Winter Warmers

It has been getting noticeably colder. Time to rug up! 

Due to being an exchange student who had to fit everything into one suitcase, I have a noticeable lack of clothes, let alone warm winter clothes. I decided that it was time to buy some, so I hit Oxford St after class!

I purposefully went on a weekday, because Oxford St is crazy busy on weekends, so I avoid it at all costs.

First, I went to Dorothy Perkins. Dorothy Perkins have a 10% off student discount all the time :) They also have a mid-season sale on at the moment, but none of the stuff was spectacularly good. I still spent quite a bit of time in there looking though, because there was a lot to to look at, including some red heels! (Which were surprisingly cheap.) Was tempted to buy them, but I don't really need heels and sensible Cordelia won over fashionable Cordelia (yeah, what's new...)

After that, I went to H&M. I knew H&M had good stuff cos I found a copy of their winter catalogue on the bus the other day and flicked through it. I went to the smaller one between Bond St and Tottenham Court Road stations.

There was a huge sale rack with summer clothes. I know I dont need summer clothes now, but I'm coming home in summer, right? #justifications 

Observation: women can be very bitchy when it comes to sale racks. Not in an obvious cat-scratching way, but you can just tell when they're going to insist on looking through the part of the rack that you're also looking through.

In the end I impulse-bought 2 dresses @ £5 pounds (one is for my sister, cos it was too small for me but I wanted to buy it), a short skirt @ £3, long black skirt @ £5 (which will double up as part of my costume for the Halloween Party coming up soon- I don't even know what I'm going as yet)

I also bought 2 part-woolen jumpers. They're both wool blended with mohair/angora/polyamide/acrylic. (Yes, I obsessively check what my clothes are made out of, and no, I do not understand all that scientific talk in the link for polyamide). They weren't really cheap, but not expensive either, especially to me, because you can't get nice, somewhat-fashionable woolen jumpers in Australia without going to Myer and paying through the nose.

When it came to paying, there was a massive queue downstairs, so I took the escalator up to the first floor and was served straight away *smug*

I spent enough at H&M to ask for a VAT refund scheme form, so hopefully I will be getting some money back when I leave the country! (Minimum spend was £30, but they took a £6.20 "handling fee"!)

One last thing, the homewares section at Bhs got me really excited ! 

I LOVE homewares, imma gonna have such an amazing time buying stuff for my own house when I grow up!

PS, sorry for going a bit crazy with the hyperlinks in this post.