The Houndstooth Dresses Worth Your Money
Houndstooth is a pattern that rewards discipline. The check needs to be clean and evenly spaced, with a definite point where light and dark meet, otherwise it reads as a…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Hobo Bags
A good hobo bag earns its shape rather than apologises for it. That slouch across the body, the soft curve of the top edge, the way it settles rather than…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Ivory Maxi Dresses
Ivory is the hardest neutral to get right in a maxi dress, because it has none of black’s forgiveness and none of white’s crispness to hide behind. It sits close…
The Perfect Lace Up Dress For Weekend Brunch
A lace up dress earns its keep on the strength of the lacing itself, not the print or the colour. Real cotton or linen blend eyelets, spaced evenly down the…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Lilac Midi Dresses
Lilac sits in a strange, useful place between pastel and proper colour, which is exactly why it works so hard across a wardrobe. It reads as considered rather than sweet,…
Hand Picked, The Hooded Puffers Worth Shopping
A hooded puffer earns its place through construction rather than volume. Look at how the baffles are set, box quilting holds fill in place and keeps warmth even across the…
Hand Picked, The Holiday Dresses Worth Shopping
A holiday dress has to do more work than almost anything else you pack, which is exactly why so many of them fail. It needs to survive a hot car,…
The Best Ivory Midi Dresses For A Night Out
Ivory is a harder colour to get right than black, which is exactly why it earns more attention on a night out. There is nowhere to hide in a pale…
Shop the Leather Crossbody Bags We’d Actually Wear
A good leather crossbody earns its place through restraint. The strap should sit at a length that lets the bag rest just above the hip without needing constant adjustment, and…
The Perfect Lace Dress For A Beach Holiday
A lace dress earns its place on a beach holiday by doing something no other fabric quite manages: it looks dressed up and undone at the same time, which is…