No Debutante - Personality Crisis

Here are two very different day to day looks from me. The only thing they have in common is my H&M leopard fur. The first look has a playful rockabilly feel to it, with my victory rolled hair, crop tee, Vivien of Holloway vintage cut jeans, ankle socks and Converse. I wore this outfit on a trip to Bath, where I met up with friends and booked my tattoo appointment. It was a good day!

The second outfit is grunge and Saint Laurent AW13 inspired with my cute Peter Pan collar Primark dress, fur and Dr Martens. Rockabilly and grunge are two popular styles for me at the moment, I was about to list a few more of my current fashion personalities but there were too many, plus I have just rediscovered the 1970s again which only adds to my fashion madness, I am definitely a fashionista with a personality crisis and it would be no fun if I wasn't!

 

Not to be upstaged, my little fashionista Sylvie Belle makes an appearance to show you how she works colour, print clashes, long socks and Hello Kitty Vans. Dressing little girls is much more fun than dressing little boys!

I'm off to get everything ready for work tomorrow, my weekend ends on a Tuesday! Have a good week and thanks for reading xx

 

ND xx

Whole Lotta Sylvie - Part 4 Retro Baby

My lovely Sylvie Belle is about to turn 6 months old! I cannot believe how quickly the time has gone...

Sylvie is still a little one for her age and has just crept up to 15lbs now that she is being weaned. I am quite surprised at the amount of food she eats compared to her (rather greedy, it would seem) brothers. Sylvie eats like a bird and takes a long time to do this, the boys would polish off a pot of carrot puree in seconds demanding pudding after that, Sylvie is much more ladylike and takes her time, she then ruins this ladylike behaviour by refusing (just like her brothers) to be cleaned up afterwards.

 'Don't come near me with that wet kitchen roll Woman!!'

Progress-wise Sylvie is rolling over a treat and attempts to sit up from the laying on her back position, she seems confident that this might actually work. Despite the constant rolling she has no interest in actually sitting up alone and if at all possible would like to be carried around 24 hours a day. I have had to re-learn how to do many things one handed.

This Whole Lotta Sylvie post is a Retro special as it features photos of Sylvie wearing some of my own baby dresses from way back in the 1970s. I love the way the dresses are cut into short smock lengths, giving me a perfect chance to team these vintage dresses with Sylvie's bloomers and tights. Love it! Check out the pastel sweet colours too, Sylvie's totally on-trend coveting Meadham Kirchhoff's SS2012 collection, without the big hair and platforms of course...

All images taken by No Debutante.

Little Sylvie doll wearing pink vintage 1970s baby dress (check out the smocking detail!!!) worn with bloomers and spotty tights.

Lemon yellow vintage 1970s dress with lace details.

Sylvie insisted I put a hair clip in her hair.

This has nothing to do with vintage baby clothes, it's just a really sweet picture of Sylvie and her brother Mika playing together one morning.

Despite the tiredness, Life is sweet....

ND xx

Whole Lotta Sylvie - Part 2

It's that time again to show off my little Sylvie Belle and for you to see how much I am enjoying turning her into my little Harajuku doll! Poor thing. Sylvie is growing out of her first clothes week by week which is sad and great at the same time, It's so confusing being a Mum, you want your babies to stay babies forever but then you also want to watch them grow and learn new things. I am trying my hardest to take it all in as I know how fast it goes by. I was horrified this week when I realised Lucian and Mika, Sylvie's older brothers will be 9 and 7 years old next year!! Shocking!

Sylvie has recently realised she can pick things up using her hands which pleases her, her laugh is a big squeal and she thinks her brother Mika is hilarious. Sylvie is 13 weeks old.

8 Weeks Old - Sylvie watching her big brother Lucian play basketball with her Dad.

Red knitted cardi -a handmade gift, pink spotty leggings - Mamas and Papas (a gift from Daddy) and pink socks  - H&M.

Pink cardigan  -H&M and Tutu - Mamas and Papas.

9 Weeks Old - As you can see Sylvie is still sporting the mohawk so to make her look a bit more lady like (and a little less like her brother Lucian) I have popped her into this cute little vintage royal blue and white dress  (polyester no less) with embroidered trim. This dress is another 1970's one of mine found in my Mum's attic - great hoarding Mum!

I try and put Sylvie in a dress as often as possible to help me when I'm old and can't remember which of my children it is in the photo.

Here's a better photograph of the Debenhams Blue Zoo dress from the previous Whole Lotta Sylvie blog post back in January. I am going to have to go back on my word about how great Blue Zoo at Debenhams is though, I went back a couple of weeks ago and didn't like anything. Maybe they were having a bad week, I don't know. I think I just got lucky that day when I found all the cute stuff.....in Debenhams? Yes, just once...

Sylvie is laying on her Snuggle Me pram blanket from Mamas and Papas. It's looks handmade and is really usefull in the pram, it has cute little ties so you can swaddle her up, she looks like a little bit of Sushi in it! You can also open it up as a playmat, I love it!

Knitted stripey dress - Next, Stripey Leggings and socks  - H&M

11 Weeks Old - Sylvie in her cute spotty car seat which matches her pram  - a car seat is the most useful  seat if you have a baby with a dummy, it catches the dummy when it falls out (that's pretty much constantly - I'm not forcing her to have the dummy - honest!) those bouncy chairs don't care about your dummy, they'll let it drop on the dirty floor.

The whole pink outfit is from H&M - Lazy Mummy!

Super Cute! The cute pink owl top was a gift from a friend (who shall remain nameless) I am not allowed to tell her partner how much this cost as she got it from my new favourite boutique in Bristol The Pippa and Ike show, so it won't be cheap......I promise I won't tell Pete How much it.....oooopps!!

Owl top - Pippa and Ike Show, leggings and socks - H&M

13 Weeks Old - Aye Aye! Sailor! More Sailor Girl styling for Sylvie. Check out the mermaid pose and everything!

I think the next post shall be all about Me and my fashion moments and problems as a girl who recently had a baby and can't quite get back into all her clothes, which is annoying! ND XX