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The Colourful Stripe
One stripe, everything else plain. Two striped pieces is a deckchair — three is a uniform.
One stripe, everything else plain. Two striped pieces is a deckchair — three is a uniform.
Stripe is the most useful pattern in the cupboard and the easiest to ruin. It does the work of a print without asking you to love a flower.
The stripe that belongs this year is not the thin navy-and-white everyone already owns. It is wider, or off-colour — Breton moved an inch toward something less obedient.
The mistake is stacking. A striped shirt under a striped knit with striped trousers is a deckchair. One striped piece. Let the rest of the outfit be a field for it.
Wear it where a plain trouser or a plain shirt used to sit. That is how stripe stops looking like a theme.
Mine are the Loro Piana Notan Striped Linen Wide-leg Pants, Orange. A stripe on the leg does more than a stripe on the chest, and it stays in the wardrobe longer.— K.W., Editor-in-Chief
The La Ligne or SIR. trouser, a white tank, a flat sandal. That's the whole outfit.
The Lido or Emporio Sirenuse dress, the same sandal. Nothing knotted, nothing extra.
Loro Piana's striped linen with a navy knit after six. Loud cloth, quiet hour.
Every piece in the edit — tap to shop.
Where it all began, and summer's alternative to the blue jean. A white tank, a flat sandal, and let the leg do everything. La Veste four times, La Ligne twice, SIR., Loro Piana, Missoni and Sanderlak.
The cult pair, in cotton. One colourway is a decision; four is a collection of parasols.
The same Pippi stripe in a slightly different cut. Pick whichever leg suits you and stop there.
Sequins on the stripe. A different holiday entirely — buy it if the night is already a party.
The Pippi stripe, sequinned. The loudest thing in the edit by a distance.
Cotton, blue, elevated. The version that doesn't need explaining.
Wide-leg in orange. Buy this if La Veste feels like a joke you'd have to explain.
Cotton wide-leg in red. Same job as the La Ligne, slightly sharper.
Linen, orange, and the quiet rich one. This is how the stripe survives September.
Stretch mesh from the house that has been doing this for fifty years.
Poplin, multi-stripe. The least expensive way into the silhouette.
For the hottest days only — tailored enough for the city, easy enough for the beach. La Veste twice and Lido.
Sequinned and short. Not on top of the sequinned trouser.
Cotton, Harbor stripe. The plainer of the two La Vestes.
Yellow poplin. A linen shirt untucked, slides, done.
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The one-and-done. Throw it on, add a sandal, and you're finished. Lido, Posse, Emporio Sirenuse, Ilio Nema three times, Cala de la Cruz and Marrakshi Life.
Halterneck midi. Nothing else needed and nothing else wanted.
Brown rather than bright, which makes it the easiest of the eight to wear.
Ikat stripe in blue. Mediterranean, and it looks it.
Cotton mini. The shortest of the three Ilio Nemas.
Full length in cotton. One dress from one house is plenty.
The third Ilio Nema, and the dressiest of them.
Off the shoulder, short. The most playful mini here.
A ruffled cotton slip, which is a stranger idea than the rest and better for it.
The grounding piece. Tucked, knotted over a swimsuit, or worn open — but not over a striped trouser. La Ligne, Lido, DESTREE, Emporio Sirenuse and Missoni.
Crisp green poplin. Tucked into something plain — never over a striped trouser.
Yellow poplin, same rule. Knotted over a swimsuit is the best version.
Pink, and softer than a poplin shirt. Buy the blouse or the skirt, not the set.
Ikat in blue. The shirt that reads as a holiday without trying.
Metallic crochet knit. Evening only — this is the stripe after dark.
The finishing notes, and the two pieces that carry the stripe into a cooler evening. DESTREE, Rosie Assoulin twice and Zimmermann.
Pink midi. With a white shirt, and nothing else striped anywhere.
Pleated orange. The most structured stripe in the edit.
The second Rosie Assoulin, and the softer of the two.
Crocheted cotton, for the evening the air drops. Over something plain, not over more stripe.
Every piece in this edit, by the houses behind it. Explore them all.
Retire the blue jean for a season if you mean it — but buy the trouser or the dress, not the whole deckchair. Loud, joyful, and devastating only when everything else stays quiet.— ESVRA