Black Pleated Maxi Dress
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Black Accordion Pleated Cap Sleeve Maxi Dress
A maxi dress with a crew neck, cap sleeves and a plain yoke across the chest, with narrow pleats running from the yoke to a full hem and pockets in the side seams.
Pleating is set one length at a time, which keeps the lot small.
An evening concert in a cold hall
A concert in a parish hall is an hour sitting still on a hard chair and then twenty minutes standing about with a cup of something, under lights nobody would have chosen. A pleated dress does both parts. Sitting, the pleats close up; standing, they open out across the full width of the hem.
What that does in a room full of winter coats is give you movement where everybody else has none. The yoke stays plain and flat so the pleating starts cleanly at the chest, and the ankle length keeps the whole column unbroken from the shoulder down. People place you as the one who came for the music and dressed for it.
The pleats do the work. You only have to walk across the room.
Narrow pleats off a plain yoke
Across the chest the yoke is plain, and the pleating begins beneath it: narrow pleats that run the whole way down and open out to a full hem at the bottom. The neck is cut as a crew and the sleeves are cut as caps, so the top of the dress stays quiet.
There are pockets set into the side seams, so they vanish into the pleating when your hands are out of them and they do not break the line when they are in. The cut is generous, which is what makes it work over something warmer, and the length finishes at the ankle.
Pleats, pockets and length
- A crew neck and cap sleeves
- A plain yoke across the chest
- Narrow pleats from the yoke to a full hem
- Pockets set into the side seams
- Cut generously for cooler days
- Ankle length
Beige, Black and Gray, pleated alike
Beige, Black and Gray are the three listed, each cut to ankle length and pleated the same way from the yoke down.
What travels with it
Order a second dress or a third and a complimentary gift travels with the order, chosen here and not charged to you.
| Piece | Dresses |
|---|---|
| Yoke | Plain, across the chest |
| Pleats | Narrow, to a full hem |
| Pockets | Set into the side seams |
| Neck | Crew |
| Sleeves | Cap |
| Size | S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL |
| Colours | Beige, Black, Gray |
Pleated lengths run out quietly
Pleating has to be set into the cloth before the dress is made up, so the number of dresses is fixed by how much cloth went through that lot. When the lot is used up the colour closes, and a return of the same run is not guaranteed.
Take the colour while the lot is still listed. Fourteen days from delivery is enough to see it under the lights you will actually wear it in.
