Screencaps from Strictly Ballroom: Shirley Hastings having a breakdown in a purple tiedie outfit, Scott's sister cheering for him in pink and yellow light, Scott's father dancing beside a record player, Scott and Fran dancing on the roof of the dance studio in front of a glittering Coca Cola sign.

Screencaps from Strictly Ballroom: Scott, Fran, Rico and Ya Ya dancing, flashback scene where Doug dances with a line of women, Liz Holt pleading for Scott to dance with him at the Pan Pacifics Grand Prix, Scott on the dancefloor in a gold bolero kneeling in front of Fran who wears a red flamenco dress.

The styling in the movie is dated but it was so obnoxiously of it’s time that it was parodying the huge fringes and eyeshadow up to the brows while we were all still trying to look like that. I remember I used to rub my fringe with the palm of my hand, hoping it’d knot up and get more body before I pulled it up in a fan-like array and doused it in hairspray. After watching the movie again for the first time in years I still would love to live in the Strictly Ballroom world, but without the ridiculous fringe. So here’s a completely overworked and ostentatious collage inspired by Strictly Ballroom, sourced only from retailers of today on the internet. It actually took me hours to weed through all the boring, unfancy fashions to find the good stuff, being a stylist is hard!

A collage of Strictly Ballroom inspired amazingness, including caps from the movie, Fran's nightie/ socks/ heels outfit and a glam purple, gold and green outfit.

Yours Clothing Floral nighty; Evans purple leggings; Evans grey and pink socks; Isola heels from Shoebuy; 80s Purple sunglasses.

Evans Praslin purple tulip hem dress; ASOS open torque tassel necklace; ASOS emerald glass earrings; Cynthia Rowley gold cage heels with gold leaf socks; Illamasqua Body Electrics make up.

Top: Yours Clothing
Skirt: Yours Clothing
Tights: Big W
Shoes: Spendless (they have a pointed toe but my husband cut them off!)
Necklace: Lola and Bailey
Sunglasses: Giant Vintage

Tunic: Evans
Jeans: Smile Land
Shoes: Evans
Necklace: Made by me
Glasses: Giant Vintage

I am totally in love with these Giant Vintage sunglasses, but I had to wrestle them into submission when I first got them because the arms were all wonky.

I saw Where The Wild Things Are this evening with a bunch of friends, and despite reading the book when I was little I couldn’t really remember the storyline. There were a bunch of hipsters who’d obviously been gagging for the film for months and sure there was loads of whimsy, stylistically speaking, but I pretty much adored the hell out of the monsters. Especially Ira!

This is the sort of movie that kids and adults can watch and it doesn’t get condescending, nor does it have that *nudge nude* here’s-a-joke-for-the-adults thing. It’s about how you react to what you can and can not control and using your imagination to explore things like anger and loneliness in a safe way – things that kids need to have experience with. I’d much rather encourage my children to watch and discuss this film than put them in front of horrid cartoons with little nutritional value and loads of patronising content! I’m pretty sure most kids have their own “wild places” so will be very familiar with the concept; it made me reflect a lot on my own wild place too. I used to pretend I was a sea creature, like a mermaid, and whenever I was upset I would hold my breath for the longest time, just swirling beneath the surface for as long as my lungs could hold out.

I do advise not to sit up the front of the theatre, the hand held camera work is really hard to follow if you’re up close! One of my friends had motion sickness from it, eep!