IS SHE FUR REAL?

Throughout history fur has been thought of as a luxury that only the wealthy can afford but in our time faux fur coats and vintage furs can be bought for affordable prices that anyone can now get their hands on one which is great.


Fur is one of the items that defines the vintage look aether it's real or faux. You can add a fur coat to just about any look and your glamour level automatically reaches the top of the scale.
If you look back at old photos of Hollywood stars, pin up models and royals they have all at one point worn fur. Real fur.


Now this is what I really want to get down too on this post.
The thought of people in this day and age hunting an animal, killing it, skinning it and making it into a beautiful coat is appalling to me! How can people be so cruel as to do that? And as beautiful as the coat might eventually look I would never buy or wear it because it would make me feel like a murderer and I'd be supporting the slaughter of animals in an age where we have the ability to make faux fur that looks just as real, plush and beautiful as real fur.
Although we all want to look glamorous and fashionable it is not worth the sacrifice of those animals.

 

But here's my question...

It it okay to wear vintage fur?

Is it okay to wear a coat made from an animal that was killed over 50 years ago for the sake of fashion?

Does vintage fur carry the same stigma as that of a fur coat made today?

There are two ways you can look at it.

1: The coat was made a long time ago when fur was acceptable and animal rights were not such a big thing so technically there is nothing wrong with wear it? Anyway it's cool to wear vintage and it will make me look good.

2 :No matter how long ago it happened animals were still murdered for the sake if fashion. It's a moral crime and a crime against all animal kind. All fur should be banned and people should be ashamed to wear it.

 I want to hear your opinion on this.

Are you against the fur trade?

Would you consider wearing vintage furs?

Is it hypocritical to appose the fur trade an then  wear vintage furs?

Debate!

Till next time,

Laura Lou x

Her Curious Nature

On Sunday I received a very late but much appreciated Christmas present  from my Aunt Angela.
It was this utterly beautiful headband from hercuriousnature.com/ 
I'm not normal a headband type of person, if I wear a hair accessory it's always either a headscarf or a hair flower but this head band I will definitely be wearing!
Excuse the photos, I wasn't expecting to be taking any so I'm not at my best.
But anyway here it is!

 

It reminds me a lot of a head piece a flapper would have wore in the 1920s which is great because I have the most perfect 20s style dress to wear with it! 
You can't really tell in these photos but the detail on this is so
 delicate and beautiful and the feathers are so soft.

 

I'm glad I got this as a present because otherwise I would never be able to afford it, they are pretty pricey.

Now I don't normally advocate spending tones of money of one thing but I think you should all go visit their site even if it is only for a look.

Till Next Time Folks,

Laura Lou x

Beamish Open Air Museum

We took a trip to Beamish open air museum.

No words, just pictures. I'm feeling lazy today.

Here we go....

Till next time folks,

Laura Lou x

I have a new dress...

 

Saturday was such a hot day... So I wore a woolen dress?

 It got quite a few strange looks from people in the shopping center but the lovely shop 

assistant in H&M said she like it, I must say that one comment made my whole day after someone (whom shall remain nameless) said it looked like a coat.

 

 

I love it when things as nice as this only cost me 99p... thank you eBay :)

Till next time folks,

Laura Lou x

Glasgow 2013

It was once again that time of year when Jessie Grace, Sarah Lou and I take ourselves off to Glasgow for the weekend for copious amounts of food and drink.

With it being Scotland of course the weather was miserable (it just so happened that it was glorious back home too) but we didn't let that spoil our fun. 

Take a look :)

The pre-train burger king... such a beauty :/

Inside our hotel room and the snack we packed for our trip. Perhaps a little glutenous of us, needless to say it didn't all get eaten.

 

 Most probably our second favorite place in Glasgow, Hillhead Book Club in which we drank lots of this stuff...

 Mango and Raspberry cider.

See!

And then it was time for dinner at our number 1 favorite place in Glasgow...

Ketchup!

I think these might just possibly be the best nachos in the whole world...ever! 

Yum yum!

 

Preparing for a night on the tiles

 Reading my new book ;)

Taking a rather dangerous yet amusing ride on the Glasgow Subway 

Sorry it took so bloomin' long to post this!

Till next time folks,

Laura Lou x

Cragside

So the heavens finally gave us some fine weather so on Saturday I donned my newest vintage skirt and headed to Cragside (finally!).

After Pablo and I somehow managed to break into Cragside for a little bit we eventually bought our tickets and (legally) entered the property.

If I'm being completely honest I wasn't too over awed by the house it's self, there were lots of owls :/ but anyway the estate it's self is beautiful!

I have to say (as strange as it sounds) the trees were one of the things I was most fascinated by, they were so tall!

Pablo kindly acted as my photographer for the day

See what I mean about the trees?

So I'll tell you a little about my outfit...

Top- George at ASDA £6

Skirt- vintage eBay £2.99

Cardigan- H&M £9.99

I wore on my feet (which you can't see) converse lite.

although I wasn't bowled over my the inside the outside of the house is very impressive.

Little fact of the day- Cragside was the first house in the world to be lit using hydroelectric power ;)

 Some of the flowers from the 'formal gardens'

Aren't we a cute couple aww 

Then on Sunday I attended my first ever football match.

Newcastle obviously ;)

Till next time folks,

Laura Lou x