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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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