.: Matalan

Friday, 28 September 2018

Autumn Florals ft Matalan

I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Matalan headquarters on a press event and met the team behind the brand. Discussing all things fashion, focussing especially on the new Autumn/Winter collection and Christmas party must haves, I got to preview their new key pieces for the new season.

For attending, I was lucky enough to be gifted a beautiful dress.

This stunning Papaya Curve dress features a split sleeve and collar detail, in a brightly coloured, bold botanical print.

I couldn’t resist creating a cute fall look with my favourite jacket and boots and teaming my dress to my lipstick.

The dress is a pull on style, in a non stretch polyester. I stuck to my usual size 22 which fit comfortably but if you prefer a little room, I would recommend sizing up. I loved how it skimmed my shaped yet still showed off my figure.

You can find this dress here, in sizes 18-28

Sunday, 20 July 2014

Shop Your Stash #3

It's that time to dig deep into my ridiculous amount of clothes and wear something long forgotten.

Right now with our stormy, sticky hot weather, I've been a hot sweaty mess. Clothes I've been choosing are short dresses or long skirts as I can't stand anything clinging to my legs right now and shorts ride up on my thighs making me feel uncomfortable. I find accessories too much too! My aim was to find something I haven't worn in over a year.

Here's what I found

This is a ruffle bottomed maxi dress, that I very rarely wear as it's bandeau topped and I'm not a big fan of them, so I popped this little Aztec print top over the top. I actually really like the combo and given that the temperature is hot, this is nice and cool due to both items being lightweight. Plus I can still wear a bra. Bonus!

Shoes are fake Birk style sandals from Primark, dress is from Matalan and top is New Look.

Here's a list of the other wardrobe raiders