Frills round Oriental Bay......

This is when Wellington, or any city in the world for that matter, is at its best: the sun is shining, your skin in soaking it all up, and you feel happy and healthy!  Aaaahhhhhh, if only it was always this way......

I'm not normally a huge fan of frills, but I loved these.  They look perfectly 'bohemian-with-an-edge' I think (particularly with the choice of jewelry), and the swirling frills must feel lovely to wear in the seaside breeze.......oh alright, what am I talking about....this is Wellington - it's called a "wind"!

xxo

Costume characters....

When we are little we love to dress up.  I remember wistfully the large wooden 'Dressing Up' box upstairs in my grandmothers house - the way I would dive in head first, emerging minutes later as a "Medieval queen", a "fairy princess" or a "victorian lady" - (even, on occasion, as "my mother at her school ball").  One of the [many] sad aspects of aging seems to be that we lose that playful desire to dress up outrageously, (save for those special occasions when we deem it acceptable, ie. Halloween)....

.......or some of us do!  Thankfully there have always been those amongst us who retain this youthful sense of style in their daily sartorial choices - the Marchesa Casati's, the Isabella Blow's and the Anna Dello Russo's.

I love the couple above, not only for the gorgeous colour but for their sense of fun!  To me, they look as though they have just stepped from the pages of Oliver Twist, or some such novel - a modern day Artful Dodger and Nancy.

So I think why not employ more fashion fun on a daily basis - we only live once after all....

Hmmmm - I think I feel a New Years Resolution coming on......

xxo