NY Collection

NY Collection clothing makes its case with a belted shirt dress in midi length: button placket, a fabric tie cinching the waist, a hem falling just below the knee. It reads polished, not fussy. That's the tone for a rack built mostly around dresses and tops. Alongside it sits a pearl-trim midi dress with a dressier finish, an abstract-print shirt dress for more color, and polka-dot wide-leg pants when you want that shirt-dress silhouette split into two pieces. Button-up shirts with chest pockets cover the everyday side. The label traces back to 1979, when it started as Notations, Inc. out of a Manhattan office on Broadway - a New York apparel maker whose name still rides the tag. Don't confuse it with New York & Company, a separate retail chain with a similar name; NY Collection is its own line with its own tag. The belted shirt dress is still the one to try first - it does the most with the least fuss.