Jo-Ellen Tiberi’s Coral Dress and Sailboat Cardigan

Jo-Ellen arrived to brunch dressed like a postcard from Sea Island, and somehow she was the only one in the room who understood the assignment.

It’s a coral shift dress paired with a navy cardigan embroidered with tiny white sailboats — the kind of two-piece that says ‘my husband’s family has owned the dock since 1962.’ The cotton has weight to it, the embroidery sits raised under your thumb, and the coral reads warm without going tropical. This is the uniform Kim Zolciak refused to wear when Nene dragged her to the fish market in season one, and frankly, Atlanta has been poorer for it. Old Buckhead dresses like this on purpose. (The rest dress like this by accident and call it coastal.)

Wear it to a christening, a regatta, or a lunch where someone’s getting quietly disinherited. Acquire →