The Black Shirt Dresses Worth Your Money
I said for years that a black shirt dress was what you wore when you couldn’t decide what else to wear, the fashion equivalent of shrugging. My colleague Priya called…
Shop the Black Prom Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Black prom dresses get written off as the boring choice, the one you pick when you can’t decide, and I spent years believing that too. Turns out that’s rubbish. Black…
The Best Black Tiered Dresses For Date Night
I spent three years thinking tiered meant “will make me look like a maypole” and avoided the whole category on principle, which, having now properly worn them, feels like I…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Black Satin Dresses
I spent about four years thinking black satin dresses were a bit much. Too shiny, too “look at me”, the sort of thing that reads as trying if you’re only…
The Blue Polka Dot Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I said for years that polka dots were a novelty print, the sort of thing that belongs on a tea towel rather than a dress. I was wrong, and I’m…
The Best Black Sleeveless Dresses For Weekend Brunch
I spent about three years thinking a black sleeveless dress was a “smart occasion” thing, the sort you wear once to a wedding with a cardigan clamped over the top…
The Perfect Blue Beach Holiday Dress
I spent a solid three years thinking blue was a “safe” holiday colour and then bought a cobalt dress in 2019 that made me look like I was cosplaying a…
Shop the Blue Halter Neck Dresses We’d Actually Wear
I used to think halter necks were a trap. One wedding, one gust of wind on a church lawn, one photo where I’m visibly recalculating my life choices mid smile,…
The Best Black Square Neck Dresses
I spent years thinking square necks were a “special occasion” cut, something you wheeled out for one wedding and put away again. Wrong, completely wrong, and I’ll say that plainly…
The Black One Shoulder Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I owned a one shoulder dress in 2014 that had a fabric flower the size of a small side plate sitting on the strap, and I wore it to a…