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 low-key trousers—I really do. But I have this highly specific thing for long-sleeve dresses, which 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 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 it hung when I raised my wrist as if to hold a drink.

After this dress spent far too long hanging in my closet, I finally wore her to low-key get married (just on paper ahead of my 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.

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, dinners, events, or 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.