OOPS

So I guess the hiatus is back...this is due to me getting the job I mentioned in the previous post and have been mad busy ever since working proper hours like a proper adult without seemingly any time to do much except sleep and eat. However! This project has not been forgotten about, just put on the back burner for a while...

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HIATUS

OVER.

Cheepfrills is back and is breaking its vow of silence. I want to make a go of this blog and that means a) regularly updating and b) revealing its existence. I still miraculously manage to get about 100 hits a day, considering I have only told a few close friends about it, so am now determined to make it something I am proud to promote.You can now expect regular outfit posts, product reviews, hair experiments, handmade creations courtesy of Lincoln and much more.

So what have I, cheepfrills creator, been doing with myself the past month? If I was to go in to the gory details of my couples holiday, complete with arguments, tears and a hysterical bike ride resulting in me throwing the offending article in to a hedge, we'd be here all day. So here's a brief pictorial update-

My boyfriend's dad lives in a beautiful French farmhouse in Angers, completely isolated and utterly peaceful. He is also a photographer, ex-mod and general all-round cool dude, with one of the best clothing collections I have ever seen. Think rails upon rails of vintage leather jackets, Levi's in every colour of the rainbow, Dr Martens, flannel shirts and various strange flea market finds like this sublime Navajo coat below:

And just 1 euro! While we're on the subject I'd like to point out that the crochet top was 50 centimes from another market we visited, where I also picked up a fleece lined denim waistcoat for 3 euros (this has been given to the boy but he's not convinced).

Le maison.

Next was Standon Calling, where I had to abandon my extreme dislike of camping/portaloos in the face of a free ticket. Highlights included my bra snapping at the front whilst wearing a sheer shirt and then being asked to have my photo taken for the Topshop style blog. As you might imagine, tightly crossed arms and a rabbit in the headlights expression ensured that I didn't make the final cut.

In light of the fact I have an interview tomorrow, I've been thinking a lot about 'smart' clothes and what constitutes the perfect interview outfit. On the disastrous occasion I decided to go for an interview with a certain world-renowned insurance company, I wore a bright orange blazer, black pencil skirt, red lips and nails and a beehive. Now, in hindsight I can see this was entirely inappropriate, but when I walked in to the soulless glass labyrinth that is their offices in Tower Hill I felt worlds apart from all the other grey twin-piece clad candidates- and ultimately- relieved by this fact. The disdain felt by my interviewing panel as they cast a critical eye over my get up was palpable, and as they told me about the insurance game, calling themselves 'ambulance chasers' and revelling in their 'desire for disaster', I knew I was in the wrong place. By the time we'd come to the subject of the G20 protest and interviewer #1 said with rather too much relish 'Oh yes, I was glad to hear the Barclay's boys gave some of those protesters a good kicking', I couldn't escape soon enough. 

But I digress. I suppose the point I'm trying to make is, as much as my parents long for the day I admit defeat and go for a nice banking job, I could never thrive, develop, least of all be happy, in any of those sorts of industries, and not being able to truly express myself with my clothing would play a part in that discontent. So back to tomorrow's interview. The official title is Writer/Web editor & Content producer for a new start-up website, and would involve research, writing features/reviews, editing, proof-reading- all things I have a geekish LOVE for doing and that my degree has more than equipped me to do well. It sounds perfect. So, naturally, I am nervous as hell. Which begs the question, whatonearthamIgoingtowear?

I will post the final decision. Stay tuned folks.

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LATEST OBSESSIONS

SHEER MAXIS:

Just bought the American Apparel version to with these babies:

UNDERWEAR AS OUTERWEAR:

Bralets never get old.

BROTHEL CREEPERS:

STUDS:

TODAY my soul sister is back for GOOD. Hail to the Lincoln.

Outfit posts to come!

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MAMA MIA

Now, I may be biased, but I'd like a post to pay homage to my mother who I think was, and still is, absolutely beautiful.

Why didn't I inherit that face! 

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CREATION

On a recent trip to Lewisham got this amazing fabric for £2 a metre so decided to make up this little dress/top/skirt fingy.

Can't find my camera so excuse crappy phone pictures. I am by no means a seamstress, I'm too impatient to measure or pin or cut anything neatly. This is just a tube of material with a bit of elastic sewn inside the top to give a gathered effect. Simples.

I also got a few charity shop bits, including this dress which I later massacred and made far too short. Infuriating.

Anyway, I couldn't have left it as it was. I thought it might make a nice maxi but it clung in all the wrong places and was hideously unflattering. Still, I might attempt to sew back on some of the off cuts in order to make it vaguely wearable again. URG.

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COACHELLA DREAMING

Coachella 2012 is looking like a very real possibility and I will hopefully be going with two of my favourite people in the world, Jakey H (http://internationalpartyboy.blogspot.com/) and Miss Linkown. While Jake will be a glowing Mischa Barton in blazer and short denims, I will be an ethereal Diane Kruger in maxi skirt and flower garland (though this is probably a far more realistic look for us- http://tinyurl.com/3ow5m7g). Anyway, as it's a miserable Sunday I'd like to get myself excited with a homage to my favourite Coachella style.

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This last girl especially. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

BRING ON SUMMER 2012.

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SEVIGNY

Undoubtedly weird looking BUT shit hot style and killer body. We love you Ms Sevigny.

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BETTER LATE

...than never. Serious lack of June updates! I wish it could say it was due to my fledgling fashion career taking off but it's sadly just sheer inertia on my part.


A rather boring post, but here's some more Deptford market gems I'm pleased wiv:

Unrivalled for cheap flowery shit.

And here's some coveted high street an' all:

Yup.

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