Yes, all you have to do is look her up on Instagram. I really shouldn't be telling you about her as I want to buy all her stock and not let you have any of it!
Selfish, me, never. I am a nice person so I will tell you all about how I found her. Another wonderful Instagrammer put the seed of an idea in my head. She had purchased, in the sale, a Zadig and Voltaire Rock & Roll jumper in beige. I didn't know they came in beige. I have an old black one from Hush (a couple of years old.) I am so into my oversized jumpers, I almost don't want winter to come to an end. That's got to be quite good, hasn't it? Actually revelling in the dank, dark, cold weather? Anyway, I digress 'A LA' Ronnie Corbett. I searched to see if I could find the R&R sweater and located a sale one at Selfridges. The jumper was sale price but still £224.00! I sucked a fair amount of air through my ageing teeth and decided to give it a go. They had my size. It seemed like fate. Please tell me I am not the only saddo who does the fate thing?
I continued with my normal come day, go day life which includes continually perusing Instagram for further inspiration. I came upon the Grungemama feed and was thrilled to find some similar jumpers, at considerably less cost, on her website. I was intrigued. Just call be Hercule. I found out that Natalie, the lady behind Grungemama, actually did a stint at Zadig & Voltaire. Well sit me down and force feed me donuts! Aha that explains a lot, I thought. I don't know at what capacity she worked there, she could have been on the shop floor for all I know, but there was a connection that seemed to fit.
Before I knew it I was feverishly ordering not one but two jumpers (similar to the R&R ones, but not the same) a pair of jeans and a cardigan, all for less than the price of the Z&V Selfridges offering. By some weird twist of fate I went on the the Selfridges website to track my order status only to find that nothing had moved and that they seemed to be awaiting a payment from PayPal. This made no sense but it gave me the opportunity to cancel the order, which I did. No messing.
After my order it took about a week for the items to arrive. This was fine as I was for warned. I have no problem with this when items are travelling from Southern France! My only criticism, of the website, was the vagueness with the sizing. I am ANAL and love to know, as near as damn it, what size I should be ordering. A few panicky messages, via Instagram, later and a phone call ( I fucking told you I was anal!) I decided to order the jumpers in S/M and the jean in a Medium. Bob on by the way. I was, literally, tapping my fingernails waiting for everything to be delivered to my business address. I was NOT disappointed. I love, love, love it all. I will order from the website in the future, I am sure.
THIS IS ONE, VERY GOOD, REASON WHY I ADORE INSTAGRAM. If you can ignore the odd weirdo, wanting to befriend you, it is actually a lot of fun. ( Just block and fuck them off btw. Easy Peasy.)
So just to reiterate, I bought The above jumper (less than £60.00) in 2 colour ways (a black and a beige) the jeans (Less than £50.00) and a cardigan, which I haven't worn as yet. Everything for less than the Zadig & Voltaire jumper that was going to come my way, had Paypal not cocked up!)
Cheesy Grin.
Thanks for reading. I don't know whether anyone reads blogs anymore, but I enjoyed doing it!
Peace and Love.
Helen.
XxX
