Parties | Outfit

Everybody loves a good party, right?

I'm not one to go clubbing every week or to get totally hammered on a night out. It's just not my thing, but, i love a good party. My family live for family parties, someones birthday the whole family is usually invited, from great aunts to 2nd - 3rd cousins and all their families. Last Friday was one of those birthday parties, in fact it was my 2nd cousins.

As i said in my first blog, i can be quite bad when it comes to event clothes shopping, to be fair, i was pretty good this time around.

 Primark was the shop i picked and i was determined to find an outfit in that store

Second lot.

So i ended up buying a dress from the second lot, overall it took about 45 minutes to find something, a lot easier than the 7 hour trip.

This is the dress i went for. I had it stuck in my head from a few years ago that i hated the A line style dress, I'm not sure why, i obviously had tried on a dress a few years back and hated it. It just shows that you should try your options and explore.

It was just above knee length, so not to short and not to long, and i matched it with black tights.

Black high wedges. 

And a silver necklace.

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Cocktail party at parliament | Shopping.

Do you ever go clothes shopping with the intention of NEEDING to buy something for an up coming party, but, as bad as it is, after hours of shopping, you end up opting for the dress that's collecting dust in your wardrobe?

Yeah, well, that happened.. I put my relative and close friend through pain that day, my baby cousin on the other hand happily sat in her pushchair, admiring the shops and sausage roll she chewed on for several hours.

My close friend stayed at mine the night before so we could dedicate ourselves to a full day of shopping, as I really 'needed' a new dress. [When i say needed we all know i didn't really NEED one, it was more of a case of wanting than needing haha.] I was going for the sophisticated yet dressy look as it was a more classier sort of cocktail party and i wasn't 100% sure how dressy I was supposed to go, so i opted for the play it safe mode.

We started out at 10am and arrived in the bigger city by 11am, one shop soon became two, six, ten and then shops started to get revisited over and over, hoping and begging a beautiful dress would just walk in front of me screaming buy me. I'm sure many people have experienced this, right? I will admit though, I am very picky and I could have easily brought one of the many dress i tried on, but, I had this image in my head, i knew what i wanted to buy and nothing met up to that image.

It soon reached 5pm and our feet gained quite a few blisters, i had an hour to find something and i had to make a snap decision.. Continue looking for a dress or wear the dust collector and go in search for a blazer instead, so that's what i did. Ironically the first shop i walked in i found a blazer that went with my previously brought bag and my dress.. So after spending around 7 hours looking for a dress i came home with a blazer instead and opted for my dust collector.. Is that bad? Haha. 

Blazer: H&M £29.99

Dress: Warehouse £60:00

Clutch: Deichmann £6.99

Necklace: H&M £9.99

So? How was my first blog? Do you have any advice? There will be a blog every week if not more.

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