Ruth Tries (Multiple) Trends

Ruth Tries (Multiple) Trends

Just a quick one (ooh err!): last week I took a lot of fashion pictures for Instagram Stories, loved them all, realised they were kind of wasted on a platform that makes things disappear forever after a mere twenty-four hours and decided to post them on here so that...

Ruth Tries Trends: The Boilersuit

Ruth Tries Trends: The Boilersuit

I fear I'm late to the party with the boilersuit trend. Praise be, frankly, because they all look dreadful on me. I can't see what all the fuss is about - even when they don't look outrageously unflattering they still make a lot of people look like a Super Mario...

The Eating Dress

The Eating Dress

Rejoice, rejoice, the Emanuelle dress from Hush is - I can declare - the perfect garment for eating in. And I don't mean any old eating, obviously; eating is rarely an act that's impeded by your clothing.  You can eat in virtually anything, really, except for a...

Ruth Tries Trends: Leggings Worn As Trousers

Ruth Tries Trends: Leggings Worn As Trousers

This trend is just an epic no-no for me, right from the start, but now that it is apparently acceptable to wear leggings as proper, meet-the-public outerwear, I have to give it a try. It's the law. Why on earth anyone would want to expose their lycra-encased lower...

Ruth Tries Trends: The Bias Cut Skirt

Ruth Tries Trends: The Bias Cut Skirt

There are some fashion trends that my I just can't deal with. Anything cropped. Anything too body-con but made in cheap material. Anything that involves long, tube-like skirts that sit tightly around the middle. Culottes (age me by eighty years), stilettos (always try...

Life Update: I Am Not A Rope

Life Update: I Am Not A Rope

Angelica, aged three and eight months, has taken to telling us all precisely what she is not. We've had this before, when she first learnt her name - or a shortened version of her name; "I not hungry, Daddy, I La-La!" "I not cute, Granny, I La-La!" "I not testing your...

Wonderbra Ultimate Plunge: How Low Can I Go?

Wonderbra Ultimate Plunge: How Low Can I Go?

[AD info: this post contains an affiliate link. This is not a paid-for post and I bought the bra myself.] I posted a photo on Instagram the other day in which my boobs were quite - how can I put this? - apparent. Perky. Fulsome. Now I don't want you to worry; I'm not...

The Phoenix Has Landed (And I Have Big News)

The Phoenix Has Landed (And I Have Big News)

The phoenix has landed, the cat is on the lead, the dog is at the dinner table and the chicken is a cover star. Sounds like a slightly odd lesson from one of those secondary school French listening tapes (ecoutez et repetez!) but it is, in fact, my latest magazine...

Cashmere, Cold Snaps and The Squeezable Cat

Cashmere, Cold Snaps and The Squeezable Cat

The items in this post are #gifted items and links marked * are affiliate links. I have previously worked with Boden and have received samples and gifting from Boden, M&S, ME+EM and Next. Please click here for more info and my disclosure policy. A cashmere...

The Classic Wool Coat: A January Sales Investment

The Classic Wool Coat: A January Sales Investment

I was zooming through the online - virtual -  aisles at Hush, looking for an entirely different link to something, when I stumbled across the amazing Pelle coat, pictured above. I was genuinely surprised to see it there because I assumed that it would have completely...

Shoes That Would Probably Kill Me

Shoes That Would Probably Kill Me

I often lust after very high-heeled shoes when I'm browsing the internet - the temptation to make my legs look impossibly long, to be teetering over the rest of the world, to get that near-vertical arch to my foot that is so inexplicably sexy often threatens my good...

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