WARNING **GIANT DOSE OF BORING IS ABOUT TO BE FED TO YOU**

I don't know whether it's the weather, the amount of work I have, how exhausted I am these days or indeed my love of Susie Style time travel.  But I have reverted to my low-key UCL-preppy uniform which absolutely has no indication that I may be interested in fashion and in fact if you looked at me, you might think I was trying to look purposefully bookish. 

I kid you not though, as opposed to tracksuit bottoms, uggs and sub £10 Gap jeans which a lot of my fellow historians opted for (especially during times of dissertation stress), my fallback uniform concisted of a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo Vara bow pumps, opaque tights, tweed pencil skirts that were consistently priced at £8 from Beyond Retro, Uniqlo cashmere jumpers (I strangely spent huge amounts of time in that store when I was at uni looking for £4.99 white shirts for when I used to do waitressing for Arsenal Football Club...), finished off with a 'jaunty' stripy scarf.  People must have thought I was the ultimate preppy twat.  Alas... it's nothing of the sort.  I really did just fall into that uniform by my love of scouring eBay for said Vara pumps (often won at princely sums of $9.99), regular Beyond Retro bulk buying sessions and of course you know about me squirrelling away cheap shirts at Uniqlo. 

There's something very comforting about reverting back to modes of dress, digging up things that makes you think 'Thank god I kept that otherwise I'd be PISSED off!'.  Whilst I'm ploughing through work and trooping away, it's not that I've lost my 'fashion mojo', but going back to a tidy/neat comfort zone that makes me more mindful of deadlines, tasks and of winter nights walking around looking for something to feed myself in between intense essay/study sessions.