The easiest black dress in the drawer. Throw it on, add boots, and you're the most interesting person at the graveyard picnic.

Cap sleeves finish in a little ruffle at the shoulder, and the shift falls straight to a gathered ruffle hem that swings when you walk. Round neck, pull-on, nothing to fuss with.

A soft 80% polyester and 20% cotton blend with a slubby cotton-tee hand, so it breathes in August and layers under a cardigan in October.