Maxi dresses with long sleeves, cut to your length

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Long sleeve maxi dresses, one by one

Five of the six are drawn with long sleeves. What sets them apart is the shape of the sleeve and where the embroidery sits. The Tiered Maxi is the plain one; the other five are embroidered and shown as design previews.

• Tiered Maxi: chiffon, with full balloon sleeves gathered into an elastic cuff, a split band collar and a gathered yoke falling into three soft tiers to the floor.
• Wildflower Maxi: ivory, with a round neck, a fitted bodice and long balloon sleeves scattered with embroidered wildflowers, gathered into a full skirt with a deep wildflower border at the hem.
• Royal Blue Yoke Dress: a V-neck framed by a square yoke, long sleeves, silver and white embroidery on the yoke and cuffs, and a full flared skirt to the floor.
• Emerald Rose Anarkali: a round neck, a fitted bodice embroidered with flowers, long sleeves with embroidered cuffs and a flared skirt to the floor with scattered motifs.
• Ginkgo Wrap Dress: rust, with a V neckline, a tie at the waist, long sleeves and ginkgo leaves embroidered along the wrap edge and around the cuffs. It is made anywhere from midi to ankle length, so ask for the ankle if you want it as a maxi.

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Floor or ankle: where the hem should stop

Ready-made long dresses are cut for one middle height, so the hem pools on a petite frame and stops short on a tall one. Measure from the top of the shoulder beside your neck, over the bust, to the floor, in the shoes you mean to wear, then tell us how far above the floor the hem should stop. Just clearing the ground looks formal on the Royal Blue Yoke Dress or the anarkali; the ankle bone copes better with stairs and wet pavements.

You can also measure a long dress that already sits right on you, labelled as a garment measurement. Our maxi dress measuring guide goes through it step by step, made to measure dresses explains the service, and the midi dresses are there for a mid-calf hem.

• Petite: on the Tiered Maxi the full length is shared between the yoke and the tiers, so ask in your quote how it is split and a shorter dress keeps its shape. More in can short women wear maxi dresses.
• Tall: give your sleeve length too; long arms are where bought sleeves fall short.
• Flats and heels: if you will wear both, measure in the lower pair. A hem cut for heels drags the day you wear flats.

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Black, pink or ivory: picking the colour

The Tiered Maxi comes in Rose Pink, Taupe, Lavender, Navy, Black, Sage Green and Maroon, so it is your black or pink maxi dress here. In Black it makes a long black dress with sleeves for dinners and evenings out; Rose Pink, the colour shown on this page, is the softer daytime choice. Chiffon is slightly sheer, so ask for a lining if you would like it less sheer.

Looking for a white maxi dress? The nearest here is the ivory Wildflower Maxi, a warmer shade than bright white. The other four are drawn in royal blue, emerald green, rust and sage green, and another colour for the dress or its embroidery can be asked for and confirmed in your written quote. Colours on a screen can look slightly different from the finished piece.

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Floral maxi dresses: embroidered, not printed

Every floral here is stitched, not printed: wildflowers on the sleeves and along the hem of the Wildflower Maxi, and flowers on the bodice, scattered motifs on the skirt and a deep border on the Emerald Rose Anarkali. The Ginkgo Wrap has leaves along the wrap edge and cuffs, the Sage Arch Kaftan has arches, and the Royal Blue Yoke Dress keeps its silver and white work to the yoke and cuffs. More in embroidery on a maxi dress and the embroidered dresses.