Recently by Catherine Hendrick

There's a great offer in this Friday's Mail, even though we say so ourselves!
Readers can choose a free product worth up to £12.50 from Boots' anti-ageing Time Delay range.
Just cut out the voucher which will appear in Friday's paper and take it to the main Birmingham store.

Kate Moss's third collection for Topshop hits the high street today. So watch out for the queues.
From what we've seen so far, unless you're under 16 or a waif, you'll have to choose carefully.
Most of us could get away with wearing the pretty pink star-print shirt (£35) or the vintage black beaded dress (although at £150 you'll need to be feeling flush to buy it).
But I can't see many of us squeezing into the tiny white shorts (£28) or skinny boot-cut striped jeans (£45) without looking like an extra from Shameless.
Only the likes of Kate Moss can make clothes like that look stylish.

It's great to see Birmingham putting itself firmly on the style map. Next month sees the biggest fashion event in the city this year and the first of its kind in the country.
Style in the City will feature catwalk shows hosted by Ozzy Osbourne's daughter Kelly and showcase collections by the likes of designers Alice Temperley, Stella McCartney and Posh Spice's favourite Roberto Cavalli.
We may live in the second city but for too long Manchester, London and Leeds were able to steal our style crown.
The arrival of Selfridges and Harvey Nichols changed all that.
Events like Style in the City attract national attention and are the perfect platform for giving our rivals a run for their money in the fashion stakes.
If you fancy going to the event, which runs from April 3 to 6, Monday's Mail will have details about special offers on tickets.

Finally the fashion industry's admitted what we could have told them ages ago. That it doesn't make clothes which fit real women.
Which is music to the ears of anyone who's convinced they've picked the right size only to struggle to fit into clothes when they try them on in the changing room. Well it will be if they do something about it.
I haven't got a cat in hell's chance of getting into a size 12 in Top Shop. But in Marks & Spencer it's a different matter.
Which stores do you think are the worst offenders?

The BAFTAS. Talk about disappointing. And I don't just mean because Julie Christie missed out on the best actress award (although I was slightly taken aback by her racy leopard print trousers).
The clothes were about as exciting as Daniel Day-Lewis' when some poor Sky News reporter tried to eke more than three words out of him during an interview.
The clothes were far too tame for my liking. Where were the big style statements of the night i.e. Helena Bonham-Carter dressed like the Bride of Frankenstein?
Spotting fashion disasters is the only reason I watch these awards. It makes me feel much better about lying on the sofa in my tracky bottoms looking like a bag woman.
Even Sienna Miller was dressed demurely in black.
Only Tilda Swinton managed to make me do a double-take in a gold number with fluffy tassles which looked like something your average overpaid footballer might have as a sofa.
Come on girls. You'll never give the Oscars a run for their money at this rate.

Am I losing the plot? I couldn't believe my eyes when I nipped into House of Fraser and saw a book of knitting patterns for dogs!
Well, for owners who want to knit their own clothing range for their pampered pooches. It even included a pattern for canine leg warmers....
Clothes are so cheap these days I didn't think anyone bothered to knit. Let alone have time to rustle up a new wardrobe for their four-legged friends.

Mums and dads wanting to dress their babies in something cute and stylish should keep an eye out for celebrity mum Myleene Klass' new range of baby clothes.
It's set to launch in Mothercare at the end of August.
The press bumf says the Baby K range will offer clothes and "fabulous funky accessories" for babies and children up to the age of three.
There aren't any pictures yet. But judging by former Hear'Say singer Myleene's sense of style we're expecting it to be a hit.

Shamed Tory MP Derek Conway's flamboyant son surely proves money, even of the publicly-funded variety, can't buy you taste.

Did you see that photograph of high-living Henry Conway out on the town with actress Martine McCutcheon? The Tory's son was working a look which can only be described as Liberace's love-child (I know that may be hard to imagine).

I'm sorry, but a 25 year-old man shouldn't be seen dead in a white furs hrug clutching what looks like a manbag. Especially when you're described by one tabloid as a 'fashion writer'.

The over the top outfit isn't the best choice when your dad's been forced to apologise to Parliament after paying you thousands to work as a Commons researcher while you're away at university either. Note to Henry: youshould be going for a butter wouldn't melt in my mouth nun look.

This champagne Charlie's decadent dress couldn't be a more crass reminderof how tasteless the whole sorry saga is. And another slap in the face fortaxpayers wondering where their money's gone.

If you catch your other half rifling your underwear drawer in the next couple of weeks don't be alarmed.

Harvey Nichols' manager Kevin Breese is encouraging blokes planning to buy lingerie for Valentine's Day to do their homework.

Instead of heading for the shops and cupping their man boobs in front of a flustered assistant in the hope they will be able to guess your bra size.

THE other day I saw something I thought was as likely as spotting Britney Spears at a mother's meeting - a shopper leaving Birmingham's posh Louis Vuitton store clutching two bags of designer gear.

I thought the swanky store was so exclusive its customers arrived and left under cover of darkness.

Twenty minutes later I bumped into the same girl queuing up to buy clothes in my natural home, Primark.

It seems some shoppers in Birmingham are taking the trend for mixing and matching designer labels with budget bargains to extremes.