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Modcloth dress - Beetlejuice plus spring flowers

I hope you all had a great Easter? I did. My mum and step dad stayed with us for 3 days and we had some nice walks/outings. I took a few days off blogging and feel refreshed and raring to go again. The weather was mostly good, although we got drenched to the skin on Sunday. We all looked a right state, and my step dad hair-dried his crotch when we got in. Hahaha!

Back to this outfit, I bought this dress from Modcloth a few months ago when they did their last Stylish Surprise, which is where they send you an item of clothing at random for a much lower price than retail. It's a great way for them to shift end of line items, and a great bargain for the buyer too. Alas, this dress is no longer for sale on the website, although make me an offer if you want it. ;) I like it, but I'm also having a major re-evaluation of my personal style in favour of block colours rather than patterns, so I could part with it.
I'm wearing a 4X, and this dress has pockets. *angels sing* I think of this dress as being Beetlejuice + spring flowers, and that means double happiness for me as I love them both.

The dress is fully lined with cotton which is a good thing for hot days, but I'm used to things lined with cheap slinky materials which glide over my body (even if they do make me sweat a bit). The dress has a tendency to get a little twisted over my chest - my back is very wide and I have F cup boobs so perhaps this is inevitable with a non-slip lining. It's well made, as all the Modcloth dresses I've tried have been.

I'm wearing:
Biker, past season New Look Inspire
Dress, past season Modcloth
Shoes, current Primark stock

I think these shoes were £3, and they're so comfortable!
Thanks for reading,
Leah xoxo

Modcloth scotty dog dress


My blogger pal Mookie lent me a couple of Modcloth dresses, and this is the last of the bunch. You can see the one she gave me here and here's the other one she loaned me. I don't think the dress is for sale any more as Mookie's had it at least a year as far as I'm aware. This is a 4x which equates to a size 26/28 UK.




The print is so cute isn't it? I fancied wearing my Frankenstein's monster brooch with it to contrast with the red of the dress.

Although the print is lovely, the dress didn't cinch me in at the waist like the others did. Still, I've been very impressed with the quality of all the Modcloth dresses Mookie lent me. I've since bought one myself. This was $20 in their Stylish Surprise sale and I love it - it's Beetlejuice with added spring flowers! I'll do an outfit post with it soon.



Scotty dog dress, Modcloth
Brooch, Little Pink Kokoro
Leggings, Very (from a twin pack)
Shoes, past New Look

Have you tried anything from Modcloth yet? You can find plus sizes under what they call 'extended sizes' and there's quite a lot of choice. If only customs fees weren't so bad I'd buy from them more often.

Leah xoxo

Outfit | Modcloth dress 2

Hiya!

This is another dress Mookie lent me and it's the cutest. She wore it at Plus North in 2014 and looked amazing in it.



Just about everything in this post is old or out of stock, which is probably a good thing as in 5 years of writing this blog I've accumulated over 6000 links here. Holy shit. I discovered this when I was checking my DA and PA the other day (metrics which quantify a blogger's influence) and it had them all tallied up. That's a whole load of links. Every month or so I go through and root out dead links, which is quite the job. Sometimes I spend aaaaages looking for similar things to out of stock items so I can assist people getting their shopping fix, but it depends how time poor I am at any given time. Does anyone click on similar item links, or are you less bothered about buying something similar to what I'm wearing? Because the less links I make, the less I have to maintain when they go dead. And with most items from fast fashion stores (most of the places I shop) items are in stock a very short time so 2 weeks after I write a post, the links could already be dead. I'm all about making life easier for myself this year.

When I wear a dress like this with so many colours in it, I pick out one to accentuate and wear accessories of the same colour. In this case it was the red, even though there isn't a lot of red in it. That reminds me, I need some red shoes in my life. ;)




This dress is much more lightweight than the other 3 Modcloth ones I have tried on, but it's just as well made. I was wowed from the first moment I tried a Modcloth dress on. Now I can see why everyone raves on about them!


I'm wearing:

Hairband, old, from clothes swap
Necklace, past New Look
Dress, Modcloth 2014
Cardi, past Yours Clothing
Leggings, Very
Shoes, past New Look similar here

I hope you had a good weekend? Mine was mostly great. I stayed with my mum and step dad from Thursday to Saturday, which was really lovely, but I became unwell while I was there. I did a lot of walking each day I was there and my legs and feet swelled up really badly from Thursday onward, so much so it was affecting my ability to bend my legs. They were like overstuffed sausages! I persevered around the shops every day though! ;) I met fellow blogger Abi on Friday and we had a lovely long Chinese lunch. By Saturday evening my legs were bright red, sore and hot, and a few people thought I might have cellulitis when I posted photos on Instagram and Twitter. My legs got better over Sunday, but I started to feel ill in other ways (headache, stomach ache, shakes, fever) and I'm probably coming down with the awful cold/flu thing James started to get on Saturday. Yesterday was spent on the sofa feeling totally spaced out, but hopefully I'll start to feel better soon.

How was your weekend? Have a great week!
Leah xoxo

Outfit | Modcloth dress 1

Hiya,

Here's a dress from Modcloth which Mookie gave me, and I've since bought one myself in their stylish surprise sale. ($20 for a dress, yay!) With the two Modcloth dresses Mookie also lent me I have a total of 4 to show you in the next couple of weeks.

This dress gives me shades of a sailor outfit, and it has POCKETS! Yessss. I'm wearing a 4X and it's a perfect fit. From the 2 Modcloth dresses I own and the 2 Mookie lent me I can see they're extremely well made and nip me in at the waist. This one in particular is a really heavyweight fabric with slight stretch to it, and it feels like it'll last years.

Rain cloud hair clip!





I'm wearing:

Brooch, Kaela Mills
Hairclip, Crown & Glory Glitterati box
Leggings, Very - as ever!
Dress, past Modcloth
Shoes, past Everything 5 Pounds

I've got my outfit mojo back and can't wait to do a zillion posts. I'm not too sure if I'll do Fatshion Feb this year though....... I'll have a think about that. Have a lovely Friday/weekend.

Thanks for reading!
Leah xoxo