Making My Work Wear, Work

Everyone who reads this blog knows I love a pretty dress, preferably in a crazy cotton print and as much as I love these dresses they would not work for my work life.  Mine is not a job where I get to swan about in pretty frocks I am a carer so my job can involve anything from the homemaker stuff, paperwork, doing activities to on some occasions having to hold people when they become out of control.  So practical is the name of the game and usually this means jeans and jumpers or T's.

However, dear reader I don't mind sharing I am bloody bored of this and I never feel nice or very me when I head to work.  So I think it is time for a bit of a work wear revamp and this is my current wish list.

1/ A Pinafore Dress - Practical as it has pockets and I can shove some leggings underneath.

Both of these are from Asos Curve and are £30.00, they both have pockets essential for work.

2/ The Tee's - A Tee is a perfect item to throw on or under what I'm wearing.  I gotta be honest I usually just throw on a Primarni special as they are cheap and cheerful but these Tee's are tickling my fancy.

ASOS

Nicky Rockets

As I have said on numerous occasions I am a huge fan of a indie brand and I love these Graphic B Movie style Tee's from Nicky Rockets  and I think these would take a work pair of jeans from a bit Blah to something a bit more stylish.  

3/ The Jeans - Yes I know I bitched I live in these for work but these are a necessary evil in my life and following the death of my beloved Peaches Jeans I am liking the look of these.

Ultra High Waisted Jean - New Look @ Asos

Chelsea Jean - Simply Be

Grey Jean - Asos Curve

4/ The Jacket - I need something I can quickly throw on I was quite sold on the idea of a bomber jacket but I saw this hollographic raincoat on Missguided, now I am confused before it was just a patterned vs plain debate - now I am just confused.

Camo Bomber - Boo Hoo Plus

Holographic Raincoat _ Missguided Plus

Plain and Patterned Bomber _ Simply Be

Now the only problem is earning enough money to buy these.  So if you know any hit me up with some discount codes.

Boo Hoo Plus

Sorry I have been ultra quiet, but I have had a combination of the mean reds and the moody blues, which is a combination of me wallowing in nego thoughts and self pity, this has also been combined with a crazy amount of shifts in my real life job.  So clothes have been mainly sweatshirts (although my My Little Pony, Primarni bargain has featured heavily) as well as my amazing high waisted jeans from Simply Be.

Any how with this mood it seems appropriate that I am looking at the Boo Hoo Plus Collection sent me a press release about their rather fab collection, I had seen other bloggers talking about it but was rather wrapped up in my melancholy mood to pay much attention.

So what do I like about it?  I think it is youthful collection that could be a straight size collection which is good! and the prices are really reasonable.  The press release stated there are three key trends:

Chalk Pastels - which feature a hint of florals

Revival - Featuring monochrome and grid patterns with hints of colour.

And Brights -which will heavily feature neon pieces

Here are my favourite pieces from the lookbook images sent.  However, I am not sure every element is on the website yet, or it may have sold out as I am a little late to the party!

The Nicky floral sweatshirt is definitely on my lust list and I would love to try the neon green skirt.

So from the actual site I have quite a lust list, but here are my favouries although they are not what I would call traditionally me, I am trying to broaden my horizons and for some reasons they are the pieces that jump out at me.

I love that the dress seems like a true body con, the colours are bright and daring and it just feels fresh.  there are also some fab grey grunge inspired pieces but they just don't sing to me today.  I think I need zingy and vivid to try and pull me out of this funk.

Any way I think this is a great move it is a shame it only goes up to a size 24 which will exclude some from the collection but it is a great start and I LOVE none of these pieces are over £28.00.

So what do the rest of you think?

*Although Lauren from Boo Hoo's Marketing e mailed me, these views are all mine.