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…
The Perfect Tiered Dress For A Summer Wedding
Tiered dresses are appropriate at summer weddings because they sway like the day will once you stop worrying about it post-ten am. Again, it’s all about construction: multiple layers of…
The Wrap Front Dresses Worth Your Money
The entire look of a wrap front dress depends on the tie and the drape either side of it, so that’s the first thing to look for before anything else.…
Does Maxi Dresses Actually Make You Look Fat? I Went Looking For a Real Answer
My sister- in-law Priya sent me a photo at a wedding last year that she’d taken of me in 2019. The caption read “am I hiding under a tent or…
The Best Yellow Slip Dresses
Yellow is what sets the good slip dress apart from ones you forget after a few drinks. It highlights every imperfection in the fabric and shows none of them any…
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…
Apparently Maxi Dresses Are A Bad Idea If Youre Short, I Wasnt Convinced
“You’re too short, love, you’ll drown in it,” a shop assistant at a branch of an admittedly now-defunct department store up in Leeds said to me, one vaguely irritated afternoon…
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…
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…
Maxi Dresses On Petite Frames Get A Bad Reputation Ive Never Quite Understood
“Maxi dresses will swamp you, you’re five foot two, stick to knee length.” So said a well-meaning saleswoman to me last year as she nodded sagely at myself tucked into…