It is like Christmas all over. There should be a ‘fashionista’s calendar’ for this time of the year when the wait for the new season goodies is on. One little ‘window’ to open each day. Each day with a taste of what is to come.
Every day I read the fashion-columns in the newspapers, Grazia is in my bag on a weekly basis and the monthly glossies such as Elle, Marie-Claire, Easy Living and Vogue are a permanent fixtures on my coffee-table for intense reading whilst breast-feeding my daughter.
I should be fully informed and up to date on what to wear for this season by the time all the new stuff are hitting the shelves in the shops and online. (I should by now also be fully up to date with the latest celebrity-gossip!)
Now… I am no fashionista… no-one to go crazy in the hunt for the latest key-pieces or desperately trying to display the latest look. But I am a woman… and what woman doesn’t like to look good and to splash out on a bit of shopping once in a while … type every month… type every week… type as often as you can afford to and without upsetting husband when household-budget goes overdrawn?
My career may be food & beverage, but having married in to a ‘fashion-family’ I am slowly getting drawn into the hype, or more so should I say … the DESIRE to be part of the glamorous world of fashion.
I don’t want you to think I was ever the ugly duckling having been rescued and now going through a transformation to get rid of greasy chipfat from my restaurant-days. Having looked after restaurants in both Harrods and Selfridges for almost ten years I have, despite selling Champagne & smoked salmon, very much been in the midst of the beautiful world of London-fashion and latest trends. Never have my store-cards been so much used as during those years, both on Champagne… and other women’s must-haves.
However, being a mother and nearing 40 my style and my needs have changed. Power-dressing is no longer required, and the daily ironing of shirts and maintenance of sore feet after twelve hour working-days in 4 inch high heels is no longer on my agenda.
Instead I want to be a bit more adventurous with what I wear in a grown-up sort of way. At getmyfashion we are really trying to come up with a collection of more grown-up and mature fashion but still contemporary & stylish, both everyday-wear and for special occasions. But like Angela, my mother-in-law and the buyer and style-guru of this company, would say ‘-we need to rethink what everyday-wear is’ and she feels that it is time to stop being restricted in what we buy just because we are buying for ‘everyday-wear’. Go for dresses and skirts with prints and colour, do the skinny-jean-look, invest in some soft knitwear for chilly days and so on. Accessorize with jewellery, bags and hats and bring life to a plain look. Don’t aim to be the mummsiest of all at playgroup, be the mum who lights up the room. Don’t just blend in, stand out!
Once again, may I stress… fashion is not about how you are perceived by other people. It is about YOU and about feeling GOOD. I know we are all different, but I know that I feel a million times better in new clothes, perhaps a new style… (and a haircut, a new Mac lipstick and some Lindt chocolate in my handbag to go with it).
And not everyone is as fortunate as me to have a style-advisor at hand as and when I need it, but Angela can be your style-advisor too. Just keep an eye on our ‘keylooks-section’ where she will advice on the latest trends and how to put outfits together.
SO, as part of my new year’s-aim to update my old self; ‘new season’…bring it on!!! I am as ready to click away and hit the shops as I’ll ever be.
Written By Malin Hosie

Today we have put on the site some vintage bags for sale to accessorise the clothes we sell. It is very much about mixing the old with the new to create distinct one off looks that are interesting and unique.

Hopefully we will be adding some more bits as time goes on depending on how well received the items are. Hope you like!!
Click here to see the items

Had you asked me a year ago I would have said; ‘-Skinny jeans are for skinny people!!!’ There would have been no chance that I would have even tried a pair on. It may have something to do with the fact that I had just found out that I was pregnant with our second daughter in early February and therefore got myself prepared to spend the next nine months in more loose-fitting boyfriend style jeans!
Had I not been pregnant and despite only being a size 10 I did still most definitely consider my slightly chunky… or let’s say… curvaceous (sounds much better) thighs and bum too big or rather the wrong shape to be able to carry it off.
One year and one baby later I am feeling much more confident with regards to skinny jeans. Despite still carrying a bit of baby-weight around and hips wider apart than I remembered them being pre-baby, I am now itching to get my hands on a pair… at least to try on. You just need to be prepared to style the look slightly differently compared to the younger population, the under size 8’s and the Kate Moss look-alikes. It is time to accept that you are nearly 40 and perhaps the skinny jeans and the skinny top is not quite the best look for me.
Don’t despair, fellow females, we will find a way…!
There is the tunic and the short dresses this season… other items worn on its’ own by the above mentioned crowd but for us the perfect accompaniment to the skinny jean!
Now I do not want to encourage you to hide under lots of fabric… and cover up what makes us women so deliciously different from the male species; curves, beautifully formed in all various sizes and shapes. However, with regards to skinny jeans, that would be the way forward…for me.

Victoria Beckham and I go back a long time now, quite a few years actually. We have so much in common. We have shared hairstyles, sunglasses, a spell of ‘girl power’, various tight-top-and-jeans-looks and the joy of motherhood.
Victoria has three boys, I have two girls but we’re stopping at that.
What we haven’t shared are boob-jobs, a size 6… or even size 4 body, a very hefty bank-balance and a world famous footballer husband.
I have, however, the world’s greatest husband! Sorry Posh, I beat you there.
We have three bedrooms while she has three houses…. at least. AND she is now house-hunting again, in LA, looking at potential Beckingham Palaces around the £7 million mark. As you do…
Despite many differences, there is something else, which we now have in common and that is the desire to make a few changes to oneself. A new era has begun. Vicky might be a step ahead of me… she has already got the new hair-do and a new posh wardrobe but I am not far behind. We might be worlds apart but there is definitely something in the air this season which hasn’t only hit me. It is time to reinvent ourselves! Time for a change! Time for a new style and a fresher look.
Whilst Posh and I seem to be on the same wavelength, Sienna and Kate alike, there are other well known characters like Britney and Paris who haven’t perhaps quite got it. Yes, change is good but I really wouldn’t recommend the one-legged-fishnet-stockings-look. Could be considered for the bedroom but might not be suitable for my children’s playgroup or even a drink down the local.

We all like a bargain! I know I do anyway! There is nothing that gets my adrenalin going like the feeling of knowing you have bagged a top-piece at a bottom-price. Your conscience is still intact and there are no guilt-feelings. No need to hide your ‘bargain’ away at the back of your wardrobe until it is old enough for you to truthfully be able to answer ‘-oh this?… It is quite old… just haven’t worn it for some time…’ or having to watch out to ensure the credit card statements do not end up in front of your beloved’s eyes. In fact, this is an opportunity to show off as the good shopper that you are and let him know how much money you have actually managed to save him by buying this remarkable must-have piece.

It is my mother-in-law’s, Angela’s, birthday next week. For weeks now I have been trying to think of something to buy for her.

What do you buy somebody who to me seems to have everything? She also has expensive taste and is quite particular in the things she likes. In addition to that, she co-owns two clothes-& shoe shops AND this website! Can’t exactly buy her a present from her own shop even though I could have thought of quite a few things to give her!?!

Today saw the introduction of spring summer 2007 stock put on to the site from French Connection and Great Plains. Already one of our items have featured in this weeks Grazia magazine. They had chosen the French Connection Butterfly print skirt as one of their must have pieces Click here to view the item.

Stock is arriving daily so keep visiting to see what we have.

Happy Shopping.