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From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to headpiece colours across the whole orange family, the year Ascot named a red-orange its own, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. Orange is the colour most likely to...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to headpiece colours for every blue-green, the pairing almost nobody uses, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. Teal is chosen by women who have decided not to wear navy,...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to headpiece colours across the purple range, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. Purple covers more ground than any other occasion colour. A wisteria lilac and a deep aubergine...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to headpiece colours across the whole pink range, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. Pink is the default colour of British occasionwear, which is exactly why the headpiece is...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to the headpiece colours that hold their own against black, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. A black dress asks almost nothing of you until you reach the headpiece....

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to headpiece colours for every shade of white, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. A white dress splits into two entirely different questions depending on where you are wearing...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to headpiece colours for every shade of yellow, and the seven hand-made pieces we would choose. Yellow is the occasion colour that has moved fastest in the last two seasons, and...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier, a guide to the only motorsport meeting where the crowd dresses in period, and five hand-made pieces for the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. There is no other event quite like it. For three days in...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier, a guide to two days and two racecourses, Leopardstown and the Curragh, and five hand-made pieces for the biggest weekend in Irish flat racing. Most festivals ask you to dress for one place. The Irish...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier, a guide to the richest day in British racing, the Ascot enclosure dress codes in autumn, and five hand-made pieces for October light. Royal Ascot gets the attention, but Ascot in October asks a harder...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier, a guide to the 250th St Leger, the Style Awards on Ladies Day, the Doncaster enclosure dress codes and five hand-made pieces for Town Moor. Some anniversaries are worth dressing for. In 2026 the Betfred...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier, a guide to Ladies Day on the Roodee, the enclosure dress codes at the world’s oldest racecourse, and five hand-made pieces for the Best Dressed competition. Chester does not need to borrow prestige from anywhere....

From the Merve Bayindir atelier, a guide to the Gallagher Dublin Horse Show, the Best Dressed competition on the Band Lawn, and five hand-made pieces for the RDS. Ireland has few social fixtures with the pull of the Dublin Horse...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier, a guide to the Sky Bet Ebor Festival, the County Stand dress code and the Ebor Fashion Lawn, with five hand-made pieces for the Knavesmire. York has been called the Royal Ascot of the North,...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier, a guide to dressing for the regatta at Henley-on-Thames, from the Stewards’ Enclosure code to five hand-made pieces for the riverbank. Few events dress for summer quite like Henley. Held on a straight mile of...

Twelve hand-made hats for Glorious Goodwood 2026, chosen from the Merve Bayindir atelier for the lawns above Chichester, from wide-brim straw to sculpted occasion pieces. Glorious Goodwood is the summer meeting where British flat racing feels most like a party....

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a guide to dressing for Glorious Goodwood 2026, from the enclosure codes to five hand-made hats for the lawns above Chichester. There is a reason the Qatar Goodwood Festival is known simply as...

From the Merve Bayindir atelier in London, a considered guide to dressing for the Championships, with ten hand-made pieces for the lawns of SW19. The fortnight at the All England Club is one of the few places on the British...

A hat luncheon is a formal daytime social event, almost always a charity fundraiser, where every guest is expected to arrive in a decorative hat or fascinator and the headwear itself becomes the main spectacle of the day. In other...

There is a moment, just before eleven on the second Saturday of June, when central London goes quiet. Whitehall has been closed since dawn. The Mall, decked in Union Flags from end to end, holds back a crowd that has...

Few corners of England feel quite as resonant with history as Smith's Lawn. This broad, tree-fringed expanse at the heart of Windsor Great Park has hosted King Edward the Confessor's hunting parties nearly a thousand years ago, was laid out...