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Jul 24, 2026

The shoes are almost beside the point. Going shoe shopping with your friends on a Saturday is about the afternoon. The browsing together. The opinions. The trying things on. The...

Jul 1, 2026

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is in cinemas on July 17. Matt Damon plays Odysseus. Zendaya plays Athena. Anne Hathaway is Penelope. Charlize Theron is Calypso. The cast also includes Tom...

Jun 12, 2026

Films do not just reflect how a generation dresses. They shape it. Not through advertising, but through telling a story compelling enough that audiences want to inhabit it. When that...

Jun 7, 2026

There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from scrolling through hundreds of outfit ideas and feeling further from knowing what you actually like than when you started. Everything...

Jun 1, 2026

This year, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award turns 70. In May 2026, 9,000 Gold Award holders were welcomed to Buckingham Palace,  teenagers and young people who completed something genuinely difficult,...

May 31, 2026

Part of what makes a sleepover feel like a fun night rather than just staying over is having a loose shape to it. Not a schedule, just a sense of...

May 26, 2026

The conversation about shoe sizing and teenage girls gets some attention now. What gets almost no attention is the version that carries on past eighteen. Young women in their late...

May 24, 2026

Having the right size is not the same as having the right shoe. You already know this if you have spent any time shopping for a UK 9 (EU 43)...

May 22, 2026

If you are looking for shoes in a UK 9 as a teenager or young woman, you already know the routine. You find something you like. You check the sizes....

May 20, 2026

If you found this post, you probably searched something like "shoes for girls with big feet" or "bigger sizes teen shoes UK." Those are the right words to find what...

May 18, 2026

You already know the shape of it before you go in. The girls' section stops somewhere around a UK 5 or 6, sometimes 7. The women's section picks up from...