Motel Schmotel

(Incidentally I just stayed at a lovely little B&B in Brighton called Motel Schmotel, and I would whole-heartedly recommend it. They even do breakfast in bed! Unfortunately my enjoyment of that was somewhat diminshed as I had got food poisoning from Jamie's Italian the night before. Damn you Jamie and your delicious, but sick-making ravioli.)

So I've always liked Motel...mainly because they had their own shop in Leicester a long time ago and it was the only place to get decent clothes. If you understand decent clothes to mean flimsy printed boob tubes and sweaters with cartoon characters, that is. They did lots of jersey dresses with cutesy prints. I had one dress that had a tiny print of ladies bottoms on it, but it looked like flowers from far away. That's quite cool right? Maybe not when I paired it with lime green kitten heels, but whatevs.

But Motel has gone much more up market and ubiquitous of late. I don't usually covet their dresses because the prints are so recognisable (and badly copied), but this Indah Spring Rose dress is screaming out to me...

In the flesh the fabric is really lovely, and while I don't usually go in for rose prints this one seems a bit spesh.

The problem I usually encounter with Motel dresses, apart from the extreme likelihood of seeing at least three people wearing the same thing in a size smaller than me when out, is the stretchy fabrics. They do not generally flatter. But this is in such a flattering shape. Hmm. I am a little bit out of pocket at the moment after being totally hypnotised and practically forced by Lisa Eldridge to buy loads of expensive skincare products (see below) and make up. There is a lovely yummy Illamasqua Lipstick working its way to me through the post right now, so I will hopefully be able to do a review of that pretty soon.

The dress can be seen here, where I found the fabric detail.

This has been a bit of a rambling post, but in conclusion: Motel is better than it used to be. And I want that dress.