Beige Maxi Shirt Dress
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Beige Long Sleeve Maxi Shirt Dress with Pointed Collar
A full-length shirt dress with an oversized pointed collar and a gathered, wrapped waist that releases a full skirt to the ankle. The sleeves are long and shown rolled.
A wrapped waist has to be set on each dress, so the lot is small.
A garden party in late summer
A garden party puts everyone on uneven grass in low afternoon light, standing in loose groups that keep breaking up and re-forming. A long dress moves in that setting whether you want it to or not, and what people see from the far side of a lawn is the volume: where it begins and how it falls.
Here it all begins below the waist, released from one gathered point rather than off a seam, so the skirt swings as a single piece instead of hanging in panels. Above it the collar is oversized and pointed, which holds the eye up at the face. From across the lawn you read as the woman who dressed for the afternoon on purpose.
A long dress is read from across the garden before it is read from beside you.
An oversized collar over a full skirt
The dress runs the full length of the body, cut on shirt lines above the waist and finished with a pointed collar made oversized. The waist is gathered and wrapped, and the skirt is released from a single point rather than off a straight seam, which is what gives the fall its movement.
All of the volume is kept below the waistline, so the top half stays close and the skirt does the moving. The sleeves are long and are shown rolled, which shortens them without a cuff to undo and redo. The hem reaches the ankle and stays there.
The shape, waist to ankle
- A full skirt, falling to the ankle
- An oversized pointed collar
- A gathered, wrapped waist
- A skirt released from a single gathered point
- Long sleeves, shown rolled
- All the volume below the waistline
Three at checkout, two in the gallery
Beige, Black and Olive Green are offered at checkout, while the gallery shows two of them; the collar and the waist are the same in all three.
What travels with it
Take more than one dress and a complimentary gift comes in the same parcel, chosen by us and not added to your total.
| Piece | Dresses |
|---|---|
| Collar | Oversized and pointed |
| Waist | Gathered and wrapped |
| Skirt | From a single point |
| Sleeves | Long, shown rolled |
| Designed in | Toronto |
| Size | S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL |
| Colours | Beige, Black, Olive Green |
A wrapped waist keeps the run short
Releasing a full skirt from one gathered point is slower than running it off a straight seam, and it has to be done on the body of each dress, so these are made in small quantities. A return of the same run is not guaranteed.
If it is for a summer that is already booked, take it now. Fourteen days from delivery is there to try it on at home.
