I do love a good pair of shoulder pads...

Sorry once more for falling behind with my blogging duties! Uni work has reared its ugly head again; probably my own doing through being too busy consuming vast quantities of mince pies, Christmas pudding and chocolates, not forgetting getting a little too merry courtesy of my festive friend, mulled wine (how I've missed you).

Aaaaaaanyway. Just before Christmas I visited a little place not far from me called Bentham. It isn't far at all in fact, though admittedly in the opposite direction to which I usually travel.

My reason for the short trip was the charity shop there, Sue Ryder Care, which bizarrely I've never had the pleasure of visiting.

I say bizarrely because my mum and dad are constantly picking up amazing things there, which recently included two very good quality sheepskin coats for £5 each! (I told my dad that they were in vogue and he got them for me to sell-on; haven't got around to that yet...).

So back to the shop itself, it's only a small one, but there's definitely some bargains to be had. The woman there (forgotten her name already, how rude of me) has established a bit of a rapport with my mum so she was very friendly.

After a bit of a chat with her about sourcing bargainous vintage, I spotted this rather colourful 80s jumper.

I usually prefer my tops to be a little longer to wear with leggings, but it's an excuse to buy some new jeans in the sales I guess...

What attracted me to the jumper most was the (quite small by 80s standards to be fair) shoulder pads. My shoulders aren't the daintiest to begin with, but I do love a bit of power dressing!

Electric blue also happens to be one of my favourite colours; though I mainly buy black so find it hard to pair with my existing outfits- cue pattern incorporating a bit of the black stuff, perfect!

An undoubtedly 80s label too,

After Bentham, my mum and I continued on to Kirkby Lonsdale, where she needed to pick up some things.

We called in at the Army surplus (I think) shop. It was interesting actually; quite a bit of old army gear.

I loved all these old, battered leather bags

These cossack-style fur hats were amazing! Though £40 a go and real fur apparently!

Amazing what you find in the weirdest places!

And...

You'll be pleased to know that I had a successful bout of charity shopping today- post to come!

I also haven't really had any outfit shots as 1. I haven't got a tripod, 2. I haven't really mastered the self-timer function on my camera even if I could balance it on a wonky stack of various items and 3. There's no-one to really take pictures for me. I don't really like having my picture taken, but I don't mind my fella taking them too much; though I went and met him at bloody university didn't I, so whilst not there we practically live at opposite ends of the country! Pfft.

I'll attempt a dressing-up session perhaps when I go back to uni next week; can't have my new camera going to waste can I?!

Foxy

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