Skindelle Stories

What to Wear Under a Tube Top

In 1971, somewhere in the manufacturing process of a textile factory, a surplus of elasticated gauze tubes accumulated. Elie Tahari, who was twenty-two at the time and recently arrived in New York ...

Graduation Day: What Goes Under the Gown

The academic regalia of a British university has not changed significantly since the fourteenth century, when Oxford and Cambridge adopted the closed cloak as the standard academic garment, derived...

The Off-Shoulder Dress: What Works Underneath

The off-shoulder neckline appears in nearly every culture's festive dress history. The Regency-era gown in Jane Austen's England wore its neckline at the shoulder; the peasant blouse of southern Sp...

The Open-Side Cut: How to Dress for Side-Boob Architecture

In 1994, Donna Karan sent a model down the runway in a jersey dress with a cut that ran from the armhole to the hip, showing the full side of the torso. The fashion press called it daring. Women wh...

Vacation Packing: 7 Days, One Invisible Layer

The flight to Tulum leaves at seven in the morning. The bag is packed the night before. The decisions are made at ten-thirty on a Tuesday after a full week of work, under the particular pressure of...