Shirt Dress in Cotton

$690.00 $

The shirt dress in its most considered form: cotton from Prato, cut in Paris, finished with a gold buckle cast with the Tess Lorenz mark. The checkered pattern sits in the fabric rather than on it — woven, not printed — so the dress moves and wears the way only cloth of this weight knows how.

A shirt dress is a simple thing, which is why the shoulder took four attempts.

The pattern was developed in Paris — not as provenance, but because that's where the work got done. Each attempt at the shoulder was a different answer to the same question: how much structure does a woven cotton check require before it starts to wear the woman rather than the other way around. The fourth answer was correct. The gold buckle at the waist is custom-cast with the Tess Lorenz mark — the one piece of hardware on the dress, chosen because a belt at this weight needs an anchor, not an ornament.

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