Coif your hair, don the stockings and start vacuuming. This black and white checked silk dress is the epitome of '50s housewife. A look that I like to rock to some derision. Sure, it's a wee bit galling to mix a martini to hand your bacon-bringing husband at the door while mourning your swinging coed lifestyle. But at least you have a great dress.


For those of us who don't inhabit the set of Bewitched, this is just the dress to set you apart from the Juicy Couture set. A full skirt in a roomful of jeans will, depending on your chutzpah, make you feel overdressed - or kick ass femme fatale.

Slap on the red lipstick and channel Betty Page. No jeans can beat this skirt.