What I Wore

The blogs I enjoy reading most are often the ones that do regular 'what I wore' posts. This is something I think I'll try to do a little more regularly. Monday to Friday I dress pretty boring, standard smart dress or shirt and trousers for work so I guess it'll have to be more of a weekend thing. 

These photos were taken in our garden just before Christmas but as I've been so busy recently I haven't had a chance to post this. 

I went for a casual and relaxed look with this outfit, I do often like to wear colour but I do generally find in the winter I wear a lot of greys and black as you can see from this outfit! I'm wearing my beloved limited edition Nike trainers that I blogged about a while back and I like that they're so eye catching, also because they're iridescent they add an interesting mix of colour to my outfit. 

On top I am wearing an oversized grey top with a faux leather trim on the neckline from Zara and my faux fur gilet was bought when from Topshop when I worked for Topman a few years ago. I know that Topshop do have a similar gilet at the moment, it's just a shorter version but also in a variety of colours. 

My hat is from Primark which I bought on a whim, I do love a hat and saw this when I was browsing around and fell in love with it. I love the shape and because it is grey it goes with most things. I wear it quite a lot so I'm glad I got it. The leggings are again from Zara (one of my favourite stores, that I also used to work for!), they have a faux leather panel running down the side of the leg and I thought they went nicely with the leather trim on my top. I've literally worn these to death and they are a little tatty now so probably should get rid of them soon but I just love them too much as they go with lots of outfits and they're so comfy!

Lastly I went for gold jewellery, I always feel a bit naked if I'm not wearing any. I have a slightly excessive amount of costume jewellery, again mainly because of years of working in retail! My sister Meghan makes jewellery (see a post on it here...) and the necklace I am wearing was one she made. You can probably tell by now that I love a bit of a holographic/iridescent item! Every time I've worn this necklace I've had compliments on it and it's even nicer when you can tell them that your sister made it! My ring is from Topshop and my watch is Michael Kors, part of the limited edition 100 Series. I am so happy with this watch, I bought it a few months ago as a treat to myself and I love the face as it has a world map on it. The reason for this is that for each watch sold from the 100 Series, 100 children in in hunger sticken areas received a meal, so not only is the watch nice to look at, it's doing good and helping out the less fortunate. You can get it in rose gold and silver too.

Let me know what you think, would you have styled this outfit differently? 

Charlotte
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