Christmas Costumes!

Before coming to Dublin I´ve never thought that I should have dressed up for christmas but it turned out that there´s an Irish tradition called "12 pubs for xmas" which requires people to wear funny christmas jumpers full of christmas lights and going around 12different pubs in one night. 

So my Irish flatmate,who is totally crazy about christmas, had the idea not to make a simple jumper but a dress:

 Ciara(my Irish flatmate) and Me

Carlotta and me

  

Making it took us a while but it´s simpler than it seems:

First of all we bought a penguin "onze" in Penneys for 10 €
then we cut the legs with a scalpel and we used them as the tale of our dress. 
We took two sheets of felt,one red and the other black,to cut the letters of "xmas" and we sewed them to the back of the onze that we used as the front.
After, we made holes into the letters of the dress  and around where we sticked the lights with glue. 
After cutting a pair of thights we put the lights´battery into one leg of what is left of the thights and we tied it on our chest under the dress.
Then we cut a little bit the neck to make it larger and -Voila´- the fanciest christmas outfit you have ever seen is ready!

Happy "12 pubs for xmas"! :)

Which kind of animal are you?

This winter seems that animals hats took possession of people´s mind. 

Bears, owls, cats,pandas and even bevears have been seen crouching on people´s heads.

So what are you waiting for?! choose the animal you prefer and wear it! (Pay attention this is not an encouragement to kill some animals and make a fur out of them the hats are simply cute representations of animals :D )

RIVER ISLAND

But pay attention not to exaggerate:

You can buy them in shops like River Island or simply in the stands on the street in the city-centre.

If you are really crazy about them and you don´t mind about the price 

SpiritHoods have got the best ones but the cost is about 129 € 

  

They are available at www.spirithoods.com

Enjoy your new pets!!! :)

The Market

The market is an oasis of Fashion and uniqueness in the city populated by big chains of shops where sometimes all the clothes you find in one of these shops look alike the others.

 While the market is a fashion boutique located in Powerscourt where some little Irish designers have the chance to show their creations and people can buy unique dresses accessories at a good price.

Hairy Baby

I´ve just discovered this online-shop called "Hairy Baby" thanks to my irish flatmate that bought this bag for me!! 

Hairy Baby is especially addicted to t-shirts made with organic cotton. The idea was to make t-shirts with Irish sayings and slogans on them because it was impossible to find funny Irish shirts in shops.

So they started making T-shirts which said :" my dad is an aweful ejit", "I love my Leaba" "Away with the fairies" ,"Go haead make my tay" and so on that are impossible to understand if you are not Irish for example I asked my Irish flatmate why the t-shirt with the writing "Daddy or Chips?!" was funny and she answered that it was because of a famous advertisment:

 

 

Because the selling of t-shirts was successful they started to make hoodies and recently shopping and beach bags.

 

You can buy their products on  http://www.hairybaby.com/index.php for a cost between 15 and 25euros for the shirts and 13 euros for the bags.

 

Fashion celebrates Christmas

Christmas is the time of farytales , it´s the time when everything looks magical and lost in another dimension ditached from the reality...it´s the time when every princess finds her own prince Charming ... thanks to Brown Thomas for its windows which every year remind us that at Christmas dreams can come true.

 "The Swan Lake"

 "The Sleeping Beauty"

When style is a family-matter...

Walking in Dublin´s city-centre...

 

These irish girls are two sisters I met at a bus-stop; the little girl clothes are from Topshop and they reminded me the Alexander Mcqueen Resort 2011 collection´s black dresses .

Charitable Fashion

Ciao to all of my fashionable followers,


Let me guess something...you are broke but you really need to buy a pretty dress to go to your friend's party or ,as always,  you've just opened your wardrobe and exclaimed "I haven't got anything to wear!" ..does it sound familiar?!


You probably went around all the shops in the city centre in search of something really cheap nice and well-designed but you couldn't find anything...ok  don't freak out! that's only because you didn't check in the right place: have you ever been in a Charity shop??


I know that when somebody thinks of second-hand clothes he thinks of people that want to throw away their old and ugly stuff and sometimes, I have to say,  there are a lot of clothes that really look like Halloween costumes in some charity shops.


As you walk from George's street , along Aungier St, through to Camden St it's plenty of charity shops that we usually do not notice. The first one at the beginning of George's street is called the Oxfam but for what I saw it is not worth it since it's the most expensive one and the clothes could be nice just for people over 50 .


What you should not miss is Vincents: a charity shop in Aungier St that offers the best deals ever! This month all the clothes are half -price which means that you can get t-shirts or jumpers for only 3euros!!!!


Although if you are looking for a night dress or Vintage clothes Debra is the shop for you!Since the first step in, it seems to have opened your grandma's closet of when she was young . Here you can find gorgeous dresses and accessorizes still fashionable nowadays and in perfect conditions for 5euros!!


My advise?!Go and buy them before all the pretty ones will be sold out so that not only you will do a successful shopping also if you are broke ,without feeling guilty, but also and most important thing over Fashion is that  with your money you will contribute to help less fortunate people.
Vincents, for example, is run by a christian organisation aimed to help poor people, on the other hand Debra's mission is to get the money to develop the treatments and cures for the EB ,a skin disease.
For further information visit https://www.debraireland.org/do-it-for-debra/charity-shop! They are also looking for volunteers!


Remember though : always BE PATIENT!!! because in a charity shop at first sight it seems that you could not find anything pretty but if you check carefully you will always find something really special and unique. Vintage and second-hand  clothes aren't like any other clothes because they have got a story behind them : that's what makes them more magical and precious than the others.

vintage dress : DEBRA 

 euro: 5

top: A/wear 

   bought in VINCENTS 

    eruro: 3

jumper : TOPSHOP

bought in VINCENTS

euro: 3

Halloween

Hi to my fashionable readers!

It's Halloween  and since Rihanna is not only my idol but a fahion icon  all over the world I've decided to dress up like her in her latest video "we found love" (above) where she wears old school clothes.

 Unfortunately, although the fake tan, I don't look like her at all hahah but that's the style she follows for her video and you can easily achieves it unless spending a fortune!

You just have to go to your everyday's shops so that you could use again that clothes whenever you want and the shopping for your halloween costume will not be a waste of money!!!

Because as I always says :" if you have a big wallet but not taste is a waste!!"

To me Fashion is for everybody with a good taste it doesn't matter how much money you have in your wallet.

pink corsage PENNEYS

black skirt FOREVER 21

black stocckings PENNEYS

denim jacket VINTAGE

bracelets and rings FOREVER 21

earrings PENNEYS

necklace H&M

shoes PENNEYS

Happy halloween! :)

C.