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…
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…
The Perfect Teal Dress For Date Night
Teal occupies that perfect middle ground between black and jewel tones that happens to flatter more people than either column does. It works so hard for just one dress category…
The Blue Tiered Skirts We Keep Coming Back To
I’ve owned three blue tiered skirts in the wrong length before I found the right one, and I still think about the first attempt with something close to shame. It…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Cream Lace Tops
Cream sits in a different register to white, and that is the whole appeal of a lace top in this shade. It has warmth and softness built in, so the…
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 Perfect Black A Line Dress For A Beach Holiday
I spent three summers packing a suitcase full of white broderie anglaise for holidays and coming home having worn it twice, because white and sun cream and rosé do not…
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…
Hand Picked, The Black Denim Skirts Worth Shopping
I spent about four years convinced black denim skirts were a trap. Too try hard for the office, too stiff for anywhere with music, that weird length that’s either a…