No Fear of Fashion

Gold and black jacket, bought second-hand

Loes photographed one of my Christmas outfits, this gold and black jacket from Lolly’s Laundry. I bought it second-hand with the original price tag still on it. Listening to my friend Marjolein’s suggestion, I altered the high neckline into a small V. I didn’t find it easy to style this jacket. It is rather big
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Multi-coloured knitted cardigan and fun in a store

Kitty had asked Karlijn, the owner of kpa.haarlem, one of my favourite stores, whether it would be all right if we had a photo shoot in her store if it was a cold day. She agreed and of course I chose to feature the multi-coloured knitted cardigan I had bought there a month ago. It
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A Chanel style blazer and Shopping Saturday

The only way I would wear a Chanel style blazer like this, is with jeans. Usually I would go for the real thing, but that is out of my reach. Besides I wouldn’t wear it that often. My friend Marianne gave it to me and in turn it had been gifted to her by her
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Short blue coat and white lace-up booties

Apart from a simple cream top, you can see all my recent purchases in this post. (Remember when I “fell off the no-shopping wagon” when I was cruising Haarlem with my friend Marja, a couple of weeks ago?) I started my shopping with a short blue coat from one of my favourite shops: kpa.haarlem. Perfect
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A yellow jacket with black leather trousers

Normally I would have used a head-to-toe shot of my outfit to start with. Only such a photo of Haarlem’s town hall is too good not to use as a first picture. Besides, you cannot miss that yellow jacket with black leather trousers. The jacket makes for a beautiful pop of colour. Kitty was my
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ABOUT ME

My name is Greetje, I am Dutch, born in 1954. Married and living with husband Ron, dog Watson and cat Sophie. Pretty bonus daughter is married to a lovely man and they gave us two wonderful granddaughters.

This blog is my hobby. I hope to entertain you and make you smile or laugh with the content I publish. It is for everyone, but probably most appealing to women over 40, like me (oh, all right…I am way over).

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