29 Banger Long-Sleeve Dresses to Get You Through Work, Dinners, and Events

It's not so often you'll catch me wearing dresses or skirts—I just love a low-key trouser, I really do. But I have this highly specific thing for long-sleeve dresses, which for some reason occupy an entirely different (and much more stylistically chill) space in my brain.

At the risk of being weirdly precise, my long-sleeve dress crush started in September of 2019 when I visited the showroom of designer Maggie Marilyn to do a little shoot around New Zealand fashion week, and I impulsively bought this dress. I fell in love with the satin-twill fabric that felt like it was poured on, the weight of the ultra-long sleeves and how they hung when I raised my wrist as if to hold a drink.

After far too long hanging in my closet, I finally wore her to low-key get married (just on paper, ahead of our proper wedding) over some famously not-so-low-key martinis at Bemelmans on the Upper West Side. As I admired how effortlessly the sleeves of my dress peeped out from below the cuffs of my blazer, I wondered why I didn't have this dress on heavier rotation.

So, here I am, making sure you’re not also missing out on a chic easy outfit that's essentially a one-and-done brain holiday when it comes to getting dressed for work, for dinner, for events, for weddings (your own or someone else’s). I suppose I should follow up with a story sharing blazer and dress combos? In the meantime, enjoy this curation of excellent long-sleeve dresses to shop this season—I guarantee you already own the blazer that will pair with them perfectly.