Attollo Girl Style: Charity Shop Gems

Attollo is a brand that is about women, feeling and looking confident and beautiful. Lingerie is the root of all outfits, and is with us pretty much every waking minute of the day keeping our lovely twins in place, looking marvellous- well that's the idea! 

Branding ourselves as a lifestyle brand, we wanted to start the Attollo Girl Style series on the blog! 

Style doesn't have to mean big bucks, we both know, we've had to find some money saving tips to keep feeling stylish..... 

 

......or semi-stylish at least! 

Being curvy girls, we find it a challenge finding anything in the shops that firstly, fits us, secondly flatters us, and thirdly, that we can afford! It's often hard to find smart clothes for meetings too! 

Dressing for our big boobs is a challenge most of you will be able to relate to, and if not, if you have amazing long legs, too amazing for the high street to design for, or you're so beautifully petite for the mass market that nothing fits properly, or perhaps you're a rugby player with quads and calves too big for any retailers jeans, you'll get why we're a little fed up with dressing for our shapes and battling the high street designs.

We're changing tactic now and see it as a challenge accepted - we WILL find great style for our curves, and start creating an Attollo Girl Style! Our first hack - find the best charity shops, and get some style on a shoestring...! Here are some of the pieces we love from some of our favourite Charity shops:

1. Fleurette's Vintage Louis Vuitton

2. Alice's leather Boden

3. Fleurette's High-Waist Jeans

4. Alice's silk scarf

5. Fleurette's Pencil Skirt

6. Alice's Gucci's

7. Fleurette's LK Bennett Heels

8. Alice's Smythson travel wallet

9. Fleurette's Wolford Body

10. Alice's designer nude courts

We pop into our local charity shops at least once a week excited by what we'll find next! 

Love A&F x

We're going conkers for Autumn

With October round the corner, winter coats, scarves and gloves have started to emerge on the London streets in the early, crisp morning!

Many have a distaste for Autumn but at Attollo HQ we love it! Here’s why:

1.   Autumn wardrobes are arguably the best wardrobes - you can mix and match with different layers, textures and colours. New seasons have already emerged on the high street, making many of us pine for pay day! Although the quest to find that perfect winter coat is are a tough challenge, we love our autumnal wardrobes of blanket scarves, thick woolly jumpers, leather and wellington boots and beanie hats!

 

 Photos: The Londoner

2. The weather has moved from sunny, muggy and humid, to sunny, crispy, golden and amazing!

Photo: Pinterest

3. Food in the summer is undeniably great- during the summer, we’ve got into the habit of replacing roasts with BBQ’s. Now, BBQs are away and roasts are back! We’ve missed you, crispy, crunchy, roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings! We’re not stopping at roasts; stews, jacket potatoes, curries and soups are back on the menu, with warm comfort eating puddings like apple crumble are back in our tums!

 Photo: The Londoner

4. Mornings – yes it’s a little darker at 7.00am than it was only a few weeks ago, but its crispy, sunny and the perfect trench coat + scarf + leather glove season!

Photos: Pinterest
 

5. Crunchy leaves that send you nostaligic at the sight and sound of them, reminiscing on childhood memories of running through a mountain of red, yellow and orange crispy leaves.



Photos: Gal Meets Glam

6. Tea is an excellent idea no matter the time or day or month or season or year. But with the temperatures dropping, there’s an extra tad of amazingness to every cup of tea!

Photos: Fortnum & Mason

7. Thanks to the amazing people behind the Rugby World Cup, Downton Abbey, Strictly Come Dancing, Lewis, the X Factor, nights in just got a lot better! You know it's Autumn when the TV guide turns really really good!



 

Photo: Google

8. Borough Market is one of our favourite places in London; hustle and bustle, local produce and mouth watering foodie eats, there's something for everyone. In Autumn, it's an extra special place with hot scrumptious food and hot, artisan nutty coffee!

Photos: The Londoner

9. Walks are wonderful, whether you're a city lover or country bumpkin, they are great! They are especially great in Autumn while we can enjoy sunny, spectacular days, with a crisp and chilly breeze! Going for a walk through London's Regent Park, with a hot cup of coffee, up to the summit of Primrose Hill and you'll get a spectacular view of London's autumnally-changing skyline!

Photo: Gal Meets Glam

  

10. A pumpkin spiced latte on a Sunday afternoon walking through the golden, leafy London parks is pretty wonderful. Autumn is the only season for PSL's and we love to make the most of them ahead of the Christmas drinks menu!



Essentially.....we have fall-en in love (get it?!) with Autumn here at Attollo HQ! Love A&F

London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week is here!!

We spent our three years at university based next door to one of LFW's most beautiful venues, Somerset House. We watched as fashionistas descended around our campus and always longed to attend LFW.

Image: Vodaphone

Image: Vogue UK

But this weekend we finally took part and attended not one, but two catwalk shows!!

Show 1: London Ethnic

First up was London Ethinic, which was hosted at the lovely Kensington Roof Gardens venue.

Before the catwalk there was time to network with up and coming London based fashion brands. Our favourite was Panezai with their printed silk scarves. Check these out...

Goody bagged up and filled up on one, two, three (or four!!) too many Krispy Kreme's we settled in to watch the show.

Afterwards we explored the glorious gardens

Even found some deck chairs....in London....why not....?

We spent the after-party networking, meeting some lovely people, making new contacts with designers, bloggers, stylists and fashion buyers opening some new doors up for Attollo.

Show 2: Bohemian Fashion

This show took place at a rather alternative venue, The Ponetefract Castle pub besides Bond Street tube station.

We fell in love with this company's ethos: all women are beautiful, all shapes, sizes and ethnicities should be celebrated.

The models reflected this ethos and it was a treat to see how the designs flattered all body shapes.

We took particular attention to the designs which looked amazing with big boobs! Jumpsuits and playsuits galore as well as some awesome two-pieces gave us new ideas for our autumn wardrobes.

All in all, we had a fabulous weekend. Thank you London Fashion Week.