Chloë Sevigny’s T-Shirt Dress Is The Ultimate Way To Nail Easy Summer Dressing

Whenever I think seriously about throwing in the towel and living in a uniform of indigo jeans and white tees, I remember Chloë Sevigny. The mistress of off-beat cool, the only person on the planet who makes the adjective 'eclectic' seem like something positive, every time she leaves the house it's proof that being a minimalist isn't all it's cracked up to be. And for her latest outing, the actor handed you what might be the ultimate way to do heatwave dressing this summer on a silver platter.

Sevigny's T-shirt dress was a vintage-looking design that she paired with a baseball cap and leather sandals from Jimmy Choo, finishing a few inches above her anklebone with an almost fishtail hemline. Has an elongated tee ever looked less basic? My thoughts exactly - and, while you mention it, how tantalisingly easy for the warmer summer months when cotton and a roomy silhouette are going to be your best friends?

I don't know the exact provenance of this tee dress, but if you're looking for something that looks as though it's been around the block and has vintage credentials (Sevigny is the queen of thrift shopping, after all), Conner Ives makes amazing dresses that are crafted out of several old tees or even football shirts. Of course, T-shirt dresses also lend themselves to a more pared-back aesthetic that you can then dress up depending on the occasion (Arket's tomato red version would look killer with turquoise jewellery or optic white sandals but equally with minimal leather flip-flops).

Sevigny, you've done it again.

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Natalie Hammond is senior fashion news editor at Grazia. She loves winter, hates summer and can often be found writing about the weather (and what on earth to wear).