Shop the Beige Blouses We’d Actually Wear
For a long time I boycotted beige. Factually-speaking: my logic, such as it was, went something like this: beige is what colour aspirations start out as and then become if…
Shop the Zebra Print Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Zebra print almost exclusively looks best when the print itself does all the work, instead of the cut of the dress. Scale and irregularity is what stops it reading cheap…
Midi Skirts Get Blamed For Making You Look Shorter, I Wanted The Real Story
Ok so for years I genuinely thought midi skirts were a height scam. Like a real life conspiracy against anyone under five foot five. Five foot four if we’re being…
Petite Women And Midi Dresses Are Apparently A Bad Match, I Wanted Proof
I had just started my third set of Romanian deadlifts when my phone vibrated against the water bottle on the bench next to me so hard I had to take…
Skater Dresses On A Pear Shape Turned Into A Proper Debate At My Sisters Wedding Fitting
People have opinions about skater dresses and pear shapes like I have opinions about asset allocation. This strikes me as funny because when it comes to important things that actually…
Off The Shoulder On Broad Shoulders Gets Written Off Fast, I Wanted To Check Why
I was trying on a dress in the Zara changing rooms on Deansgate when I snapped one of those terrible selfies you take at arms length off the mirror above…
The A Line Dress Hides Your Tummy Claim Gets Repeated Constantly, So I Checked
I have stood, and I will admit this because ew gross, nearly an hour in a dressing room across three different A-line dresses spinning around to my side view trying…
A Midi Dress Made Me Look Shorter Than Usual, Or So My Sister Claimed
“Just get one that hits mid calf, it’s universally flattering, every body type” a shop assistant at Nordstrom Rack told me four years ago. I was standing there holding a…
The Best Bodycon Dresses For Weekend Brunch
I spent years thinking bodycon meant one specific silhouette, the kind that requires a fake tan appointment and a strict no bread policy for 48 hours beforehand. Wrong. A good…
The Perfect Beige Wrap Dress For Weekend Brunch
I spent about three years thinking beige was for people who’d given up. Then I wore a beige wrap dress to a brunch I almost cancelled because I couldn’t face…