Two weeks of waiting for something can feel like a lifetime (a delivery or an alteration, for example), but when it comes to the annual life span of certain pieces in
your wardrobe, a fortnight passes all too quickly. One long-suffering item of mass underexposure? The white dress, without doubt. It’s a given that you can’t wear one to a wedding, and most of us wouldn’t consider sporting one during the winter. So the little white dress gets relegated to the holiday drawer, where it is briefly acquainted with the bluest skies, the softest sand and balmiest nights as it jets off with you to a Mediterranean island. Then it experiences the inside of a washing machine and doesn’t see the light of day for another year. It’s a tough gig being a white dress.