Hand Picked, The Cocktail Dresses Worth Shopping
A good cocktail dress earns its place through construction, not decoration. The best examples hold their shape without armour plating you into stillness, which means proper lining, a bodice that…
Shop the Coral Midi Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Coral sits in a difficult zone. Too orange and it reads as fancy dress, too pink and it loses the warmth that makes the colour worth wearing in the first…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Burgundy Mini Dresses
Burgundy sits in that rare zone between black and red, dark enough to do the job black does but with a warmth that photographs better under low light and reads…
Shop the Chiffon Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Chiffon has a bad reputation it doesn’t quite deserve, mostly because so many dresses made from it are cut without any thought for how the fabric actually behaves. Chiffon is…
The Casual Dresses Worth Your Money
A good casual dress does most of the thinking for you, which is precisely why the category gets so much wear and so little credit. The ones worth owning are…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Cowl Neck Dresses
A cowl neck earns its keep through drape, not decoration. The fabric has to do the work: a jersey with enough weight to fall into soft folds rather than cling,…
The Best Charcoal Mini Dresses
Charcoal sits in a different register to black, which is why it works so hard in a mini dress. It has the same grounding, no-nonsense quality but with a softness…
The Check Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
A good check dress earns its keep through the quality of the check itself, not just its presence. Look for a pattern that has been placed with intent, matched at…
The Perfect Charcoal Dress For Weekend Brunch
Charcoal sits in that rare zone between black and grey where a dress reads as considered rather than default. It has enough depth to feel deliberate, without the slight formality…
The Best Burgundy One Shoulder Dresses
Burgundy does something for skin tone that black simply cannot, it warms rather than hardens, which is exactly why the one shoulder cut works so well in this shade. The…