This dress even makes a plastic hanger look glamorous. For all of the days that I live to put together unassumingly perfectly paired separates, there is something refreshing about throwing on a dress as a one-and-done polished lewk.

Of course, I say this as I'm laying in a mushy bed in a pretty crappy hotel room in Palm Springs for a brief work trip. I'm out here in the desert styling a pretty major somethin-somethin. Zero glamour happening here-- just a bunch of hard work. Fortunately, with just the right dress, the fantasy of glamour is my secret reality...

Photography by Sabrina Hill

This floral dress had me at hello! I'm a total extremist-- when I wear tight, it's tight (and short, and possibly see-through). But when I wear volume, I spare no extra fabric!

This dress goes the distance (literally). It moves like magic and gets a 10 out of 10 in twirl-ability (a known key to any romantic dress).

So twirling is what I did, in this perfectly pressed floral mini, through this desert garden oasis in Palm Springs...

Photographs taken at the Avalon Hotel (previously the Viceroy Hotel) in Palm Springs by Emily Hakim.