“I remember the idea that women who wore shapeless garments somehow had let themselves go — which I don’t think is the case, but I also think that the demonizing of ‘letting yourself go’ is something we need to start pulling back on, especially right now'
Photo: Kourken Pakchanian/Getty/Conde Nast via Getty Images If there was ever a fitting time to embrace the housedress, this housebound moment is it. “I’m not sure any other attire would feel so appropriate,” says Lauren Mechling, writer and @thecloglife creator. “In normal times, they are easy, forgiving, and an instant conveyor of ‘effortless chic,’” and these “uniquely shapeless days” call for appropriately shapeless attire, she adds.
From $27 at Blair Buy Laughing Cherries Purple Floral V-Neck Cinched Waist Caftan $34 $39 now 13% off $34 Photo: Picasa Colu Henry, New York Times food columnist and author of Back Pocket Pasta, fell in love with caftans around 2011 when she stumbled on Laughing Cherries, a company that makes cotton drawstring-waist caftans: “I put it on, and I felt elegant,” and her housedress obsession began there. “I can’t tell you how many I’ve bought of those in different prints,” she says.
$48 at Rusty Zipper Buy Best under-$100 housedresses M.MAC Rock Fish Knee-Length Sleeveless Dress With Pockets From $60 From $60 In addition to Blair, Freer suggests perusing the Vermont Country Store, another “go where the grandmas go” favorite of hers, for options like this beachy fish-print dress.
$64 at Dillards Buy Salter House Chemise Nightdress $68 $68 Mechling recommends Salter House, a hip general store in Brooklyn Heights, for its nightdresses, which are “all under $100 and absolutely lovely,” she says. “Their look is very sleepy Portuguese aristocrat.” $118 at April Cornell Buy Odd Molly Memorable Long Dress $125 $250 now 50% off $125 Akinsanya also recommends Swedish retailer Odd Molly, which has excellent patterns and lots of voluminous silhouettes.
$135 at Out of Office Buy Best under-$300 housedresses Toast Garment Dyed Linen Dress $200 $200 Henry likes the “elegant, slimmer cut, more tailored” caftans from U.K. brand Toast. She prefers her caftans understated — “I don’t want sequins; I’m not a bejeweled sort of lady, unless it’s for a special occasion,” she says — and these earthy, garment-dyed linen pieces are unfussy but still stylish.
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