The Boyfriend Jacket

Lucky for me, I have four of them – “boyfriend jackets” that is. Pity I haven’t got this amount in boyfriends. I could have one rich one who would indulge me, one fit one who’s great to look at and salivate over, one intelligent one for enlightenment and good conversation and one good at DIY! I definitely need a funny one with a good sense of humour to make me laugh my socks off, so maybe in reality, I’d need about five boyfriends!

Damn... what was I saying? Oh yes, this fashion thing. The ‘boyfriend jacket’. They’re everywhere and thank God, it’s working wonders in my wardrobe. Simply because both of my children have now left school and have put behind them a plethora of blazers! I have four blazers in various sizes all to myself.

My sons have assured me that if they had to wear a blazer another day in their lives, they’d take a dose of poison and crawl off somewhere quietly to lay down and die!

So I’ve gone to town accessorizing their abandoned blazers for my very own pleasure (and fashion statement). One of them has so many glued rhinestones on the back, it feels like I’m carrying a rucksack. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it looks gorgeous if I may say so myself. The other one has a strip of silver sequins around the collar. With the third one, I’ve torn off all the pockets and replaced them with tartan pockets and the fourth one has been left plain black for my more conservative days.

So to the Green Brigade who need to save the earth with re-usables, I recycle in the name of fashion… so there!