I’ve had an obsession with slips since middle school. I usually try to incorporate it with every outfit, but honestly my favorite look is a pretty slip under a long sweater. With some leggings if it’s chilly! So comfortable!

Another fun thing you can do is find old slips in white or beige and throw them in some dye. Then you can have pretty pink and teal and lavender ones. This is especially a good idea if you find a slip that is in good condition but is maybe a little faded looking. If they have lace, the lace usually takes on a lighter or darker shade of the color you dye it. Sigh* Most of my prom dresses were silk slips. When you’re young and your under wear is so beautiful there’s a natural progression toward making it outer wear. Plus, Courtney Love did it and wearing a slip + tiara to prom is a free pass for belligerence and scaring the norms.just remembered!! franny glass wears a really cool slip dress at one point when she’s lying on the glass family couch all brooding and pensive: “it was a tailored tie-silk dressing gown, beige, with a pretty pattern of minute pink tea roses.” oh, j.d. salinger, awaken from the dead, become my personal stylist, then marry me. Slips, or Petticoats as they are still best known by my ladies here, have been an essential part of a woman’s intimate underclothing during my many years in the fascinating world of Corsetry and Underwear.

Who doesn’t remember these from the 80’s?? I was obsessed with them! These are from BGC and they have a cheek option you can wear them on as well! HAHA I was just at Amvets today and I bought this vintage Victoria’s Secret slip to use as a shirt. It’s teal, and it FITS and its so so pretty.Argh, I do have a vintage slip but it goes to my knee so I only have one dress it works with and it’s much to thin to be worn as outerwear. Love it! (except you totally wouldn’t want to marry J.D. Salinger, wasn’t he kind of a jerk to his wife?) You can also wear them under sweater dresses when you go out and if the dance floor gets too hot you can take off your outer layer. This is such good timing, I’ve been thinking about replacing some of my old clothes with tons of slips so I could layer them over each other and wear them out and about, but I had no idea they were so functional! totally agree. i found an yves saint laurent slip at an op shop and when i sleep in it i pretend i’m rich and beautiful.