Whistles

If you’re wearing a dress from Whistles you won’t have any men hooting after you while you’re walking down the street. Their designs are very basic and conservative, respectable apparel. The cuts are simple and classic, nothing outrageous is going on in here. If you need a basic good quality black dress that covers most of your skin expect to be out between £50-£100 if you buy it from here. This is the shop to go to for work and funeral wear. Unless you’re a super reserved gal I doubt that you’ll be impressed by what this shop has to offer.

Synonymous with the upper middle class, middle aged Hampstead look for as long as I can remember, Whistles has come over all, well, all different this season as Jane Shepherdson of Topshop and then Oxfam fame has taken over the helm.
And thank goodness she did. Gone is the wealth of dizzy floral prints and too chintzy for its own good frippery and in its place? Silk satin cocktail dresses in shocking hues and cashmere mix coats so unflattering you could almost call them directional. Amen to that.
The Brushfield Street Whistles is appropriately perched between retro cafes and restaurants, just across from the recently gentrified market and is a small outpost of the Whistles brand. I particularly like this season’s aforementioned cocktail dresses and coats along with the double breasted cashmere jumpers.
Prices are steep but the fabrics are beautiful so this is forgivable. Staff at the Spitalfields branch are a little frosty but then that’s to be expected in this area. I’m just waiting for the mother of all sales which looks as if they’re already starting at Whistles. These are high quality clothes that look as if they might just last the distance.