The Topshop Sale launched today and I didn't find one single thing that I was even remotely interested in purchasing. I don't normally shop in the sales, I avoid the shops like the plague in January. The mess, the crowds and the bitter dissappointment brought on by a wrongly priced item, is all too much to bare! I normally prefer to do my sale shopping online, but even today, the first day of the Topshop sale when, stock is still plentiful, and not many items in my size are sold out, I cannot find a single item that commands purchase. I think that working as a sales assistant in Topshop has traumatised me. Sales Assistants everywhere dread The Sales as it means one thing - staying in store later than normal to tidy up after all the messy shoppers! Obviously I am a considerate and tidy shopper and I am no longer contracturally obliged to tidy up other people's mess, but still...the feeling of dread continues.

The two things that I did momentarily consider buying (but didn't) were not by Toshop but in one of their concessions called Rare. As a Topshop employee, my fellow workers and I used to mock Rare as being a bit tacky, cheap and of low quality, and above everything else, not exactly fashion forward.

However, Rare, all is forgiven. This hot pink tulip skirt and grey jersey tulip dress are perfect and very reasonably priced considering these are first reductions. I have always loved this shape, and I will happily continue to wear it long after VOGUE deem it to be passe. I think it is flattering and reminds me of a Vivienne Westwood dress that I nearly  bought about three years ago on eBay.

I also found a wicker Fez Hat. When was this even full price? lol.