EMBELLISHED TRUTH I’m a guest at a festival-inspired wedding later this summer and want to find a sustainable yet fashionable bag. Can you help? Claire says: I love this Octavia macramé fringe bag, £130, from Berkshire-based sustainable accessory brand Embellished Truth. Available in red and mustard, it’s a lightweight boho style ideal for wedding guests. Hand-crafted in the local studio using macramé knotting techniques, this braided cord bag is made from recycled cotton textile yarn saved from mills and landfills and spun in the UK. https://embellishedtruth.com www.instagram.com/embellishedtruth www.facebook.com/embellishedtruth Claire Ridley is the editor of Your Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wedding and the fashion editor across all County Wedding Magazine titles. Here, she answers your fashion-related questions for guests and grooms Q&A Fashion TIME WELL SPENT I want to gift my groom something special on our wedding morning that he can wear regularly. What do you suggest? Claire says: Check out the Marloe Watch Company based near Henley-on-Thames which has recently announced the launch of a new line of watches in the Daytimer Collection. The Daytimer is a Swiss-made manual watch with date complications, intended for everyday wear. The broad dials and unobtrusive, subtle design are rooted in simplicity, functionality and ergonomics. The Daytimer comes in four editions: the Madainn; the Black Edition; the Gealach and the Tableau, each featuring a considered, minimalist and pared-back 41mm case with a seconds hand and date window positioned at 6 o’clock. The Madainn, Scottish Gaelic for the morning, and the Black Edition are more minimal and monochromatic while the Gealach, Scottish Gaelic for the moon, and the Tableau both employ a more colourful palette. All four watches feature subtle design touches that reveal themselves as the light changes throughout the day. There’s paper-like grain on the dials of the Madainn and the Black Edition and honeycomb texture on the dials of the Gealach and the Tableau. The brass chamfer on the Madainn adds a warm glow to an otherwise monochrome dial, inspired by the sun rising over the snow-covered hill outside Gordon’s Scottish home. Similarly, the functions on the Tableau are colour-matched, with white for hours, yellow for minutes and red for seconds. Gordon Fraser, Marloe’s co-founder and designer says, “The main objective was to create a watch that people will want to wear every day,” Gordon says. “It affords the convenience and clarity of time, the accuracy of Swiss timekeeping and the impeccable quality of a timepiece many times its price. It feels comfortable to wear and engaging to use.” Some two years in the making, the development of Marloe’s Daytimer resulted in a sea-change in the brand’s approach to watch design; creating a new resolve to design and engineer-only products that truly reflect the independent British watchmaker’s founding principles. “On the face of it, the Daytimer looks like a formal watch, with a mirror-polished case and a simple dial design,” says Gordon. “But the more you let the design soak in, the more it feels like a casual, everyday piece. The hope is for the Daytimer to appeal to everyone.” www.marloewatchcompany.com www.facebook.com/marloewatchco 77 EXPERT ADVICE
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