Stripes forever

TOP - H&M  |  SKIRT - H&M  |  BOOTS - RIVER ISLAND  |  BAG - H&M  |  RING - ALISON MOORE

My everyday uniform is typically all black: jeans, t-shirt and trainers - because apparently I've never really grown out of my adolescent goth phase - but recently I've been trying to mix things up a bit. Yes it's still pretty much all black but for one there's a skirt, two there's frills, three there's heels and four there's colour!

I am literally living for H&M's current collection - when I treated myself to a few things last week there were so many pieces my purse strings just couldn't stretch to but I did manage to bag this striped top with frilled shoulders, and this perfect paperbag skirt which I've been trying to hunt down for years it seems. Completing the look with a bright yellow cross body bag - again from H&M and really affordable - some heeled ankle boots from River Island which I purchased last year and my favourite Alison Moore silver twig ring and - hey presto! I can do girly whilst still staying in my monochromatic comfort zone!

Let me know in the comments what you think and what stores have got you lusting after their current lines!

-  Melissa  x