case closed!

Okay, some of you might recall the lovely Lucy, who was out with Wallace when I dotted them on Gloucester Road way back on the 24th of March. It was a cold day and she was mostly in black, with a great, bit grey flannel type bag, and had these sweet pumps in the kind of nude pink we're all looking forward to wearing lots more of come real spring. I was having trouble sourcing them.

Well Lucy has just got in touch! She DID get them at Liberty - at the Christmas sale - and the brand is Solea. You all probably know about this, but I'd never heard of them. According to Lucy, they're quite common - she might have seen them at Harrods, too. They're sold at Kurt Geiger online, but not that exact style. The ones shown here are the Sindy Pink Courts*, supposedly were £119 ($222 USD) but now the extraordinary price of £19- must be a typo!

* http://www.kurtgeiger.com/online-shop/15367-solea-sindy

But I still like Lucy's best. Guess we'll have to hold out for eBay, or Oxfam.

The weird thing is, this all happened while Mr. Dot & I were watching rented DVDs of the Wire. It's all quite.. mysterious.

just because

.. I thought she was sweet. Anna, on Kensington High Street.

louis, louis

Saw Paulette from Paris dashing past Chanel @ Brompton Cross. It takes real balls to combine classic Burberry plaid scarf, red nail polish, Louis Vuitton black monogram Speedy bag, Gucci logo belt buckle..God knows which designer jeans... but it works somehow on her.  Maybe because there's some relief from the pattern-on-pattern with the simple, crisp white shirt and dark, skinny leg jeans... or maybe it's simply that element of irony & FUN (repeat after me, Girls: this isn't the G20 summit, it's just fashion).

I didn't even realise until I got the film developed (yes, I shoot with real film - my dad's old Spotmatic from the sixties) that even her LOAFERS have designer logos on it - I think it might be Louis, as well. That's TWO LOUIS's in one look!