MAKEMECHIC Polka Dot

Polka dot is the one print that runs through every rail on this site, and this page collects it: the bikini set that comes in more than twenty colourways, the Swiss-dot sheer halters and sundresses, the polka-dot minis with a tie front, the mesh midi and the lace maxi skirts, and the micro shorts. A dot is a decision about scale before it is a decision about colour, and the photographs show the scale: a pin dot reads as a texture, a large dot reads as a print.

Swiss dot is a different thing from polka dot, and the card keeps them apart: Swiss dot is a small raised dot woven into a sheer fabric, and so the Swiss-dot halters and sundresses are sheer and worn over a cami or a slip, while a printed polka dot sits on an opaque cloth. Brown, black and white are the grounds that come up most on this page, and the bikini set is the piece most people arrive looking for.