Clothes Show Live 2011

I've finally been to the Clothes Show - I've wanted to go for a couple years but either we could never make it or we thought we were being taken with school but then that would never work out. But I made it this year! I didn't really know what to expect to be honest and I didn't really see how we were going to use up something like eight hours, but it is possible.

The show was amazing. Again, with the title 'A night at the department store' I didn't know what to expect because I thought the title was a little unusual but It was so good. The whole performance of it all was excellent and the clothes were obviously amazing. My mum and I did recognize one of the male models from the London Graduate Show - he's beautiful and always gets involved with the audience which makes for a great atmosphere.

So, down to the main business - what we bought. This is everything me and my mum bought put together which I don't think looks that bad. The majority of things we got were deals like get these products worth £50 for £10 or words/numbers to that effect. We also got a couple of freebies including several Nivea samples, a heat magazine and two tubes of St. Moriz tanning lotion. I also actually bought some clothes and the clothes show (who'd have thought, right?). I did buy more than I was expecting to to be honest but the fact that I had my first ever pay slip that week added to the whole excitement of the clothes show and little self control meant I couldn't help myself. 

state of the art blue tack used to photograph this without it folding over .

The two tops above were in a £5 'bin' from the company Your Eyes Lie which I now adore. I've wanted something with a space/galaxy print on for a while and after losing hope on finding any decently priced galaxy print leggings I thought this would be a good alternative. The Oh Deer top needs turning up as it's a little long on me right now but for a fiver I don't think its too bad!

I love these dresses. The stall I got it from doesn't have a website or anything they just go around selling at events like the Clothes Show. The first dress is going to be my New Years dress and the second is very similar to one I saw in New Look (i think?) a couple of seasons ago and I liked it then but didn't get it so I thought I'd go for this now.

These feel quite strange to wear as they're knitted and don't have that much stretch in them but I'll get used to that. I've wanted some tribal or fairisle leggings for a while now and these were only £10 which is the cheapest I've seen them so I thought I'd go for it - this was also my first purchase so I was a little excitable as well. I think I still might get some fairisle leggings for the festive season.

Overall I really enjoyed the Clothes Show (free Hagandaaz anyone?! seriously.) I loved the actual show and then looking around all the stalls with my mum was lovely and I think we got some pretty good stuff, some of which I've decided to blog about separately otherwise this post would never end.  I'll definitely go again!

Have you ever been or did you/are you going this year?

Victoria xx