Play it school
Got a chronic case of I’ve-got-nothing-to-wear blues? Start the school year — and post-summer season — with a spanking new white wardrobe. With Labor Day over a month past, any objections to wearing white should be out the window.
The crisp, seasonless hue is a staple for many sartorialists. Karl Lagerfeld’s uniform of fingerless gloves and black jacket is always finished with a white tee. Carolina Herrera consistently turns to her signature white tailored dress shirts to pair with one of her intricately embellished skirts.
Naysayers can claim that white packs on the pounds. While every myth may have some truth to it, white isn’t quite the villain the fashion police has made it to be. Demonized by do’s and don’ts style rule books, white, when paired with simply tailored silhouettes, can be a refreshing change from the sea of muted navy and black. Francisco Costa turned to bone and cream-colored separates and Grecian frocks for his resort collection for Calvin Klein. Alessandra Facchinetti for her debut Valentino resort collection featured dove gray and ecru suits.
Casual fare, like cropped shorts, lace-embellished dresses, crisp shirts and figure-hugging pants, take on a fresh appeal. The likes of Kamiseta and Freeway are stocked with school-friendly white ensembles that’ll keep you on top of the class.
And if critics complain about white as a high-maintenance hue, well, haven’t they heard of bleach?
