Kate Middleton or as she’s best known The Duchess of Cambridge – has been seen wearing various coat dresses in recent weeks and as advised in the Mail Online this week – we  also suggest you get one early! So here we go with a selection of our best loved ‘Coat Dress’ styles – which look fab styled with a dress or trousers…

Camel Coat Dress

This single breasted long line coat with storm flaps and epaulettes is also available in black!

Bright Pink Parka

Vibrant parka has also been featured in Take A Break Magazine in January. Available in three colours; magenta, aquamarine and black.

Silver Coat Dress

From the Changes By Together range and made with sumptuous satinised fabric which has a delicate sheen, this mac is bursting with elegance! Also available in a vivacious lime!

Olive Quilted Coat

Lightly padded with ever popular and bang on trend diamond quilt. This jacket also available in navy.

Take a leaf out of the lovely Kate’s book – this style is set to be a Spring favourite! x

If you’re anything like me you’ll LOVE a good sale. The mid season sale has recently started at Marisota so these are my top picks!

This stylish kimono is the perfect accessory for the winter season. It’s slouchy enough to wear with jeans whilst the fitted waistline means it’ll look great over any party outfit! It’s reduced from £30 to just £21 and comes in Mink (shown above) or a bright Cobalt blue.

Alternatively this lovely check coat by Anna Scholz is perfect for wrapping up this winter. The gorgeous check pattern is fabulous and the collar and nipped in waist mean it looks fab on most body shapes!

Check back tomorrow for more of my favourites from the Marisota sale!

I can’t believe the chaos the snow is causing. They’ve sent Joanne home from school… and I’ve had patients cancelling on me left right and centre! So I’ve decided to spend some time with Jo and get out in the snow. I’ve got virtually no sensible clothes for the this kind of weather though. I was just thinking about putting together a nice new wardrobe for spring when this blizzard hits!

A little ensemble from the Marisota plus size fashion collection like this one would be perfect:

As it is I’ll just stick with my old jeans and coat for today… but maybe I’ll get prepared for next time the snow comes bucketing down!

Ah well – I don’t suppose it’ll matter today as the only eligible batchellor I’m likely to meet in the back garden is a snowman!

It’s well known that fashion, like so many things, goes round in cycles. So it’s no big surprise that’s there’s currently a resurgence for all things fur – especially considering this freezing cold snap we’re in the middle of.

The debate rages on and on about whether you should go ‘fur’ the real thing (sorry!) or choose the more animal friendly option, faux-fur. There are some impassioned arguments on both sides of the fence and to be honest, I can see where both sides are coming from. I’m not a vegetarian and I wear leather shoes and boots… but even so I don’t think I would buy new real fur (even if I could afford it!)

You can get some pretty gorgeous faux-fur pieces that feel just as luxurious as the real thing.

I love the glamour of this faux-fur trimmed cardigan from Marisota. The fur trim is detachable depending on how dressy you want to be. (Glamour all the way for me!)

And this faux fur-trimmed suede coat from plus size fashion designer Anna Scholz looks so cosy in a decadent kind of way.  Just the thing for this cold weather we’re having too. The blue colour is fun but I always say you can’t go wrong with black.

What do you think?

Yes, that’s right it seems that the big and well-developed human brain could only evolve into being thanks to the development woman’s broad child-bearing hips. Without those curves we could never have evolved much past the level of chimpanzees. Or looking at it the other way round, women’s curvy figures came about for the good of the human race. Read the full story here.

I’ve not actully seen any evidence yet that curvy women have bigger brains themselves, but I’ve sure that conclusion is just around the corner.

One woman who loves to celebrate the curvy woman’s shape is Caryn Franklin. Her designer plus size clothing collection at Marisota was created to work with a woman’s curves – not hide them.

Check out these sexy Caryn Franklin plus size dresses and plus size coat from Marisota - now that’s what I call curves!

There’s a real nip in the air at the minute, autumn is well and truly here. I don’t mind one bit, it gives me a great excuse to wear my lovely new plus size coat from Marisota. Honestly, the coats and jackets in the autumn winter Marisota collection are just gorgeous, the plus size coat choice is amazing. My daughter and I love going for a walk on a cold, bright day. All wrapped up in my well-fitting stylish coat, she says I do her proud I look so good, and me a size 16! There’s a lovely local pub on our walk and I love to drop in for a quick drink before braving the cold in my coat again.

I love the different coats that are in style right now, the sash jacket and the classic mac and wool coats are huge this season. It’s fabulous and all so cosy. Enjoy the winter weather, I know I will!