My Holy Trinity of Warm-Weather Dresses Are All $33 at Target
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I’ve been looking for the perfect daydressever since I sawAlessandra Mastronardi’slooks onMaster of None. Nailing Italian-girl style, she went from channeling a cocktail-party-ready Monica Vitti to looking like she could whip up homemadepastaat any moment. No dress in any write-up I read about Mastronardi’s outfits quite hit that perfect note of glamour and ease (and affordability), so you can imagine my surprise when I found exactly what I was looking for where I least expected it: at Target.
On my usual run to pick up ponytail holders andclothes hangers, there it was: a rack of simple midi-length, high-waisted dresses instripes, asolid black, andblack polka dots, all part of a capsule byWho What Wear. I thought I was witnessing a retail mirage. (There was also afourth dress that I absolutely adored in polka dotsthat’s almost all sold out, but which you should definitely buy if you are an XS.) Somehow, they were even better once I tried them on. The midi length made me look taller; the high waist was slimming. I looked at the tags. Most of dresses were $33, and one was just $30. There had to be some catch. But a week later, I had worn one dress every single day since I bought it (styled slightly differently each time). I promptly went back and doubled up.
I work from home a lot, and always want to wear something likesweatpantswithout actually wearing sweatpants. The Target dresses are the next best thing: They’re stretchy and machine washable, so they’re fine to get dirty. I lust after thoseHVN silk dressesas much as the next person, but the idea of wearing a day dress that costs as much as acouchwhile I do my errands isanxiety-inducing. (What if I actuallysweatin it?) I’ve worn my dress at home with flip-flops, out to brunch withsneakers, to an art opening with knee-highboots, winter through spring. My tiniest complaint is that the sleeves on my striped dress were alittlelong in that telltale fast-fashion way — so, like a crazy person, I had them shortened for $10 dollars. At $30, why not make it super perfect? These are dresses you can, in fact, make pasta while wearing.
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My personal favorite. The stripes change just below the waist to accent your shape, and it comes in solid black, too.
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Like an Assembly New York dress that costs ten times less.
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Tell me this isn’t a dead-ringer for the dress Mastronardi wears to the “Chef Jeff” cocktail party.
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