Refined psychedelia

Dress: Rare (GetTheLabel)*// Shoes: New Look// Bag: h&m// Fur Stole: Accessorize

Exams are over! I am so relieved that they're all done and dusted, but so sad that second year is coming to an end. I've been living in my student house since October and it honestly feels like ten minutes. After this year I can truly understand why people look back on student life wistfully, I don't think I ever want to leave! 

Anyhoo, as I mentioned in my last post, I was invited along to the Get The Label blogger party last month, the event was such a success and, as well as meeting some lovely new bloggers, Get The Label offered to send me a few of their new season pieces to review. I was immediately drawn to this gorgeous lace shift dress from Rare. I've been dying to find the perfect little black dress for summer - all of my current ones are body con and too hot for a night out in June! The dress is such good quality and comes with a brown belt which you can pop on for a look more suitable to daytime. 

I thought for a treat I'd get dressed up and paired it with my lovely 60's wedges from New Look, which I'm a little bit in love with, and this gorgeous oil-slick style envelope clutch from h&m which I snapped up in the sale over Easter. With all the sunshine we've been having, my fur collar is a tad unnecessary, but I finally got to see Gatsby on Friday night so I thought I'd add a little glamour to the look! (I think sans collar would more suitable for a student night in Lancaster, it's a little more MIC than LA1!) 

Over the next few weeks I'll be popping up some more Get The Label posts as well as my usual thrifed styles. Although a few of the pieces have been sent to me for review I have to admit I've become a little addicted to the Get The Label site due to its very affordable collections, so I've made a couple of purchases of my very own too!

TTFN

GetTheLabel Urban Blogger Party

Cheeky lunch at Teacup pre-bloggers' meet. After all, it'd be rude not to!

The lovely Lola from ThePastimeBliss and Katie from The Quick Red Fox

This event was a while ago now, but I felt it necessary to share it with you all as my last blogging escapade! I know my posts have been a little infrequent recently but exams among other things, have left me with a shortage of blogging time and I've resigned to wearing a hoodie and skinnies on the days I venture out of my house/revision hovel. I'm even dreaming about highlighters and sticky labels, which I'm guessing is a hint that I've been spending too much time alone with my books.

Anyhow, on the 2nd May, Chrissie (my little blogging helper) and I popped along to the GetTheLabel blogger party in Manchester's Northern Quarter for an afternoon preview of the company's latest clothing ranges. Now, I must confess, when the lovely Chloe contacted me about the event, although I had heard of GTL, I'd never actually purchased anything from their site however post-party this soon changed.

The event was so relaxed and fun, allowing the bloggers to mingle and chat about the new pieces for GTL's summer ranges, whilst drinking champagne, eating copious amounts of GTL cupcakes, doodling on the 'scribble wall' and bopping (yep, I did just use a term reserved for grannies and with-it mums) to some incredible nineties hits.

I picked out some amazing pieces from GTL to review, which I'll be posting on the blog over the next few weeks, as well as purchasing a few little gems of my own, some for under a tenner! I was so surprised by the huge number of brands GTL stocks, which includes big names like Glamorous and Nike and I really think this site could become one of my 'go-to gals' for an online splurge!

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Have a great week!