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 Best Brown Clutch Bags
I spent years thinking brown was the bag colour equivalent of saying “no worries either way” when someone asks what you want for dinner. Fine. Fair. Deeply unexciting. Then I…
Our Favourite Black Clutch Bags Right Now
I spent about four years believing the black clutch had to be tiny and stiff and slightly too small for anything useful, because that’s what I was handed at every…
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…