[1] My office isn't exactly a hotbed of fashionable inspiration as we are all restricted by that dubious dress code of 'smart casual' (the most ridiculous of oxymorons if ever there was one....).  However, I find inspiration at the oddest of times and when I strode in yesterday, five minutes late, and plonked my stuff down, the first thing I said in fash-girl mode was 'Ashley, you are wearing THE blue of the season!'.  Ashley (guy to the left) was taken aback and said with jest 'Of course, that was my intention all along!'. 

Yes, forget electric blue.  Azure blue is the one to be looking out for.  You heard it from Grazia and the like.  Let's just forget the ridiculous notion of different blues being rotated season by season because it is RIDICULOUS that electric is hot one minute and not the next.  Let's just put that aside because in fact, I am preferring Ashley's azure blue here and have taken to it with great gusto.  I want dresses, skirts and shoes in this exact same shade.  I may even to reference this photo to ensure I get a good match for this blue.  It's a warmer hue of blue with some green mixed into it and it was also strangely a Walt Disney character [2].  Please don't think I'm advocating trading all your shades of blues for azure to be 'bang on trend' (groan....) but I'm pledging my allegiance to this blue for the moment.... because it's nice to be reminded of always-hilarious desk buddy Ashley.