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Keeping your wedding party on trend
Planning a wedding is a big job, especially when everyone you know has an opinion about what should be worn. When it comes to the bridesmaid dresses, you can either pick them out on your own or provide bridesmaids with guidelines in choosing their own attire. The bridesmaids dresses usually compliment the wedding colour scheme and the brides dress, sometimes echoing the style in a more subtle way. In the past, bridesmaids dresses were often home made, and, could often be the very opposite of stylish. But this is no longer the case, with many dresses now being bought from the evening wear section of places like Coast and Monsoon.…
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The bridesmaids wear black!
When my only sister Jodie was getting married, I was really excited to be her maid of honour. I hadn’t been a bridesmaid since I was 5 years old. On that occasion I wore a 1970’s tastic blue satin dress and my hair in ringlets. But still, being an adult bridesmaid can lead to all sorts of nightmares. Anyone who has watched the fab Katherine Heigl in ‘27 dresses‘ will know that, in the not too distant past, bridesmaids had to manoeuvre their way through the minefield that was the meringue dress. Acres and Acres of peach ghastliness, with off the shoulder frills, crinoline skirts, bows, hearts and ribbons, all…
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Introducing Roco Clothing
Like most parents, I like Joe to be involved in choosing the clothes he wears. But as he is getting older (7 now), I find more and more that the choices are very predictable. If given total carte blanche, he would live in football tops, tracksuits or jogging bottoms, with a pair of trainers or football boots to complete the outfit. But, every so often, he shocks me and asks for his smart clothes. He has a tweed blazer he loves, certain shirts he enjoys wearing, and is very happy to wear smart skinny jeans and brogues ‘like his dad’. Joe may like his casual clothes, but he also has…
