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…

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Over The Knee Boots For 2025 Got Questioned At A Dinner Party

I was halfway through chewing someone’s homemade tagine when Fran’s boyfriend nudged him across the dinner table and said “weren’t those boots a bit… 2013?” and I nearly choked on…

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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…

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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…

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The Best Yellow Satin Skirts For The Office

Yellow satin skirts shouldn’t work, but the best ones really do. Colour does the work that a print or embellishment does in other fabrics so you want the rest of…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Perfect Grey Cardigan For A Night Out

A grey cardigan built for the evening has to do something a daytime version never needs to attempt: hold its shape under artificial light, layer over bare skin without pilling…

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The Perfect Brogue For A Night Out

The brogue has spent most of its life being told what it’s for, which is desks and dad and being sensible, and that’s exactly why it’s so good the second…

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