I Will *So* Try This At Home

One of the most rewarding experiences to come out of a Fashion Month is the notion that for every show you might feel great defeat and huge pressure to do it (it being style) better the following season, there is the sporadic though hugely welcome beacon of hope that with meager means and indulged impatience, you can try at least one trend in the comfort of your own home, within the cushiony boundaries of your own timeline.

Last fall, that beacon may have appeared in the form of sequined party pants care of Michael Kors as worn with a crisp white button down shirt and a menswear-style black blazer — two garments I am confident at least a handful of us have pre-owned for seasons. The spring before that, there was one airy white strapless mid-length dress by Chloé that could have been comfortably approximated using any number of the silk maxi skirts that trended the previous year.

This season, it is reliably all about Dries. Then again though, when is it not, right?

The Belgian designer successfully co-opted a fabric, lightweight chiffon, that he has heretofore played with minimally on his classically menswear-style blouses, which typically appear in poplin.

But the shirts here weren’t even really about the shirts — they were about what went over the shirts: little tapestry-style bralettes that packed all the punch a fictitiously pierced lip aims to compliment. And while, sure, you can wait until February to get your hands on one from the Rive Gauche boutique or conversely, until tomorrow when you have time to head to a fabric store to make your own, the other thing you can do — and let this serve as inspiration, not the blueprint for a cold case of adventures in copyright — is just walk into your closet, pluck out your favorite blouse and put it on.

Once you’ve done that, open your bra chest (get it? Get it?) and pray that the ghost of Judy Blume has been nearby and as such, has dropped a training bandeau from yonder into that magical drawer so that you can make like Dries and tube. Of course, there’s always your bathing suit drawer and the off chance that you still haven’t come into your chest, and so therefore still treat bandeaus like they are your support group. That’s cool.

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