Sometimes a design is a challenge to grasp the essence of a beloved piece and create a new version. How to recall that fleeting moment? We look and study and think about the piece to understand its message.
Our very first visit to Washington, DC was the occasion. We remember a long ago spring when a father and mother, a boy and a girl took their first trip to the nation’s capital. This was when train travel meant white gloves and the trip from Boston to Washington took all day. The piece was a wool suit in a lavender and white check, a cutaway jacket with a round neck over a box-pleated wool skirt, now recalled as the Washington Suit.
How to capture that springtime family? We seize the bright moment with a crisp linen gingham in lavender and white. The short jacket grows into a fitted bodice with a round neckline, the cutaway inverts to a neckline slash. The structured volume of all-around box pleats is retained, but perhaps now with an eye on the grace of the long line rather than the brevity that allows a quick game of jump rope. With these memories in mind we bring you the Washington Dress.
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Read the story of the original Washington Suit here.
