I must say, I absolutely adored BBC One’s latest Sunday night drama – Call the Midwife. Set in the late 1950s in an impoverished East London, the show was captivating, heartwarming and funny – causing me to laugh out loud and weep uncontrollably each perfectly crafted episode. If you missed it ladies, I wholeheartedly recommend you catch up on iPlayer, wonderfully light television and not quite enough to put you off childbirth forever like watching One Born Every Minute. Yet, aside from my love for Miranda Hart, who played the awkward, posh, never learned to ride a bike Chummy, what I really like about Call The Midwife was the fashion.
The sweet pastel shades, full skirts, florals – all suited to the girliest of girls stole the show for me as every week I would swoon over the perfectly coiffed women, all so very poor yet ever so stylish.
I do, obviously, recognise that Call The Midwife was a television drama, yet as many envied Christina Hendricks in Mad Men for her gorgeous voluptuous figure and sharp pencil skirts, I have the same penchant for a wisp of a dress, a faded floral number that screams of lazy days in the sunshine and walks upon the promenade, cornet in hand, accompanied by a fine gentleman in a dapper suit… yet I digress into dreams and I’m sure you’ve already got the picture.
Pastels are everywhere on the high street for Spring – you’ll certainly have seen them by now gracing every high street shop floor. My advice, stock up now before the trend is ‘over’ and your mother is donning a pair of pastel pink skinnies (be warned).
