The Shirt Tops We Keep Coming Back To
A good shirt top earns its place through construction, not decoration. Look at the collar first: it should hold its shape without stiffening into cardboard, sitting neatly against the neck…
A good shirt top earns its place through construction, not decoration. Look at the collar first: it should hold its shape without stiffening into cardboard, sitting neatly against the neck…
Cream sits in a different register to white, which is exactly why it earns a place on the rail. It has none of the starkness that makes white blouses look…
A good lace bra earns its place through construction, not decoration. The lace itself needs a firm enough hand to hold its shape without turning stiff or scratchy against the…
Red trousers earn their place in an office wardrobe when the cut does the talking rather than the colour. A wide leg needs enough weight in the cloth to fall…
Brown is the shade that separates people who understand shirting from people who default to white and navy without thinking. A good brown shirt top does something those two colours…
Orange is not a colour that hides, which is exactly why it earns its place on a rail rather than sitting at the back of one. A good orange blouse…
Khaki sits in an odd, useful place between neutral and colour, which is exactly why the blouse version earns so much wear. It reads as considered rather than safe, has…
Camel does something for a blouse that no other neutral quite manages: it reads as considered rather than safe. The colour sits close enough to skin tone to flatter most…
I spent years thinking brown was the colour you wore when you’d given up. Beige’s moody cousin, the one you reach for at 7am when black felt too try hard…
I bought a blouse in 2019 that made a noise. Not a rustle, a proper crinkle, like unwrapping a sweet every time I moved my arm. Wore it to a…