Zama and me in stripes

My colleague Zama, who is a serious shoe, clothing and handbag addict,  much like myself,  stepped into the lift I was in this morning and I had a good giggle when I saw how similar our tops are.

Visible Monday : Stripes 'n Red

I'm linking up to Visible Monday over at Patti who is the fabulous stylish lady at 'Not Dead Yet Style' and boy, she's showing us all that she is nowhere near Dead yet.

 

 

Skirt and T-shirt : Truworths

Belt : Woolworth

Shoes : Rage

Bangles : Edgars & Mr. Price

I love stripes.  In all shades, sizes and colours, I think they're so gorgeous and sassy and then a little red of course just makes me growl.

Add red, white and navy and you really have a stunning combination.

If there's any one item in this getup that I love, it has to be my shoes.  I adore them and they definitely make me feel ueber visible.  From the back they're almost black but from the front they're red.

Mama's new shades

Last week I went for my eye check up and got myself some new frames.  For the first time, I also got 'label' shades but they have my script inserted in the lens.  G-man says I look like the girl who got scared to go with the huge frames in style ... sigh, he really knows how to make me feel so good at times.

This morning saw Jarod and I heading to buy him some cheap pants to take on school camp next week.  They said the kids are to take 5 changes of clothes and Jarod only had about 2 that I consider disposable so I went and got him 3 pairs of jeans that cost R40.00 each, cheap and not a big issue if they end up in the bin.

Then we came home and I was busy on my pc when my phone rang and the optometrists said my glasses were ready for collection along with the shades.

This is also the first time I've ever worn black and brown together. 

Details : Shirt : Pick 'n Pay | Cardigan : Truworths | Leggings : OBR at Truworths | Boots - Woolworths|

March 22 - Magazine inspired

Today's look was inspired by a photos I saw in the January 2011 Cosmopolitan magazine that Taryn brought with her on her trip over. 

Although in the photoshoot the model was wearing shorts - not for me at this age - and I don't do shorts too often,  I used a skirt instead.

The skirt was a cheapie at R89.00 from Mr. Price and today was the first time I wore it ... it also creases so badly.  The t-shirt is by Daniel Hechter and the jacket from Woolworths.  Shoes are by Plum.  Necklace from Honey Accessories purchased about 15 years ago when I used to sell it part time!  It's the most amazining pieces of costume jewellery I've ever bought as it has lasted remarkably well.

Here are pictures of my interpretation ... as well as my first attempts to use the remote shutter release on my new baby ... guess the crazy leg pose above tells the state of my mind ... lol .. and least it doesn't show in too great details the coffee stain in the middle of my top. 

Tomorrows look will probably note be featured as I'll be riding in the G-man due to my car needing to go in thanks to a ghastly rattle in the back door that has developed.  Wish me luck - I don't enjoy flat flat hair :-).

January 28 - Friday at last

Well, I'm a wee bit on the sad side this evening.  After my fall yesterday, my camera got knocked off the chest of drawers some time last night and is not in working order.  I'm not sure what to do.  It is getting a little old and was due to a service, but I'm wondering what the cost to repair it will be, or it may be cheaper just to buy a new one.  New one costs anything from R6,000.00 to R20,000 ++++.  The replacement of my current one can be purchased for around R10,000.00.  Oh well, need to think this through - I am a little bummed about this and just after I got the remote shutter release as well :-(.  Sigh!!!! 

So, on to todays outfit.  Fridays I wear jeans to work.  So here the looks - Jeans from Kelso at Edgars, Tank top from Jay-Jays, Belt - Edgars, Cardi - Mr. Price, Shoes - Legit.  Earrings from Justine Cosmetics and necklace from Truworths.



Studded belt.







January 21 - Fab Friday & January 22 - Saturday

I'm playing a little catch up - the weekend was real busy and I am only now downloading Friday's outfit. 

I'm thrilled to say that on Saturday I got a remote shutter release for my Nikon, but I have not taken my outfit photos with it as yet.  I did play around with it yesterday while getting made up for the day and I must admit, it was fun. 

Have you noticed that I wore my hair up the whole week?  I have noticed that I do that when I'm due for a cut ... guess what I need to book, a haircut and as usual I'm longing for a change but so unsure what I should do.  I like the ease of longer hair, busy bad days I can 'clip 'n go' as opposed to having to style it and let me say, I have hair that stands out like thatch is not styled ;-)

But, back to the business at hand ... the outfits

Friday saw me in my culottes from Truworths and a yellow t-shirt from Fashion Express, cardigan from Truworths and the sandals from a factory store down in Durban and am I ever sorry I did not buy two pairs of these, they are gorgeous sandals and all the ladies in my office are wild about them.  My necklace was one of my Christmas gifts from G-man and he bought it at Spillhaus.

(Really bad quality pic)

Saturday saw us heading out to the northern suburbs to get to the camera shop.  What an awesome businessman who runs the place.  Really helpful.  G-man had also said that there were some antique stores in the same street, so anticipating the possibility of walking, I wore my sneakers (we commonly refer to them as 'takkies' in South Africa).

My fave jeans from Kelso at Edgars, t-shirt by OBR at Truworths and my Adidas sneakers.  But more shockingly, I'm wearing my glasses, something I very seldomly allow myself to be photographed in. 

We did not find anything of interest in the antique store, but I did find second hand clothing store that I'm dying to revisit.  But, I would need lots more time than I had on Saturday.

December 1 - Daniel and Stripes

I've been M.I.A and it's been busy and crazy and the ADSL or the modem at home have been on the blink, but it's finally fixed so I can catch up on the last couple days that I missed.

December 1st was G-man 45th Birthday - hope you had a fabulous day 'Mein Schatz' ... I wore my favourite black pants and a black and white striped top ...

... and there's Chino making an appearance.

The Birthday Boy and the little man