Day Fifty

Claire is wearing a long patterned sheer sleeve-less shirt with low back [from a friend], gold hoop earrings [Superdrug], fake leather bracelet with copper dollar signs [charity shop], black leggings [Primark], grey leopard print thermal socks [George at Asda], black canvas hi-top trainers [Dunlop, from Sports Direct].
Covadonga is wearing a black loose top with a gold panel [from a friend].

Yesterday one of my friends had a spring sorting sesh, and she collected some clothes to give away.But first stop before the charity shop, is us, the friends (which we were vary grateful for)! I nabbed these two tops, among other things. This is the great things about having generous friends with similarly bursting wardrobes, we can share, swap and take. It's all recycling and it's nice knowing you haven't parted from old friends forever, as they're only hanging up in a wardrobe around the corner, should you change your mind.
New additions for free! 
This top is great, the pattern is lovely and it's a good length to wear with leggings. The collar continues around the back, while the fabric drapes and overlaps and creates a triangle gap. It's all very edgeh and breezy. 
I have also found an excuse today to wear my very tacky bracelet. It's a band of fake black leather with a popper to secure it, on it are three copper coloured dollar signs. It's not a favourite in the house, but tackiness has its time and place. 
Today is also International Women's Day! 
It may seem odd to comment on it on a fashion blog (but we should be encouraging discussion, given the current depressing stats about women's rights, violence against women, the gender pay gap...) but what we wear is an important statement about ourselves, and its often one of the first things that people notice about us (before we open our mouths anyway). What women wear is often more than just clothing. We seem to carry cultural and social messages, aspirations, expectations and traditions in the fabric we wear. We are very often judged on what we wear: if it's too short ("sluttish"), or too long ("prudish") or just plain "wrong" (and there's everything wrong with people labeling others like that). We are told to wear things and to look a certain way by our society and the media within it.
We should be able to wear what we want, look how we want and present ourselves to the world the way we want. Clothing is definitely not the be all and end all, but it's a place to start from.