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Welcome to the Orangerie: The Party Skirt
We invite you to enjoy The Orangerie in this big, festive skirt. For going out or for the hostess at home. Whatever you’re planning, make it an occasion with this wind-blown floral print in tangerine and ivory. Ballerina length with side zipper and side seam pockets. 100% cotton. This is a custom piece sized by waist measurement. Cumberbund purchased separately.
To purchase the Orangerie Party Skirt visit the Shop.
Welcome to the Orangerie: Shirtwaist in Sunny Linen Plaid
We invite you to enjoy The Orangerie in this linen plaid shirtwaist in sunny citrus tones. Our signature fit, sleeveless bodice is graced with a luxurious, ballerina-length skirt gathered the full circumference of the waist. Convertible collar may be worn open or closed. Button front and side zipper. Side seam pockets.
To purchase the Orangerie Shirtwaist visit the Shop.
Welcome to the Orangerie
The traditional orangerie was a structure built on the grounds of a fashionable residence that provided a warm, sunny environment for citrus and other fruit trees during the winter months. It may be thought of as an elegant greenhouse. Some especially lovely examples may be found at Kensington Palace, London; Peterhof Palace, St Petersburg; and the Palace of Versailles outside Paris.
But we’d like to offer a different consideration of the word, the message of a color. Our first two pieces of 2023 celebrate the warmth and brightness of orange: a classic shirtwaist in a rich, sunny linen plaid and a floral print party skirt in tangerine strewn with ivory blossoms. We open 2023 with an invitation to The Orangerie at Anikka Becker.
Sparkling Clean! January $89-$99 Sale
It’s January and we’re cleaning!
Take advantage of great pricing as we make room for new inventory.
All pieces $89-$99.
All sizes 4-16.
All styles.
Sleeves and Sleeveless.
Top quality pieces that are the end of the fabric roll, manufacturing, photoshoot, or runway samples.
Company Coming
Our 2022 Company Coming Party Skirt is a classic circle skirt. With Pockets!
Available in 4 colorways to take you through Christmas, Chanukah, New Year’s and Valentine’s Day, these prints transition easily into spring.
Sized by waist measurement, the skirt falls to ballerina length. Unlined with side zipper. Custom sizing and length available.
For more information visit the Shop
Shop in Person!
Williamsburg Christmas Market
Chalet #27
December 1-4 , 2022
Williamsburg, Virginia
Stop by our chalet!
New holiday pieces
Special offers
Gift cards
Court Street, adjacent to the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
Chalet #27
Thursday 12/1: 11 am - 6 pm
Friday 12/2: 11 am- 8pm
Saturday 12/3: 11 am -8 pm
Sunday 12/4: 11 am- 6 pm
Free admission
Stop by our chalet
Do you have trouble with the end of summer?
We do.
We love the long, bright days of summer most of all. We’re always sorry to see that change in the light that means the turn of the season.
So each fall we try our best to find something to celebrate.
This year, we stumbled on it while sourcing trims. Maybe only a tiny find, but a charming button from France inspired our Fall 2022 design. This object conjured up images of the colors and patterns that attract us this time of year.
Here we share the evolution of the design with a look at the Mood Board for the Pear Shirtwaist in Black and White Gingham.
For more on the Pear Shirtwaist visit the Shop.
Now Showing: Blouson in Pink Lemonade Linen
Keep cool in high summer. The Blouson in Pink Lemonade Linen is that hint of color seen through a frosty glass pitcher. Worn belted or loose, this sleeveless design gives a finished look with a stand-away bias band collar. Fully lined with a center back zipper and our signature deep pockets. For more on the Blouson in Pink Lemonade Linen visit the Shop.
How do you keep cool?
It’s high summer, hot, and humid.
We’ve all got ways of keeping cool.
Take a look. There are so many colors.
Cool mint. Lemonade pink. Sunlight. Sea glass. Fresh air. Evening sky.
One of them is the inspiration behind our next design.
Coming soon on July 31!
Now Showing: The Terrazzo Dress in Summer Wood
Our first crowdsourced design, inspired by what our customers want.
"Easy to put on and take off."
"Sleeves"
"More sizes"
"Love the POCKETS!"
Practical and elegant, it transitions easily from the locker room to lunch on the terrace.
Blouson silhouette, v-neck, soft waistline elastic make it easy to pull on and off
Elbow length short sleeves
Sizes 4-16
Pockets!
For more about the Terrazzo Dress, visit the Shop
How many times a day do you change your clothes?
Do you ever have days when:
It’s hard to decide what to wear in the morning because you have to do a variety of things during the day?
At the end of the day are you wearing something other than what you put on in the morning?
You have to carry a change of clothes to put on at some point in the middle of the day?
You go to the gym or pool?
A yes to any of these questions suggests that you may change your clothes during the day. Because in the course of a day a woman fills a number of roles. What she throws on in the morning to walk the dog may not be what she wears to work. In the middle of the day she’s in the pool. What’s comfortable during a long car ride may not be what she wants to wear to dinner with friends. Whatever the myriad reasons, changing clothes during the day is a regular event for many of our customers.
Our upcoming crowdsourced design addresses this fact of life:
It slides over the head without buttons or zipper.
A soft waistline elastic makes it easy to pull on and off.
It is fitted by simply aligning the side seam pockets with your sides.
And as we love about all dresses, it immediately solves the problem of which top to wear with which bottom.
Coming soon: our crowdsourced design, the Terrazzo Dress.
Launches June 26!
Coming soon: the crowdsourced dress
We love to meet you!
We especially appreciate your thoughts on what you want in a dress:
"Easy to put on and take off."
"Sleeves"
"Beautiful fabrics"
"More sizes"
"Love the POCKETS!"
To that end, we’ve created a new design.
Think of it as a crowdsourced dress.
Launches June 26!
First Dress of Spring 2022
Windy Day Shirtwaist
Supremely soft cotton with color as sharp as a tack.
Snowy white strewn with blossoms in magentas, black, and white.
We love the way this cotton lawn print captures those first fresh days of spring when the saucer magnolias bloom.
Feel the energy of bright pink blossoms blowing in the wind.
Snap into spring with the windy day shirtwaist.
Here we invite you to the design process with a look at the mood board.
Coming Soon
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Next Weekend in Wilmington, DE
We’re thrilled to have been selected to show at the Hagley Craft Fair!
Shop in person
October 16-17, 2021
Booth 52
Indoors at the Soda House
Hagley Museum
Wilmington, DE
Check out Anikka’s Sample Rack— First Quality. Great Prices.
Saturday October 16 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday October 17 10 am to 4 pm
For Midsummer 2021
Our favorite is Midsummer Day, the longest day of the year. This year it falls on June 21. We see a field of wildflowers, strewn on handkerchief linen in violet, blue, green, and yellow on an ivory ground. Celebrate with the Wildflower Linen Dress.
For more on the Wildflower Linen visit the Shop.
The Washington Dress
Sometimes a design is a challenge to grasp the essence of a beloved piece and create a new version. How to recall that fleeting moment? We look and study and think about the piece to understand its message.
Our very first visit to Washington, DC was the occasion. We remember a long ago spring when a father and mother, a boy and a girl took their first trip to the nation’s capital. This was when train travel meant white gloves and the trip from Boston to Washington took all day. The piece was a wool suit in a lavender and white check, a cutaway jacket with a round neck over a box-pleated wool skirt, now recalled as the Washington Suit.
How to capture that springtime family? We seize the bright moment with a crisp linen gingham in lavender and white. The short jacket grows into a fitted bodice with a round neckline, the cutaway inverts to a neckline slash. The structured volume of all-around box pleats is retained, but perhaps now with an eye on the grace of the long line rather than the brevity that allows a quick game of jump rope. With these memories in mind we bring you the Washington Dress.
For more information on the Washington Dress visit the Shop.
Read the story of the original Washington Suit here.
