A white yoke scattered with blue blooms, then one clean line straight across the chest, and solid indigo the whole way down. The break is deliberate and it is the entire design. High contrast, and it does the work of a two-piece outfit.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in silky rayon, dip-dyed to hold that hard line between pale and deep. V-neckline, side slits, slipover. At 52 inches it sweeps the floor around 5'3" and sits at the ankle around 5'6".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Blue that looks like it has been somewhere. The colour runs mid-depth across the body with a faint pale mottling drifting through it, then breaks to white at the sleeve cuffs and the lower sides. Nothing about it is uniform, which is the point.

This hand-dyed indigo kaftan is cut from ribbed cotton, a textured weave with fine vertical lines running through it that catch light in a way flat cloth cannot. V-neckline, side slits, half kaftan sleeves. At 54 inches it sweeps the floor around 5'5" and sits at the ankle around 5'8".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Deep blue across the body, cut by a single white band running the full length of one side and crossed by blue bars, like light coming through a shutter. Worn straight on you barely see it. Turn, and it is the whole dress.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in silky rayon, with the white resisted in one continuous run down the side seam. V-neckline, side slits, slipover. At 56 inches it is one of the longest in the range, sweeping the floor around 5'7" and sitting at the ankle around 5'10".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Solid blue straight down the centre panel, framed by white at the sleeve cuffs and down both side seams, with a ladder of blue bars set into the white. The frame is what makes it. It draws one long vertical line the length of the body.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in ribbed cotton, a textured weave with fine vertical lines running through the cloth. V-neckline, side slits, half kaftan sleeves. At 55 inches it sweeps the floor around 5'6" and sits at the ankle around 5'9".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Rows of soft white circles across mid blue, each one haloed where the colour pulled back from it. Regular enough to read as a pattern, hand-made enough that no two circles come out the same size.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in silky rayon with a deep V-neckline, side slits and open sleeves. At 45 inches it is the shortest in the indigo range, sitting at the ankle around 5'0" and at mid calf on most.

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Broad horizontal bands running across the cloth, pale blue into deep blue and back again, every edge feathered rather than cut. The bands widen and narrow down the length so the eye keeps moving.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in silky rayon, dip-dyed in stages to build the banding. V-neckline, side slits, arms opening to 22 inches. At 52 inches it sweeps the floor around 5'3" and sits at the ankle around 5'6".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Bold blue lines branching across a white base, meeting and splitting again like something grown rather than drawn. Loose, irregular, and no two lengths of it repeat.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in silky rayon, light enough to move with you and breathable through heat. V-neckline, side slits, slipover. At 53 inches it sweeps the floor around 5'4" and sits at the ankle around 5'7".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Solid deep blue through the shoulders and body, and then it breaks. Somewhere around the hip the colour starts to come apart into white blooms, and by the hem it has scattered completely. It reads like the tide going out.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in silky rayon, dip-dyed so the depth shifts down the length of the cloth. V-neckline, side slits, slipover. At 52 inches it sweeps the floor around 5'3" and sits at the ankle around 5'6".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Blue drifting across white in soft irregular masses, heavier in some places, thinning to almost nothing in others. There is no repeat and no centre to it. It just moves.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in silky rayon, breathable and light against the skin. V-neckline, side slits, slipover. At 56 inches it is one of the longest in the range, sweeping the floor around 5'7" and sitting at the ankle around 5'10".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

The only piece in the indigo range that is not built on white. The base is warm sand, and the blue lands on it in radiating fans, dense at the spine of each one, then breaking into a fine pale speckle across the rest of the cloth. Quieter than the blue and whites, and it sits more easily with the rest of a wardrobe.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan cut from soft rayon, with the colour dipped over an undyed base so it reads warm rather than stark. V-neckline, side slits, slipover. At 48 inches it sweeps the floor around 4'11" and sits at the ankle around 5'2".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.

Strong even blue almost the whole way through, with a few pale rings surfacing low on the skirt and one at the hip. Restrained, and the kind of detail people notice on the second look rather than the first.

A hand-dyed indigo kaftan in silky rayon, cut spacious and falling away from the body. V-neckline, side slits, slipover. At 53 inches it sweeps the floor around 5'4" and sits at the ankle around 5'7".

One size fits most up to US 3XL. First wash: soak overnight in water with 3 spoons of salt, then delicate machine wash cold and hang dry.