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Catalogue image from Next

My new Next Directory came through this week and it took me back almost 16/17 years! It's amazing how trends come around again.

Flicking through the pages took me on a journey back in time... to when I'd just left school and was enjoying the freedom of earning and spending my own money... on major drinking sessions... new cars (I miss my purple mini!)... and clothes for work. Ahhhh, those were the days :)

Back then the Next Directory was my bible! I can picture it all even now... the cropped black trousers with the white blouse a la Pulp Fiction... short little floral dresses... bright red skinny jeans (although I'm sure the phrase "skinny jeans" hadn't been coined back then!)... and then there were my all time favourites... a pair of snake print skinny jeans... I lived in them! Worn with a black knitted jumper, a pair of German army boots, and lots of black eyeliner!

And it appears that so many of these are back on trend... knits, cropped trousers, floral dresses, skinny jeans, animal prints... perhaps not the army boots though - although I'm sure I could happily substitute them for a pair of motorbike boots ;)

I kept getting drawn back to the above picture... and yearning for the days when I was a size 8 again and didn't have to spare a single thought to how little, or how much, I ate. If Keith and I had met 17 years ago I am sure we would have looked like this... which is why I will be printing this out and sticking it to the fridge and inside cupboard doors.

I know it's highly unlikely that I (we, even!) could get back to the body that I had back then... but it's good to have something to aim towards isn't it?