The Wedding Guest

Fourteen pieces for other people’s weddings. Rebuilt every April, and again in September, because the Greek season has two halves and they want different clothes.

Have it pulled

The brief for this edit is narrower than any of the others and everybody who has ever been a guest knows it: be dressed, do not be photographed being the most dressed, and survive from a church at seven to a table at one in the morning without a second outfit. Almost everything sold as occasionwear fails the third part.

So it is built backwards from the day. Fabric that does not crease on a chair for four hours. A shoulder that takes a wrap and does not need one. A hem that clears a gravel courtyard in Sifnos, which is where roughly a third of our customers are going between May and September. Nothing white, nothing that reads as ivory in a photograph, and nothing that has to be held.

What is on the rail

Four dresses, none of them strapless

A slip in sand, two column dresses in crepe, and one printed. Sizes 34 to 46 on all four, which is the reason it takes until April to build.

Two-piece answers

For anyone who does not want a dress and has spent years being told that is the only option. A wide trouser and a top that does not need a jacket over it.

One jacket

Unlined, unstructured, works over all fourteen pieces. It is the piece people come back for out of season.

A shoe that survives gravel

The only shoe in any edit. A block heel under 6cm that has been walked on marble, on grass and on a Sifnos courtyard by someone who then reported back.

Something for the mother of the bride

Asked for constantly and stocked badly by everyone. Three pieces, none of them in the colour the internet insists on.

A cover for the church

A stole in wool for a January wedding and one in silk for July, because a shawl borrowed at the door is always the wrong one.

If the wedding is soon

Tell us the date and the placeChurch or town hall, island or city, indoors or a field. The venue decides the shoe and the shoe decides more than people expect.
We pull before you arriveYour size and the one either side. Say what you have already rejected elsewhere; it is more useful than what you like.
Alterations are the bottleneckA hem needs three working days, a lined bodice needs five. Under a week we will tell you honestly what can and cannot be finished.
Send us the photograph afterwardsNot obligatory, and about half of you do. It is how we know whether the shoe was right.