Over the Top: Animal Jacquard Biker Jacket from Mint Velvet

A classic biker jacket is a great wardrobe staple. It can be teamed with almost anything - with jeans and heeled boots for a casual look or with a tea dress for a pretty but edgy look.  It also works well for those times - and there are many - when the weather doesn't seem to know what it's doing!  In addition, they featured quite heavily in various AW13 collections, so it's worth looking to see if any are available in the sales now.

Mint Velvet are currently having their sale and I've found this jacquard version of the biker jacket, reduced from £119 to £79.  It's available in two neutral colours, nude (shown) and chalk (white) in sizes 8 to 18.  I think the pale colours mean that they will work well with brighter outfits as well as neutral shades.  A fabulous outfit would be a bright, bodycon dress (maybe a royal blue?), belt and high court heels - the epitome of foxy glamour, I think!

Nifty Knitwear: Poppy & Stone Spot Jumper from Mint Velvet

There's lots of lovely items in the Mint Velvet sale, and I am quite taken with this cute spotty jumper that's been reduced from £55 to £39.  Polka dots are still on trend and the lightweight material of this jumper means that it will take you very nicely into spring.  It will look fab with skinny jeans or even some denim shorts if the weather behaves!  It's available in sizes 8 and 12-16.

Sale Update: Mint Velvet, Quba & Co, Planet and more!

I thought that, rather than spam the Facebook and Google+ pages with sale and discount code updates, I'll do a regular blog post of the ones I find. I'll still tweet as I am though, as I think Twitter is more suited to loads of posts!  I will update on new sales as I know about them - I won't list those that have been going a while though in this first post as the point is to try to get in at the beginning, before things start selling out!

So here's the first sale one and it seems the mid season sales are upon us.  These are the ones I have spotted in the last couple of days: