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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...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, an honest answer to whether occasion headwear can come down a level, and the five pieces that manage it. Yes, some of them can. Not all of them, and the difference is not...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, the one part of transitional dressing nobody writes about, and the six hand-made pieces that carry you across. Every August the same articles appear, and they all say the same thing: layer a...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to the headpiece colours that work with each navy, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. Navy is the safest occasion colour in Britain and the hardest to accessorise well,...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to headpiece colours across the whole burgundy family, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. Burgundy is what a great many British women wear when they do not want to...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to headpiece colours for the warm neutrals, why they photograph paler than they look, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. A champagne dress presents a problem that no other...