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…
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…
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…
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…
Sunglasses
When they’re right, sunglasses have the power to elevate any outfit. They’re your outfit. We’re talking a complete change of vibe without having to alter a single article of clothing.…
Our Favourite Grey Crossbody Bags Right Now
Grey solves a problem black cannot. It carries the same discipline, the same refusal to compete with an outfit, but without the slight severity that black crossbody bags bring to…
Crossbody Bags
We’re talking about the kind of freedom you get from a bag that you never have to think about. Not because it’s boring but because it just works. The crossbody…
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 Grey Sandals Worth Your Money
Grey sits in a strange, useful gap between neutral and statement, and that is exactly why it works so well on a sandal. It reads softer than black, less demanding…
Shop the Black Heeled Sandals We’d Actually Wear
I used to think a black heeled sandal was a black heeled sandal, one purchase, job done, tick the box. Wrong. I own four pairs now and have worn one…