Is It Actually Okay To Wear Chelsea Boots in Summer? I Decided To Find Out
I wore Chelsea boots to a barbecue in July and my sister Fran gave me dirty looks with her eyes like I’d rocked up in a fur coat. “You’re joking,”…
Is It Actually Okay To Wear Leather Jacket in the Rain? I Decided To Find Out
For a long time I thought leather jackets and rain were cats and baths; designed solely to cause maximum agony to the living creature unfortunate enough to own them both.…
I Got Into An Argument About Whether Plain White T-shirt Is Ok
My friend Priya asked the question that started it all whilst we were stood in the queue at the coffee van outside her office. “Plain white t- shirt is a…
I Got Into An Argument About Whether Sneakers to an Interview Is Okay
Declan and I were half way through a bottle of Malbec at Priya’s flat in November when things got heated. The argument, such as it was, was about nothing particularly…
Does Over the Knee Boots Actually Make You Look Taller? I Went Looking For a Real Answer
My sister Priya was standing in my hallway last October, dressed and ready to leave for a birthday dinner, when she asked me to measure her. Not weigh. Measure. Like…
Knee High Boots For 2026 Might Be Wishful Thinking On My Part
I scrolled through three saved searches of me trying to find a specific Chloé bag last night, because lets face it when it comes to internet shopping nothing gets you…
The Trench Coats and You Look Taller Myth I Finally Looked Into Properly
I bought my first real trench coat in 2019, after a woman at the till in a Leeds shopping centre told me it would “elongate” me. I am five foot…
I Spent a Year Buying Trousers with Brown Shoes So You Dont Have To Get It Wrong
Brown shoes have been given a bad reputation. Ask the average person what you pair brown shoes with and they’ll probably say “smart casual”, they’re the shoe you wear with…
I Went Looking For the Truth About Whether Wide Leg Trousers Really Makes You Look Slimmer
I tried on a pair of wide leg trousers in a changing room of a shop I will not name and liked what I saw. I was wearing these trousers…
Does Chelsea Boots Actually Make You Taller? I Went Looking For a Real Answer
My flatmate Priya checked me against the kitchen doorframe last December where we’ve peggoted pencilled height marks since we moved in, and my line was an entire inch higher than…