Category - Party dresses

CELEBRATING THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS – WEARING FEVER LONDON

Fever London red

OK, it’s been a while I know.

 

What can I say, I completely underestimated the amount of work involved to run not one, but two blogs.

(Lesson learnt there folks!)

Anyhow, I hope you’ll forgive my absence for the last few weeks and that this post will make it all up to you, a little.

Because today, I want to celebrate and champion the little black dress, otherwise known as the LBD.

(You know something is good when it’s known by just capitals, right?!)

Fever London shutter

I love this black, sixties-inspired Fever London dress. It’s been in my possession for about nine months now and I’ve worn it several times.

It’s classic, it’s easy to wear and best of all, somehow, it makes me feel French, perhaps a little Parisian even!

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The dress I should have bought but didn’t. AKA – The dress that got away.

IT  was vintage, the dress that should have been mine.

 

And yellow.

A bright canary yellow as glorious as the sunshine it shone in, when it caught my eye.

Short, with layers upon layers of delicate fringing, it winked at me as I walked past it hanging from a shop door way and said: “I am yours. Come and buy me.”

And I nodded and whispered back, “I will later, I promise.

And I meant it too.

I did go back to the tiny vintage shop in Manchester, fully determined to walk away with the sexy, sassy showstopper. The party frock of my dreams.

With a spring in my step, I was so excited at the thought of wearing it on those hot magical kind of summer nights, dancing the hours away.

But I was too late.

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