It’s a shame that National Dress Day fell on a Sunday when I have absolutely nowhere to go. But I’ll still celebrate by spending some quiet time among my closet full of dresses and I might make a Reel of some of my favorites, we’ll see.

Either way, if you would have told my sixteen year old self that my almost-forty year old self would be exclusively wearing dresses, she would have laughed. I was a tomboy growing up and only developed an affinity for fashion in any sense as I began my professional career. And within the last decade, it’s turned into a general “uniform” of dress, heels, and an accessory like chandelier earrings. There are quite a few stories of professional women who’ve adopted a uniform to help them concentrate on their life rather than their looks or to simplify routines or to fight back against the patriarchy. I have adopted this dress code (get it!?!) to simplify my routine but also because I dress for me, and I love dresses for their design, structure, and beauty, especially when I found Loft. Even my damit pambahay (the Filipino word for house clothes which I discovered in a book) are comfy sweatshirt dresses.

Cheers to National Dress Day and a gallery of some of my favorites. You can always find my dress pics in the library or at home on Instagram alongside my book recommendations. And if you want more about my love of dresses, here was a 2019 post.