Stripes have a kind of visual clarity that most prints cannot touch. They read well at a distance, they photograph brilliantly, and on a dress they create a line that the eye follows with genuine pleasure. We think stripes are underestimated precisely because they look so simple. Getting them right is actually specific work. Width matters. Direction matters. The weight of the fabric matters enormously. A thin horizontal stripe on a floaty midi does something entirely different from a bold vertical on a structured cotton. Both can be exactly right for the right occasion. These are the dresses we have pulled together for the long moments worth showing up for: the lunches that stretch into the afternoon, the summer weddings, the days where you want to look considered without looking like you tried too hard. Every dress here earns its stripes in the most literal sense. Stripes do not need rescuing. They just need the right dress around them.