I can hear the bells!

On the 18th August, John and I went to a wedding of someone that he lived with whilst at university. I wasn't really looking forward to it, because I didn't know anyone and John tends to get somewhat drunk and wander off in these kinds of situations.

However, they are a fabulous reason to con John out of buying me a new dress :) and here it is! It cost £68 from a French Connection outlet in the York Designer Outlet Centre. It should have been £170 which made it seem like even more of a reason to make the purchase. It fits really well and ties around the waist so I can have my waist as defined as I desire. To go with the dress I decided on the colour scheme of silver and lilac for my accessories. So, I bought these shoes from Marks and Spencer online:

 

as you can see from the somewhat obvious price tag, they only cost £15! They were kitten heels, which looked perfect under the maxi dress and meant that I could actually walk around!  

Next to show you is my bag, which took ages for me to find and I stumbled upon the bag purely by looking on Google images! The bag is from www.fireflyaccessories.co.uk, it's a cute online shop which sell: silk handbags, shoulder bags, purses, pashminas, etc. Some of their products are Fairtrade too! Which is a bonus! Anyway. the bag was £15, with £1.95 delivery. It wasn't as big as I was expecting, but I could still fit my hipflask in it, so it's all good!

Finally, every (female) wedding guest shouldn't be without their pashmina. I couldn't find a lilac/grey/silver pashmina. So, I bought this one. That sounds like I didn't like the pashmina, which is completely wrong, I love it! It's lilac and pale gold and from Accessorize for £22! It's quite thick, which means I'm going to use it as a scarf in the winter. Just to make sure I've got my monies worth that is!

I thought I'd also include a photo of the finished product along with John looking rather handsome in his Dinner suit!

Floral smock.

I am a huge fan of smock dresses. Mainly because they hide the area that I am most concious of: my stomach.

Please ignore my face on these photos. I took them at about 12am; therefore, my make up had worn off and I was a little weary.

Anyway, there is the smock. I love anything with a 60s feel to it and I feel that this dress has that feel. I realise it is short and I would more than likely wear leggings or tights with it. I know some of you reading this will, perhaps, think that is boring, but I'm trying to grow in my confidence at wearing more daring things. As I said, it hides the area that I am not most comfortable with showing off: my stomach, and has floaty sleeves which also hide my arms when I'm not feeling too great about those either. 

I bought the dress from a Next clearance store at the York Outlet. I was really pleased with this purchase, because I was, at one point, going to pay full price for the dress. So, instead of paying £40 (or maybe more) for the dress I got it for £15! See, every so often it does pay off to look in outlet shops. (I say it like that because I usually hate sales and outlet shops such as TKMaxx). I didn't buy the dress when it was originally in Next, because I wasn't sure as to whether I liked the pattern. However, with a reduced price, I decided that I like the pattern much better with £25 knocked off the price!

Enjoy!