As a digital fashion website, here at Who What Wear we are all about the ease and convenience of shopping for clothes online. However regardless of how seamless the returns policy is or how fast next day delivery is, you sometimes just can’t beat the feeling of trying on pieces in real life. As shops—and changing rooms—have now re-opened, we have finally been able to bring back our We Try Before You Buy franchise, and give you an honest first-hand account of our changing room successes. Shopping Editor Joy Montgomery and myself went to the beautiful shopping suites at MatchesFashion’s Carlos Place and Brownsfashion’s new boutique on Brook Street, and decided to try on summer dresses.
We added an extra element to our challenge—Joy could only try on minimalist, simple dresses in a muted colour palette and with subtle design details. I on the other hand went for the opposite of subtle, trying on all the bold, colourful, maximalist dresses I could get my hands on. Keep scrolling for the 19 dresses we fell in love with after our first exercusion to a changing room in 2021.
