The Green Wrap Skirts Worth Your Money
Green sits differently on a wrap skirt than almost any other shade, because the silhouette already does so much movement and shaping work that the colour has to earn its…
The Black Floral Skirts Worth Your Money
I spent about three years thinking black floral meant safe, meant a way of wearing a print without actually committing to a print. I was wrong, and I want to…
The Purple Pencil Skirts We Keep Coming Back To
Purple sits in an unusual place among skirt colours. It has all the sharpness of a proper pencil silhouette but none of the flatness of black or navy, which is…
The Navy Midi Skirts We Keep Coming Back To
Navy solves the problem that black midi skirts create, which is a tendency to look severe or too eveningish for a Tuesday. The right navy sits closer to how denim…
The Best Green Pleated Skirts
Green does something a pleated skirt rarely manages on its own: it gives a fairly classic silhouette a reason to be noticed. The pleat count and the fabric weight are…
Hand Picked, The Black Leather Skirts Worth Shopping
I owned a black leather skirt for four years before I admitted the problem wasn’t me, it was the skirt. Too stiff at the waistband, sat wrong under everything, made…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Cream Maxi Skirts
A cream maxi skirt earns its place through weight and drape, not through the idea of cream as a colour. The good ones behave like liquid, falling from the waist…
Shop the Champagne Satin Skirts We’d Actually Wear
A good champagne satin skirt has weight to it. Cheap satin sits stiff and shiny, catching light in the wrong places and clinging where it shouldn’t. The better versions use…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Navy Tweed Skirts
A good navy tweed skirt behaves differently to every other skirt in the rail. The weave gives it structure without stiffness, so it holds a shape through the day rather…
The Best Grey Maxi Skirts
Grey solves the problem that black often creates in a maxi skirt, which is severity. The right shade, somewhere between dove and charcoal, carries the same ease and the same…