If I’ve written about it once, I’ve said it approximately million times: I am not a summer person. I know that’s akin to saying I don’t like puppies or I despise rosé, but as an eternally sweaty person, I view the time period between mid-May and early September as an unfortunate pit stop on the way to sweet, sweet fall and glorious winter.
After years of experimenting, I’ve finally figured out my summer beauty routine, but fashion is a different story. I’m not much of a sundress gal, I don’t do shorts and 85 percent of my wardrobe is black. Each year, like clockwork, I have the same sartorial crisis on the first warm-ish day: What the hell am I going to wear for the next few months? Yeah, writing about fashion is part of my job, and yet still I kept coming up empty where summer styles for sweat-prone folks were concerned.
Then, I found it. My ideal warm-weather dress. Behold, the Frilled Sleeveless wonder:
