My Breton stripe Cora is a lovely and versatile dress! She's wonderful for spring and summer here in Minnesota as she looks nice both bare legged and with leggings on cooler days. I also love having a separate belt. I have worn her without a belt under a knotted shirt, or with the belt with a long cardigan. And as always, the fabric is wonderfully temperature regulating and doesn't hold odors. Another great wool& dress!

I already left a 5* review, but now I've got photos wearing the dress "in the wild" I thought you might enjoy/find them helpful and I added a few more notes here.

This dress is my new staple. I'm going to purchase multiple colors. I am TALL and this is long enough without tapering or "waist" that doesn't line up with my own. I am petite in the breast and plentiful in the rump, so this format is very flattering. It doesn't hug my rear, and it isn't too baggy at the chest. It falls straight and nicely on me. The slits break up the length nicely, as I need the length to not show "too" much leg, but I typically wear it without the belt, so the slits break up the straight shape of the dress nicely. I wear a pair of bike shorts under it and bike to church in the Florida heat and don't sweat showing up, well, sweaty - ha! I'm a big fan of the dress. The teal looks great with light blue eyes though it's lighter than I though it was going to be. Other dresses, the pockets are too high on my frame that it doesn't flatter my waist. I'm sure it helps that with dress I prefer wearing it without the belt because I wear it on hot days, so I'd rather nothing tight to my body, but the pockets still don't puff when I try the belt on so look good. With this dress, the pockets are perfect even for a tallie like me!

Love Cerise as a color. I measure right between small and medium on the Cora size chart, bought a small, and it’s huge and therefore bag-like. Hope to see cerise again in dresses that are more true to the size chart…

I'll start with the only thing I don't like about the dress: I got the striped version (love the stripes!) but the stripes don't line up neatly at the side seams and the hems. For a dress at this price point, I'm disappointed. But that said, I love everything else about the dress, and I definitely prefer the look of the striped version to the solid colored one.

When ordering, I was a little concerned about how the dress would fit and look on me, after seeing the review by M. with a similar body type to mine, and the size small I originally ordered was underwhelming (but so comfy!). I exchanged it to try a medium - the exchange was very quick and easy - and the medium suits me much better. Not only because of the extra width in the body, but the extra length was just enough so that the dress hits me at the bottom of the knee rather than in the middle of the knee as the size small did. My other wool& dresses, a Rowena and a Sierra, are both size small, but for this style the medium worked best. My body measurements put me on the cusp of XS/S at the bust, but solidly M at waist and hip, so those seem to be the most important measurements for this style.

I enjoyed playing with ways to style the dress with the belt - as it happens, what worked least well for my body shape was belting at the natural waistline, as shown in the modeled photos. I'm very happy with how it looks without the belt, but if I do wear the belt I will tie it higher, like an empire waist; and I also found that I could get a fun look by using the belt as a long skinny scarf.

I’m typically a swing dress girl. I own 1 short sleeve and 4 long sleeve. I wanted something different for my daughter’s graduation and I found that in the Cora. It hit my just below my knees which I typically don’t like BUT the comfort and ease of the dress was perfect for a busy graduation day! And the pockets are always a plus for a busy mom of 7!