I've tried a lot of Everlane's cotton poplin items, including two cotton poplin shirt dresses (Everlane cotton poplin shirt dress review here and cotton poplin square shirt dress review here). And I haven't yet kept any cotton poplin items yet from Everlane because I never really loved the item enough to want to deal with the upkeep (dry cleaning or ironing). Well here is the cotton poplin dress from Everlane that I finally kept. Here's an Everlane cotton poplin shirt dress for us short gals (for reference I'm 5'4" but with short legs)!
At first I thought the black stripes would make this look like some kind of old school prisoner uniform (before prisons wised up and started to dress their inmates in fluorescent orange). But since the stripes go vertical instead of horizontal, it really doesn't look like that. I got this in a size 4 instead of my usual size 2 because I had a sneaking suspicion that the bubble butt I kept getting in the twill shirt dress and the cotton poplin v-neck tank dress was because I kept getting a size too small. So I tried the 4 and there is still a bit of a bubble butt as you can see in the picture up top but it's not so pronounced. It might be because I finally got the right size and the fact that the cotton poplin isn't as stiff of a material as say the twill. Reader Lia has mentioned that to truly get rid of that bubble butt, you can take it to a tailor to get darts put in the back of the dress.
Lol, here I am styling this dress (with my new Celine Trotteur which I love and replaces my Mansur Gavriel crossbody). I feel like this outfit was inspired my Damsel in Dior (who I never really followed just because she's a different body type and has a different budget than I do when it comes to clothes. But I've been following her snapchat lately and now I love her!). Now I just need to get out of the Airstream garage and take some decent pictures of this dress.
But for now these are the pics I have. Anyway I love love love this shirt dress because:
~ This is finally a great length for me, with the front ending right above the knees. In the Everlane model it actually looks a little too short almost (but that's because she's 5'9").
~ Also love that the back is longer than the front. And this dress has pockets!
~ The price on this isn't half bad at $65. In fact it's the cheapest cotton poplin shirt dress that they have.
Also one of my good friends from high school (Hi Jen Lee *waves*) actually took the time to text me to tell me she thought this dress from Everlane looked awesome (she knows how much I love Everlane). At the time I had the dress but never tried it on (because of the whole feeling deflated about life due to my leg infection). But once I tried it on, I knew it was a keeper. Anyway go here for all my other Everlane reviews.
{edit: And here's Andrea's styling of the same dress. It really is super versatile!}