This time last year, Jill Stuart was proposing completely sheer floral dresses and skirts for Resort. They were really more like accessories or layering pieces: Tea-length frocks were shown over slips, full skirts came with high-rise briefs, and sheer blouses were buttoned over ribbed bodysuits. The concept was such a hit with Stuart fans (and Stuart herself—she was wearing last season’s floaty pink dress over a slip for this appointment), she’s made it a consistent part of her repertoire.
Resort 2019’s versions were a bit darker and, surprisingly, a little Western. A few transparent, puffed-sleeve dresses came in her signature ditsy florals, but Stuart also developed less likely blush and black plaids. They turned up on retro, wide-collared blouses and ruffled skirts, though girls who want to look a little less sweet might go for the filmy maroon button-down and matching trousers. There were subtler doses of transparency, too: A few diaphanous silk dresses had big, fluttery sheer sleeves and came with “goddess” illustrations that Stuart’s team drew in-house.
Elsewhere, Stuart embraced her new favorite color combination: lilac and mint. Both shades appeared on a lace-trimmed slip skirt, and there was a simple, minty-green satin dress with a ruffled lilac yoke. Those pieces were quintessentially Jill Stuart: unabashedly feminine, a little ’90s, and inherently easy to wear.
