Milan Fashion Week has almost come to an end. Mrs Romance is tired but has enjoyed the experience. She also has some great content for Hair Romance.

We begin exploring Milan a bit more, and Mrs R gets in some door-hunting too. It’s her other passion and she’s created a couple of great books of doors from around the world.

We discover the great fountain and grounds of Castello Sforzesco – an impossible name to say, but a beautiful part of the city none-the-less. The park beyond the castle is even more stunning.

With a lot of major European cities you can find one of these arches. They’re usually around to celebrate great victories in war. Here Milan has decided to use theirs as an entrance way to a fashion show.

Back in the city centre, the Galleria is an incredible building now used as a high-end shopping centre. It’s a bit like Sydney’s own Queen Victoria Building, just with a tonne of steroids pumped in!

Outside in the Piazza del Duomo, it’s selfie time! In the background is Milan’s duomo, the biggest medieval cathedral in the world. It’s a beautiful building and well worth a visit.

Inside the duomo, you get neck ache from looking up. The enormous pillars are like my Uncle Jack: incredibly thick and hold everything up. They’re much better looking than Jack though… but probably about as old!

Under the cathedral is a sort of museum. It’s not that impressive but for only €2 each, it’s okay. You do get to see into some of the creepy rooms they’ve got down here though.

We come out into bright daylight and feel the need for a spritz to revive us from the deep dungeons of the duomo. We discover a terrace bar that looks out over the piazza and is close enough to the duomo to almost touch it. For all that the bar isn’t expensive and is in fact an Aperol bar. Can’t really get better than that.

Here’s our review of Terrazza Aperol, Milan.

We come across countless streets that fill our memory cards full of photos. It’s a picture perfect city.

We stumble upon one Milan’s many markets. These olives look good enough to eat… which we do!

These bread animals look good too – though that’s all we do. At €10 a pop, we decide to put that money to better use – yes, another spritz Aperol!

It’s the end of Milan Fashion Week and so it’s time for the closing party. This is the most amazing party setting I’ve ever seen. It’s in the Palazzo Reale – the Royal Palace. There’s a huge long table full of amazing food and three different alcohol sponsors serving wine, champagne and vodka cocktails.

The day following the closing party, we walk (slowly) around the city. Mrs Romance finds this ironically parked car.

Our final (and in my opinion the best) Milanese experience is to go to an AC Milan game at the fabled San Siro Stadium – one of the world’s meccas to football. Milan play Celtic in a Champions League header. Milan win 2-0, which is just as well as we’re sitting in the AC Milan end surrounded by red and black stripes.

The atmosphere is incredible.

We do allow ourselves a bit of time to relax as we hurtle around one of the world’s most stylish cities. The rooftop terrace of our hotel – Hotel Galles – is perfect for this.

We prepare ourselves for our next move: we go east for Venice.

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Missed the first part to our European Romance? No problem! Here’s a link to Milan – part 1.

European Romance – Instagram Diary: Milan Part 1.

Images by Mr and Mrs Romance via Instagram: @MrAndMrsRomance, @HairRomance and of course @AngryBastard!

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But why should we feel underdressed and overwhelmed? Short answer: we shouldn’t. Here are my tips for keeping up with the Jonesettes – and looking fabulous too, darling!

Here’s what you pack:

A nice pair of jeans – this means at least a little fitted. Ones that are baggy, ripped, washed out, acid wash, or too short in the ankle are OUT. And definitely no stains, gentlemen!

Pants – I’ll be bringing a couple of pairs of tailored suit pants from Witchery Man. They’re really comfy and look better than jeans.

Shoes – brown with jeans, please. Running shoes won’t cut it here and I don’t care how comfortable they are. In fact most sneakers are a no-no. I can’t wear Cons no matter how popular they are. My feet turn into something off a Pingu show. A pair of Tigers might just about cut it… maybe.

No T-shirts! I don’t care if it’s an Acca-Dacca original from their Black Ice World Tour in Wilkes-Barre – don’t do it. A polo is as low and you can go. A shirt’s got to be good too, right?

While on the subject of shirts, for a more relaxed look, don’t be afraid of a little colour or patterning. This doesn’t mean you get to wear that Harlequin outfit you wore to last year’s Halloween party, but feel free to express yourself with a bit of the bold.

The golden rule

Bring a blazer jacket. I’m not talking one of those ones with the giant gold anchor crest buttons your dad used to wear (was it royal blue? Was it navy? I could never tell). I mean a light grey or dark navy. Single-breasted and two buttons. You might even want to go for a more colourful one. That’s fine too. But bring a jacket.

It’s the easiest way to move from conference to going-out mode for the Friday night do.

Alternatively, break all these rules and go for jeans (but still nice ones though – and still brown shoes etc) and a plain T – I like v-neck ones. But here’s the clincher: you must have that blazer jacket.

The jacket turns all the individual things you’re wearing into ‘an outfit’.

Other things to remember: bring deodorant or one of those mini samples of cologne, mints (not gum) and moisturiser. Don’t like moisturiser? Fine. Bring sun screen.

Remember, you’re representing your blog – your brand. If you look scruffy, your site looks scruffy. If you look like you stink, your blog stinks too. You want people to know your blog is cool, stylish and modern. Don’t you?

I apologise if this all sounds a bit harsh. I don’t mean to. At ProBlogger you’re encouraged to be yourself and express yourself however you want – as much through your clothes as through your writing. My point is this event is the one time a year you get to meet others from your industry.

Don’t you want to make a good impression?

Images from Zara and Pinterest

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