The Blue Prom Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I used to think blue was the “safe” prom colour, the one you picked when you couldn’t decide, and then a girl called Priya turned up to her leavers’ do…
I used to think blue was the “safe” prom colour, the one you picked when you couldn’t decide, and then a girl called Priya turned up to her leavers’ do…
I spent three summers convinced blue sleeveless dresses were a colour for other people, the sort who look sun kissed by April, and mine all made me look like I’d…
I held out on square necks for years because I thought they only worked if you had the shoulders of a swimmer. Turns out that’s rubbish. A good square neck…
I spent about three years convinced blue skater dresses were a trap. Too sweet, too “am dram production of Grease,” too much swish for a body that just wants to…
I said for years that blue maxi dresses were the colour equivalent of ordering a safe salad when everyone else is having pudding. Fine, sensible, forgettable. I was wrong, and…
I spent years thinking blue was the safe choice at a party, the thing you wore when you couldn’t decide, and I was completely wrong about that. Blue is not…
I spent a solid two years avoiding blue high neck dresses entirely, on account of one wedding guest disaster in 2019 that made me look like I was in mourning…
There’s a very specific blue that a slip dress needs to be, and it isn’t navy and it isn’t quite cornflower either, it’s somewhere in between, closer to the sky…
I spent years thinking blue shift dresses were the thing your aunt wore to a christening because nothing else in the shop fit her properly. I was wrong, and I’m…
Blue satin has a way of doing more work than almost any other fabric in a wardrobe of formal wear. It catches light rather than swallowing it, so even a…