COMPETITION: Win a London Fashion Week pack, worth over £50!

Hi guys,

To celebrate that London Fashion Week is in full swing, I thought I'd run a giveaway of a LFW goody pack! The prize is the official LFW tote bag, designed by Mulberry. I've filled the tote with bangles and bracelets from Claire's Accessories, a gorgeous moisturiser from Santa Verde, the Charles Worthington Salon at Home straightening kit, a Fashion Targets Breast cancer compact mirror, and a lovely leather notepad from Tesco (the official sponsor of London Fashion Week)

There are 3 ways to enter the competition:

1. Follow the blog, using the follow box to your right.

2. Follow fabfrocks on facebook: just follow this link.
3. Sign up to the fabfrocks mailing list. (Click here to subscribe to our mailing list!)

If you do 2 of these things you will be entered into the competition twice. Enter all three ways, and you will be entered into the competition a whopping FIVE times, giving you loads more chances to win!

The competition closes at 12pm on Friday 30th September. Good luck!

Love, Tor xx

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Clothing at Tesco: Post it on!

Check out these shoulder pads!? I was very excited when Clothing at Tesco asked me to take part in Post it On (basically, bloggers tag!) and even more excited when the dress I chose to start my game of post it on arrived this morning! Post it on is celebrating the new Autumn/Winter collection currently instore/online from Tesco: it was actually hard to choose just one item, as there was so much on the site I wanted (especially from the F&F Couture range, which looks 10 times better this season than it did last!) But enough of that, lets look at the dress I picked!!

The dress is from the new A/W Florence and Fred Couture range, and these pictures really don't do it justice as they make what are in fact soft velvet details look rather shiny! It has buttons up the cuffs, and tiny Victorian style buttons all the way up one side of the dress. It has draping across the hips, an assymetric hem, and those show stopping shoulder pads: i'm nuts about this dress!

The dress is so dramatic that it speaks for itself, so I styled it pretty simply with chunky wedge boots and a skinny black studded belt, to draw in the waist of the dress a little. I was worried it would make my boobs look too big (I never wear anything with a high neck like this) but I didn't think they looked too bad to be honest!

The blogger i'm posting this on to (randomly chosen by pointing my finger at my links page!) is Harriet of Where is Harriet. In playground parlance, I believe i'm supposed to hit you and scream "Tag!" Can't wait to see what you pick!

Love, Tor x

Tesco....#1 on my list of places i'd never think to shop

Earlier in the week tesco clothing started following me on twitter (and you can too: www.twitter.com/fabfrocks) Out of courtesy really, I followed them back. Two days after that they tweeted about an interesting sounding floral dress. I followed the link, and this post was born!

When my dad was a kid his mum (my grandma) used to make him wear what he refers to as "Tesco bombers". These were Tesco jeans that cost 70p, only came in one leg length, and were the bane of his life because he really wanted Levis. This is my Tesco in a fashion context!
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Nowadays, bizarrely (and I didn't know this until I saw the link at the top of their site) Tesco is one of the sponsors of London Fashion Week. And the Tesco Clothing site is suprisingly comprehensive! I have been known to browse the G21 range in Asda, but never really thought of Tesco as a place to pick up clothing. And this site doesn't just stock a dress or two. I am talking tons of clothing, at very low prices!
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Here is a selection of my favourite pieces:

The site is really easy to navigate and set up in such a way that you can find what you're looking for in seconds. I'm going to geek out for a second when I say that so many online stores are so concerned with making things look pretty that they don't think about user experience when building their sites, and this is a massive mistake. The pretty is important of course, but it's hard to care about it too much when the site is slow and you can't find what you want!
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Now I can't vouch for the wear or the quality; I didn't even know this store existed in a fashion context, so I haven't tried any of it! But I can say that I like the look of a lot of the fashions available: very trend-led and wearable. Pre-shopping ban, the floral dress and the nautical shift dress would be in my wardrobe already!
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Is this all new to you or am I late to the table (again!)? Have people been wearing Tesco for ages and I just didn't know? If you've every tried clothes from Tesco (or even fondled them in the flesh!) i'd love to know what you think!

Love, Tor xxx