The Perfect Tiered Dress For A Summer Wedding
Tiered dresses are appropriate at summer weddings because they sway like the day will once you stop worrying about it post-ten am. Again, it’s all about construction: multiple layers of…
Skater Dresses On A Pear Shape Turned Into A Proper Debate At My Sisters Wedding Fitting
People have opinions about skater dresses and pear shapes like I have opinions about asset allocation. This strikes me as funny because when it comes to important things that actually…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Black Bridesmaid Dresses
I spent years telling brides that black bridesmaid dresses were a bit funereal, a bit “sorry for your loss” for an occasion that’s supposed to be joyful. I was completely…
The Best Black Cut Out Dresses For A Garden Party
I said for years that cut outs were a nightclub thing, not a daytime thing, and definitely not a “stand on a lawn holding a glass of prosecco while your…
The Perfect Black Floral Dress For A Summer Wedding
I told Priya for years that black to a summer wedding was basically wearing a full stop to someone’s happiest sentence. I was wrong, and I’ve had to sit with…
The Best Bronze Maxi Dresses For A Summer Wedding
I spent about three years thinking bronze was a colour reserved for people with actual tans, and avoided it accordingly, wearing a lot of navy to weddings instead and blending…
The Bridesmaid Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I used to think the whole point of a bridesmaid dress was to disappear into it. Stand there, smile, don’t upstage the bride, job done. I held that opinion for…
The Perfect Black Printed Dress For A Garden Party
I spent about three summers thinking a black printed dress was a cop out for garden parties. Too safe, I thought, like turning up to a christening in your work…
The Perfect Burgundy Ruched Dress For A Garden Party
Burgundy has a particular advantage over the brighter garden party shades: it reads as considered rather than costumey, and it holds its depth in daylight instead of flattening out under…
The Best Burgundy Wrap Dresses For A Garden Party
Burgundy sits in that rare bracket of colour that reads as both warm and formal, which is exactly why it works so well on a wrap dress built for a…