Solange Heads South.

     In Paris, she’s always precisely tailored.
     In the Caribbean, she’s unbuttoned chic.
     When I met her last winter at Le Square, surveying the day’s crop of yachts in Gustavia harbor, she was wearing this nontouristy number.
    “Are those some kind of chrysanthemum?”
     Solange frowned slightly and smiled at the same time, a complicated expression. “They only grow in the imagination, Peterman.”
     The waiter brought chilled Amer Picon and a copy of Le Monde, which she sprinkled with lavender water.
    “One must keep the world at a certain distance, n’est-ce-pas?”
     Something in me can’t get enough of this woman.
     Stylized Floral Caftan (No. 2194), originally found in the Marais. Cool, comfortable cotton, with 14" side slits, piped neckline, side-seam pockets. Uncommon and self-confident; you could wear it to go shopping for urgently needed diamonds on the rue de la République.
     Size: One size fits most.
     Color: Blue, Grey, and Pale Green on Cream.
     Price: $79.