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Glitter and Twisted

21/11/2011

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Animatronics are out creepily singing festive songs and rolling their unseeing eyes in shopping centres. Students are trussed up in elf costumes luring small children into Santa’s grotto and celebrities you’ve never heard of are flicking switches left right and centre, bathing towns and cities in twinkly lights. Christmas is coming.



But it’s not actually Christmas until the 25th of December not only are the shops flogging sequinned garments, but you are looking at said items and thinking; ‘ooh, that’s quite nice’. The cynical amongst you will say ‘yes, well that’s only natural if you’re lambasted with the sight of any fashion trend long enough you’ll start to like it’ and I would agree with you. We all remember wet look leggings.
However this is where I align myself with Jordan and the Go Fug Yourself Girls. Because I adore this metallic seasonal trend, I despair that it only comes but once a year.

Glitter and gold is not just a Jem and the Holograms song, it’s a way of dressing. And I’m not talking just office Christmas party. There are ways to add it to your wardrobe without looking like a Christmas tree. 
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Shoes. You can get away with anything shoe-wise. If you can walk in them, they’re suitable. 

Although if sensible lace ups are your thing I managed to track down these sober, with a glittery twang, flats in Primark for £12. 

They are what I imagine L. Frank Baum envisaged when he wrote The Wizard of Oz, he can't have expected young Dorothy Gale to walk the yellow brick road in heels. 

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Tights. As with shoes you can also go pretty mad with tights. I can’t condone wearing glittery tights with glittery shoes, perhaps you’re really going for a certain look though.

These sparkly tights are £12 from Asos and I am convinced they go with everything. Gold's a neutral, right?


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     Dresses. It’s only once a year you can stock up on such garb, go with a dress!     

They get reduced pretty quickly I notice. I think of this not as an indication of sartorial misjudgment on my part, but gifts. My iridescent discount, if you will.      

Get a gold sequined dress. Don’t save it for best, you’ll never wear it; team it with stompy boots or flats for day time.    

One day this £125 Miss Selfridge dress is going to go on sale. And then I shall make my move. 


If my metallic style guidance hasn't helped, I'll tell you a motto of mine; what would Jem do?

Squeamish Kate - Who seems to have been way more influenced by her childhood dolls than previously realised. 

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Gareth
20/11/2011 11:56:39 pm

"what would Jem do?"

from what I remember - wear a disguise that even Superman would dismiss as inadequate (from what I recall her secret identity had longer sleeves on her dress and blond hair rather than pink).

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Squeamish Kate
21/11/2011 12:52:15 am

And go by the name Jericca, Jem was a very complicated hologram based disguise I believe.

I had the Glitter n Gold Jem doll, it was hard to disguise her as Jericca.

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