Women's Midi Dress

A midi dress in a deep royal blue, with gold floral embroidery running down the sleeves and scattered across the skirt panels. The embroidery is worked in metallic gold thread against the blue ground, dense at the sleeve and lighter as it falls down the skirt, so the pattern reads clearly without covering the dress.

The whole skirt is knife-pleated from the waist down, and the pleats are heat-set into the cloth rather than pressed in, which means they survive washing and come back sharp instead of needing to be ironed back into shape each time. The pleating is what gives the skirt its swing and its column silhouette when standing still.

The neckline is a soft V, the sleeves are half-length and cut with a flutter, and a slim self-fabric belt with a gold-tone buckle marks the natural waist — removable if you would rather wear it loose. The hem falls at mid-calf. Suitable for an event, a dinner, or an occasion where a dress needs to do the work without being fussy. Machine wash cold on delicate in a bag, hang dry.