The Yorkshire cotton-linen arrives with the kind of body that makes a double-breasted front possible at this length — 320 g/m², a twill weave that holds its face without stiffening. The challenge wasn't the fabric. It was the hem: a double-breasted dress cut this short creates a front flap that opens when you walk and gaps when you sit, and there is no external fix for that problem that doesn't compromise the line. The solution is an interior button — invisible from the front, placed precisely where the overlap needs to be anchored. It closes the dress from the inside, which means the outside can remain exactly as it should be: six horn buttons, clean overlap, hem that stays where it was cut. This style was almost not made. Multiple rounds of fitting, each abandoned for the same reason. The last was the one where everything held.
