What I'm Wearing - Beanie + Monochrome Posted by Unknown |

1. Beanie - old H&M
2.  Jacket - Next
3. Dress - old All Saints 
4. Tights - Hose

Damn, it's cold outside. Which is why I finally pulled down a zip-lock bag from on top of the wardrobe full of packed-away woolly lovelies, including last year's beanie (no, not neon, that would have made me a total A+ trendsetter) in grey. I can't quite bring myself to jump fully on the blogger beanie bandwagon and go flouro so I'm quite happy to stick with grey, thankyou. This is the start of a few beanie based outfit posts styling up the smurfette look (beanies kinda make us look like Smurfs, don't you think?) with neutrals. Part of a project to make me realise how many perfectly worthwhile neutrals I currently have in my wardrobe and to plan a few spring-while-it's-still nippy outfits. This first one is a bit of a monochrome party look with an old All Saints dress and Next leather jacket. The cracked white booties are old faves from a shop on Exmouth Market I think, and the hand screen printed tights, you've seen these  recently, are from Hose.

Introducing Hand Screen Printed Tights by Hose Posted by Unknown |

Step away from the black opaques and open up your wardrobe to these hand screen printed tights from independent label Hose – set up by Ravensboure womenswear and print graduate Rebecca Cluett. Watermelons, ice-creams and shells in a variety of colours and deniers to be worn up front and in your face or super sultry backwards. Although I'm not really a legs kinda girl, I had great fun one evening last week photographing a selection of the Spring Summer '13 collection and truly enjoyed dressing up my diminutive pins in these brights and nude. Which is your favourite? I'm loving the watermelons in nude (as seen in this previous outfit post). The SS13 collection is now available at hosetights.co.uk 

What I'm Wearing - Black On Black + Hand Screen Printed Tights Posted by Unknown |

We've been invited to the opening of one of my favourite supper clubs – east London's The Clove Club (opening 4th March) which used to take place every now and then in various locations and, perhaps now, will have more of a permanent home. We haven't yet organised a babysitter, but I remain hopeful optimistic. If we make it, this is what I'll be wearing. Black skater dress (petite, c/o New Look), old Topshop blazer (very similar, if not the same one, here) and these fabulous hand screen printed tights c/o independent label Hose. You can't see the nude tights' watermelon print properly in these photos but there's a much more colour-popping and comprehensive set of photos of the new SS13 Hose collection to come. So, stay tuned. (Buy the tights for £20 here.)