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Questions about this piece
How short is a mini dress?
Mid-thigh is the usual landing spot, though it depends on your height far more than your size. A mini is cut to a fixed length, so the same dress sits a few inches higher on someone tall and closer to the knee on someone shorter, and going up a size adds width rather than hem. This one is cut as a mini and it has an open back, so the fitting room is the place to sit down in it and find out how both ends behave.
Are polka dots dressy or casual?
Scale and contrast decide it. Small dots set close together read almost as a texture from a few feet away, which is what lets a dot print pass as dressy, while large, widely spaced dots stay playful and retro no matter what you put with them. The ground color pulls the same way, so dots on a dark ground land dressier than the same dots on white. This one is a polka dot on black, which is why it carries dinner out.
What is the neckline and back like, and what sizes does it come in?
Covered to the collarbone in front, open across the back. That split is the whole design: from the front it is a high neck with nothing to keep adjusting through dinner, and everything distinctive about it sits behind you, where you cannot see it and do not have to think about it. It is sleeveless, so there is nothing at the shoulder either. One color, black, in sizes XS through L.





