Shop the Black Wrap Dresses We’d Actually Wear
I said for years that black wrap dresses were the fashion equivalent of a hire car, fine, does the job, forgettable the second you hand back the keys. I was…
The Best Blue Bodycon Dresses
I spent years thinking blue bodycon was a one note colour, navy or nothing, the kind of safe choice you make when you can’t decide and end up looking like…
The Blue Polka Dot Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I said for years that polka dots were a novelty print, the sort of thing that belongs on a tea towel rather than a dress. I was wrong, and I’m…
The Blue Cami Dresses Worth Your Money
Blue in cami dress form is a different proposition to blue in anything else, because it has to do two jobs at once: look like a considered colour choice rather…
Shop the Blue Halter Neck Dresses We’d Actually Wear
I used to think halter necks were a trap. One wedding, one gust of wind on a church lawn, one photo where I’m visibly recalculating my life choices mid smile,…
The Perfect Blue Beach Holiday Dress
I spent a solid three years thinking blue was a “safe” holiday colour and then bought a cobalt dress in 2019 that made me look like I was cosplaying a…
The Best Black Tiered Dresses For Date Night
I spent three years thinking tiered meant “will make me look like a maypole” and avoided the whole category on principle, which, having now properly worn them, feels like I…
The Black Shirt Dresses Worth Your Money
I said for years that a black shirt dress was what you wore when you couldn’t decide what else to wear, the fashion equivalent of shrugging. My colleague Priya called…
The Best Black Sleeveless Dresses For Weekend Brunch
I spent about three years thinking a black sleeveless dress was a “smart occasion” thing, the sort you wear once to a wedding with a cardigan clamped over the top…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Black Satin Dresses
I spent about four years thinking black satin dresses were a bit much. Too shiny, too “look at me”, the sort of thing that reads as trying if you’re only…