The Perfect Navy One Shoulder Dress For Weekend Brunch
Navy does something a one shoulder dress needs more than almost any other colour can offer: it keeps an asymmetric neckline looking considered rather than costume like. Black can tip…
The Navy Ruched Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
Navy holds a strange kind of authority that black doesn’t quite manage. It reads as considered rather than defensive, dark enough to do the job of black but with none…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Navy Bucket Bags
Navy solves a problem black creates and beige never quite manages. It has the same ease, the same willingness to sit quietly under a bright coat or beside a print,…
The Perfect Navy Puff Sleeve Dress For A Garden Party
Navy does something a puff sleeve dress needs done for it: it takes a silhouette that can tip into fancy dress territory and grounds it, immediately. The volume at the…
Shop the Navy Clutch Bags We’d Actually Wear
A navy clutch earns its place for the same reason navy earns its place everywhere else in a considered dressing life: it reads as dressed without shouting about it, and…
Shop the Navy Jackets We’d Actually Wear
A navy jacket earns its keep by doing what black can’t quite manage: it reads as considered rather than safe, and it plays better with colour, denim and pattern without…
The Perfect Nude Midi Dress For A Garden Party
A nude midi dress works because it does the opposite of what people expect from a neutral. It should not disappear on the body. The good ones hold their shape…
The Best Lime Green Maxi Dresses
Lime green is not a colour that hides, which is exactly the point of a maxi dress in this shade. It reads as a statement before anyone registers the cut…
Shop the Navy Floral Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Navy as a ground for a floral print does something black never quite manages: it keeps the pattern legible without flattening it into daywear cliché. The depth of the base…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Navy Polka Dot Dresses
A navy polka dot dress works because the print does something a plain block colour can’t: it reads as pattern from across a room but settles into something close to…