The dress is plain for about four fifths of its length and then something else happens at the bottom. A band of fine knife pleats in a contrasting tone, banded again by narrow stripes, closes the hem like the trim on a school skirt.
Above it the body is a fine vertical rib that runs unbroken from a small mock neckline down to where the pleats begin - close through the waist, long in the sleeve, and completely without detail. That restraint is what makes the hem land as hard as it does; there is nothing else competing for the eye.
It is a quiet dress with one loud sentence at the end of it, which is a better structure than most dresses attempt.
Details You'll Love
- Contrast pleated hem band - fine knife pleats closing the skirt in a contrasting tone.
- Narrow banding stripes - edge the pleated panel top and bottom.
- Fine vertical rib body - runs unbroken from the neckline to the pleats.
- Small mock neckline - finished close to the throat with no collar.
- Long slim sleeves - cut narrow so nothing competes with the hem.
