I only wish I could capture this on camera because it's quite hard to be eloquent/succint when talking about what I have been witnessing.  In the last week or so, I've noticed a number of women (4 to be precise...) wearing their blazers, loose, single breasted and slightly wrinkled, smacking of the early 90s' and most likely found in the charity shop and high waisted trousers that are wide at the top and taper down, with some of them rolling them up at the cuffs, with a loose t-shirt tucked into the trousers and some square toed or driving flats.  The look was saying 'competent, successful casual career women of the 90s' which should all be a bit wrong but somehow, it looked really right and refreshing, as the wearers had spot-on accessorising in the bags/sunnies or the t-shirts were a bit luxe looking or they, the people were just making it all work.

YSL SS08 might have been a contributant factor but some veered to a rather zany palette with one example wearing a dusty pink blazer, a sherbet yellow loose t-shirt and large red gingham-patterned trousers, with the shape as described above and a pair of grey square toed patent shoes.  So together and wonderful, this outfit looked that I stood gawping for about two minutes and was tempted to lock her down and get her email address so that I could implore The Sart to hunt her down and snap her (my ropy camera work wouldn't do the outfit justice...).

Whilst I muse on this welcome and emerging trend, alas, for me to embrace it would require the trouser hunt which is the bane of my life, hence why you see me wearing so few trousers on this blog.... but for those who find the trew hunt a doddle, I'd say go forth with the polished daytime 'Vivian Ward' from Pretty Woman look... semi-illustrated by this image from Wonderland Spring 2008 magazine.

('Dungaree Dolls', shot by Ben Weller, styled by Anthony Unwin)