Aje Clara Maxi Dress in Tea Blossom

Aje has spent fifteen years building a particular Australian idea of dressing — romantic without being soft, structured without being stiff, and always cut for a climate where you’re outdoors more than in. The Clara is that thinking at full length.

Pintucks run throughout, which is the detail doing all the work: fine parallel tucks that hold the fabric’s shape across the bodice and release into volume through the skirt. High neckline, fully covered, with tucked puff sleeves finished in tassels — the only ornament on the dress, and placed where it moves.

The skirt is sheer and the dress is unlined, so it reads as light and transparent in daylight and shifts with any breeze. Zip with hook-and-eye at the back.

Where it goes. It’s a wedding guest dress first — long enough to be correct, covered enough for a church or a garden ceremony, and interesting enough that it won’t be the same dress as three other people’s. It works for a summer racing carnival, a long lunch that runs into evening, or a holiday dinner where you want to be dressed without being hot. The high neck and long sleeves make it one of the few maxis that still works when the sun drops.

Styling is simple because the dress isn’t. Flat sandals and bare arms by day; heels, a slip and gold jewellery after dark. A slip underneath is worth having either way, given the sheer skirt.

Fabric & care

56% nylon, 44% polyester. Dry clean only.

Condition

Brand New without Tags 

Images courtesy of Aje