Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Friday, 19 October 2012

Getting Dressed for Halloween

Every single Halloween, without fail, I dress up as a cat. Despite the fact it's become pure habit, I still go through the rigmarole of deciding what costume I might wear before arriving back at my old friend, which allows me to unleash my inner cat lady. It's as much a part of the tradition for my best friend and fancy dress aficionado, Laurie, to tell me that I simply cannot dress up as a cat again. This year I plan to defy her on the grounds that I've never been a 'fashion cat'. Just what is a fashion cat exactly, you might ask. Well, I'm not entirely sure myself, but I know it will involve wearing this Maison Michel 'Heidi' cat headband from Motilo. It reminds of the lace face covering that was seen at Jason Wu a few seasons ago, as well as the Olsen's matching animal ear headbands I loved. I'd dress as a cat every day if it looked like this.

What's your go to fancy dress costume?


Image: Motilo


Monday, 1 November 2010

cool winter days






All copyright to Dressing Miss Dolly.

Today should have been spent reading The Mill on the Floss, and hoovering my room, and doing my laundry, and reading essay notes, but instead I've been sat in my dressing gown watching rubbish day time telly, eating bagels and reading blogs. I've had such a good weekend. On Saturday I went to the Manchester Vintage Fair. It was a bit disappointing because there were hardly any handbags, which was what I was wanting and the only dresses I liked were dead expensive. On the plus side, though, there was an amazing selection of cupcakes, which were delicious. I spent the rest of the day wandering around Manchester with my friend Laurie, and picked up a dress and jumper from Topshop (thank God for Topshop card), and also an amazing MAC powder. They're all so lovely that they really deserve their own post, so I'll do that tomorrow when I'm a  bit more organised. I also bought the 'Wreck This Journal' that I came across on Tumblr. I can't wait to start it. I'm a real perfectionist - I dare anyone to handle my magazines, with anything other than gentle, delicate movements and very clean hands. So I'll try and blog about the gradual destruction of the book as it goes on and we'll see how it goes.

Saturday nights seem to be made for chilling, and eating rubbish while raving over how good Rebecca is on X Factor, and raging that Louis Walsh insists on calling Wagner, 'Wag-ner'. 

And then Halloween arrived.

I'm always the first to get organised for a fancy dress event. I've got a whole load of proper costumes, but for some reason I left them all at my home in Devon. I was feeling uncharacteristically lethargic about Halloween this year, so I ended up doing my good old tradition of being a cat. I didn't have ears, or a tail, or gloves but I had make up, and that came cheap so I'm happy :)

The night was so good. Finally brushed the dust off of my camera, and managed to capture some memorable moments (I could so be the voice over for Kodak ads). I ended up going in a whole black ensemble, which was all Topshop - pussybow blouse with lace shoulders, leggings and Britany thigh high boots (which are also toe killers). I didn't drink too much either, and still had a quality night while still feeling relatively chirpy this morning.

All in all a good weekend. Hope you all had fun!

Sunday, 31 October 2010

all hallows eve











I still don't have a costume! It looks like I'm going to be a cat for the third year running. Stuff being original.


Thursday, 5 November 2009

Happy Halloween?

I know I'm six days late, but I didn't have any time to squeeze in a Halloween blog...so here it is!



Happy Halloween!






I should have been prepared for this blog months ago, as that's when this editoral came out in Harper's Bazaar US and I've admired it for a while. I know it's based and inspired all around Tim Burton nightmarish creations, but in my head I keep dumbly wondering at just how alike it is to Nightmare Before Christmas. If only I'd had the time I would definitly have been Sally, but needle and thread capabilites and time in general just didn't allow.

I 'toed the sexy cat line' though the intention wasn't to be 'sexy' just to have fun dressing up as a cat. And fun I did have :)








Expect a Bonfire inspired blog....within the next month :)