Travel gear for an upcoming trip

Don’t you just hate it when a brand doesn’t take good flattering pictures of their product? I mean, its not exactly brain surgery that you need make a pair of pants look good in the advertising material in order to sell them?

I found two great pairs of travel pants from Mountain Designs. Both are an incredibly good fit on the waits/bum area with a nice loose leg for comfort and to allow freedom of movement. They feel great, look good and are very functional in general.

Then I look up the product pictures so that I can blog the purchase – and this is what I find:

Mountain Designs Caddie

Mountain Designs Corfu

In these pictures the pants look shapeless, stiff and you can’t really tell anything about the details or design. Such a disappointment. But trust me, in real life they look great!

The perfect jeans

I’m not a pants girl, nor am I a fashion victim. In fact, I’m just about as ridiculously 1950′s femme as they come: Dita Von Teese all the way, every day, please.

Whether it is the miserable weather, or a nasty ladder on the last pair of seamed stockings, the days when you just simply need pants do unfortunately exist.

The problem is that every time I wear pants, I feel like I’m about to go camping.

I want feminine curves and hourglass figures! These oh-so-trendy chicks in their skinny jeans and baggy t-shirts can have it. I don’t start my mornings with hot rollers and hairspray just to see the gorgeous hair dressed down in something as de-sexed as a that

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Just when I thought that I was bound to freeze myself with my beloved skirt collection, my darling colleague came to rescue and took me to the Bettina Liano store in Bondi Junction for some lunch time shopping.

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The assistant dug up this gorgeous pair of high wasted ’50s style skinny jeans with a corset cut top. It was love at first sight!

Never before have I felt this sexy in a pair of pants.

Teamed up with a white blouse, red bag and luscious red pumps, its a certain success!