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Black: Swan


Posted At : 27 January 2011 16:33 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: Black, accessories, Ballerina Princess Gloves

Forgive me, blogosphere, for I have sinned. It's been 40 days since my last entry. The silence for the first 30 is not technically my fault; it was however a fault technically. It just stopped working over Christmas. How to account for the last 10 days' silence? Some of us were busy busy buying in Florence and Paris while at Black HQ the rest of us were all hands on deck due to the annual hoopla that is the VAT Holiday, where all products are at VAT-free prices.

Meanwhile in this moody month, the release of Black Swan appeared to pique the interest of the fashion world. I haven't seen it; I am too afraid to having seen one film by the same director called Requiem For A Dream that scarred me for life. 

However, after a glimpse at what our industrious fashionista fans over on Polyvore had been doing to combine Black Swan and Black and I felt something had to be noted.

Here it is:

Black Swan

 

Black Ballerina Gloves £55

 Evening Gloves, Silk Gloves, Black Ballerina Gloves

 

 A marriage made in psychodrama heaven ...

BRIGHT - All-Grown-Up Ballerina Princess Gloves


Posted At : 07 October 2010 19:05 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: Gloves, Gloves, Gloves, accessories, Ballerina Princess Gloves

It's funny what we remember from childhood. Speaking personally, the 'important' things seldom surface with the urgency of the trivial. 

When a delivery of pink satin ballerina gloves arrived a number of days ago, I was jolted back 20 years to my godmother's living room in Hammersmith and particularly to the pages of a girls' magazine and a knitting pattern for a pink cardigan with four pearlescent heart buttons. A princess cardigan. I was 8; perfect princess age. My godmother said she would knit me one. Yet something happened which meant that it could not be knitted, so I never got it. And I remember the not having it part so vividly. That is the essence of memory - clutching at the unattainable. See - trivial.

 

 

These gloves have reconciled my cardigan-loss; pink, shiny, princessy and with little pink pearlescent studs, emanating princess pinkness and so at odds with my usual black get-up.

 

 

 

Here I am trying them on for size (I quite like the blackandwhitestripe contrast - I might be on to something). Winner.

Luckily, Christmas party season is approaching so I will be able to wear them appropriately and not just to the Starbucks down the road, where I shall explain that they are heat-resistant, medical-issue gloves. My husband will be pleased.
 

Pink Satin Ballerina Gloves | £55

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