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Katie Fashion

Perfect A/W ’13 boots with Timberland, Jules B, Clarks and Schuh

Hello Lovelies,

As autumn, and ultimately winter, draws ever closer, I turn my attention to finding gorgeous boots perfect for kicking russet leaves and keeping my toots warm in the striking cold.

I am a huge fan of chunky, masculine utilitarian boots, paired with a pair of skinny jeans or a girly dress for a hard edge to an outfit.

One of my favourite brands to give me this look is Timberland. Beautifully crafted, well made and environmentally savvy, the brand delivers beautiful footwear to tickle my fancy time and time again.

This year, Jules B, a boutique in Jesmond, Newcastle upon time has got a great range of boots on offer for both men and women and these are my ultimate favourites.

Don’t worry though, men haven’t been left out this autumn at Jules B, check out these gorgeous men’s boots. The tweed ones would make a great nod to the heritage trend, if worn with a Barbour and cords.

From elsewhere on the web, I am having major boot lust over these beauties too! Oh hurry up pay day, I need them ALL.

Blowfish Kasbah | £79.99 | Schuh

Rocket Dog Damita | £65 | Schuh

Clarks Orinocco Sash | £79.99 | Clarks

Mojita Sorbet | £89.99 | Clarks

Timberland is available from Jules B both online and in one of their 3 Northern boutiques in Jesmond, Yarm or Kendal. If you are in the area, I fully recommend a visit to Jules B… oh the bags, the beautiful high end bags they sell. Be still my beating heart.

How would you style a pair of these chunky boots? Let me know!

Katie Beauty

Metrocentre presents Beauty Box September 14th & 15th

Hello Lovelies,

The Intu Metrocentre up here in Gateshead is hosting a 2 day beauty event in the shopping centre this weekend.

Join us for a HUGE 2-day beauty event at intu Metrocentre in association with !

You’ll be treated to exclusive expert beauty and hair demonstrations, mini pamper treatments including facials and nail painting, makeovers, a fab competition, giveaways and more!

We’ll have professional makeup artists and hair stylists on hand all day, as well as the fabulous intu Metrocentre Style Team who will be happy to share their expert style advice and fashion tips. The Beauty Box event will be in Town Square from 9am to 7pm on Saturday 14th and 11am to 5pm on Sunday 15th.

Don’t forget to come along to the event for your chance to win. You can win products from around the Centre or an overnight stay at Slaley Hall in the new Chamber Unique room. This prize includes a drinks reception of a glass of Moet followed by dinner served in Dukes Grill with the new steak and seafood menu. Choose 2 activities from a round of golf on the PGA Championship Priestman golf course, or Aromatherapy Massage or Aromatherapy facial and breakfast in bed the following day.

The event will also include products and advisors from:

Boots
Bumble Bumble
No7
Ojon
Clarins
Clinique
Cover Beauty
Hotel Chocolat
House of Fraser
Nails Inc
Thomas Sabo
Molton Brown
Marks and Spence
Pro Skin within Superdrug

Let me know if you go!

Katie Fashion

Shoe lust with Hunter Millbank

Hello Lovelies,

Seeing as we are now passed the Glorious 12th, thoughts of autumn and appropriate footwear start seeping in to my subconscious.

While perusing the Hunter website as per usual, I spotted the most amazing shoes I have ever seen. Not entirely practical for me standing in a field knee deep in mud for hours on end BUT, bloody smart for rainy September afternoons.

I am absolutely OBSESSED with the neon pink Millbank Hunter boots. A cross between a baseball boot and a welly, the Millbank has neon, rubber AND studs. Who could resist that?

At a handsome £89.00 available from Hunter, I think I will be snapping these up come pay day!

These are also available in other neon colours

Do you like these? Yay or Nay?

Katie Fashion

A day at the races – retro style

Hello Lovelies,

I have been fortunate enough to have been a guest at the races a few times now and I always have a great time. I must admit I am usually more at home in jeans and a polo shirt with a pair of wellies and a wax jacket than in a posh frock but it’s nice to dress up once in a while isn’t it?

You can get a slight inkling of how the combined outfit might look as its not a million miles away from the style I wore for my wedding in Las Vegas

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Katie Fashion

Luxury Leather Luggage by blokesbags.co.uk

Hello Lovelies,

I’m sure if you follow me on Twitter you’ll know the dilemma I have been having with buying new travel luggage right? I am looking for the most perfect pair of tan leather holdalls / weekend bags. Finding these bags has been next to impossible and believe me I have trawled luggage shops and brands.

I want something quite masculine as I like classic, clean, simple shapes, styles and lines and as Mr Tramp will have to use these and a lot of the bags I have found have been a bit too girly.. Or in a lot of cases, insanely too expensive. I’m just not a fan of frou frou “girly” designs or overbearingly monogrammed designer luggage covered in labels and brands. I don’t begrudge spending money on good quality luggage that will last me a life time but looking at some of the high price range luggage in stores it just simply hasn’t been up to the quality I expect to reflect the price.

Feeling a bit dejected, I started to Google for mens leather bags in the off chance I found something appealing. And boy am I glad I did!

Blokesbags.co.uk, based in Bath, is a unique website offering a HUGE choice of bags for men. I am in leather luggage heaven here. So much so I found myself emailing the owner of the company to tell him how happy I was to have found his website.

David and his wife started Blokesbags 3.5yr ago to deal exlusively in the niche market of man bags. David himself always carried a bag whilst working as a newspaper editor and realised one day people stopped mocking him and starting asking him where he bought it.

Having built their own website from scratch, the company now stocks almost 500 different styles of manbags from beltbags to holdalls and a myriad in between. David sources each product for their design and practicality with their beautiful holdalls ranging from £34.99 to £700.

I think the stigma of carrying a ‘handbag’ has rapidly dropped with the increasing popularity of laptops and ipads. Men need to carry their stuff around just as much as us ladies so why not buy yourself a spiffy manbag rather than a dull black laptop bag or sports rucksack!

I know I had a lot of Twitter support from people looking for the same kind of luggage that I was, so I hope this is of some use. Mr Tramp is already eyeing up a few stunners to replace his naff laptop bag and old briefcase!

Would you ever consider thinking outside the box and looking at ‘mens bags’ or are you all about the girly?