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Johnnie Boden and I – a love-hate relationship

January 18, 2014 By Ellen

It all started so well. More than a decade ago (ok nearly 15 years), back in the days I still thought attending mums and toddlers groups were a reasonable use of my time, I overheard a conversation.Some of the yummiest mummies were talking about this fab new place to buy clothes. Oh? Where’s that? Boden […]

Filed Under: Boden, clothes, fashion, Johnny Boden

When getting dressed is a challenge

February 22, 2013 By Ellen

It would be entirely wrong to say that I haven’t got anything to wear, I’ve got a wardrobe full of stuff.    However, there is always room for something else, something that has the magical makes you look younger/taller/slimmer/yet still essentially you factor.    So when I was challenged by Netvouchercodes.co.uk to create an outfit […]

Filed Under: fashion, netvouchercodes, outfit, shopping, tunic.

How to fail at fashion and social media all at once…

December 21, 2012 By Ellen

A bit of a turkey Earlier this week I had an interview for some work… something interesting that would slot nicely into the portfolio career. I was all organised – I’d read as much background as I could find, printed out CVs as requested, put on makeup and dressed as a grown up. A bit like a […]

Filed Under: cautionary tale, clothes, fail, fashion, fashion fail, journalism, Portfolio career, social media, twitter, work

Trench warfare: style statement from an Aspie

April 19, 2012 By Ellen

  Last night, Boy One announced that he would like one of those dressing gown coats. You know? With the tie thing that’s like a belt but not quite.  Oh? Eventually it transpired that what he wants is a trench coat – detective style. Like Columbo, or, his hero, Skulduggery Pleasant.  (Last time I wrote […]

Filed Under: aspergers, boys, fashion, trench coat

A tiger won’t change his stripes and neither will my son

April 8, 2011 By Ellen

When it comes to clothes I think there are probably two kinds of people – those who dabble with a bit of variety and those who know what they like. Boy Two is of the latter variety. It’s not that he doesn’t care what he wears, on the contrary, he will not wear something that […]

Filed Under: fashion, sponsored post

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