YVONNE | Open front layer in open work

A jacket in July here is not a look, it is a medical event. This is the first one I can actually wear.

A jacket does something no top can do. It puts a clean vertical line down each side of you, it holds the shoulder, and it makes a plain tee underneath look like a decision. And from May to October it is completely unwearable, so half the year you go out without that line and feel slightly undone all evening.

Yvonne is cut as an open-front layer in a delicate open-work fabric, which means air moves straight through it. That is the whole trick: you get the tailored line and the shoulder, and the fabric itself does not hold heat. There are no buttons and no zip, so it slips on and hangs open, and the patterned texture of the open work gives it enough quiet interest to lift a plain top without announcing itself.

Why women our age keep coming back to it

• Open work, so air goes through it. The fabric is pierced rather than solid, which is what makes a jacket shape wearable on a warm evening.
• The vertical line without the weight. A tailored open front draws two clean lines down the body, which is the thing a cardigan never quite does.
• Nothing to fasten. No buttons, no zip, so it goes on in one movement and stays hanging open the way it is meant to.
• The texture is the detail. The patterned open work carries it over a plain tee, so nothing else has to be added.

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How they fit

Yvonne is a tailored cut that skims rather than grips, in S through 2XL. Because it is worn open over something else, take the larger size if you are between two, so the shoulders sit properly over whatever is underneath. The size chart lists chest, length and sleeve in inches, measured flat.

30 days to change your mind

Send it back within 30 days for a full refund. There is no restocking fee and no questions about why.

A few recent reviews

Wore it over a black tank to dinner outdoors in August. I was fine.
Fronia W., Phoenix

The white is not see-through in the way I feared. The pattern is close enough.
Lula B., 64

No buttons is the best part. I put it on and I am done.
Delma R., Gilbert