I Went Looking For the Truth About Whether Knee High Boots Really Makes You Look Shorter
My sister Freya said two words at a wedding we attended in October that have stuck with me ever since. I’d stepped into a pair of knee high boots with…
I Had Opinions About Wearing a Corset Damage Your Body and Didn’t Expect To
In 2019 I told my sister corsets were medieval torture devices Victorians tricked women into wearing to rearrange their organs, and if she bought that one from the market trader…
Ive Never Worn A Crop Top In My Life, Is Thirty Five Too Late To Start
Someone in the comments on something last week casually mentioned crop tops are “for people who haven’t had a job yet.” Like anything revealed while doomscrolling, it shouldn’t have gotten…
Petite Women And Midi Dresses Are Apparently A Bad Match, I Wanted Proof
I had just started my third set of Romanian deadlifts when my phone vibrated against the water bottle on the bench next to me so hard I had to take…
Nobody Warned Me Halter Tops Were Supposedly Wrong For Broad Shoulders Until I Wore One
Velvet trousers work because velvet does something tailoring very rarely does after dark; it reflects light rather than merely conform it to an expected shape. They read smart without the…
A Midi Dress Made Me Look Shorter Than Usual, Or So My Sister Claimed
“Just get one that hits mid calf, it’s universally flattering, every body type” a shop assistant at Nordstrom Rack told me four years ago. I was standing there holding a…
Maxi Dresses On Petite Frames Get A Bad Reputation Ive Never Quite Understood
“Maxi dresses will swamp you, you’re five foot two, stick to knee length.” So said a well-meaning saleswoman to me last year as she nodded sagely at myself tucked into…
Apparently Maxi Dresses Are A Bad Idea If Youre Short, I Wasnt Convinced
“You’re too short, love, you’ll drown in it,” a shop assistant at a branch of an admittedly now-defunct department store up in Leeds said to me, one vaguely irritated afternoon…
Skater Dresses On A Pear Shape Turned Into A Proper Debate At My Sisters Wedding Fitting
People have opinions about skater dresses and pear shapes like I have opinions about asset allocation. This strikes me as funny because when it comes to important things that actually…
Off The Shoulder On Broad Shoulders Gets Written Off Fast, I Wanted To Check Why
I was trying on a dress in the Zara changing rooms on Deansgate when I snapped one of those terrible selfies you take at arms length off the mirror above…