An entire jungle, painted across it — banana palms, a river, white frangipani,
and a cast of toucans and parrots watching from the leaves. Brown-and-cream
striped bands frame all of it: the neckline, both cuffs, the hem, and the whole
length of the slit.

There's a lovely precedent for an imagined jungle. Henri Rousseau painted more
than twenty-five of them and never once left France — he built them out of a
Paris botanical garden, a hall of stuffed animals and a stack of illustrated
books. "When I am in these hothouses," he said, "it seems to me that I am
entering a dream." Critics called his work childish. Picasso disagreed, and the
Surrealists took notes.

The slit is the practical part, whatever it looks like. A straight column to the
floor doesn't let you walk without one — it's what gives you a stride. It's cut
to the front-side rather than dead centre, which is the more forgiving of the
two, and framed in the same striped band so it reads as a drawn line rather than
an opening. One genuinely useful piece of advice: sit down in it before you
decide. A seated mirror tells you far more than a standing one. And if you'd
rather have the coverage, fine nude hosiery reads as skin.

Everything else is covered — crew neck, sleeves to the wrist, hem to the floor.
One leg is the only bare thing about it, which is rather the point.

Linen underneath, so it breathes, and long sleeves keep the sun off your arms all
afternoon.

Linen · round neckline with contrast striped border · long wide sleeves with matching striped cuffs · straight column with no waist seam · high front-side slit bordered its full length · striped band at the hem · floor length · engineered pictorial jungle print · relaxed and unfitted throughout — it skims rather than defines · densely printed on a mid-tone ground · take your usual size; the cut is generous by design · model is 5'7" and wears a size M · in Jungle Toile · machine wash cold, gentle cycle, hang to dry, warm iron while damp