“You wear them because you’ve given up,” said my deputy head teacher last week. “Not because it’s fashion.” She said this very reasonably to me in actual sunshine at the…
“That fabric just hangs on your hips and stops dead, you’re going to look shrink wrapped from your ribs down.” My client Denise accused me of doing as we stood…
Okay so I’ve scrolled through two completely different narratives on this topic and both are bonkers. Like legitimately losing-your-marbles-in-opposite-directions bonkers. One was just a comment I saw on TikTok that…
Floral has a reputation problem, and most of the time it’s a fair one. Too many prints are small, safe, and forgettable, the kind of thing that fills a rail…
Someone once described lace dresses to me as “ughhhh yeah that’s so a bridesmaid thing now *shudder* very 2014” at the office water cooler while waiting in line to use…
I bought some burgundy suede ankle boots to wear with a maroon wrap dress in October ’21. I wore them out for the first and only time to a work…
I was standing in Dan’s hallway on a Tuesday morning shoeboxing like some grade zero game show host when he let me know the tone of his week. He wasn’t…
I counted them last night. Sorted into two lines against the back door like kids’ shoes at a police station: there are nine pairs of brown boots in my house.…
First things first: Yes, I did just say Proenza Schouler. As in the brand you know you could never actually afford, even if you sold a kidney on the black…
This month's roundup is a proper mixed bag, a bilingual poetry collection that's somehow ended up in a fashion search, M&S getting genuinely interesting for once, a bedding brand expanding…