A TASTE OF THE SEVENTIES

I made a promise to myself a few weeks ago to put blogging back at the top of my to-do list. This is quite a feat with a full time job, I can tell you that! Nevertheless it is Sunday and I'm back with another post! Tonight is quite a different one, skinny jeans will not be featured! Yeah you heard right! Tonight you see me in . . . flares!

Flares are a style of jean which I never thought I'd ever wear. Thats up until I began spotting some amazingly cool outfits, popping up on my social feeds. I do believe it or not, sometimes like to experiment with new styles, so I thought to myself, why the hell not give them a go?

My main source of inspiration for this post, came from looking through the Saint Laurent Men's Fall 18 collection. Flares play quite a part within this amazing 70's inspired capsule. I've included my favourite AW18 look below, but if you want a good nosey yourself, I've added the link to Saint Laurent website, at the bottom of my post.

Saint Laurent AW18

I've paired my flares with my large linen shirt, which I've owned for a while now. This shirt always looks killer on, channeling that old school 70's style. When I threw the white shirt on with my flares, I felt as though I was Jim Morrison himself, which is ALWAYS a good thing! I like the contrast of the black flares against my off white shirt, broken up with a vintage silver buckle belt, adding little that extra detail. 

My lightening bolt boots from Asos gave me a few extra inches in hight, allowing the bottom of the flares not trail along after me, you must look out for this classic mistake when wearing flares! Personally, I think a pointed shoe underneath a flare, always makes for a good look, just as the rockstars of the past wore them.

I also paired the outfit with a vintage pair of sunglasses, which again I picked up from Asos, they were a bargain, only costing me £15. These circle sunglasses are a nice finishing touch, giving the outfit that retro rock 'n roll look.

The only downside to rocking a flared jeans, is that finding the perfect pair, for us guys, proves to be a extremely difficult task indeed. So difficult in fact, I'm wearing my girlfriends flares from Topshop. So a big shoutout to CJ for kindly lending them to me. Even though they are a woman's jean I still think they look and fit great! These particular flares are the 'Black Flared Jamie Jeans' which you can find online at Topshop. 

To shop the flares click here.
To see Saint Laurent's Fall 18 Collection click here.

Watch my YouTube video below to see the flares and find out some exciting news about my up and coming week!

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