style
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Crafty fashion: 5 top tips for designing your own clothes
We all want to express ourselves with our individual look but these days this is not as easy as it once seemed. Fast Fashion means that many stores on the High Street sell exactly the same designs, making original style more difficult to achieve. For creative people though, with an eye for fashion, this can mean that the idea of designing and making your own clothing, and, even selling on your designs through eBay and Etsy, is becoming more popular. If you are thinking of designing and making your own clothing, then there are some items you should invest in. These will help you to create your own pieces, and…
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Get Your Festival style sorted
Festival season will soon be upon us, and this year sees the biggie back, with Glastonbury once again promising to be memorable. Festivals are a great mixture of great style, great music, and, notoriously bad weather, but they are a part of Summer to enjoy and savour, whether you go for a single day or enjoy the whole camping/glamping experience. Festivals in the UK are as famous for the inclement weather as they are for the music, and weather does tend to govern festival fashion. Unlike Coachella, white is never a good idea at British festivals, one downpour and that lovely fresh field becomes a total quagmire. That said, there…
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GQ/Selfridges Mens shopping event…If Carlsberg invented shopping evenings…
…They would be like this one. Men are notoriously bad shoppers, they either view it as a necessary evil when they need new jeans, shoes etc, or they trawl behind wives and girlfriends holding copious amounts of bags, all the time moaning about the football, rugby, cricket, darts they could be watching. So the GQ/Selfridges shopping evening, held in Birmingham on Wednesday, was clearly the work of genius. With complimentary bottles of Peroni available, along with vodka and whisky for those who like their chasers, this was clearly a shopping evening with a difference. DJ’s played thumping tunes, whilst expert advice was on hand about the latest trends from both…
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A Guide To Stylish Driving
There are so many things to consider when learning to drive. Who to choose as a driving instructor? How many lessons to book? How much to spend on a car? Where to get specialist car insurance and what sort of cover to opt for? My head is almost buzzing with all this boring and mundane stuff. But, we can also have a little fun when it comes to our cars even with all these things to consider. I think the best way to make your driving experience as stylish as possible is to think of everything in terms of fashion! My Driving fantasy Gloves My mantra at the moment seems…
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Simple hair tips for styling long hair
Long hair is a blessing and a curse, and while everyone else is impressed and complementing you on your healthy mane, you may be losing arm strength every morning trying to comb out the knots and kinks. Long hair takes a lot of care and maintenance in order to keep it in a good condition that looks healthy and lustrous. In addition, having long hair is no guarantee that you won’t suffer from some sort of hair loss. Pregnancy, hormone issues and alopecia can all lead women with even the most beautiful of manes to suffer the despair of hair loss. This can be temporary in cases, but can also be…
