Bollywood Mash Up

It's Wednesday morning, I'm just off to the corner shop in vintage denim and gold lamé.

 I do love a good mash-up, stuff that really shouldn't go together but somehow work brilliantly, like curry sauce and chips, fizzy white wine with Flying Saucers or Bollywood Carmen - Bhangra meets Bizet performed on the streets of Bradford and broadcast live by the Beeb - it had me whirling round the lounge last night like a woman demented.

When the curtains opened to reveal drab & drizzly skies this morning I knew I needed to don my latest maxi dress and unleash a bit of Bollywood dazzle.

How cool is the label?

Gold and silver together - gotta be done.

Indian, Pakistani, African, Native American ....

Why just feck around with just one cultural reference when you can pile on the entire bastard lot ?

The Rolling Stones, vintage handicrafts, contemporary footwear.....

Sharing my feet over at Bella's

Clothes are mere frivolities, dress up, wear what you love and stop mithering about what other people think of you. If they don't like you because you wear a cocktail dress to buy a lettuce then they probably weren't worth bothering with in the first place.

Here's a fine mash-up, Snoop Dogg might be a dick but this song (and the film it's from) rock.

1970s Perfect Lady cocktail dress (my friend Vicky), Lewis Barnett denim waistcoat (Second to None, Walsall), Pakistani vintage velvet tote (25p, jumble sale), Original Rolling Stones badges & peace earrings (courtesy of Atomic Mildred AKA Clare), turquoise boots (sword-wielding goddess, Helga), Plaited headband (99p dump bin, Boots)

I'm off to get my stock ready for the Canal Festival this weekend and to add a few more frocks to the shop, too. It's probably just as well the weather's crap, no sneaking off to lie in the garden in my bikini.

See you soon!