Hello
So today, I am obviously like a pink powder puff, I guess
Crossed with some kind of black belted ninja
But, far more importantly
Is my new dress
Oh yes! It arrived today
From British retro and I am so excited
That was quite good
I feel a bit proud of myself
Oooh!
An extra dress
Ah, here it is. Here is my baby. Aww
I'm really excited about this dress because I really, really wanted some kind of amazingly good Christmas dress
Now particularly for our little trip to London, which is going to be amazing
And I ordered this dress, but I ordered it in a size ten, which I thought was my size
and it was just too big
Okay, cut, while I actually try this on
Oh my gosh
I love it.
What a beautiful cut this has on the top
And very well supported, I must say. They're held in there, there's no bra
Of course, if you do have larger breasts than mine, then you might want a little bit of extr support, I don't know
There's boning in it, which, as we've previously discussed, with my Scoliosis doesn't always work well
Boning is very straight, my body is not.
Nice curve, oh, what's this lumpy weird lumpy bit?
I really like the kind of Bardot top, get your little shoulders out
Largely because my shoulders are particularly small, compared to the rest of me
So this gives them a nice wider, open look
But, Bardot top sleeves can kind of hurt
I have on from Chi Chi clothing that is beautiful, it looks gorgeous
but I wore it to a wedding and then by the end of the evening I took it off and I had these massive
red scrape lines on my arm because it had been grabbing on so tightly to them
I don't always realise when something is quite tight, I kind of have to look at it afterwards
I don't have a lot of feeling.
Or my feet, like I stood on a drawing pin once, and I just walked around and there was blood everywhere
And my mother was like 'What are you doing, take that out of your leg'
And I was like.. Oh I didn't realise, it's been a few hours
But mainly, I don't really care because it looks a bit like Grace Kelly
I would go through any pain for Grace Kelly looks
Now the skirt, I'm wearing with two petticoats
Now, we've got a kind of stffer one underneath, a bit of crinoline and more of a flop on top
So, you're going to get a lot of range of movement in there, which is always lovely
And it means that when you sit down, you can do the, ahhhh
Erm, I feel like maybe I could accessorise this dress quite a few ways.
Nice necklaces
Put a little broach here
Different belt
I might put on a red belt
I've only started wearing things that show my back since Claud came along
Because she quite likes my back
Whereas I've always thought, oh no Scoliosis, oh, it's so ugly
It's not actually, it's just my back
Just my back. Even my weird little lumpy bit here
Which I think makes me look like a dinosaur
Specifically the one called Matilda in Robot Wars
So far, the dress is looking pretty great
But, I'm going to wear it all day tomorrow
And then we will see what it is actually like
Because you can't tell if a dress is good or not until you've actually worn it
All day long
But so far absolute thumbs up
Oh My God, I love it.