DOROTHY | Painted color splash blouse

I put it on on a gray morning in February and it genuinely changed how the day went.

Winter dressing narrows to a handful of dark things worn on repeat, and by February the closet has stopped offering anything at all. It is not that you want to be looked at. It is that opening the wardrobe and seeing six shades of the same brown does something to a person over three months. Dorothy is the antidote hanging at the end of the rail.

The print is a modern abstract, geometric shapes in green, blue, yellow, orange, red and purple laid across the whole blouse. The shapes are what keep it from being sweet: it reads as artwork rather than as a flower pattern. Underneath it is a plain relaxed button front with room through the body, so the color has somewhere calm to sit.

Why women our age keep coming back to it

• Geometric, not floral. The abstract shapes read as a modern print rather than a garden, which is a different register entirely and suits a woman who does not want roses.
• Six colors in one blouse. That means it picks up almost anything plain you own on the bottom half, from white pants to jeans.
• A familiar shape under an unfamiliar print. The button front is the most ordinary thing in the closet, which is exactly why you can wear a print this bold without feeling costumed.
• Sizes to 5XL. The same relaxed cut all the way up, so the print lies flat at every size.

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How it fits

Dorothy is a relaxed fit and runs true to size, in S through 5XL. If you are between two sizes, take the larger one, because a print pulled tight across the front loses the shapes it is made of. The size chart has the flat measurements in inches.

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

With white pants it is the only thing you need to think about. I have worn it to three lunches.
Wilma T., Mesa

The colors are true to the photograph, which I had doubted.
Geneva P., Tucson

I am 68 and it does not read as young on me. It reads as somebody with an eye.
Melba S., 68