Peace Wine and Sunshine Bohéme Slip Dress

This airy, pretty dress will be one you reach for again and again! It pairs perfectly with a pair of sandals and black sunnies for a laid-back, Parisian feel — or layer it up in chillier weather with black tights, boots, and a leather jacket. Have an event to go to? Dress it way up with strappy heels or ballet shoes, and a black shawl — romantic, beautiful, and effortless :)

The sun-seeker, the flower child. Women who love to feel their hands in the dirt, and turn their faces toward the summer. Women who run through the wildflowers.

Historic prints and museum archives are a huge source of inspo for us, particularly old images from print advertising and antique magazines. It’s amazing the amount of detail and charm that these images contain, and they still feel super relevant and (and very cool) today. The prints used in this dress design date from the early to late 1860s. While there’s a wealth of archival resources from this era online to explore, we love spending an afternoon getting lost in an old bookshop and stumbling upon forgotten treasures.  

Give her the sun
and a porch covered in vines. Years ago
she was rocked in a chair on the lap 
of someone who loved her, 
breathed the sweet smell of milk and strawberries, watched laundry dry on the line, 
and slept. 

Years later on a June day, 
lying in the grass after a kiss 
she stared at the sky and the warm wind
lifted the edges of her dress. 
She smelled it on her skin:
summer itself. Salt and dust,
hay and sand. Toes curled
around stones and wood stairs, 
fruit ripening.

Now and then,
a moment will stretch out
under her gaze. She can pull it apart
with her fingers and feel each second
like drops of wine in her glass.
Sweetness remembered, flowers budding, and fading.
And blooming again.