Oh, hey Tuesday. So it looks like I got my wish and Summer is still very much with us. In that way I don't care for. It's hot as all get out.
So with an extended Summer remix on repeat, one can't help but reach for clothes that feel cool but still feel somehow new to the season. Consider the humble tunic. I was wearing a DKNY black cotton one the other night to dinner and it felt just right.
But as a girl with frontage, tunics can be a challenge. Why do they never fit properly? I love the look and the ease of a good tunic but find them hard to wear. But girls with major real estate up top as well as those with less can wear this perfect piece I found from CP Shades, that brand that can go into scary Long Island sex therapist/pottery teacher territory fast, but has some excellent pieces for world traveler types looking to pack just right, and for those of us interested in some good pieces to take us in to Fall. Plus stripes. Love 'em.
This heavier linen tunic called the Jasmine has the perfect neckline (just low enough unbuttoned but not too much) to wear with the remnants of your Montauk tan, plus scads of necklaces or bare if that's your trip. I love this piece as a dress with bare legs in the heat (can even dress it up with a strappy high heeled sandal for evening rooftop shindigs) or worn with a slim pant and belted if one is en route to somewhere fabulous and needs an elegant travel look, or even with some cute ankle boots and skinnies. It's a timeless piece with good energy and will get you through these in between days where Summer is still top of mind but Fall is rounding the corner.
They also do great basic solid tunics in linen and silk and most of their pieces are good to the Earth and machine washable to boot. It's true some of these pieces need a bit of sexing up to skew away from the above mentioned Long Island bohemian, but I trust you and know you can make it work, and very well, particularly as a terribly good travel piece. Cause that's what's up this tunic of a Tuesday (you knew that was coming) in the 212. Yours, in going forth, in style. Link to buy here. XO