It's about time this blog stopped cosseting dresses and going jelly-legged over lace. It's time to put hands to scissors, bleach to washing machine and cheese grater to denim. Yes, this is the month to arm yourselves with all the sharp edged objects and corrosive liquids you have in your house (keeping within obvious health and safety precautions of course!).
It's time to get in touch with both your creative and destructive sides.
It's time to come to terms with the fact that those Miss Sixty and Topshop jeans we wore when we were 13, in reality, are never going to fit round our thighs again. No matter how much we despise this fact and try to ignore it we must ACCEPT IT!
Your old jeans will be much more useful this season as patchwork squares and mini shorts.
The fun begins with the cutting and continues with the bleaching and I think you'll find, the high point will undoubtedly be the shredding, tearing and ripping!
Wearing your grunge creations will be pretty fun too. I promise.
If you really aren't ready to come to terms with destroying your old jeans then go out and buy a new pair...denim is EVERYWEAR this spring in all sorts of shades and washes. Go denim mad and buy some denim in every item of clothing...
shirts
dresses
shorts
tops
crops
bralets
and even shoes.
One condition.
Every item must undergo the home finishing grunging process.
You don't want your high high street denim to look the same as everyone else's bought denim!
Topshop has some great washed denim pieces I am longing to get my creative claws on!
My beady eyes are paying particular attention to this cropped bodice.
What fun I could have grunging it up!
Denim Bralet Cami. £18. Topshop
Nothing wants to be washed out with bleach and cheese grated more than thi cropped jacket.
Be as creative and as brutal as possible. Experiment. Take risks. Cut arms off jackets and shred the edges. Grate and scrape through pockets. Bung all your denim into a washing machine with a load of bleach. Cut all your denim into patchwork squares and sew them onto other clothes.
Crop Denim Jacket. £40. Topshop
If savaging denim into grunge creations isn't an appealing prospect to you then simply walk into any shop on the high street as I can guarantee you there will be the perfect 'already worked on' denim piece in there for you. You simply need to take it to the till, carry it home and pop it in your wardorbe. If my Grandma reads this blog post she feel completely bewildered as she just can't understand why anyone would buy a pair of jeans with holes and rips in them, let alone purposefully destroy their clothes on purpose!
I love these washed out denim-torn to shreds jeans!
Lace Ripped Skinny Jeans. £50. Topshop
Johanna Denim Shorts. £50. Abercrombie and Fitch
Vintage shops and charity shops will be fantastic places to wade through racks of previously worn denim pieces and the fantastic thing about second denim is that you won't have to do anything to it!
Emma x
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