Crepe is made by twisting the yarn hard before it is woven. The twist wants to spring back, the finished cloth is held under that tension, and the surface goes faintly granular while the drape goes heavy and fluid at once. It is the reason a crepe dress falls in long unbroken lines where a plain weave would break into folds. What crepe will not do is hold a silhouette by itself, and that is the problem this dress sets out to solve. Rather than lining it, or interfacing it, or cutting it tight enough to be held up by the body, the house puts a power mesh layer underneath and lets that do the structural work. Mesh of this kind is a fine elastic knit that pulls in one plane and gives in another, so it can set a line without adding weight or bulk and without stiffening anything. The crepe is then free to be entirely soft. Standing still, the dress reads as one clean column with a deep V at the front. Moving, the outer layer travels and the inner one does not, which is a quiet effect and a genuinely expensive one to achieve. The deep side pockets are the detail that keeps the whole thing from reading as an evening dress, which is the point. The crepe is one hundred percent wool. Made in China.
Style Variants
Available Colors: Black
Size Reference for Tibi Power Mesh Combo Dress
Available Sizes: 4, 8
