Wish List Wednesday - The Boys Toys Skirt by BOB

Wish List Wednesday is back! Huzzah I hear you call!

This week I'm swooning after the Boys Toys skirt from the new collection from BOB by Dawn O’Porter. The Equality Collection launch a week ago on the 20th of January.  It's a capsule collection with only four pieces in it, the skirt, a shirt, a dress and a pair of leggings, with prints on them created by the very talented Karen Mabon.

This is not Karen Mabon's first collaboration with Dawn O'Porter's label BOB. They previously created a beautiful selection of four skirts with designs including flying geese, nostalgic 90s school days and women walking dogs and my favorite, the blue one with sheets of paper with inspirational quotes on them.

Karen's studio is based in Edinburgh these days after studying here at the School of Art, so there is a local interest in this weeks WLW too. Her forte is quirky and colourful scarves and jewelry and you can check them all out on her website. The themes of her scarves very from dogs in fancy dress, Noah's ark to the classic greasy spoon cafe breakfast! They are all bright and full of interesting details.

The Equality Collection has three of Karen Mabon's prints; The Love Wins print which features the who rainbow of couples in love live a cat and a dog, two spacemen and a pair of figure skaters, it has been printed on a 60's inspired cream shirt and 80's style leggings. The Women and the Boss print features hard working women in in the work place, taking meeting and working with their babies. My favorite is the Boys Toys print, it's covered in Super Soakers, dinosaurs, Gameboys and toy soldiers and all of this is on a beautiful 50's inspired skirt. Since having her little boy Dawn O'Porter has been 'shocked by the gender specific toy industry' with girls toy sections being filled with 'tiaras and ponies' and the boys toy inspiring 'toughness and strength'. She wanted to highlight the fact that 'boys look great in pink and girls love being tough'. 

I love it! I always enjoyed playing with Lego and water guns when I was growing up and I do enjoy a great 50's style skirt too, especially when it has something positive to say about society. The Equality Collection is also available in sizes 6-18, which I love, and is all made in London.

You should also check out both Karen and Dawn's Instagram accounts too, they have both fun and inspirational, especially all of Dawn's vintage finds.