Best Spring Dresses for Women: Toile Trend

Normally, spring dresses are all about the florals. (If you can get Miranda Priestley saying "Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking," out of your head, that is.) But with the rise of prairie dresses, shoppers have opened their hearts and their closets to puffy sleeves, vintage-inspired prints, and other trends every season. For 2019, there's another It style on the horizon, which combines different elements from great spring dress trends past: nostalgic patterns, soft colors, and prime Instagram-ability.

Toile-print dresses have been popping up everywhere since Selena Gomez wore an Oscar de la Renta two-piece last summer. Toile, short for toile du Jouy, was originally a style of decor fabric with a copperplate-engraving-style image of a complex scene—normally something pastoral—printed in a repeated pattern against a white or off-white background. The graphic has the charm of a floral but with the same vintage vibe as your favorite prairie dress. And you can find it on everything from oversize silhouettes to strappy minis.

These It dresses luckily don't necessarily cost a couple thousand dollars: You can find them everywhere from Urban Outfitters to Tory Burch. If you want an alternative to the prairie trend but are tired of the same old florals, toile-print dresses are a happy medium that aren't absolutely everywhere yet (just yet). Shop the best ones, ahead.

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