St Patrick’s Day | Get the Spring look
Unless you didn’t already know it, today is the 17th March which means that it is St Patrick’s day. In Ireland this means celebrating the patron saint of Ireland, whom ironically was a citizen of Wales who was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken to Ireland as a slave. Having escaped and taking on religion he then returned to Ireland as a missionary where his work then earned him the title of saint.
In other parts of the world it is celebrated by those of us with an excuse to drink copious amounts of Guinness and the recent revelation that we are in fact Irish by descent, convenient don’t you think?
Whatever your excuse to celebrate this event, it goes without saying that green is the colour today, already I have seen a number of t-shirts hats and trousers worn (particularly by the students amongst us) on my journey to work this morning, along with the posters advertising various St Paddy’s day offers, drinks promotions and pub nights. Out of all the holiday’s this one seems to be one of the more popular ones and the one most likely to get people dressing up in more and more outrageous get ups with shamrock’s, pints of the black stuff and all manner of Irish-esque logos and famous slogans.
T-shirts especially are the most popular part of the ensembles, some with messages, some with jokes, most with drinking related subject matter.
There are plenty of websites advertising their own designs and I’m sure plenty of people have designed their on appropriate homage to this fast becoming non-religious holiday.
If you’re off out tonight, do the Irish people proud and do it properly, loud, proud and green!
Onto another seasonal subject. It’s March, the spring has arrived and so far the weather has been lovely, so lovely in fact that prematurely the lads and lasses out there have already been donning those shorts, flip flops and shades. If however some of you (like myself) aren’t quite ready to acknowledge that the temperatures haven’t really risen that much then here’s a helpful hint, wear shorts and flipflops but partner them with a trendy, warm yet cool (not idea how that works but it does) hooded sweatshirt. Should the weather suddenly turn nasty, you can quite simply throw them on over your t-shirt and voila, warmth plus style equals happy person. All the colours are out there, the high street itself is alive with labelled and non labelled sweatshirts in a variety of bright and fun colours perfect for the transition from Spring to Summer. I myself have my eye on a very bright yellow sweatshirt that will pretty much go with anything in my ever expanding wardrobe. Alas, apart from certain jeans that may perhaps have me looking like a representative of a very well known Scandinavian furniture store (it doesn’t dare thinking about does it?).
So, the main point of my ramblings today is that even though it’s warm, it really isn’t but you can still look the business without sacrificing your comfort and sanity.
Tee Boy