What I wore today: sunshine saturday outfit post!

 

What's wrong with this picture?

It dawned on me today, while on a train into London checking twitter, that something was wrong with the sky - not that it was abnormally blue and cloud free for April in Britain (that alone was ace), but that there were no aeroplane trails. Once you noticed it, it was hard to not notice it. And it was quieter, when I was in the garden later, when this picture was taken, I couldn't hear any planes from Luton airport. Nuffin'. It was so nice. And it got me thinking - I know the airlines are going on about how many millions of £s they're losing because of this Volcano (don't ask me to spell or pronounce it, I'm good but not that good) - but how much CO2 are we saving? It's nice to think about it. I like the notion that Mother Nature could be spewing out her guts so that we stop polluting her... makes sense innit. There are lots of people that have been put out by this, and I can see that it would be so annoying if you were on a holiday or worse, business trip - even the F1 has suffered, many mechanics haven't been able to get out to Shanghai for this weekend. 

From an environmental perspective though, it's ace. And it's given me a crazy thought - we should have 4 fly-free days a year. The airlines would hate it, but just think - 4 days of no aeroplanes in the sky, no pollution, no noise... and you could easily plan your holiday if you knew exactly when those days were. Hmmm. I'll just ring the Big People In Charge of all the Aeroplanes.com and let them know.

So as I said, I went into London today for a fashion illustration workshop at Sketchbook Magazine's Pop Up Shop in Carnaby St. I'll blog about that separately, but it was really nice, and the sunshine made the busyness of Oxford Circus bearable. I've persuaded myself to do more outfit posts: I've been rocking some good outfits lately (if I do say so myself) and so I really should share them, being that I am a hybrid fashion/design/trend blogger person. I can't really define what I blog about. Cool stuff that you should know about. Hmmm.

 

Skirt: New Look, lace vest: Primark, bra: Urban Outfitters, cardigan: New Look.

Every year, nautical comes out, and I'm never massively excited. I don't know why, it's just one trend I'm never really a part of. However this year, it's got a military twist and I'm all about the military: this skirt from New Look is subtle; just navy with gold military style buttons: not an anchor in sight! I also got a white stripey tshirt to go with it - it's made me realise I don't have any navy or white shoes though. Which is weird.

Hope you've all had a lovely sunshine-y saturday, I spent a good hour or so reading Grazia on the hammock in the garden ^.^ good times.

What I wore today - 4th Sept 09 (Graduation!)

I know it's not 4th sept but Ive had a crazy busy weekend with graduation/family related things so only just had time to post this.

I mentioned before about the 'What I wore today' Flickr group, so I've got my act together,joined Flickr and joined the group. Hurrah.

Really quick sketch I know, but then again, that's what this is for I suppose. Those shoes are amazing, from River Island, here they are:

Totally destroyed my feet though. But I didn't fall over! Good times.

My parents have got all the photos of me so as soon as they send me them I'll do a big Graduation post.

What I wore today - outfit illustrations!

I follow quite a few fashion blogs (diamondcanopy and stylebubble are good) and the norm is to post photos of the awesome outfit you are rocking that day. It's a cool concept and something that I would probably do if I had the time, and also if I had the money to be shopping all the time. I had a massive splurge at the weekend and I'm poor again. When I'm getting paid lots I'll start buying all the things I covet.

I digress.

Gemma Correll who is a great illustrator has started the What I Wore Today group on Flickr and it's a brilliant idea - instead of taking photos of ourselves in our swanky get-ups for the day, us illustrators should draw what we wore instead. Simple, brilliant. Gets us to draw more as well.

I don't have a flickr account but I'm going to get one now so I can join this group. And I'm going to draw today's outfit tonight, even if I get home at 9, I'm going to do it. Because I haven't illustrated in weeks outside of my placement and that's baaad. And today's outfit is good as well.

Gemma's outfit.

If I organise myself I can start doing this on the train back from work every day. Nice.