What I'd Wear Wednesday: Tie dye

What I'd wear today if I could: this tie-dye skirt by INC at Macy's. I saw it the last time I went to the mall, where it was on a mannequin paired with a plain blue cotton cami. I was instantly like, "Ahhh! Summer!"

My friend Guinevere was just saying to me how surprisingly cooling she found skirts to be in the summer -- even more cooling than shorts. And I think she's on something. Oops -- I mean onto something.

Besides having built-in air conditioning, another great thing about this skirt is someone else has done the tie dye for you. My only experience with tie dye was in sixth grade when our whole class went to a camp for a week. I thought tie dyeing was messy, and you couldn't control the results. I know that's pretty much the point of tie dye, but my T-shirt was nothing I would wear. A teacher told me I did a nice job on the shirt, but I thought she said the word without the R, and that just compounded the tie dye experience letdown for me.

This skirt, however, wisely uses just two colors, so it's very wearable. And as I keep pointing out with clothes that have prints, it probably hides stains well. You just have to be very careful about how you wash those stains on this skirt....