There's a moment in the fabric shop when you fall for two pieces of fabric simultaneously — a deep teal and a warm terracotta, a crisp white and a...

Walk into any fabric shop in May or June and you'll find yourself facing a wall of options: florals in every scale, geometrics in every colour, stripes running in...

Here's a useful distinction that doesn't always get made clearly enough: there's the question of which colours suit your complexion — your skin tone, hair, and eyes — and...

Every summer, the same advice appears in every magazine: wear white, wear light colours, avoid black. It's such familiar guidance that most of us have stopped questioning it. But...

There is a particular kind of disappointment that every sewist knows. You find a pattern you love. You buy beautiful fabric. You spend a weekend sewing...

t's one of those words that sounds as if it has always existed — sundress — conjuring immediately the image of a light, sleeveless dress, a warm afternoon, the...

Let's start with what this guide is not. It isn't a list of things you're forbidden to wear. It isn't a set of rules about which silhouettes are "wrong"...

There is something that happens when a woman puts on a party dress. It is not quite the same as putting on any other garment. The decision to dress...

Of all the decisions that go into designing or choosing a dress, the neckline is the one most likely to change the entire character of a garment. The same...

Let's start with the thing nobody says clearly enough: sewing your first dress is not as difficult as it looks. The result — a wearable, beautiful garment made by...