NEW YORK BUYS

First off I must tell you the momentous news... I DID NOT GO TO BARNEY'S. Really. I didn't. In fact for me I didn't shop that much, despite still returning home with two full bags. One bag was actually full of M&Ms, nuts, goji berries, cereal bars and agave nectar so that doesn't count, right? Not all the thrift stores on the Upper East Side were open but enough for me to get a couple of goodies that I was chuffed to bits with. I also went to J Crew for the first time (woah, overpriced much?) and had a quick whizz mostly around the accessories of H&M and F21 which we of course have in England but always seems to stock stuff that sells out in seconds back home. Clearly we have different tastes across the pond. It's a win win shopping situation for me. 

1. 

Alexander McQueen x Puma trainers from thrift store

2. 

Spinning egg thing

3. 

Stackable initial rings from Urban Outfitters 

4. 

Hunger Games magazine - sooooo excited for this 

5. 

F21 neon bracelets

6. 

L.L. Bean duck boots from a thrift store

7. 

F21 ring 

8. 

Another view of my new Alexander McQueen trainers which went straight on for the flight home

NEW YORK WEEKEND PHOTO DIARY

Whistle stop trip to NY last weekend to see G, visit the Joaquin Sorolla and the Art of Spanish Dress exhibition at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, hit the charity shops and run some in Central Park. 

It all went pretty well apart from the bit before the plane had even taken off on Friday night when a bag fell on my head from the overhead lockers. Turns out they do injure people. I had, and still have, whiplash from that one incident over a week ago now. I am all glamour. 

A WEEKEND IN NEW YORK, IN PICTURES

All taken with Instagram 

A WEEKEND IN SHOES

1. Vans from a thrift store ($15)

2. Salvatore Ferragamo two tone shoes from a thrift store ($20)

3. All the thrifted shoes, top r clockwise - Vans, Ferragamo, YSL, random brand 

4. My shoes / socks / jeans combo - more a packing fail than deliberate choice

5. Glitter Miu Miu shoes - new Barneys purchase

6. The boots left behind - Dries Van Noten beauties

7. Glitter Miu Miu shoes, I'm in love

All taken with Instagram

SKATER GIRL

As a 90s teenager I was a skater girl. Well, perhaps not a skater girl, more a skater bitch. I hung around with skaters (I didn't skate myself), spending my days sitting at Southbank drinking cheap cider, getting into trouble and having my Mum phone the public telephone by the pier telling me to come home when I stayed out too late on a school night. 

Why do I tell you this? To this day I have a weakness for baggy jeans. The baggier the better, even if today it's paired with Chanel rather than M&S toddler t-shirts worn as crop tops (I shit you not but in my defence it was the 90s) or excessive amounts of Polo Ralph Lauren that you had to save up for all year and snap up in the Selfridges Christmas sales. Oh, the glory years of youth.  

Jacket - Chanel from thrift store in NY 

T shirt - Topshop 

Jeans - H&M

Belt - Charity shop 

Shoes - Chanel