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The sundress is a summer staple.
“It is, because it is accessible to wear, and it is the accomplished outfit,” says Marissa Rubin, chief business editor for People Appearance Watch. “It's lightweight, and comes in abounding fabrics. It's breathable, and a way to appearance some bark after assuming too abundant skin.”
Shoppers can acquisition them in every appearance from mini to maxi, to appropriate aloft the knee — and in every color, book and pattern. This summer, annihilation goes, Rubin says.
Floral prints fabricated of light, aerial fabrics are accessible for a hot summer day, and that's a absolute way to call why we adulation the sundress in balmy weather, says Alicia Estrada, artist of Stop Staring clothing.
“Summer brings out the best in us,” Estrada says. “Sundresses are added antic and added ladylike. The new calf-length skirts are so classy, yet so sexy. The 1950s styles are authoritative a huge account in fashion. They are around-the-clock and classic.”
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Sundresses are a applied advantage aback the temperature rises.
“It can be a claiming to attending appealing while blockage air-conditioned in the calefaction of summer,” says Stephen Cirona, chief carnality admiral of Tommy Bahama Women's Division. “Sundresses are the absolute way to accomplish both. The sundress, whether in linen, cottony or affection is easy, feminine and versatile, because it can go from day to black aback commutual with the appropriate accessories. It works for abounding altered anatomy types, as well, because the administration is not form-fitting. They accept a romantic, casual, feminine affection that has an abiding appeal.”
Choosing the actual shoes and accessories to accompaniment the sundress is important, Cirona says.
Flat, covering sandals with covering uppers and gladiator styles attending abundant for day, while taller cork-wrapped wedges and block espadrilles are abundant for evening.
The cossack should consistently be added relaxed.
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Tommy Bahama | Carnival Lights Maxi Dress | Maxis, Maxi dresses ... | Tommy Bahama Carnival Lights Maxi DressA pop of blush in the sandal or shoe is an important trend, abnormally for aloof sundresses, he says.
A ashen cardigan in a arduous affection or linen affiliate is the absolute layering allotment for day.
The key is lightweight, about sheer, so there is advantage after weight. A blanket is a comfortable and chichi layering accent abnormally acceptable for air-conditioned evenings.
“Color and arrangement are the big trends this summer,” Cirona says. ”White is a archetypal account and consistently looks fresh, abnormally in linen, but for those attractive for article added directional, clear prints in adventurous stripes or aerial florals are the way to go.”
For the woman who wants an amend after authoritative a big appearance statement, blush is a abundant option.
Some of Cirona's favorites are coral, bendable orange and teal.
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L $178 TOMMY BAHAMA Coral Carnival Lights Travel Maxi Dress Large ... | Tommy Bahama Carnival Lights Maxi DressThese colors consistently attending abundant with sun-kissed skin, he says.
For a bolder blush statement, a ablaze red is a abundant advantage for the woman who wants to angle out, he says.
Sundresses are absolute for biking because they backpack able-bodied and can be beat as a bathe camouflage and out in the evening, Rubin says.
Lindsay Huggins, chief appearance bazaar editor for Self magazine, says she aloof came aback from the beach, and sundresses were everywhere.
“The sundress is a classic,” Huggins says. “What is absolutely beginning and new are sundresses with absurd hems, abbreviate in advanced about the knee and abounding and continued in the back. Sundresses say summer, and I adulation them, because I will brace them with a little beat and booties, and then, knee-high boots and a cardigan for fall. You can so alteration these dresses.”
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop is a agents biographer for Trib Total Media. She can be accomplished at jharrop@tribweb.com or 412-320-7889.
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