The Best Chocolate Brown Bodycon Dresses For A Night Out
Chocolate brown has quietly overtaken black as the colour a bodycon dress actually wants to be cut in. It reads richer under low light, sits closer to skin tone across…
The Best Column Dresses
A column dress lives or dies on the cut through the body. The best ones fall in a single continuous line from shoulder or bust straight to hem, with no…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Cowl Neck Dresses
A cowl neck earns its keep through drape, not decoration. The fabric has to do the work: a jersey with enough weight to fall into soft folds rather than cling,…
Shop the Chiffon Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Chiffon has a bad reputation it doesn’t quite deserve, mostly because so many dresses made from it are cut without any thought for how the fabric actually behaves. Chiffon is…
The Best Charcoal Mini Dresses
Charcoal sits in a different register to black, which is why it works so hard in a mini dress. It has the same grounding, no-nonsense quality but with a softness…
The Casual Dresses Worth Your Money
A good casual dress does most of the thinking for you, which is precisely why the category gets so much wear and so little credit. The ones worth owning are…
The Check Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
A good check dress earns its keep through the quality of the check itself, not just its presence. Look for a pattern that has been placed with intent, matched at…
The Perfect Charcoal Dress For Weekend Brunch
Charcoal sits in that rare zone between black and grey where a dress reads as considered rather than default. It has enough depth to feel deliberate, without the slight formality…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Burgundy Mini Dresses
Burgundy sits in that rare zone between black and red, dark enough to do the job black does but with a warmth that photographs better under low light and reads…
The Perfect Champagne Dress For Date Night
Champagne is the shade that does the work a plain black dress can’t on a date night, it reads as considered rather than safe, and it catches candlelight or low…