The Best Beige Blazers For Layering This Season
For years I avoided beige like it was the clothing version of speaking up at a dinner party. Boring, unassuming, it whispered of people who don’t want to offend by…
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…
The Perfect Beige Coat For The Office
I bought a beige coat in 2019 that made me look like I was trying to audition for The Archers as an estate agent commissioned by a publisher to populate…
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…
The Tan Mini Dresses Worth Your Money
Tan is hard to get right in a mini dress; it hugs the body so closely that any textureless fabric feels cheap as soon as you put it on. Ones…
Shop the Tan Maxi Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Tan is the colour that elevates a maxi dress from merely long to considered. It’s warmer than beige, quieter than camel, and it’s close enough to skin tone that it…
Shop the Trench Coats We’d Actually Wear
Proven by years of wear and re-wear, a quality trench knows how to earn its place in your wardrobe, it doesn’t simply hang there by virtue of its brand name.…
Does Loafers Actually Make You Taller? I Went Looking For a Real Answer
I used to think loafers were the sensible shoe. You know the one. The loafers. The thing you wear when you’ve stopped trying to pretend your legs go anywhere near…
The Best Wrap Cardigans
Why wrap cardigans work: they do one thing, and they do it well. They bridge the gap between smart and casual without making you look compromised by either. The belt…