What is the road cycling like in West Cornwall?
Demanding coastal riding with exceptional scenery, variable road surfaces and restricted visibility from high hedgerows.
The Style Field Guide - Cannes in Late Summer
French style is highly understated. Neutrals abound, particularly black and white.
Velodyssey North - a 16 night road trip for cycling in June
Touring by car and bike through Northern Germany, Denmark & Holland.
West Sussex - Knepp Estate English safari, biking, castles and lido in early Summer
A summer stay to visit Knepp Estate, and their rewilded land with an English Safari to hear a male nightingale singing at dusk to attract a mate. Biking too.
Eastern Cornwall - a weekend in Summer
My travel journal for a short summer break in Eastern Cornwall. Farmhouse bakery stands out, with the greatest maltloaf known to man.
Athens, Attica & Pelopponese - spring riding
Travelling in spring, a journey for combining the pulse of Athens with the laid-back simplicity of the Peloponnese. Biking along coastal roads, tasting Argolic flavours and uncovering ancient sites.
Collar Families
Collars can be grouped into categories: Flat, Stand, Roll, Lapel-based, Draped, Tie & Bow, Integrated
How to Change a Pattern Neckline
Once you know what you want from a neckline, the next step is making it work on a pattern.
Neckline Proportion: Width, Depth and Balance
Once shape is working in your favour, proportion comes into play. Width and depth often matter just as much as the specific style of neckline.
Choosing a Neckline That Truly Suits
Choosing a neckline is not just about fashion, trends, or even body shape alone. It involves how a neckline works with your upper body, your face, and overall proportions.
Knowing your colours
Knowing your colours is a multi-dimensional foundation of style and style refinement. Its more nuanced than just knowing which colours you favour or which colours flatter your skin tone.
Wardrobe as storecupboard: Utility + Creativity
My overarching goal at the moment seems to be developing my wardrobe to be an incredibly useful storecupboard, that's ready for anything...like my kitchen storecupboard is stocked with a very useful array of quality ingredients ready for making almost anything.
Trusting each other to decipher our code of dress
Getting dressed isn’t arbitary. There is code, language, meaning, symbols. We trust each other to be fluent in this hidden language.
Wearing colour well can become walking in art
Colour is foundational to the dressmaker’s art and the wearer’s style. Finding the right route, and a nuanced and depthful approach to colour takes time, but pays dividends.
Uist and Barra in the Outer Hebrides - riding with white sand views
A trip for leisure riding the Outer Hebrides, with a spot of the weaver’s craft thrown in.
The amalgamation of good ideas generously donated by history with innovative creativity
Allowing ones work to be influenced by the work of others is smart, innovative and creates depth.