Shopping : Lulu` Boutique

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There's something about good, quaint, interior styling that immediately grabs my attention. I especially enjoy it when I encounter it in clothing and accessory boutiques. Don't get me wrong, I love shopping at minimalist-designed, clean, white shopping spaces but I also do love me a bit of cute and quaint.

Some time ago, I wrote about a quaint shop located off the normal shopping route - Lulu` Boutique in Ta' Xbiex, Malta. This shop uplifts my mood right from the front door - a little blackboard announces the opening hours and a sea of bright colours calls for my attention.

I popped by the store yesterday, the new stock has just arrived and there is A LOT of stock. There's a huge variety of different items. There are bikinis, a large range of costume jewelry, some snazzy fedora hats, I also spotted some coloured, smart blazers, long flowing maxi dresses, crochet blazers..you get the gist. To give an example of the variety of items, whilst in there, I saw both an older woman buying an interesting, patterned knee-length dress and a teenager buying a tulle polka dot skirt.

Some of the main trends for this season are 70's influence (think patterns, bright colours and all round hippy effect), yellow yellow yellow, white white white, lace and delicate fabrics, polka dot patterns, jumpsuits and ofc denim. 

There are a lot of 70's style patterns in the store and check out those fedoras

What interested me most however, was the large selection of summer dresses. Summer dresses are the main thing my clients and readers ask me to source. Our hot climate makes dresses the most ideal item of clothing you can wear - first of all, they're easy - let's face it, there isn't really much outfit planning involved. Obviously, less clothing leads to less items that can get creased, or make you feel hot and uncomfortable. The only downside to a dress is, that well, there's only one way to wear it, you can change around accessories but with a bright, patterned dress, there's a limit to what you can add on. One  way to solve this issue is of course to have many that can be rotated far apart from each other :)  

The slideshow below has just my favourite dresses that I spotted in the shop, there are actually many more


Any favourites ?

To add more dresses to your wardrobe, Lulu` Boutique is open from Monday to Saturday from 9.30a.m to 19.30p.m.  Happy Shopping !!

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Shopping : Have You Visited LULÙ ?

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The first time I discovered  Lulu` Boutique, I was driving to Busy Bee for cannoli. I was determinedly focused on convincing my parking angels to help me, when out of the corner on my eye an eye-catching blue shop front with a pretty display caught my attention. Food, and cannoli in particular, are of utmost importance but priorities are priorities and I found myself stopping and parking further up from Busy Bee, leaving the car and somehow walking towards this shop. 

This was actually about a year ago and it's one of those stories I've always meant to tell, but somehow I kept putting on the back burner. Recently, however, I visited the store and since this was a planned exploration, my camera actually came with me and kept itself busy, whilst I gabbed with Marisa the owner and looked around.

The shop has actually been open since April 2013 and they have different stuff for lots of different tastes and ages - I saw pieced I'd recommend to my mother and pieces that I gave a new home to. The shop is not a franchise, so it doesn't stock one particular brand or other - there are different pieces sourced from many different brands. This means you're never quite sure what you'll find. Shops like this are not that common anymore and whilst I love my favourite franchise stores, sometimes, I miss that feeling of simply popping in to see what they have rather than going straight for that piece you've spotted on the net. 

So my camera took these pics - intelligent ain't it ? It spotted this lace blazer below at once, it's perfect for wearing over a coloured dress to a Spring morning wedding or simply out to dinner over jeans on a breezy night.

This a-line skirt and crop top below is one of the cutest little outfits ever 



70s vibe all the way

And as per the usual for my shopping posts, there are even more photos for you to filter through, in the slideshow below






For the finer details of life : Lulu` Boutique is open from Monday to Saturday from 9.30a.m to 19.30p.m. We are in Malta so you know - there is ‘Lulu Boutique, Msida’ on Facebook.

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