Shop the Black Prom Dresses We’d Actually Wear
Black prom dresses get written off as the boring choice, the one you pick when you can’t decide, and I spent years believing that too. Turns out that’s rubbish. Black…
The Best Blue Linen Dresses For Weekend Brunch
I spent years thinking blue linen was strictly a holiday colour, something you packed for Puglia and never touched again until the following June. That was a properly wrong opinion…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Blue Mini Dresses
I spent a solid two years thinking blue mini dresses were a one trick pony, strictly for hen dos and the sort of night that ends with you eating chips…
The Best Black Shift Dresses
I spent about four years thinking a black shift dress was a cop out. The thing you wear when you couldn’t decide what to wear. I’ve properly changed my mind,…
Hand Picked, The Black Slip Dresses Worth Shopping
I owned three black slip dresses before I admitted the first one was the problem, not the concept. Cheap satin, cut on the wrong bias, and it clung to absolutely…
Hand Picked, The Black Tie Dresses Worth Shopping
Black tie is the one dress code where nobody wants a jolly compromise. You want drama, but drama that survives a three hour dinner, two glasses of something fizzy and…
The Best Black Square Neck Dresses
I spent years thinking square necks were a “special occasion” cut, something you wheeled out for one wedding and put away again. Wrong, completely wrong, and I’ll say that plainly…
Hand Picked, The Black Tea Dresses Worth Shopping
There is something about a black tea dress that manages to be both a safe choice and a slightly rebellious one, which is probably why it keeps earning its place…
The Black One Shoulder Dresses We Keep Coming Back To
I owned a one shoulder dress in 2014 that had a fabric flower the size of a small side plate sitting on the strap, and I wore it to a…
Our Favourite Black Pleated Dresses Right Now
I said for years that pleats were a fussy person’s dress. Something for someone who irons. I held that opinion right up until I wore one to a wedding in…