Apologies once again for my appalling lack of blogging. Hopefully slightly more regular posting will resume after my exams finish in two weeks time.

Anyway, as promised some time ago, this post is dedicated to my completed prom suit. I stuck to the Topman suit I bought online, however I must say I was rather disappointed by the trousers, whose darker shade of cream contrasted terribly with the lighter coloured blazer. In fact, though the trousers are very unique and elegantly styled in their own right, they go with very few blazers, I found to my cost, as I tried them with every tweed blazer I had at my disposal. Finding a shirt to go with them was also very challenging; in the end I had to resort to simple blacks and greys.

Having decided to ignore the trousers, I was left with something of a problem: what to wear with a patterned blazer designed to go with matching trousers? Perhaps black was the boring option, but in my desperation, it seemed like the option with the lowest risk of prom-night-embarrassment. To liven things up, I took a black shirt and glued diamantes all the way down the centre. You can't see it in these pictures, but I also stuck diamantes around the cuffs and applied a line of studded diamantes across the seam on the back which stretches from shoulder to shoulder. 

The party piece of my outfit is the diamante bow tie. It may have taken hours of painstaking labour to apply the 3mm diamantes to the black backing, but the rewards were immensely satisfying - I relished each compliment all the more knowing that I had made the bow tie myself. Unfortunately I cannot take credit for the manufacture of my two-tone shoes, but they're such classic shoes that they've garnered almost celebrity-like status at my school. Would definitely recommend them to anyone seeking to stick out in a formal environment. They're also great for disguising an inability to dance!