Woman in a black and ivory print bodysuit, ivory linen trousers and a chiffon kimono seated on a stone bench by a desert pool

Swim and resort · Spring · Summer

Black and ivory print bodysuit with ivory linen trousers

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A print. Black and ivory, so it barely counts. A graphic-print funnel-neck bodysuit, ivory linen wide-leg trousers, and an ivory chiffon kimono that reaches the floor and then keeps going. I have stepped on it twice. With dignity. Wear it in the evening, when the stone has cooled.

A sleeveless bodysuit in a black and ivory graphic print, with ivory linen wide-leg trousers and a floor-length chiffon kimono.

The bodysuit carries the whole print: a black and ivory graphic of scrolls and small repeated motifs, placed in vertical bands that run from a funnel neck down to a printed waistband with a tab at the centre. It is sleeveless and cut close. Under it, wide-leg trousers in ivory linen with a gathered waist, and over it a floor-length kimono in ivory chiffon, thin enough to show the arms through the sleeves.

One printed piece, two plain ones, and nothing else competing. The linen and the chiffon are both pale and both loose, so the bodysuit reads like a drawing on a blank page. It suits a pool in the desert around midday, when shade is a rumour and long layers earn their place. Spring and summer. Flat sandals, or none if the stone allows.

I wore a pattern in broad daylight. Nobody was hurt.