Mid Week Must Haves

I can't believe it's the third day of my new routine and I'm so far sticking to it, ticking off what I have to do each day.  Just shows how much you can get done when you are focused!  So this is another new feature and it's pretty self explanatory.  They aren't exactly must must haves, I mean we aren't going to die without them are we? However for alliteration purposes 'must' sounded better than anything else! It's aimed as a mid-week 'pick me up' really and will include two items, one from the high street and one designer. They will be loosely themed (as in 'shoes', 'dress' etc) but are not intended to be 'dupes' or replicas of each other. They are just two bags I thought were cute!

Mid Week Must Haves (Bags) by pinkhairedprincess featuring clutches

Oasis Feel My Wrath!

I don't know why, but last week when I was shopping, I decided to pop into Oasis. Bad idea! I felt completely depressed afterwards and started sulking like a 3 year old, because I wanted the pretty dresses but knew they wouldn't fit. Their largest size is a 16 and they certainly aren't designed with boobies like mine in mind. I knew this beforehand, so I don't why I put myself through the pain of looking for things that I couldn't have! The 4 dresses above really caught my eye, the perfect wedding outfit. The floral tulip skirted dress, is actually boned so that it sticks out on the hips, like a little cage. The one shouldered is beautifully constructed and the fabrics of the other two wouldn't look out of place on the Prada catwalk. I tried not to be too disheartened, afterall I do own a zillion other floral dresses that do fit.
Then on the way out of the shop, I saw this. A little granny dress, that my Mum described as "so old fashioned", but that I fell head over heels in love with. It has a peacock print with ladies all over it in beautiful soft colours and I'm a sucker for that 'old fashioned' tea style. It's soooo unfair when you see something that you adore, but can't have. I know us bloggers are always banging on about how far the plus size world has come in recent years or even months, but personally I still don't feel that I have all my needs met in any of these stores. In my opinion, you still can't beat the regular high-street and that totally sucks. I'm not only angry at plus size shops for not appealing to me, but more so stores like Oasis and Topshop and Miss Selfridge (I'm still lusting and sulking over that bird print dress) who seem happy to cater for the abnormally skinny-don't be shocked by my words, some of these stores offer a size 4 (US size zero) and that to me is 'abnormally' thin and I'm sure we don't need to rehash that old debate. So why not dress the 'abnormally fat'? Which isn't actually that abnormal considering the average dress size in the UK is a 16 and therefore most shops should carry sizes both above and below that. I think every girl has the right to feel fashionable, comfortable, cute and sexy or however they want a dress to make them feel, so the UK high-street needs to address this and sort it out pronto! I'm fed up of feeling left out or that somehow I'm not 'allowed' to wear what the thin people wear. And don't even start on the fact that Oasis have this dress in maxi length (with purple trim), which is also super, super gorgeous. I doubt they would be willing to custom make me this dress, after this rant though, tee hee!