A wishlist item in honour of the announcement that Versace and H&M will be collaborating this Fall. The Versace brand name is synonymous with sexy, glamorous clothing; but I thought I’d use these shorts to partially predict how accessible this collaboration could be to the normal shopping public. Plus they the bright orange is a welcome splash of colour to my eyes on this gloomy Summer evening and the polka dots are so cute.
It’s become the Summer staple. They come printed and plain, bright or muted and they’re perfect for rocking hippie chic.
The humble maxi dress has earned a place in wardrobes across the world. Except mine.
Standing at 5′ is pretty tough at times, especially when I want a piece of the Summer’s hottest trend, the print maxi. But alot of high street stores here in the UK just don’t seem to realise not every girl is the normal 5’5″-ish or taller height. I know people say “Just wander over to Miss Selfridge or Dorothy Perkins, they do sizes for the vertically challenged”. Yes they do, and for the record this is fab for jeans, but maxis still don’t sit right on me. Maybe it’s my own fault (too little Vitamin D my mum always says) and maybe I should accept that maxi dresses are gonna be the one thing that doesn’t suit a ‘smaller frame’.
But I can’t help but get fashion envy when I see people floating around in their gorgeous print maxi dresses and sigh a woeful sigh.
So my solution?? Improvise.
I recently bought this maxi skirt at New Look – stick with me on this ok?
New Look floral maxi skirt £29.99
Hanging inocently in the store it looked like a midi-dress, but holding it up against me it was pretty much maxi length. Now, I don’t know about you, but it looked alot like a dress to me and it wasn’t until later my work-mate pointed out that it said maxi skirt on the label that I actually saw it for what is was.
So I bought it. Tried it on at home and voila! Yes it’s a skirt. but hitching it up, wearing the waist toggles as a halter and belt it right…well see for yourself…
Sorry about the blurry pic quality!!
I’ll be honest this isn’t the first time I’ve tried this. I had an old gypsy skirt that I wore as a mini dress before it got worn out and ripped, so using the same base I think it works.
Here are some more skirts that could be used as a DIY maxi dress.
from L-R: River Island also comes in brown, Delias, Shop Ruche ‘Library Afternoons’ maxi skirt, H&M skirts 1 and 2, Very ‘South crinkle maxi skirt’ also comes in 7 other colours
I think the trick is to either find skirts with a ruched waistband that you can use as a top half like a normal maxi dress or find a plain maxi skirt and use a wide waist belt to cinch in the waist and give it some shape.
So there we go, a perfect solution for us tiny creatures. We can finally join the maxi dress wearing fashion throng with our heads held…well kinda high.
Part 2 and we carry on the red carpet round-up of the best and worst looks of the MTV Movie Awards 2011…
There seems to be a theme to these two looks lol. Both Lily Collins and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley with two very different Leopard D&G looks. Lily channels her inner rock chick in a mini dress with ankle booties while Rosie brings merges classy and sexy while making tiger stripes look cool.
No, you’re not seeing things. It’s Kristen Stewart. Smiling. On the red carpet. And it’s lovely. Yes, she sticks to her comfort zone in a short mini dress and heels, the difference this time is the mini dress is Balmain. I actually really love the little safety pins scattered all over the dress. Rockin it Kristen.
Proving you can look good no matter what your age are these lovely ladies. Cameron Diaz in a Philip Lim playsuit, Selena Gomez in Giambastti Valli, Nina Dobrev in a red Georges Chakra and a glowing, pregnant Bryce Dallas Howard in a J.Crew maxi.
And finally the recipient of the Generation Award at the ceremony in a Zac Posen mini dress, Miss Reese Witherspoon.
