Collective Haul!

Today’s post is a collective haul. I have had two shopping trips over the last few weeks, one while I was staying with my dad, and one when I came home, so this haul is the result of what I bought.

First, I have three items from Primark. I bought two casual tops (I can tick them off my wishlist now!), one in white and the other in burgundy. The white one has a burnout effect and the burgundy one has a paisley-like print on it which is visible when the light shines through it. The tops were £4 each. I also bought a black maxi skirt for £10 which I am completely in love with; I have wanted a maxi skirt for a while now and I am so glad that I now have one. I’m going away for a week this Saturday so I think that I am definitely going to get a lot of wear out of it while I am on holiday.

Another item that I can tick off my wishlist is some black shorts, as I bought this pair from Warehouse. I love the detail on it- I’m not really sure how to describe it, I want to say studs/spikes but they aren’t really proper studs or spikes, they are more like ‘bubbles.’ Hopefully you can see them in the picture and make your own judgement about what you would call them! The detail goes all across the front of the shorts and extends to the lower part of the back of the shorts. They also have a cut-off style and ‘slits’ on the sides, which make them very comfortable to wear as the cuts make them not as tight fitting. I got the shorts in the sale, reduced to £20 from £36, with a further 20% off, so in the end I got them for £16!

I paid a visit to vintage shop Cow, a shop that I don’t normally go in, and came out with a dress. I love some of the clothes that they have in there but I just don’t think that I would be able to pull them off. However, my mum found this dress and I tried it on and instantly knew that I would buy it. It is a navy blue colour and is a classic style, with a high neck that is edged with white piping and has short sleeves that puff out slightly at the shoulders, as well as a loose fitting skirt. It is a decent length as well so could be worn either with or without tights. It also has an elasticised waist that makes it fitted, and it also has loops on the sides around the waistband so that it can be belted. I think that I could get away with wearing it during the day and dress it down, but then maybe wearing it with heels at night to dress it up, so it is a versatile piece that I’m sure I will get a lot of wear out of. It was a complete bargain at £12.

Of course, a trip into town wouldn’t be the same without going into Topshop. I didn’t manage to find any clothing items to buy, but I did come out with a nail varnish and a necklace. The nail varnish is in the colour ‘Play For Keeps’ and is a pastel orange colour (pastels again!), however on the nails it is slightly brighter than it appears in the bottle. Like all standard Topshop nail varnishes, it was £5. The necklace that I bought are these rosary style beads that were in the sale, reduced from £12.50 to £2.50. I couldn’t resist a bargain that good! I’d been looking for some rosary style beads for a while as I think that they are good to wear in the summer while it is festival season, so when I found these in the Topshop sale, I simply had to buy them.

Finally, I walked past Accessorize and saw that they were having a MASSIVE sale, so I picked up some earrings that were £1.80, down from £6. They are great to wear every day and will match with most outfits.

That’s everything I bought, seems like quite a lot now that I’ve written about it all! My next haul post will probably be a holiday haul of whatever I buy when I go away, so you can expect that in a couple of weeks time.

Love from Amy x