My sister Priya was standing in my hallway last October, dressed and ready to leave for a birthday dinner, when she asked me to measure her. Not weigh. Measure. Like…
I scrolled through three saved searches of me trying to find a specific Chloé bag last night, because lets face it when it comes to internet shopping nothing gets you…
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…
My flatmate Priya checked me against the kitchen doorframe last December where we’ve peggoted pencilled height marks since we moved in, and my line was an entire inch higher than…
Someone once told me that if you’re under five foot four you should “steer well clear” of any boots above mid calf, because they’ll “cut the leg in half and…
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.…
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…
“A trench coat buys you a coat and a half” a shop assistant told me circa 2011 while I drunkenly stared at myself in a full-length mirror wearing a beige…
One dude in a menswear forum told me the ideal fit for a puffer is “basically vacuum sealed to the body, like a sausage casing.” Why? “You end up looking…
I once got called a duvet with arms by my mum. No, let me back up. My mum told me I looked like a duvet with arms. We were outside…