At secondary school my friend, Nikki taught me about snobbery. I’d never really come across it before – I was lucky enough to have the best bunch of people in my class during those wonderful, innocent years of primary school. Anyway, I’ll never forget the look on her face when I discovered Poundstretcher and told her how amazed I was at how cheap everything cost!
And just so you know, my family wasn’t poor – my parents had a mortgage on their house and we had a couple of holidays every year. But I found out that Nikki’s parents were a next level up, and it was obviously something that mattered to her.
Another vivid memory was when a discount shoe shop opened near the station, and it sold imitations of Doc Martins. “Why don’t you just buy real ones?” she asked, knowing full well I didn’t have the money for them. She came along with me to buy them, but refused to come in. She didn’t want to be seen in a shop like that. Instead, she preferred to stand outside on that cold, dark, winter afternoon with a couple of boys, being far too cool for cheap ankle boots.
Maybe this is a little egotistical, but I like to think that a couple of years later I taught Nikki that you didn’t need money to be cool.
Everyone has their own version of cool. I think Youtuber, Zoe Sugg always looks effortlessly cool; as does Trinny (from Trinny and Susannah). I browse Blue Banana in Bristol and I think their pierced, tattooed, fishnet-wearing customers look amazingly cool. None of them are really my style, but as the cliche goes, it’s not what you wear, it’s how you wear it. And what matters most is whether you feel great, and if the clothes you choose are truly, authentically YOU!
If you can’t find clothes in your local shops that you feel cool in, and if boho fairy is your style, then please take a look in my shop.
By the way, these are the words I say in a recent YouTube video if you would like to have a watch. In it I am making a purple fairy dress that I wore to Glastonbury Festival, so if you’re a fan of my older sewing videos, then this one’s for you!
Take care. And stay cool!