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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Should Joggers Be Tight Or Loose? Everyone Has A Different Opinion, So I Checked

My friend Nadia has joggers so tight that they’re basically leggings with a drawstring cuffed so tightly at the ankle they suction-seal to her calves. My friend Ben has joggers…

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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…

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The Brown Joggers Worth Your Money

Brown is what makes a great pair of joggers stand out from the sea of every other grey marl and black cotton sack. It looks considered, rather than sacklike; worlds…

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Shirt with Gray Pants Are the Only Thing Getting Me Through This Years Dressing

I was standing over the ironing board at half six on a Tuesday, doing that thing where you iron one pair of trousers and somehow end up doing four shirts…

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Everything Ive Worked Out About Cropped Trousers On Shorter Legs

There was a woman at the Barras a few months back, standing at the edge of a rail of trousers, holding a pair of wide leg cropped ones up against…

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Wide Leg Trousers On Fuller Legs Get Written Off As Bulky, I Wasnt Convinced

The loudest opinion I’ve heard on this, and believe me I’ve heard many over the years, is that if you’ve got fuller thighs you shouldn’t wear wide leg trousers full…

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