Night Dressing: The Slip, Reconsidered

The slip dress has had many lives — lingerie, nineties minimalism, wedding guest staple. Its newest is the most practical yet: the dress you wear everywhere, layered.

Over a fine knit at the office. Under a double-faced coat for dinner. Alone, with a satin mule and a single gold hoop, when the evening calls for it.

The trick is the cut. A true bias cut drapes rather than clings, which is why we spent eleven months on the Odile.