Belle Of The Ball

Morning,

Enjoying your holidays? We're looking forward to a great weekend and some awesome music at The Horseshoe down the road. It's Retro-Beat on Saturday with The Liabilities playing live, then on Sunday it's Nico'ZZ supported by The Aviation Society. 3 great bands so can't wait! If you're in the area, well worth checking them all out!

The sunshine seems to be creating lots of love for the Yumi Kenna Swallow Maxi Dress. The pink one is most popular at the moment, but there's lots of attention going to the navy version too, so if you love it, make it yours. What's more, if you're in the area, get a copy of Saturday's Northants Evening Telegraph and look out for our advert in the photography supplement. Bring that ad in with you to get 10% off all our of Yumi clothing.


Pick Of The Day is perfect for the wedding and prom season coming up. This Special Evening SENVA39 Dress in black, £55.00, is just beautiful. It has a corset-style back laced up with ribbon for the perfect fit, and adjustable straps. The top part of the dress is embroidered with sequins, and the skirt is layered and decorated with fabric roses at the front. It also comes with the matching shawl. Perfect, non?

Well, have a great day if you're on holiday, and either pop in store to see us or get ordering on our online shop and we'll sort out all your Easter fashion needs!

Kat

Now Playing In The Shop: Let's Stick Together - KT Tunstall

Tartan Army

Morning,

Hope you all had a good weekend. We have now heard that the patent Dr Martens that we've been waiting on are now due in around 15th April. We apologise for the delay to those who have them pre-ordered. For those who don't and who fancy a pair, the quicker you get your order in, the more likely we are to get it to you in the size and colour you want quickly. So why not treat yourself this spring?

We had local band The Liabilities in on Saturday to do a shoot with our photographer, Brian Chapman. It was the usual carnage associated with those lot (I keep finding random scarves and jackets upstairs now). If you're in the Northampton area on Friday, they're playing at the Avenue campus Student Union.

Pick Of The Day today is this perfectly punky Death Kitty Purple Tartan Skirt, £15.00 (we also have a few left of the red tartan version). It has a black net tutu trim at the bottom, and the Death Kitty logo safety pinned on the front, for added effect. It's a really fun little skirt, and looks great with leggings or over trousers (or be daring and just bare legs, if the weather's getting warmer!).

Spring has sprung!

Kat

Now Playing In The Shop: To Deserve You - Deja Vu feat Tasmin

Shiny Black

Morning,

Got our new ranges going out on to the racks today, all going well. We have airbrushed t-shirts from Rubertine Art featuring the likes of Bob Marley, 2Pac, Michael Jackson, Alice Cooper and more. We also have some new dresses in by Monsalina, available in sizes 6 to 16 (see, I said I'd try to expand our sizing options).

Remember how I said about seeing some great bands at The Horseshoe down the road on Monday? Well, this piece was in the Evening Telegraph yesterday, and shows one of the bands, The Liabilities. Frontman Steve also does a bit of modelling for us, and here he is wearing one of our Worn Free John Lennon 'New York City' t-shirts. Rock n roll!

This week's Heat magazine features a couple of pairs of Dr Marten boots, so I thought we should have one of those as pick of the day (and not just because I have them!). These are the Dr Martens Modern Classics 1460 8-Eye Boot in Black Patent Lamper. We get them in to order, and are available in sizes 3 to 9, for £75.

Friday feeling?

Kat

Now Playing In The Shop: Love In The First Degree (Eurobeat Style) - Bananarama

Magic Wands

Morning,

Saturday rolls round again. I'm DJing at Retrobeat at The Horseshoe down the road from the shop tonight, and Unorthodox's house band (in the sense the rehearse upstairs sometimes) The Liabilities are playing. Looking forward to it.

I know for many that pay day has just come, but not everyone's feeling so flush, so if you just fancy a cheap and cheerful treat, you can't do much better than Barry M's range. Starting at £2.95 for a Nail Paint, everyone comments on their fantastic colours throughout the range, and what good quality everything is for the price. These are their Lip Gloss Wands. Priced at £3.95 (which is the RRP, so no more expensive than anywhere else), these are vegan friendly, and so gorgeously scented you may well want to use them as perfume! We have 6 colours in stock (l-r on the photo) No.2 Toffee, No.6 Tropical Tango, No.5 Bubblegum Pink, No.9 Cherry Glitter and (4th from the right) No.4 Pastel Pink. Testers are on our Barry M stand so if you get chance to pop in, see what you think!

Kat

Now Playing In The Shop: Roadblock - Big Brother & The Holding Company

You shall go to the ball

Afternoon,

Yes, blog post is a lot later today (as was our Facebooking and Tweeting), but I wanted to get our new Iska dresses out on display. We currently have in 3 new styles from them, and all three are very Sex And The City (especially the black and pink one. You'll know it when you see it!). I think I may have to try on a couple of them later! A big thank you to Carly for helping sort them all out! Also had Steve and Paul from The Liabilities rehearsing upstairs earlier. Sounded great!

So at last, the pick of the day. Iska (obviously). Pure 80s retro this one, with block colour, gold piping on the sleeves, butterfly print, and the belt. There's a lot of dresses with this shape coming out at the moment, and this is my favourite of all that I saw. Is it possible to be retro and fashion-forward at the same time? I also have Barry M nail paints that match the colours of the dress pretty closely, if you fancy being creative! I'll admit, the dress does take a bit of guts, but it's definitely one for the fashionistas.

Anyway, enjoy the rest of the afternoon and I'll try not to be so late tomorrow!

Kat

Now Playing In The Shop: Bring It On Down - Oasis