White Dresses

White maxi and mini dresses, ivory to cream

Two whites hung side by side never look like one colour. What separates them is heat rather than brightness. Ivory carries the most of it and cream sits a little behind. The flattest has no warmth in it at all and reads coldest under a light. The hem stops below the knee on the white midi dresses. The straps run narrow on some and wide on others.

A white dress next to something darker

Put one beside something darker and it sharpens. More often than not the darker thing is one of the black dresses. Through the worst of the heat the loosest cuts go furthest. A tan sandal is usually as far as the rest of it needs to go. In autumn one goes under a coat and carries on much as before, with the hem showing below by a hand's width.