Clothes have a wonderful power over our mood. The right outfit has the ability to lift us up, put a pep in our step and get us ready to ROCK! Yet, it can be difficult to articulate the power of style and fashion through words, so we’ve picked out our Read more…
We’ve all got that one friend who seem to make getting dressed – whatever the occasion – seem effortless. They always look so well put together…it’s so frustrating. So what’s their secret? We picked the brains of the most stylish peeps we know and came up with this top ten list Read more…
Last Friday (23rd March) saw 11 wonderful women and one rather marvellous chap come together and strut their stuff in aid of a local charity, Hands Together Here they are strutting their stuff in outfits supplied by us, and our friends at Expensive Mistakes & Oska, Ludlow as they trod the catwalk Read more…
Dear Santa, If you are reading this (& we have no reason to believe that you are not!) we’ve been really good all year. Promise….. 😉 If you need some inspiration for us and our friends, here’s some goodies from the freshest independent shop in Ludlow…that we’ve categorised to make Read more…
This weekend saw the first proper cold snap, so it’s time to admit that Winter is officially here! Clothes are a great way to lift the spirits when the days are darker, it’s dreary outside and everything seems just a tad grim. This season designers have had no end of fun Read more…
The beginning of this month saw 16 wonderful women and one rather marvellous chap come together and strut their stuff in aid of a local charity. This event was the first collaboration between some of the freshest fashion businesses in Ludlow, and we hope it will be the first of many. Read more…
The M word…That’s right ladies, the menopause…NO FEAR….old age here we come! Six reasons to love your menopause! As women of a certain age we cannot avoid seeing the ruddy M word everywhere. There are a gazillion articles coming at it from just about every angle but most of them Read more…
There’s some pretty bonkers fashion jargon that gets used that I’d like to exterminate, but on this blog I’d like to look at some a few so-called fashion rules that we here at eclectica would like to officially retire! They include: you can’t wear brown with black (nonsense!) you can’t Read more…
It’s Tee Shirt time! At some point in the last ten years and without me noticing it at all, I have stopped wearing t’shirts! I had no idea why, until I noticed it – which, by the way, was when I got my Summer outfits out of the trunk, where I Read more…
We’ve been enjoying some absolutely sizzling summer days, and a few of you have been buckling in the heat. Unsurprising given we don’t get chance to acclimatise, given that here in the Shire mother nature likes to shift from rain to 30c overnight! Here’s our eclectica guide to the coolest fabrics to Read more…