Claire Wears

I spent about four years buying boyfriend jeans a size too big because I thought that was the whole point of the name, and ended up looking like I’d borrowed…

I spent about four years thinking blue vest tops were a summer holiday item only, something you packed for a specific week in a specific climate and then forgot about…

Blue does something for a wrap top that black never quite manages. It reads as considered rather than safe, and it does the flattering thing wrap styles are famous for…

I spent about four years thinking a blue polo top meant one thing: that stiff, boxy cotton piqué number that makes you look like you’re about to referee a school…

A black vest top sounds like the easiest thing in the world to get right, and then you try on your fifth one in a changing room lit like an…

I owned three black oversized jumpers by the time I was 26, all bought within about eight months of each other, all convinced each one was “different” from the last.…

A cowl neck earns its keep through drape, not decoration. The fabric has to be soft enough to fall into that loose gather at the front without looking like it…