Born in the wrong decade

I went shopping yesterday and decided for the millionth time that I really was born in the wrong year. Here's a picture of my favourite buy of yesterday:

Polka dot peter pan collar dress!

It's not as garish and 'sack looking' as it might appear in this picture. When I have it on, it's an entirely different story. It fits like a glove and makes me long to wear this dress on a hot summer day with really curly hair, pink lipstick and a pair of white or nude heels! 

How would you 'dress up' this dress?

What kind of style do you all follow?

Koninginnedag (the early addition!)

My attempt at a Queens Day outfit :P 

This was my outfit selection for celebrating Queens Day in London today. Queens day is not officially until the 30th April in The Netherlands, but for some reason they do a celebration in London a bit earlier. 

Every year around the same date in April a small festival is put together in Trafalgar Square complete with a few Dutch themed stalls (mostly food related) and a big stage for live bands to play throughout the day. I checked the list of bands this year and couldn't find anyone that I particularly wanted to see besides Rigby, but they were unfortunately going to be on too late for me to see. 

The festival is free to go to and there aren't generally any rules besides that you should try to wear something (or many things!) that are orange, because orange is the national colour of The Netherlands. My outfit selection was originally an orange dress, but the weather wasn't great for that. 

Among the stalls this year were a couple of cheese stalls, poffertjes stall, tulip stall, a herring stall and also various other fast food type stalls. Of course I cannot forget the stroopwafel stall! 

Poffertjes stall

Kaas!

The event is sponsored by the airline EasyJet and this year they were not only giving out discount flight voucher and cute orange windmills, but they also had a group of volunteers out taking polaroid pictures of yourself and your friends for free which I thought was a fantastic idea! That polaroid film actually costs a heck of a lot of money, so I can imagine the loss they made with this. I hope it was worth it! 

It was very fun to get to hear a lot of people speaking Dutch and to get to see a lot of crazy orange outfits. I only hope that the organisers will make sure they advertise a little bit more next year in order to draw in a bigger crowd, and that they will perhaps add a few more different stalls to expand the festival a bit. Maybe ideas like a best dressed competition could also be interesting. 

I'll be sure to be checking it out again next year. I had a great time! 

P.S. Make sure you keep a look out next week for when I'll do my first ever guest post on another blog. I'll tell you more very soon.

I love...

My new Aztec printed skirt! Please ignore the grey socks, they will not be part of this outfit in the future! :P

Dear Charlotte Gainsbourg,

You are really just me, but in celebrity form.

""I wanted to re-do my nose as an adolescent but thank God my father said, 'Keep your personality, your personality is in your nose', so I didn't do it. Everything tends to show you that you shouldn't touch your face, but I don't know... it's difficult being an actress because the camera magnifies absolutely everything."

She tells me she is rigorous about skincare – she recently discovered Crème de la Mer and uses a touch of make-up daily to cover up spots, but overall, she's not very interested in beauty regimens. Her hair is a natural colour ("although I would dye it if it went grey, which is a bit like Botox in a way"), and she cuts her fringe herself. "I don't take the time to do massages or go to spas, for example, and my feet are terrible," she says.

And when she's off duty, Gainsbourg admits, she isn't too bothered about fashion, either. "I'm always wearing the same things: jeans and an old pair of boots. I like to find myself again after wearing the costumes of a film so it's going back to what I'm used to. I don't like making too much effort." For her musical performances and the red carpet, she is dressed by Ghesquière who, she says, helps her to be more adventurous with her choice of clothes.

Otherwise, she says, she is uninterested. "I'm not very classical," she admits, "it doesn't suit me. I'm not really part of the fashion world and I like keeping a distance."

(quote taken from an interview in The Independent)

I have been thinking of a Charlotteesque hairstyle and have been toying with the idea of going back to brunette coloured hair for ages now. What do you guys think?

Starting spring early with a polka dot dress

Here's one of the dresses I got at H&M the other day. I got a matching rabbit printed one too...but they're really for spring with a quite thin fabric, so I almost froze to death trying to get this picture!