All the best things with Precis

All the best things come in small packages and women know it too well. We love anything tiny and precious: small numbers on scales, tiny trinkets on our dressing table, little dogs, sweet macaroons, cute clutches, diamonds… you name it – if something requires a magnifying glass to be appreciated – we are out there queuing for it.

Ironically, all the abovementioned items are the easiest ones to obtain. It is when a woman is born in a size of Cinderella (in measurable terms – under 5’3’’) she soon learns that while accessories of all kinds are available in all shapes and sizes, shopping for petite clothes is the most challenging tasks in life.

No matter how beautiful the clothes look on a hanger or a model, they never fit quite right once she puts them on and as we all know, it is the fit that makes the crucial difference between looking chic and stylish or, as my husband once put it, “like a sad nun" drowned in layers and layers of fabric, with a face to match the feeling.

The good news is that there is a brand that understands the importance of elegant dressing from day to night no matter how tall you are. Precis specialise in designing the clothes to suit petite women creating collection to fit the key trends – all for the smaller frame. The difference between buying a dress (or anything else for that matter) in Precis is that their petite collection isn’t just scaled from a regular size cut, but tailored precisely for the petite woman.

Each season the brand offers plenty of options available in a rainbow of colours from casual basics through to special occasions such as weddings, holidays, Ascot, garden parties and more. Any petite woman would be spoilt for choice with dozens and dozens of dresses from the most essential LBD or a wrap to a lovely office shift to a sparkling evening gown, trousers to flatter every figure, knitwear, blouses, skirts, coats, accessories - the list just goes on.