What to wear for a studio portrait

Wear what you’d wear to dinner with a friend. Plain colours sit best against the studio’s grey wall, and knits photograph well in the north light.

Leave new shoes at home. People stand differently in shoes they haven’t broken in.

Bring a second top

Something lighter or darker than the first. We change halfway through, and the twelve you choose usually come from both.

Glasses, jewellery, hair

Wear your glasses if you always do; we tilt them to keep the window out of the lenses. Keep jewellery to what you wear every day, and come with your hair the way you like it on a normal Tuesday.