was hunting for something that didn’t actually exist. I picked this one up from the rail trying not to get too excited, and quickly tried it on expecting to find something that would put me off, but I didn’t. It fit like a dream and it’s the most perfect washed leather, nicely aged so that it looks like an old favourite and just the right slouchy fit and cropped length. I’ve never brought something so quickly and with so little extra thought in my life!