Milan looking Christmassy + WEARING :: Winter Uniform

WEARING :: Winter Uniform + A Winter-y Milan Trip.

Last Thursday we had a busy but lovely day in Milan to attend the grand opening of the H&M's Italian flagship store in the Duomo area, which meant we have waited a good hour standing in the cold and watching a big red countdown screen. Luckily the weather was pretty nice, but even though the sun was up in the blue sky, it was such a cold, chilly, freezing day and fortunately they planned to warm us up with freshly made coffee and croissants and muffins - which made the waiting quite enjoyable, let me tell you this. The store is beautiful and ginormous and stocks a few items I've never seen elsewhere and there was no doubt we were going to take advantage of our well-deserved first 300 customers' 25% off voucher - especially since the day after was Christmas Jumper Day -, however I was a bit disappointed because I read somewhere they might was going to open the first Italian H&M Home store as well, but we'll need to keep buying our homeware from the website as they don't seem to want to bring H&M Home here anytime soon (sadly!).

Milan is feeling pretty festive with its Christmas markets, big Christmas tree, fairy lights and festive decorations all around. We took advantage of the trip to do some Christmas shopping as well as to go and admire the Ladurée festive environment (and they are definitely doing Christmas right!) and windows (I love the new pineapple packagings) and obviously to treat myself to some macarons - as always I came home with a very brown-looking macarons box as I just have a thing for coffee, chocolate and vanilla that stops me from deciding of trying some new flavours everytime I buy macarons, however I think I might've become a fan of the Rose Petal one!

I was so glad I decided to wear jeans, two pair of woollen socks, my warmest wool-blend coat and my new pompom beanie, as I don't think I would had ever been able to browse through all the Christmas markets without freezing that day. I've been very faithful to this winter uniform these past weeks that I thought it deserves a mention; I know it's quite boring, but I bet most of the girls out there would rather wear boring instead of freezing in the winter cold just to wear cute dresses (or maybe not?), plus I love boring, boring is surely my thing!

*P.S. :: Even though I'm wearing mostly H&M clothes and talking about their store, this is not a sponsored post at all, all the clothes were bought with my own money, and I wasn't invited to attend the opening, I just love this brand and went there and wore their items because of it!