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Crimson with matte black roses, burnt peacock against a scarlet disc, and the four pieces that hold the most difficult colour in millinery. A red and black fascinator is not a compromise between two strong colours. It is the specific...

Wool felt, jet netting and copper-toned blooms, and the four pieces that carry burgundy through the cold half of the year. A burgundy and black fascinator does the job an all-black outfit is supposed to do, without the difficulty that...

Warm metal against black felt and satin, and the eight pieces that carry it best from a winter meeting into an evening. A black and gold fascinator does something a plain black one cannot: it puts light at the face....

Warm white with warm metal, the one pale combination that does not disappear in photographs. An ivory and gold fascinator solves the problem every pale headpiece has, which is that pale things vanish. Optic white photographs as a blank. Ivory...

One technique, three silhouettes, and the reason a navy headpiece needs something pale on it. A navy and white fascinator exists to solve a specific photographic problem. Navy is the one dark colour that nothing argues against at a celebration,...

One colour family worked across its full depth, and the eight pieces that show how far it travels. A lilac and purple fascinator is a tonal piece rather than a contrast, and that makes it the most forgiving thing in...

Hot pink against forest green, blush against sage, and the eight hand-made pieces that carry the most confident pairing in the range. A pink and green fascinator is the only combination in this series built on a true complementary contrast,...

The warmest pairing we make, and the six pieces that carry it through a British summer. A pink and orange fascinator is the combination that holds its colour when everything else goes flat. British summer light is diffuse more often...

The two-colour combination that solves more outfits than any other, and the eight pieces we would put your money on. A black and white fascinator is the most useful headpiece a wardrobe can hold, and the reason is arithmetic rather...

Blush against powder blue, dark pink against navy, and the seven pieces from our London atelier that work the whole range. A pink and blue fascinator is the quiet workhorse of British occasionwear, and it is more flattering than either...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, five hand-made pieces, and the two pinks that answer two entirely different briefs. Pink at a wedding is really two colours doing two different jobs. Blush and dusty rose are the mother of...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, five hand-made pieces, and the viral claim about red at a wedding answered by people who work at them. First, the thing you actually came to check. There is a claim, revived on...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, five hand-made pieces, and why burgundy belongs to the guest rather than to the couple. Burgundy is an autumn and winter colour, and most British weddings are not. Office for National Statistics figures...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, five hand-made pieces for a wedding guest or a mother of the bride, and the shade decision behind them. You have decided on green, which is the harder half of the decision and...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, five hand-made navy pieces, and the case for navy at a British wedding. You have decided on a navy headpiece, and you have arrived at the one colour British wedding etiquette actively leaves...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide built on the dress codes the tea rooms themselves publish, four seasons of what to wear, and a hand-made piece chosen for each one. Almost everything written about dressing for tea...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, the short answer, the five proper names sorted by shape, and the museum and dictionary evidence behind them. Most of the time, when you refer to a hat worn to a tea party,...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, the weather answer in one section and the part nobody writes: which rooms in this city have a written dress code, and where a hat belongs. Every guide to dressing for London answers...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a method for the mornings when the wardrobe is full and nothing in it is right. The advice written about this problem divides neatly in two, and neither half is much use on...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, five checks that take ninety seconds, and one famous rule that turns out to have no author. Most people do an outfit check by standing close to a mirror in good light and...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, the difference between a piece described as unique and a piece that genuinely cannot be repeated, and the five we would put forward. Search for a unique fascinator and you will be shown...