High neck long sleeve dress in knit or velvet

Covered from chin to wrist, a high neck long sleeve dress stands in for the sweater and skirt you’d otherwise layer on a cold morning. We sew ours with a folded turtleneck or a lower stand collar, in rib knit, jersey, an angora-blend knit and velvet. Midi is the usual length, and there are minis if you’d like your legs to show.

A folded turtleneck or a lower stand collar

A turtleneck rises highest. On our emerald rib knit midi it comes up far enough that you often won’t need a scarf under your coat. The white angora-blend dress that ends at the knee comes with a collar that stands tall or folds over on itself. Both ways keep your neck warm.

A stand collar sits lower and leaves more of your face open. One of our rib knit minis zips at the front of the bodice, which means the neck opens as far as you want it to. You can order that mini 80, 88 or 93–94 cm long, and if you’re petite, go shortest. The blue velvet midi has a stand collar too, along with a slit at the leg. One honest note. A tall collar looks best on a long or medium neck, so if yours is shorter, try the stand collar first.

Angora blend for frost, velvet for the evening

How cold does it get where you live? For real frost, we’d point you to the angora-blend knit. A red midi in it warms like a sweater under a puffer or a long coat. The gray-blue mini is soft, doesn’t itch and can be worn all day with nothing underneath. Dense rib knit keeps heat in as well, and the dress still looks neat under a coat.

Velvet is for evenings. Our black velvet turtleneck midi belongs at the theater, a concert or a business dinner, and it stays warm under a coat on the way there. Black velvet looks festive with no sparkle, so it’ll do for a family holiday dinner too.

Jewelry and fit when your neck is covered

Forget the necklace. With a high neck long sleeve dress, the collar already sits where a necklace would, so big earrings or a wide bracelet worn over the cuff make more sense. Hair pulled up, in a ponytail or a bun, shows the collar off.

Most of these styles fit close, which means your measurements matter more than your usual size. We sew them in XS to XL, and every product page has a chart. See also all high-neck styles, our long-sleeve page and the high-neck midis.