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…
I Got Into An Argument About Whether Sneakers to an Interview Is Okay
Declan and I were half way through a bottle of Malbec at Priya’s flat in November when things got heated. The argument, such as it was, was about nothing particularly…
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 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 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…
The Perfect Beige Coat For The Office
I bought a beige coat in 2019 that made me look like I was trying to audition for The Archers as an estate agent commissioned by a publisher to populate…
I Spent a Year Buying Trousers with Brown Shoes So You Dont Have To Get It Wrong
Brown shoes have been given a bad reputation. Ask the average person what you pair brown shoes with and they’ll probably say “smart casual”, they’re the shoe you wear with…
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…
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.…
Does Loafers Actually Make You Taller? I Went Looking For a Real Answer
I used to think loafers were the sensible shoe. You know the one. The loafers. The thing you wear when you’ve stopped trying to pretend your legs go anywhere near…