I harbour a faint grudge against Plumo and I can’t remember why – but I have magnanimously decided to put it all to one side on receiving the SS17 catalogue, which is really good.
They have branched out into interiors and there is some stunning, if slightly laughably rustic stuff (examples below). Anyway it’s all worth a look.
My favourites:
This Leo dress
This palm tree print dress. I really am in love with this. It seems strangely cheap at £89 but when you look it is made from a polyester/rayon mix, which is inexpensive. That all sounds very wartime, but in fact I very much like those two fabrics for summer dresses as they move and sit nicely and do not ride up bare legs or flap up alarmingly in a breeze like some stiffer cottons around at the moment. However, they cannot be worn with nylon tights ever or the resulting static electricity may blow us all off the face of the planet.
Small fact: the yellow dress Emma Stone wears in the poster for La La Land is a polyester/rayon mix, which she requested because it had such nice movement when she danced.
These “Eddie” earrings are fantastic, too.
I absolutely adore this whale butterdish, at £18.50.
This palm leaf wallhanging thingy really made me laugh, but respect – it’s a ballsy and mad thing to sell.
This dish is absurdly cool:
The homewares look a bit like a madder version of Anthropologie. A lot of the clothes are a bit tent like, love this jumpsuit though, and especially love the swallow tattoos on the model that have been airbrushed out of the other pics!
http://www.plumo.com/products/Navy-jumpsuit.html
Brilliant, I also especially love the palm tree dress and mad plate. Here’s a style question for you- what on earth do I wear to a christening at the end of March, when it might be snowing or it might be lovely and warm and spring-like, like it was today? Added complication, it’s my son’s christening so there will be 1,000 photos of me and it needs to be accessible for breastfeeding, so not a dress. I mean really, it’s enough of a puzzle to make me not want to go, but I think my attendance is mandatory. Elaine x
Elaine please consider a colourful velvet suit – perhaps a pale blue like the Virgin Mary? Or maybe a velvet blue jacket with a contrasting skirt. There are some insanely good big floral skirts at M&S at the moment, perhaps with a green velvet jacket? Velvet is key: festive and glowing and special and also warm if it’s freezing and snowing. I am now extremely concerned about this outfit and event. Please email me with any questions esther.walker@gmail.com
This is amazing advice as always, Esther. I knew I should ask you. I know exactly the M&S skirts you are talking about, and I would never have thought of a velvet jacket or suit. I’m on it. Might even be slightly excited about my outfit now. Festive and glowing is something to aspire to. The excitement will probably last until I try things on, the baby is only 9 weeks after all. Why are we having him christened so early? Logistics of the family calendar, it’s now or October basically, grrr. Anyway, I’m away to shop, will definitely let you know how I get on. Elaine x
Yes do. There *ought* to be a reasonable amount of velvet around still. If not, think big skirt (it will balance out those postpartum boobs) and jackety thing xxx
Ps. £59 for the palm wall hanging? Chancers.
I did not buy a whale shaped butter dish on your suggestion. Except yes, I did. Fuck it, it’s only money.
you will NOT regret it. It is probably one of the most charming and delightful things I’ve ever seen. Is your house like an Anthropologie store yet? xxx
Am I the only one thinking: but you couldn’t put anything on that dish because it would fall through the holes?
bananas might work….
think: fruit – lemons, tangerines, apples – rather than loose change, bits of lego, keys xxx
Thanks! I did once write an agony aunt column about sex in the Standard. It was awful! Perhaps it is my destiny to reprise that role in a more lifestyle/clothes context… God the parental caring responsibility thing – this is me in the next 10 years. I wait replies with interest xxx
What I want to know about Plumo is, what do they do their models to make them so unhappy?
Re breastfeeding and events – I am v v happy with my Lindybop purchase of a totally mad printed shirt dress in an odd sort of matte shine fabric that looks nicer than the price would suggest. Bought several shirt dresses from them as my every day clothes for feeding but didn’t think of them for my son’s christening (which is not until May but I worry). After getting more and more obsessed with what on earth I am going to wear, I went back to them and lo and behold something lovely appeared. Now obsessed with spreading the Lindy love!
http://www.lindybop.co.uk/dresses-c1/swing-jive-dresses-c3/bletchley-navy-moscow-print-shirt-swing-dress-p3329
those dresses are fucking mad. but also sort of amazing
Have you seen the palm trainers? I love Plumo but am not really the right shape to carry off the arty tents.
no me neither. I like trainers but very suspicious of any white trainers with laces as the laces go grey in 8 seconds and ruin the look
The whole thing gets covered in mud here: I forget and wear them for gardening or something. White is not my forte! X