When it comes to accessories, I'm the type of person who owns an awful lot but only wears the same three pieces every day. Having been brought up with a wardrobe full of hand-me-downs, as soon as I reached my teens and starting buying my own clothes I went crazy for cheap high street fashion -trying to buy as much as I could to veer myself away from anything associated with being second-hand. Draping every item of jewellery I owned over multiple layers of clashing prints and sequins are a definite thing of the past for me (said with a hint of nostalgia).
Over the past few years though, less has become to mean considerably more to me, and if any of you have ever tried to draw or paint with an armful of bangles you'll know from experience it's an absolute pain in the arse.
And so, (as dull as it probably sounds), everything I chose to wear nowadays is mostly determined by how comfortable and how practical it is, which is why when it comes to jewellery I usually go for something fairly simple.
After having realised how little student loan I'd be receiving this year I was given an extra incentive to be even more thrifty with the way I dress and what I buy, and so recently found objects such as elastic bands, netting from a garlic packet, gardening wire, plastic, foil and most recently duct tape are all things that have found their way into my wardrobe. Wrapping strips of metallic tape round my fingers is perhaps one of the cheapest ways of creating rings that I could think of (unless of course I drew them on, which is another possibility). Granted, it does kind of look like I'm covered in plasters, but I enjoy them nevertheless.
On a side note, please ignore the state of my hands- winter and hours spent washing them free from blue dye hasn't really had a great effect on them...
..old woman.
