What you know and love

I got chatting the other day to good friend and fellow blogger, and amongst other things she expressed to me that whilst trying new things (ie wearing lashings of colour) is fab, sometimes there is nothing wrong with what you know and love.

So while I will continue to experiment with colour for summer, lets get back to some Lady Melbourne basics shall we?

Step 1: Vintage dress

Given to me by the delightful Diane at Clara Fox, any gal worth her weight in lady like gold needs a good quality, well fitting vintage dress. Pick a period that suits you and go see an expert- second hand is not vintage.

Step 2: Grooming

For god sake wash and comb your hair, there is no other lady like way about it!

If you aren’t into manicures then clean, trimmed nails is better than nothing. Mother Melbourne always told me that as long as you have clean hair, teeth and nails you can step out of the house wearing (almost) anything.

When you meet people for the first time you smile and shake hands, so it’s logical that you would make sure your teeth and nails are clean.

Step 3: Accessorise
Well really there are no rules here because there is so much out there. Flowers, gloves, anything Chanel(c’mon you have to allow me that!), pearls, heels, clutches- the lot!

So there you go, not that hard really!

In other LM news a reader alerted me to that fact that I’ve been featured on the Spanish Elle website.

I had no idea, as the author of the fab blog ‘The Devil Wears Zara’ didn’t link back(naughty!), however it is lovely to be included, specially as the post is about capes. I was having a ‘Madeline’ moment in this pic I think, which is quite old.