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 Best Beige Cardigans
For a long time I thought beige was the aural equivalent of a shrug. Nothing says “I don’t care” like beige. When my flatmate Priya saw me trying one on…
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…
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…
Our Favourite V Neck Dresses Right Now
It manages to elongate the body from collarbone to waist more consistently than almost any other neckline. So whatever dress you’re wearing underneath can be playing around with colour or…
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.…
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…
Does Off the Shoulder Tops Actually Make You Look Wider? I Went Looking For a Real Answer
Two summers ago I bought an off the shoulder top for a wedding in Somerset. Wore it once and then didn’t wear it again for two years because my sister…
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…