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There is a specific kind of confidence that comes from a backless dress, and it has nothing to do with how much skin is on show. It is about the…

I spent about four years believing sequins were a New Year’s Eve only proposition, wheeled out once, photographed badly under fairy lights, then bagged up and forgotten until the next…

I said for years that pleats were a fussy person’s dress. Something for someone who irons. I held that opinion right up until I wore one to a wedding in…

I spent about three summers thinking a black printed dress was a cop out for garden parties. Too safe, I thought, like turning up to a christening in your work…

I spent about three years thinking a black long sleeve dress was a cop out. The safe choice. The thing you wear when you can’t be bothered to have an…

I used to think black lace was a nighttime thing only, something you wheeled out for a leaving do and immediately regretted under strip lighting at 11pm. Wrong opinion, held…

I’ll tell you what a black knitted dress needs to earn its place, because most of them don’t. The good ones have actual structure to the knit, a rib that…