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Anselm Dress
About The Row’s dresses: The Row's dresses are a rotating set of roughly two dozen named styles per season — column, slip and T-shirt-dress silhouettes in silk, wool, cotton jersey and viscose. Styles currently on the brand's site run about $1,270 to $4,700, with end-of-season markdowns dipping well below that.
Is the price honest?
Our take
The Anselm is The Row's long-sleeved column dress: ankle-length, in an ultra-soft jersey, with a draped box pleat at the center front, a back vent and a back zip, made in Italy. A senior shopping editor names it among nine pieces from the brand worth the money. Caveats: dress-specific owner reviews are thin, and The Row rotates named styles seasonally, so colorways leave the brand's site without notice — the black jersey version currently reads as sold out there.
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- Material
- Retailer listings describe an ultra-soft jersey given as nylon/polyamide/elastane, made in Italy; the brand has also run the Anselm in crepe cupro, and no listing publishes fiber percentages.
- Fit
- A straight column cut with long sleeves that falls below the ankle, the front box pleat draping from the bodice. Owner sizing reports are scarce, so rely on the brand's size chart rather than assuming the jersey's stretch adds forgiveness.
- Quality
- Made in Italy; one long-term owner review of the brand found her pieces could still pass as new after heavy wear, though that review covered bags, shoes and pants — durability reports specific to this dress are hard to find.
- Best for
- Someone who wants a single quiet, floor-length dress that covers work events and evening occasions alike, and who has already accepted luxury-house pricing.
- Care
- Retailer listings omit care instructions for this piece, so treat dry cleaning as the default for the jersey and keep it away from high heat.
How The Row dresses hold up overall
Third-party coverage of The Row's dresses specifically is thin — most owner reviews focus on the brand's bags, shoes, and tailoring. Reviewers who assess the clothing describe natural-fiber fabrics (silk, wool, cashmere) and rate the make as genuinely high quality; one owner review of the brand's garments calls them extremely comfortable and well made, with fabric that drapes flatteringly. The recurring criticism is value rather than construction: an editorial reviewer who featured the brand's dresses finds the designs often too plain to justify the prices, and price complaints come up across coverage generally.
- Strengths
- Reviewers consistently rate the fabrics — silk, wool, cashmere — and the construction as true luxury quality.
- Watch out for
- The most-reported complaint is price-to-design value — critics find many pieces too plain for the cost — and dress-specific owner feedback is scarce, so there is little long-term wear reporting to lean on.
About The Row's dresses line as a whole. Sources: Why I'm Not Obsessed With The Row (What Looks Good, Substack) · An Honest Review of The Row (91 Lane, Substack) · Is The Row Actually Worth It? (Totally Recommend, Substack)
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