"It could be the most basic dress that everybody loves, but still, it sometimes isn't what women want to wear," Mr. Siriano said.
I've pored over the TravelSmith and L. L. Bean travel catalogs, too, searching for the most basic black dress and the fastest-drying underwear.
Color The most basic way to dress up your underwear for Halloween is with color.
But replicating your grandmother's favorite dress or that powder blue prom tuxedo comes with a price: cobbled-to-order shoes start at around $800 plus the cost of materials, a men's suit begins at $1,600 (plus materials) and the most basic of women's dresses starts at $400 (plus materials).
This was all a distillation of the most basic joy of getting dressed: finding infinite combinations.
So it seems something of a surprise that no one has ridden to glory on the tails of one of man's most basic garments, the plain white dress shirt.
Direct-care staff help severely challenged individuals with the most basic daily tasks, from washing and dressing, to help meeting their needs, to physical and psychological therapy.
But they do not let it upstage their gift for mining art from the masterly cutting and often only minor rethinking of the most basic elements of masculine-influenced feminine dress.
We might have been dressing like the most basic of suburban teens -- before "basic" was a term we even knew to describe such things -- but when we look back at photographic evidence of our homecomings/formals/proms, we look tasteful, put together and comfortable in our own skin.
The son was in every way dependent on the father, neighbors said, and needed help with the most basic of tasks, like bathing and getting dressed.
