Shop the Black Prom Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Black prom dresses get written off as the boring choice, the one you pick when you can’t decide, and I spent years believing that too. Turns out that’s rubbish. Black…
Hand Picked, The Black Tie Dresses Worth Shopping
Black tie is the one dress code where nobody wants a jolly compromise. You want drama, but drama that survives a three hour dinner, two glasses of something fizzy and…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Blue Mini Dresses
I spent a solid two years thinking blue mini dresses were a one trick pony, strictly for hen dos and the sort of night that ends with you eating chips…
The Black One Shoulder Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I owned a one shoulder dress in 2014 that had a fabric flower the size of a small side plate sitting on the strap, and I wore it to a…
Hand Picked, The Black Tea Dresses Worth Shopping
There is something about a black tea dress that manages to be both a safe choice and a slightly rebellious one, which is probably why it keeps earning its place…
Hand Picked, The Black Slip Dresses Worth Shopping
I owned three black slip dresses before I admitted the first one was the problem, not the concept. Cheap satin, cut on the wrong bias, and it clung to absolutely…
The Best Black Square Neck Dresses
I spent years thinking square necks were a “special occasion” cut, something you wheeled out for one wedding and put away again. Wrong, completely wrong, and I’ll say that plainly…
The Best Blue Linen Dresses For Weekend Brunch
I spent years thinking blue linen was strictly a holiday colour, something you packed for Puglia and never touched again until the following June. That was a properly wrong opinion…
The Best Black Shift Dresses
I spent about four years thinking a black shift dress was a cop out. The thing you wear when you couldn’t decide what to wear. I’ve properly changed my mind,…
The Perfect Black Sequin Dress For A Night Out
I spent about four years believing sequins were a New Year’s Eve only proposition, wheeled out once, photographed badly under fairy lights, then bagged up and forgotten until the next…