Rio baby!

So yes I've been a rubbish blogger for months and have posted nothing!!! Terrible!! However in my defence I'm currently on a career break and traveling the world! Not only am in rio de Janiero right now where I'm falling in love with the city and dare I say a man.... But im also surprisingly falling in love with Rio beach fashion!!! I'll prob leave that blog until in home but for a woman who hasn't work a bikini in 12 years I'm loving Rio and the gorgeous bikinis I've picked up! Who though a piece of dental floss could make my boobies look that good!!!

Anyway people I'll def be back on this when I'm back to normality but right now I'll just continue falling in love!!!

I want!!!!

Just been checking out New Look seeing if there is anything nice  in - sadly not looking like they have upped the anti much but but but but a couple of gorgeous jackets caught my eye!!

I am loving this -



Ain't it gorgeous!!

A bit more than I would normally pay for a jacket in New Look at £54.99 but it is might pretty!

Then this one to feed my Bet Lynch habit - oh I do love a bit leopard print me - love it love it love!!!


Yeah baby

I am not convinced the boxy shape would do anything for me but I am loving it never the less!!

However given I only have to face 9 more weeks of winter I think I will save my pennies for something else - *sigh*

Have a great weekend xxxx

This made me smile!!

So I was on Facebook the other day and the fabulous Plus Model Magazine added a link to a fabulous photo I just had to share

Which one do you want to be?

Now I just love this and checked out Sean's site at www.seanshuemate.com with its home of Big Girl boot camp - loving it!!! Personally I don't want to look bugger all like Barbie on the right and would be quite happy with the Left Barbie - she has better legs than me!! But I love the sentiment and his website and sentiment made me smile. 'Size three not for me indeed' - whatever a size three is lol!!

I just wanted to share ladies xxxxx

Homage to Summer & Yours Clothing

So I finally have to relent and accept summer is gone and its time to pack away the Havaianas and summer dresses and get out the woollies and boots! I hard task for me - I am not a fan of Autumn or Winter fashion and love summer style but somethings I cant fight and British weather is one of them!

Anyway - since I have been lucky enough to have such a fantastic summer and entertained myself with five trips over to see my Bestie and the sunny Costa Del Sol this summer I thought I should pay special homage to Your Clothing. Without whom I would have had nothing to wear on the streets of Glamorous Puerto Banus!

So here is just a pick of my hot favs this summer from the lovely collection at Yours and fingers crossed they sort me out next summer too! I make no apologies for the fact these are mostly all long dresses - I rarely wear them at home and frankly I just don't have the legs for short dresses lol!!

For my initial visits of the summer I had not one but two gorgeous numbers from Yours Clothing

They aren't available anymore - but ones very similar to them are! Firstly was the the gorgeous Gypsy dress which I wore over leggings - its the legs thing again!!  Clearly it didn't need leggings but you never know when there might be a gust of wind and its quite light! Last thing I need is my Bridget Jones Knickers on display for all to see :-) !

 I jazzed it up with the flower but it was lovely without too! As I said they don't have it anymore but they have a very similar cut and design in the

Mesh Dress



Its sparkly and great for the festive period and not too dissimilar to the version I had. Which I loved! Certainly the length and cut is the same and the magical band in the middle which is snug just wear it needs to be.


Then there was the floral Maxi - again posing with my Bestie - hmmmmm hoping she doesn't mind being a feature on here lol!!

Yours have squillions of these - not a lot in at the moment but they had lots like it for Summer.
 I saw lots of girls with this dress in so many different shades. Most had bought them from New Look - just goes to show that those suppliers do stock plus size - New Look just chooses not to buy them in!

My other staple this summer was the gorgeous Butterfly dress

Butterfly Dress


This is still in stock and has a few prints in the same design. Again can't really fault it in anyway - love the way it hangs, love the shape, love the print.


However the cream of the crop this summer was the Leopard Print Maxi - I LOVE IT!!! It has also proven to be a bit of a boy magnet - not that I am complaining but when I wear the Leopard print I get noticed! Its fabulous - and still in stock!!

Here it is
Leopard Print Dress


And me wearing it -

So Ladies - time to kiss farewell to Summer as tough as it may be and Kudos to Yours Clothing for keeping me feeling glamorous next to the stunners that were frequenting Marbella this summer - roll on next Summer and more fantastic fashion from Yours!

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'THE' Shoes!!!

So I have always had a love for a high heel but the major problem being I can barely walk in them never mind last a night dancing the night away with a pair on! They look lovely in the bottom of the wardrobe, in fact time for confession...sometimes I have been known to vacuum in my fav heels! But sadly that's as far as it goes - they are decoration at the bottom of the wardrobe because having to come home in bare feet carrying my shoes has never been my thing!


Then I discovered wedges and have an array in all shapes and sizes - I LOVE wedges....maybe even more than I love chocolate! And my love for chocolate is a deep love but I love the way Wedges make me lovely and tall and feel all feminine and girly! In a way that tottering in a stilletto never has - because I am in so much pain!! So in my quest for the next pair of Wedges and whilst leafing through the Simply Be catalogue,  I stumbled upon THE Wedge!! The Wedge to beat all wedges, comfiest shoes in the whole wide world and in an array of colours!!! I present the Gumbie Tutti Frutti wedge (yeah I don't know where the name came from either!!! ) 



Tuttu Frutti in Gold

Now I know they might not look like much - but believe me - they are comfort like you have never known because they are like the jelly shoes we all wore as kids!! Sheer comfy tootsies heaven!! So Comfy I managed to wear them three nights on the trot in Marbella until 7am in the morning - normally by day two I am on the flip flops!!


So to save myself the trauma of the same shoes every night of my holiday I bought a second pair - the hot pink ones - oh I just had to!

They come in White, Black, Purple, Navy, Gold and Pink and I am tempted to get them all - just trying to pace myself and not break the bank!! Only £35 too - not the cheapest shoes but believe me - you will get your wear out of them!! 


So thanks Simplybe for introducing me to the comfiest shoes every invented for (wo)man!!! 

Giorgio Asdaso saves me!!

So having been away with two different groups of girls for weekends recently, I have noticed my friends have been sporting some gorgeous blouses. Chiffony blouses, some with ruffles, some plain but all in warm peach and cream tones and so pretty, gorgeous and light!

Well as much as I love doing my own thing in fashion, sometimes I am a follower without a doubt. Sometimes you see something on someone and you want want want one like a child in a sweet store verging on a tantrum! So needless to say - I had made up my mind that I wanted to get myself one! Given I have two nights out this weekend, I realised online wasn't going to satisfy my impatience and I would need to hit the stores in search of the perfect blouse. Well no not perfect, just a pretty blouse would do.

Well I'm guessing you know how this ends!!

I'll start from the beginning though and  given the success of my much loved Maxi I thought I would check out New Look first. Now here comes another rant - apologies in advance. I flounced into the store and wow in their main range the have screeds and screeds of gorgeous blouses in warm tones that I loved - check out this little number!

 

Ruffle Button Chiffon Blouse £22.99 

Then I saw this lovely and it was reduced -



Apricot crinkle blouse reduced to £13.00

Then I got to the Inspire Range - and guess what - NADA, NOTHING, ZILCH!!! One token attempt at a pretty blouse  -

Pussy Bow top £17.99

Now don't get me wrong - nothing wrong with this blouse - except it's not really a blouse. The body is Viscose and frankly clingy and unforgiving and its a pull on top! I wanted a lovely floaty blouse that looked pretty and made me feel pretty. A blouse with buttons up the front - you know that way that blouses do! It's not as though I am asking that they carry something it would be ridiculous that a bigger girl would want to wear (well not that I think anything like that exists!) but anyway! All I wanted was a nice, normal, light floaty blouse! Even the Tall range was in on the game with some lovely blouses in gorgeous corals and peach. In fact I found it quite disappointing to look at the corals, peaches and warm tones throughout the store - and to look at the Inspire Range and see we were being short changed.

Anyway after New Look I ventured into Next, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Marks & Spencer and Monsoon. Hmmmmmmmm - not too impressed at all. With the exception of Monsoon with this lovely number, no one came close! As much as I loved this blouse - £55 is a bit over my budget for a blouse for lunches with the ladies or nights in the local pub!

Cagney Blouse £55

So with despair and an utter frustration I plodded along to my local 24 hr Asda Wallmart. The cats needed new cat milk - not every hour is glamour you know :-)!

So before I got myself along to the pet aisle for the cats I found myself browsing George at Asda - why not - the high street chains are letting me down so lets see what Mr friendly superstore can do for me - and hey presto - BINGO!!

I came home with two lovely blouses -

Pussy bow blouse £10!!!

and

Heart print blouse £13

Now don't get me wrong - these aren't the peachy floaty blouses I had hoped for but for the price I cannot grumble. It's a sad state of affairs when Reliable George at Asda has more choice than stores that are meant to cater to plus sizes!

Anyway ladies - I promise I won't just grumble all the time. The more fashion has became my focus the more I realise how much plus size girls are missing out that's all but I appreciate there are some diamonds out there too!

Have a lovely weekend

Rachael xx

 

My Favourite thing right now!!

So we all have a favourite item of clothing at any one time right - or maybe thats just me!! I tend to wear my 'fav' item of clothing until I get sick of it! Hot date, lunch with the girls, night on the town - even a cinema trip might have me getting it out the wardrobe!

At the moment its a dres out of New Look - Inspire Range - the Aztec Maxi! I LOVE IT!!! I would happily put a link to it on here - but it appears they have taken it off their website despite having seen it in store just a couple of weeks ago!! Anyway - I love it! Polyester hell but that means I just get to wash it and wear it quicker!

So whilst I am all up for singing the praises of New Look for this dress - and a bargain at only £29.99 I have a bit of a gripe here too! Thing is, I fell out of love with the Inspire range a while ago - I don't do tweetie pie t-shirts or oversized hoodies and if I did I would go to a Sports shop for them! For an age the Inspire range was well uninspiring! I just stopped going in  - what was the point. However I bucked and went in one Saturday in July and came accross this dress and was giddy with excitement - my love for New Look had been rekindled!

Sadly it wasn't too be - this has been the sum of my excitement with them this summer! I have went in numerous times to pick up other stuff I hoped and prayed they had bought in. Nothing really quite as nice - an awful lot of crazy patterns or those awful oversized cotton tops that cover everything. I quite like my curves thanks you very much Mr New Look - and I will happily show them off. So New Look are back in my not so good books - screeds and screeds of gorgeous stock for the main stream sizes but us big girls tucked away at the back with a load of black polyester trousers and boring cotton tops to choose from!

Ok rant over! But certainly some Kudos to New Look for this number anyway!