Claire’s Pick of the Best Beige Jackets
I spent about four years thinking beige was the colour equivalent of a Tuesday. Fine, forgettable, the thing you wear when you can’t be bothered to have an opinion. I…
I spent about four years thinking beige was the colour equivalent of a Tuesday. Fine, forgettable, the thing you wear when you can’t be bothered to have an opinion. I…
I spent years thinking beige was the colour equivalent of saying nothing at all. A sort of shrug in fabric form. My friend Priya used to call it “the colour…
I spent years avoiding beige on principle. My reasoning, such as it was: beige is what happens when someone wants to wear a colour but has given up halfway through…
I spent a solid two years convinced beige denim was just khaki that had given up, which is an insane thing to believe about a jacket, but there we are.…
I own more black tank tops than I could reasonably justify to anyone who asked, and the honest truth is most of them earned their place by accident, one good…
Cream is a harder colour to get right than white, which is exactly why it rewards attention. It sits closer to skin than stark white, softer under artificial light, less…
A cream one shoulder dress lives or dies on the drape. That off centre neckline only works if the fabric has enough weight to sit still on the body rather…
Cream sits in a strange, useful space between white and neutral, and that is exactly why it works so well on a slip dress. It has the softness of ivory…
A cream pleated dress works because it does two contradictory things at once: it holds structure and it moves. The pleats, whether knife, sunray or accordion, need to be pressed…
A cream wrap dress works because it does two things at once: it reads as considered without ever tipping into fuss, and it flatters a wider range of shapes than…