Just a Baseball Hat and a Bit of Denim

Leggins - Topshop

Shirt - Vintage

Hat - Market

Denim Jacket - Motel Rocks Vintage Pop Up

Scrunchie - DIY - link tutorial click here

Sunglasses - Primark

Shoes - Creepers, Office

I am aware that I look like an American 'football' player on their day off, a very standard leggins and shirt sort of day. Not saying that footballers wear leggins, it's just the whole 'backwards hat vibe' going on.

I feel like I may never take this jacket off, it is the comfiest thing with the most strategically placed pockets for concealing ones hands, that are actually big enough to fit a phone, keys and purse in. So thats fab. It even fits perfectly over every single item of clothing I own, although not in the 'Joey in Chandlers' sense; from another jacket (double whammy) to one or two hoodies, not that I need them in this weather. Although if you've been to Herts Uni Library, it gets pretty chilly in there. Anyway I've gone completely off topic, I can never decide if I'm a 'leggin's' person or a tights person. but revision calls for elasticated waists (If you know what I mean) so these do me fine in my slouchy moments. Although I feel that 'fashion' is something one should always pride yourself on, it's just impossible to look good during exam season, stress affects skin, everyone is eating three times their body weight because its a fab way to procrastinate.. or procrastin-eat (ha) and we're all in that awkward in-between stage of when it's acceptable to whip your ever-so-pasty legs out for the general public.

Shoes-wise though, creepers are wonderful. Not necessarily a 'flattering' shoe.. but the platform does give me that cheeky extra inch and a half that brings me to the normal height of 5'5" (I'm lying, way closer to 5'4") But anyway, in a classic black suede they go with baaaaaaaasically everything, except brown but I don't own brown. These are the kind of shoe that I will keep in my cupboard and rediscover in 4 years and start wearing again. I am a major hoarder and I hate throwing anything away, but this is the kind of shoe that is so simple that they can't really be out of style so I don't feel any guilt in hoarding these. 

It probably isn't legit, but I've decided that having light eyes makes them more sensitive, hence why I am permanently wearing sunglasses or else I look like I'm screwfacing the camera, not a good look. These are what I like to call my "throwaway pair" originally bought for lovebox festival last year, they are brought out every time I'm going somewhere where they will probably be snapped in half. And for £1.50 I don't feel too distressed by that option.

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Tie-Dye Leggins

Leggins - American Apparel

Shirt - Dad's

Socks - Probably M&S Childrens Range, the beauty of small feet

Shoes - Reebok Classics

Scrunchie - DIY

I am aware of the awful quality of these pictures... Not too sure what happened, the lighting was way off and blown out in half of them and unfocused in others, they almost look like disposables, weird. Anyway, these leggins are seriously old, got them from that yearly sale thingy that AA do in Brick lane where they sort of get rid of old stock and odd sizes for reeeally cheap prices, worth going too. (If you happen to know when the next one is, tell me and Ill add it onto this post.) 

The dog featured is my lavley cocker spaniel Archie, he was an unintentional feature but the reason that I am facing away from the camera in most pictures. He thought it would be funny to roll in his own poo...

Yeah, so. This isn't an 'inspo' fashion post, just a very 'me' outfit, which basically consists of an outfit muddle of childish socks with a ridiculously over-sized top, although 'over-sized' isn't hard to achieve seeing as I'm a mere 5'3"! And obviously, my classics. If I could, I would wear my Reeboks to everything, comfiest shoes in the world. And I know, comfy isn't normally the way forward with fashion, as everyone discovered when Crocs and Huaraches came out. But these are seriously amazing. I wouldn't say I am that into trainers as I don't really get the hype of owning 30 pairs of various Air Max's, I'm much more of a heels fan. But whatever, I do like classic trainers, and as long as they don't resemble running trainers I'll probably like them. Hoops are another item that can be styled in any way imaginable, ranging from 'Chavy' (1) to 'Chola' (2)

eg....

Exhibit 1-

Exhibit 2-

But that is mainly down to personal style, and whether you define yourself as a Vicky Pollard or a Gretchen Wieners. Basically.... hoops are fresh.

Anyway, always get to sidetracked by mean girls GIFs lol.

Hope you enjoyed this, big luv to all ma readers!!!

xx

How To - DIY Scrunchie

Hola fellow DIY'ers!! In today's post I shall be sharing my wonderful tutorial of how to make your own SCRUNCHIE.
SO YE I FINALLY GOT ROUND TO DOING THIS.

If you, like me are a curly (big haired) girly and the majority of hairbands snap after a weeks use, then scrunchies are a beautiful solution. And they look fab.
My ever growing collection has now branched with matching previous DIY jobs, like my 'Halterneck Top.' Which I have made matching scrunchies for, how adorable. Link for that DIY is heeeeeeeere.
Below are a "small" selection of one's I have previously made, however not all as I couldn't fit them all on my arm:

From left to right:
Velvet, Velvet, Silk, Cotton, Denim, Cotton, Silk, Velvet

YOU WILL NEED:

• Material of your choice
• Sewing machine or a lot of patience
• A needle
• Thread that matches your chosen material
• An elastic band
• Fabric scissors

THE MAKING:

So to start you will need to measure and cut a piece of your material, I normally do it around 3.5" across and 22" wide, but obviously that is personal choice and preference to how thick you want the scrunchie and how 'scrunchie' you want the scrunchie.

Cutting really doesn't need to be neat you wont see any of the seems. The next step is to simply fold the material in half length-ways INSIDE-OUT and pin it vertically. Pinning vertically is magical in the sense that it means you can sew the fabric in a sewing machine without removing the pins as you go along, this is much quicker and ensures the material stays exactly where you want it.

Sew the whole length, and back-stitch the beginning and end so the thread doesn't unravel.

I do this stitching twice, because through previous experience if it snaps, the scrunchie will stay 'whole.'

Now you need to turn the fabric back the right way round, thread it through itself so to speak. And it should look something like the picture below:

Cut your elastic band at one point and then using a safety pin, attach the pin through one end of the band.

Use the pin to thread the band through your 'tube' of fabric, making sure you hold onto the end of the elastic band that isn't attached to the pin.

Then simply tie the elastic in a double knot, checking it fits your wrist snugly with a bit of room to avoid hand suffocation. And cut off excess elastic band as this will just become annoying when sewing up the scrunchie.

Finally, take your matching thread (or as close as you can get) and double thread a needle making sure the knot at the end is large enough that it won't pull through the fabric. Fold 'in' one side of the fabric to make a seem and tuck the other side of the tube inside that tube... if you know what I mean. Then proceed to sew the whole way round, try to only sew the side of the tube you are sewing to the opposite tube as opposed to sewing through all 4 pieces of fabric. Something like this:

ET VOILA, 

la finished scunchie:

*Blue Peter Voice*

[Here's one I made earlier]

Hope that was easy to understand, once you make one you will get the hang of it pretty quickly. They only take me about 10 minutes to make now, from start to finished product in hair.

Anyway, I have gone a little DIY-mad but these halterneck's are so so cute and although I did try (and fail) to make matching shorts I didn't have enough material left so I made matching scrunchies instead. Thinking about maybe selling these, let me know if you would be interested in having one as I can always buy more material!

These tops look quite strange on the hanger, but if you pop over to here or here you can see what it looks like on.

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