Nicky's Rag Tales

I spent some time today in my local shopping centre, just browsing and sifting my way through the rails in all the chain stores. I bought a beautiful pale gold shift dress from young Irish designers Kate and Ava some weeks ago. A classic shift with lovely detail on the shoulders and a deep V at the back. This dress will be worn over and over and was well worth the money spent on it. Clever accessorising of classics are what will take a dress like this to different events and so when I picked up a pair of shoes in Penney’s I instantly thought that these would be perfect with the dress. I tried them on and they fitted like a glove. It’s not true that expensive shoes are somehow comfortable and my collection of hardly worn designer shoes is testament to this. These babies ( I’m a sucker for leopard print) were marked at 19 euro and I thought that’s cheap. When I got to the till the assistant said ‘that will be 5 euro please’. 5 euro !!!! You wouldn’t have much change from that if you bought a cappuccino! I think I just found my inner recessionista.

Kate and Ava dress (mine is in pale gold)

Shoes 5 euro Penneys