RuBe’s Closet - Modest Fashion and Lifestyle: River Island

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Holiday Lookpost

Hello again readers,

Life has not yet returned to normal from the chaos of an impromptu family wedding this past weekend, and having our Australian guests depart for home.

I have so many photos of my trip for my Dubai post, it’s taking a while to sift through what I’d like to share. What I did manage to do one morning was shoot a relaxed lookpost on the grounds of our amazing hotel, Jumeirah Beach Hotel. These were taken on our way to one of the breakfast spots on the hotel premises. Looks like a dream, doesn’t it?

Thanks Mark for the hook up. #markcross

The weather was always really warm, so I would opt for lightweight clothing as the days were usually pretty humid, even early in the morning. My favourite item of clothing for this kind of weather is usually a maxi skirt or dress, paired with sandals. In this case a pair of flat sandals as the days usually involved loads of walking. An essential accessory for the burning sun is always a hat or peak cap, and this one always travels with me as it is a packable hat and doesn’t lose shape when packed flat.

This is one of my favourite maxi skirts, since it combines colour with animal print - a typical River Island piece. I was lucky and managed to grab it on a previous year’s sale abroad. Paired with a t-shirt by Lucy Goretti, from the Style Society Pop Up Boutique.

All photos shot at Jumeirah Beach hotel, Dubai

Photographer: Ghaalid Behardien

My outfit:

Lucy Goretti T-shirt

River Island skirt

ZARA sandals

Accessorise hat

Wardrobe bag from Asos

Tiffany & Co heart earrings (anniversary pressie)

Lips by Dior

Giorgio Armani sunglasses from Sunglass Hut

Caio for now,

RuBe xoxo

Relaxed Sunset

Hello beauties,

April has been a month of holidays, public holidays randomly peppered in every week. Whilst this is generally cause for great concern with reduced productivity (can’t help thinking like a business person eek) it also means some well deserved family time. During the last long weekend, we decided to take a leisurely drive to the beautiful dorpie of Stellenbosch and visit Gerry at Giraffe House, since Ihsaan is a huge animal lover. The older brothers got dragged along against their will, but scored a hearty Ocean Basket meal at the end of the day, which was great compensation.

The day ended off beautifully with us witness to another beautiful sunset on Strand Beach. I love the outdoors and feel its important to get my boys away from Playstation, Computers and TV when they’re on break from the hectic soccer schedule. It’s therefore important to grab the opportunities now before Winter is fully upon us!