Mum on the Run - Pleated palazzos

 

In the end, I decided that the pleated palazzos didn't make me look too much of a plonky head so I wore them for our night out - which was brilliant fun.  Lots of dancing and too much wine.  I included the second photo, despite my eyes being shut, as it shows how the palazzos look when walking.  I had to put leggings underneath them as they are so sheer.  The real trendy way to wear them is with big knickers underneath (see below) but being over 40 and having had had three children I am not convinced that it is a look that I should be embracing - maybe if I was Madonna it would be a different matter!

Mum on the Run - Planning an outfit

I have a friend's 40th birthday party to go to on Friday night and there is a picture in my head of how my outfit will look.  No doubt the reality will be somewhat different!  This is the top half of it and is made up of some items from my summer capsule wardrobe - silk vest, white blazer, sparkly necklace and stacked heeled shoes.  There is a mixture of gold and silver going on but it doesn't matter.  I can imagine that I will use this combination with varying different "bottoms" during the spring and summer from skinny to flared jeans and peg, to wide smarter trousers.

On Friday I am considering wearing the above with some pleated black palazzo pants that I have just bought from Topshop.  It all depends on whether or not I think that I look like a plonky head [a term invented by our eldest when she was about three, and used on a regular basis, to describe looking silly or like an idiot, or behaving in a similar way] - and if I do, the palazzos will be returned from where they came!

Outfit: Jacket Zara, Silk vest Coast, Glass beaded necklace Wallis, Shoes Carvela.