Fashion & the City: Me to We Style Bali Bamboo Dress is the PERFECT Summer Dress

I’m not a huge fan of multi-tasking product. It must be done right, and it’s hard to get it right. This is especially true when it comes to clothing: a skirt is a skirt, a dress is a dress, and whenever one tries to use one in place of the other, well, it looks like you’re wearing a dress as a skirt or vice-versa. So you know that I was more than skeptical of Me to We Style’s Bali Bamboo Dress and its claim of being 5 dresses in 1. Add to this skepticism the fact that the brochure, teaching you how to transform your dress into these 5 different dresses, does not have a real model but a cartoon modeling these 5 versions…

Don’t get me wrong: there’s plenty to love about Me to We Style line of ethically manufactured clothing. It belongs to a new type of social enterprise that is committed to providing quality apparel for socially-conscious consumers, with products that are domestically produced, sweatshop-free, and made using certified organic cotton and bamboo (and they had me at the certified organic cotton and bamboo!).

So, with a great dose of skepticism, I went on to try the Bali Bamboo Dress and its 5 different styles and never in my life have I been more pleasantly surprised! What they promise, they deliver. The Bali is indeed 5 completely different dresses in 1! It does not look like you were trying to modify an existing dress, to change things up a bit, to be savvy and stretch your dollars. It actually looks like 5 different dresses – have I said that enough? : )

3 of my favorite styles: Soka, Sanur, and Lovina

The 5 styles are simply gorgeous – and for your convenience, every dress comes with a detailed brochure teaching you how to create each look. Kuta (wrap around skirt), Sanur (backless crisscross dress), Lovina (one shoulder dress), Soka (strapless dress), and Nusa Dua (belted shawl) are very wearable and versatile (though I haven’t quite mastered the Nusa Dua yet). The fabric is soft and drapes over your body like the softest silk. And the colors are to die-for! Asphalt (a perfect-for-all-seasons grey) is my favorite, though Purple is a runner-up! This is THE perfect summer dress!

And if you need more reasons, here’s this: 50% of Me to We Style’s profits goes to their charity partner, Free the Children, to support development projects in rural and impoverished areas across the globe.