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…
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 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…
The Best Grey Midi Skirts
Grey does more work than black in a midi skirt, because it carries the same ease without dragging the mood down to funereal. The best versions sit somewhere between stone…
The Best Broderie Tops For The Office
I spent about three years thinking broderie meant summer wedding, full stop, nothing else, and I have a photo from 2019 to prove it, standing in a car park in…
Hand Picked, The Broderie Skirts Worth Shopping
I used to think broderie was a summer wedding costume, the thing you wear once to a marquee in June and then feel faintly ridiculous about for the rest of…
The Best Grey Midi Dresses
Grey does something a black midi dress can’t, it reads as considered rather than safe. The right shade sits between charcoal and dove, close enough to neutral that it pairs…
The Broderie Dresses Worth Your Money
I bought a broderie dress in 2019 that looked, under any light stronger than a candle, like a christening gown that had given up on itself. Cheap cotton, holes punched…
The Black Midi Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I bought a black midi dress in 2019 that I can only describe as “office Halloween witch,” all severe angles and a hemline that moved like it had its own…