We hear all the time from customers that they wanted to wear dresses, but when it came time to reach for the dress, they immediately started dreading the ick of the bike shorts — or worse, the shapewear they felt they needed to wear underneath.
Dresses and skirts are freeing and cool, especially in warmer months, and none of us has to give them up. There's a better way to wear a dress, and it doesn't involve exposing, squeezing, sculpting, soaking, overheating, or embarrassing you.
The Problem with the Usual Options
Bike shorts cover, but they're full contact, they're hot, trap moisture, and are unworthy under a pretty dress. Shapewear does its job, but that job is constricting our bodies, and why would we do that to ourselves when we don't have to?!
What most of us have dreamt for under a dress is coverage that's secure and comfortable. The dream is something that also disappears under the fabric and is so comfortable we forget it's even there. The ultimate dream is something that's also pretty and stylish.
Slip Shorts: the Under Dress Solution Dream Come True
undergoodies slip shorts are full coverage, lightweight, floaty shorts designed specifically to be worn under dresses and skirts. They're floaty, cool, quick-dry, and they buffer chafing — made for long days, warm weather, and any moment when the wind takes your skirt with it.
At undergoodies, we offer 3 slip short styles to keep you covered, cool, comfy, and cute:
Honey is our best-selling slip short — super lightweight with soft stretch lace for a pretty touch and a surprisingly handy small pocket. Honey disappears under almost any dress or skirt and feels like wearing nothing at all. Especially perfect for longer and semi-sheer dresses and skirts.
Sugar is our 100% opaque option — cut to float over the body for maximum airflow, soft stretch lace for style, and our useful pocket. Sugar is wildly versatile to style, available in joyful shimmery colorways that are great fun to coordinate with clothes, and pretty enough to wear as outerwear too. Size up for loose and airy, size down for fitted and sassy.
Lola! is our most dedicated chafe-buster, with a longer inseam, air-conditioning peek-a-boo panels of pretty stretch lace, our handy pocket, and our signature light, stretchy, quick-dry comfort. Lola! feels like wearing air and has a playful vibe.
All three come in sizes xs–xxxl and are made with Love by women in the American South.
The Half Slip is Back (and the Slip Skirt too) — and She's Never Looked and Felt This Good
Sometimes slip shorts aren't exactly what a dress needs. For dresses that need something underneath for fully smooth full coverage — a little swish, perhaps a little something pretty peeking below the hem — meet Jasmine.
Jasmine is our shimmery stretch satin half slip with a livable, walkable slight A-line cut, also beautiful enough to wear as a skirt on her own. Style her under a dress, let her peek below a shorter hem, or wear her as your slip skirt with a top and you're dressed and comfy for the day (or night!). Her shimmery satin and variety of colors play beautifully with other clothes in your wardrobe in ways you won't expect.
Hot weather tip: layer Jasmine over Honey slip shorts for the breeziest, chicest summer combination imaginable. Cold weather tip: Jasmine over tights with a slouchy sweater is instant cozy elegance.
Available in 15", and 18", and 23" lengths.
Pearl: Complete Coverage with a Beautiful Presentation
Pearl is her own special thing entirely — a full-cut brief with an attached soft stretch lace skirt overlay , making her a beautiful combination panty and mini half slip. Pearl fits like your most comfortable brief but looks like beautiful lace slip when your hem flies up. Perfect under shorter and a-line skirts, tunics, shirt dresses, and twirly dresses where you want coverage that's pretty enough to be seen.
Not Just for Under Dresses
Every undergoodie in our lineup was designed to be worn under dresses and skirts — but many of our customers style them as outerwear too - as shorts, as skirts, under sheer layers, over tights, over yoga pants, dressed up, dressed down.
However you wear them, undergoodies are made to keep up with you and last a long time. All undergoodies come in sizes xs–xxxl and are made with Love in the American South.
Ready to upgrade what's under your dress? [Shop Slip Shorts] | [Shop Jasmine] | [Shop Pearl]
