The smocked portion at the top, the flared sleeves, and the mix of both large and
small gingham print checks are everything!
Here are their other spring new arrivals — they also have a similarly swingy - looking skirt in
a smaller gingham print which looks darling with a sleeveless button - up, knotted at the waist.
I love this trendy
smaller gingham print and the ankle length, since maxi dresses are not something I, as a pretty tall person, easily find.
Not exact matches
This summer you have an option of either bold and beautiful
prints like at Topshop, DVF (also incorporates the
gingham trend) and Marni or
small and abstract designs like at Band of Outsiders or Urban Outfitter.
Dresses (left to right): 1 — Eleni Off the Shoulder Dress ($ 90, TTS) 2 — Denny Space Dyed French Terry Belted Dress ($ 75, TTS) 3 — Santorini Stripe Fit and Flare Dress ($ 88, TTS) 4 —
Printed Short Sleeves Dress ($ 90, TTS) 5 — Tribal
Printed Fit and Flare Dress ($ 59, runs big) 6 — Peplum Bottom Dress ($ 46 - $ 79, TTS) 7 — Off Shoulder Bell Sleeve Poplin Dress ($ 55 - $ 85, runs large) 8 — Multi Jersey Dress ($ 84, runs
small) 9 —
Gingham Topstitch Dress with Pleats ($ 60, TTS)
Sticking to neutral colors and incorporating
gingham in
small doses allows me to mix in
print while still feeling like myself.
That
print is so fun and I like that it is a larger
gingham and not the
small tiny ones.
They passed through a highland meadow carpeted with wildflowers, acres of golden groundsel and zinnia and deep purple gentian and wild vines of blue morninglory and a vast plain of varied
small blooms reaching onward like a
gingham print to the farthest serried rimlands blue with haze and the adamantine ranges rising of out nothing like the backs of seabeasts in a Devonian dawn.
For a fresh, not fussy, approach, stick to one color scheme and balance large - scale
prints (like the floral and
gingham) with
small ones (like the plaid and block
print).