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Style Post Intermission – Vintage Shopping

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OR: Dandelion Daydreamer Vintage Pop-Up and Interview Hey All, In case your horribly bored of looking at my wardrobe, I thought I’d better post about some of the clothes that I wish I had in my wardrobe. Imagine spending your summers by the beach, shopping in markets and boutiques in the South of France; hanging [...]

Day 4 Style Post – 5 days, 5 posts, 5 outfits

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Hey All, Here’s my fourth style post, 7 days & 4 posts down, 0 days & 1 posts to go… (Oh well) Distracted as I am by snow and such, it seems that I have failed to step up to the challenge that I set myself. I am a day (or two) behind but hey, [...]

Current Musings – A good start to 2011

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OR: First week back to reality… 7 things that kept me sane over the last 7 days! - Without which I could easily have drowned in a blue-mood lagoon. Movies at the IFI. I watched and loved Catfish, and I EDIT: intend to watch and love also watched and loved The Kings Speech. If not [...]

Brown Thomas SS11 Showcase

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Hey All, It isn’t so often that I get to write about on-trend, straight off the catwalk fashion. I do plenty of style posting, and the lines between the two often get blurred, but a post on pure fashion is a rare thing. This morning presented me with a perfect opportunity to do so however. [...]

River Island SS11 Showcase

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Hi All, I’m pretty certain by now that you all know what we’re going to be wearing between now and Autumn. I’m not going to go into which new season trends I’ve fallen for or even what each trend is because there’s no point and it makes for boring (and lazy) blogging. I know what [...]

A Tux Style Post

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Hey All, Inspired by Dries van Noten and Stella McCartney SS11 collections (see last photo) I dug out this oversized Tuxedo jacket. It kinda goes with most of my wardrobe and is so big it actually fits over most of my other coats and jackets. I like wearing it 1920′s-gangster-style; thrown over my shoulders and [...]

Shoes & Swatches

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Hey All, I’m having a busy worky weekend. Deadlines looming and being too skint to go out to play = plenty of pressure, and I love a bit of pressure! So while I was busy writing about non-fashion related things, my subconscious decided that it would rather think of other things. Like shoes (and ships [...]

A look with a view – a style post

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Hey All, I thought I would get to work on managing this new palette. I’ve since discovered that  when wearing leather in trench coat form, chocolate-brown is pretty much the only colour you can get away with. Black is a bit Goth and grey is a bit Schindler’s List… Also, showing a slightly unhinged obsessive [...]

Oasis SS11 highlights

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Hey All, Hoorah! It’s February; the sales are officially over (be gone skanky sale rails) and all the shops are selling their new Spring / Summer ’11 wares. (See River Island SS11 highlights here). Because vintage, clothing / style / everything when stratospheric last year, the high street seen to have hit back with hugely, [...]

AWear SS11 Highlights

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Hey All, Continuing the new season collections review – Hard when there is a hurricane blowing outside, I know – AWear have launched their latest offerings. I was in store on Monday and had to stop myself buying a fantastic pair of ‘peg-leg’* Chinos let alone anything else. Their major trend  is a kind of [...]

As Seen in: RTÉ’s RedRadar Blog

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Hey All, It seems the extraordinarily in-the-know people at RTÉ have embraced Irish bloggers with gusto and asked us to contribute to their new alternative fashion and music blog, RedRadar. Today, Whisty joined the list of great bloggers, Angela Scanlon, Blaubushka, A Chick Named Hermia and The Style Strutter by contributing a few words. TRANSCRIPTION: [...]

DVF = Dramatic, Virbrant Footwear… Right?

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Hey All, I’ve been shoe-perving again this week. You know with shoes, you have your favourite designers; either eternally (mine’s YSL and more recently Miu Miu) or seasonally (3.1 Phillip Lim SS 2011 T-bar snake-skin heels). Queen, (or princess? Diane von Furstenberg was once married to a German Prince) of the silk-jersey wrap dress, DVF [...]

Photography Focus: A Romance Antithesis

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Hey All, I trust you’re getting suitably amorous in the knowledge that the cheesiest day of the year is upon us… If, however, you’re anything like me, you couldn’t care less about Feb 14th. Indulge yourself instead in some positively non-romantic photography from James McLoughlin. The Dublin based photographer got the cover of Totally Dublin [...]

A Style Post – Going Against the Green

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OR: Happy Birthday Whisty. You are Two. Hi All, On this day in history, 2009 whisty.wordpress.com was born. I loved it as much then as I do now and over the last 24 months, I have posted a mere, 523 posts but, more importantly I’ve received, 2,253 comments. And it is without a doubt the [...]

Jonathan Saunders & Preen… at Debenhams

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Hey All, Isn’t it weird… sometimes when a designer collaborates with the High Street, there is such a huge song and dance about it. Cue, massive hoards outside the store and more gnashing of teeth and weeping than the Book of Revelations. So when I was going up the escalators in Henry Street, I was [...]

Karen Millen get Irish-blogger-involved.

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Hey All, I’m not going to lie to you, I’m feeling a lil’ bit dehydrated today… An impromptu wine-fuelled, blogger gossip was the cause; not that admitting that is going to remove the symptoms. Before I found myself boozing on Dame Street, I was on Grafton St. running around Karen Millen helping out with a [...]

Pretty Woman vs Dublin Man

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Hey All. I had a rather unusual day last Thursday. I went to meet the film makers of Rent-a-Friend for RTÉ‘s Storyland, to film a promo for their episode. It was a parody of a scene in Pretty Woman… when Vivian wreaks revenge on the snooty bint in a posh Beverly Hills boutique, who refused [...]

A Style Post – Flowers and Florals

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Hey All, White and pink blossom, yellow Daffodils and purple crocuses, hazy sunshine long shadows and fresh-cut grass. I love when spring arrives. It also wants me to wear this shawl with its floral embroidery. I have a park near my house that always has people in it; I ventured out on a much-needed walk, [...]

Louise Kennedy SS11 – Jersey for Sure

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Hi All, Last Thursday, I went to 56 Merrion Square, D2; the flagship store of Irish designer Louise Kennedy. I sat in the most beautiful 5-storey Georgian Townhouse watching her SS11 collection showcase. It was all about neon colour blocking; lace shift dresses and jersey maxi dresses in bubblegum pink, turquoise, buttercup yellow, all mixed [...]

Penney’s (Primark) Spring Summer 2011 pieces

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Hey All, From one end of Irish fashion – Louise Kennedy, to the other; this time it’s the Penney’s /Primark SS11 collection. I have a very volatile relationship with Penney’s. One season you’ll find me in there once a week looking at the latest drop; the next I’ll avoid its crazed, bargain-hunting hordes like the [...]
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