Claire’s Pick of the Best Bronze Dresses
I spent a full year thinking bronze meant one thing: a slippery slip dress that made me look like I’d been vacuum packed and left in a skip near a…
I spent a full year thinking bronze meant one thing: a slippery slip dress that made me look like I’d been vacuum packed and left in a skip near a…
There is something properly satisfying about a puff sleeve done well. The good ones hold their shape without turning into two upholstered footballs stuck to your arms, and the difference…
I spent years thinking blue midi dresses were the safe choice. The one you pick when you can’t decide, the beige of the evening dress world but in a nicer…
Brown had a reputation problem for years, mostly because everyone’s first encounter with it was a shapeless midi in a colour that read more “canteen furniture” than “chocolate martini”. I…
Bronze is the colour I avoided for a solid three years after a going out top in 2019 made me look like a Halloween decoration under pub lighting. Turns out…
I used to think the whole point of a bridesmaid dress was to disappear into it. Stand there, smile, don’t upstage the bride, job done. I held that opinion for…
I bought a broderie dress in 2019 that looked, under any light stronger than a candle, like a christening gown that had given up on itself. Cheap cotton, holes punched…
I spent years thinking bodycon meant one specific silhouette, the kind that requires a fake tan appointment and a strict no bread policy for 48 hours beforehand. Wrong. A good…
I spent years thinking boat necks were a bit prim, a bit “headmistress at a leaving do,” and I want to formally apologise to the neckline for that. It’s the…
Blue ruched dresses do something most dresses in your rail can’t be bothered to do: they actually think about the body wearing them. Ruching isn’t just texture for the sake…