Umm Sarah; you rock a lot of polka dots...

New polka dot dress. I love the skirt on it and will be wearing it to work regularly whilst rocking a high pony or a classic ballerina bun. Need to get it taken up at the shoulders a little though I think since my top half is so petite!

Ending early

I slipped again and bought an Isabel Marant Etoile t-shirt in the Net-A-Porter sale and then bought a jacket in the Zara sale today. I have therefore decided to end the challenge early as I clearly am incapable of restraining myself any longer and also I have unintentionally lost weight (although I am on mission gain it back at the moment) so some of my clothes are currently too big for me. It feels strange being on a mission to put weight on when everyone else is trying to lose the extra lbs they gained over Christmas.
Throughout the duration of my clothes buying ban, I feel I have learned to appreciate my wardrobe more and have got extra mileage out of some outfits that I never thought I would before. I have also established a new rule for myself - if I can't get at least 3 different outfits out of an item it probably doesn't belong in my wardrobe. I think this is probably quite a good rule to have as  it means I will be less likely to make impulse purchases in future of things I end up wearing once or even not at all in the case of a H&M dress I bought in 2011 that I still haven't worn as it's really not my style at all.
I'm quite into the idea of maintaining a blog of different looks I have worn though especially on my days off when I am not living in black so watch this space for a potential blog change!

Today I'm wearing a Breton stripe Jack Wills long sleeve dress with black tights for lounging round the house.

Today I wore...

Yes I know I am cheating by back dating this but had to share my outfit I wore on 5th Jan as I enjoyed it immensely and Aliza Licht gave me a RT and a nice comment from the @dkny twitter account which made my day because she rocks! I genuinely believe that if you have a DKNY cozy in your life you can't go wrong. I own 3 and am debating what colour to get my 4th one in.

Tramps do Bowling.

Tonight was my trampoline club's Christmas night out. We went 10 pin bowling and the dress code was "festive", so we donned our Christmas jumpers, tinsel and various other accessories and partook in a couple of games. I always find it difficult deciding what to wear to bowl in - you need something to go with the shoes! I wore my new Christmas jumper, red jeans and accessorised with a mini Santa hat. I am a pretty terrible bowler and needed the bumpers up but I didn't come last. I also won most stylish bowler for my weird leg thing I do when I bowl and a random jump thing I somehow managed to do on one shot that scored me a spare. All in all a good night. I love my hat.

#Fail.

I slipped today and have therefore failed to go 6 months without buying any clothes. I bought a pair of jeans because my current ones have gone a bit baggy and in the winter I do wear jeans quite a lot ( knew I should have got a new pair before I started the challenge) and once I'd done that I thought screw it and bought a Christmas jumper in New Look and a new pair of pyjamas. I think I always kind of knew I would fail, I'm surprised it took me this long to be honest. Back on the wagon now though until February. Below is my new jumper photographed using my early Christmas present.

First Christmas night of the season!

I ended up wearing a completely different dress tonight to the ones I was trying to decide between in my last blog post. This is a Monsoon Fusion dress I wore to a work night out a few years ago that had an unfortunate incident involving a washing machine (it is hand wash only, got machine washed by accident and 4 rows of sequins came off) however, the lovely people at Monsoon had planned for this and the dress came with plenty of spare sequins and thread to sew them on with. I was mighty impressed with this and last night sat and sewed them back on so I could wear it again. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of my whole outfit before I took it off but I really love the dress and it is totally the right cut for having a big turkey dinner and remaining comfortable all night for drinks and dancing. I was less impressed with the handbag I used which fell open lots when I was dancing the Macarena (embarrassing I know, but we were at a club night called Cheesy Pop and it had to be done) causing my keys to fall on the floor 3 times.

Decisions, Decisions...

I almost caved in and bought a dress today. Well 2 dresses actually, I was planning to be an awful customer and return whichever one I preferred least. I have a Christmas event I am attending next Friday evening and I had pretty much decided to recycle the grey dress I wore to my 21st Birthday, however finding shoes is proving to be a nightmare. I have these silver ones but I think they're a bit too light for the dress and also too low for my liking since I shall be with a few friends who are taller than me. Anyway completely despairing after an unsuccessful shoe shopping mission I hit up inlovewithfashion.com because they sent me an e-mail about a Cyber Monday money off offer. I even went so far as going to the checkout before stopping myself and deciding to revisit my wardrobe and try a few things on. To my delight I discovered actually I have a few options that would be appropriate for the occasion that I would be happy wearing. Now I just need to decide which combination I'd be happiest with! At the moment I'm leaning towards the berry beaded dress which is actually my mum's with black Dune Gaga slingbacks or the floral prom dress with the same shoes because they are super comfortable.