Duster Tag

Several fashion brands have been built on frilly, country and resorty house dresses, Hill House Home, Doen and Natalie Martin amongst them. But Melissa Magsaysay and Andrea Racey wanted something different, crisp but comfortable house dresses that made them feel put together, and is also talking points concerning the must value domestic labor. Enter Duster, the duo’s latest brand of contemporary house dresses with a mission to support the reason behind women’s economic empowerment. For every dress sold (prices are $215 to $240), 2 percent, or roughly $5, will go to Mothers First, a nonprofit fighting for reasonably priced child care, paid leave and equal pay for mothers. “Even pre-pandemic I’ve at all times had swirling in my head these house dresses...