Leggins, Jegging, Treggings, Meggings

This item has got so many name & it's become more complicated!

Leggings - started in the 80s more sportswear/aerobics wear simple, cotton/spandex

80s revival of this item with modern twists returned to the catwalks and High Street in 2005

Then afterwards this piece of leg wear just got very versatile in the fabric department, wet shiny look, digital prints, zipped, lacy.... I think I'm sick of seeing them particularly last week in New Look and how they were displayed, carcasses full of them!

Then 2009/10 comes in the Treggings and Jeggings, pretty much the same thing, trouser+legging or jeans+jegging

Only difference it they’re just normal skinny trousers/jeans but with a higher elastane content, oh and have elasticated waists, so easier to slip on!

Ooh then bring on Meggings! Men’s leggings! So they weren’t very popular during 80s Revival, only some guys were able to pull it off, but then winter 2009 Meggings were back of course the classic Long John, much manly! & a handy item particularly this winter snow weeks we’ve had!

Celebrities influence and pull off the style and can make it a trend. If styled well on a man they look good! They’re also a subtle piece to wear under trousers a way of layering keeping the legs warm and no one notices unless they’re really bright and your trousers are short! But it’s also celebrities who influence

But the 21st Century has brought on the Metrosexual male, where he likes to take care of himself, and styling.... hell like girls getting away with men's clothes, I do admit to donning a few men's pieces guys could get away with some womenswear and they've done it, jeans, sweat tops with kool prints.....

OK I'm off on a tangent and gonna stop! hehehe

But I'm gonna share this awesome tune with you guys. It's a Korean tune by After School, really catchy pop tune!

haha something amusing!

Been tidying bit of crap in my room & find my old note book with bit of uni notes fashion related bits and in one of the pages found this little saying thing that I wrote God knows how many years ago but I remember it was my Dad telling me this & I thought was Amusing!!

"If I marry a White Guy, He'll cheat on me,

If I married a Black Guy, He'll hit me

If I married an Indian Guy, He'll starve me

And a Muslim will have me Killed"

Damn.... this is a bit Racy!! Hmm... Dad's joke here isn't very PC

well that strikes of a few races of guys, I take it my Dad doesn't want me marrying into! hahaha! well if all else fails I'll just take a Civil Partnership with Mimi HAHAHAHA!! since she wants me to serenade her singing KC and Jojo I don't even know the song!

Wedding of Simon & Novanne

Weddings are indeed a happy and memorable occasion.

Catching up and sharing a loving event with friends and family. The Registration office was a lovely Tudor building, very heritage.

As the bride and groom started signing the marriage certificate, the tears started from the Best man, and Grooms parents; which set the Groom and Bride off crying as well, such an emotional moment.

Evening dinner was held at the Guildhall in Coventry a very Traditional English location, next to the old Cathedral I think my history isn't that great!

Typical me being with the "cool" table, sat with a good bunch, we had a lot to talk about many interesting discussions, jokes and anecdotes to share, lot of laughs! Very sociable! I think we were the loudest table stuck between the Bride/Grooms who were at the top & other tables around us, they seemed much quieter than we were. The Lewis the Best Man and his Mum, were glad we were having a good time & knew we would be the best and lively table of the room!! (yes to the under 30s table!!)

After the dinner Groom & his old School mates went out to the court yard for a celebratory cigar, typical me I can't say no & decided to join the manly session! First time I've ever smoked a Cigar! Not bad! Though Yan my best mate who was also at the wedding said I'm becoming like my dad!

Dancing in the Hall was good! Lewis did some breaking with his crew who were really awesome & I couldn't get over one of the members did such a sick job with pop and locking, and he's 42!

DJ played chart tunes and of course classic floor fillers from the 90s! definitely couldn't say no to Dancing to Wigfield's Saturday Night, which I finally remember the moves

to, the Macarena, it's a must and YMCA!

fun fun times & congrats to the Happy Newly Weds! I wish them all the best

First dance was to this classic Chinese Love song ^.^

Awesome website!

I have to share this Link with you guys, bit more fashion!

It's such a kool Korean fashion website, selling really Shit Hot clothes

Both men's & women's clothing very unique styles some pieces quite designer. Personally I prefer the menswear, women's is a bit too girly & spend over $150 dollars free delivery!!

http://www.yesstyle.com/en/home.html

Fast Fashion

Holy Crap, I didn’t realise High Street are so quick moving with things, maybe there is a bit of naivety to me, but hey, I’m still learning the traits of this fashion world!

So here’s the thing, as I was shopping this evening after work, (Ok I know I’m suppose to be banned, but I have a wedding to go to in the weekend so need a top to got with my skirt!) Trying to find a top so of course first place I’d hit is Primark! Man that place is still crazy even after Christmas. Moving on from Primarni I move to the next alternative, New look! My God! That place has so many rails devoted to Leggings & Jeggings! It’s like a supermarket for them especially the way they’ve merchandised it!

So No luck over in New Look, Popping over to Next, thinking they’ll do nice smart things suitable for a wedding, as I went in I noticed a long top that looked really familiar…. It was the smart top I was measuring at work today! I know it was since the gaudettes on the dress are a pain in my arse to measure! Exactly the same thing, and same thing for a production sample I was checkin with Jane Norman (image at the Very Top)

Then over in River Island the have the exact same top too! Ok so I work for a supplier, of course the style isn’t one of a kind marketing for High Street.

Buyers buy similar styles but with different designs such as prints wash.

But this made me realise it doesn’t take long for an item to hit the shop floor once the item has approval from production samples! Fro example this same top, I measured it for Jane Norman last week & it was approved so delivery of it and making doesn’t take long!

Fast fashion IS FAST; it can only take 2 weeks for something new to hit the shop floor. For example I’ve been doing some work for a High Street Company (Ok this is revealing a bit of the garment tech world to you guys!), sent them their samples and what adjustments they’ll want from the sample via e-mails.

We amend the measurements and send them to the pattern cutters to adjust patterns & our office up there will send us the next fit sample for the buyers to OK, takes 3days for that to be done.

Once the buyers approve we need to send that sample to the lab and get it tested of fibre content, wash & print tests etc usually takes 3-4days, results get sent to buyers and technologists for approval. Once that’s OKed we get the labels for the garment inc wash cares another 2days & they get sent to the factories who make the style.

Production samples get sent to us to double check they’re the right length, have all labels, basically what will be on the floors in how it’ll look. When production samples are approved making gets done, God Knows how many 1000s of the garment. Then hey presto! The clothes are on the floor!

Well opens eyes to other aspects of the fashion industry aside from the design, catwalks and photoshoots! I know the pictures aren't so crisp as I'd like them, lacking photoshop as it's temporarily failed me! >.<

I’ve still got hell of a lot to learn within this Industry, I’ve only worked with this company for nearly 2months!

Ice Festival

From Snow weekend in Devon to Ice Festival over in Canary Wharf.

Some of the work was quite nice but what was there was kind of disappointing. Shame about the weather, RAIN! Muddy grass and finding the irony of a sign on the grass!

Maybe it should have been better if

we were still having snow week, might have looked

really pretty!

An anecdote of Mum’s

Little things at home make me really know I’m home. As I was chilling out checking things in on the computer/ teaching mum to use the computer I notice some Chinese pork and a Chinese gourd (胡老瓜 think that’s how it’s spelt in Chinese) hanging outside!

I asked Mum what the hell is it doing hanging outside & why did it have a hole in it. So here’s mum’s little anecdote of it.

She left the gourd in the conservatory, whist she was away on holiday, when she came back she found it moulding, so best way to keep it dry was hanging it in the garden, then who knew bugs and maybe birds started to pick at it! Causing the gourd to have a random hole!