Though we wouldn’t know it by the sweltering temperatures, September is just around the corner. What that means is I can’t stop thinking about all the fall clothes I fell in love with six months ago and will finally get to wear soon. I’m a fan of the womenswear vision that designers Dylan Cao, Jin Kay, and Huy Luong have been developing since they began their Commission label in 2018. Originally inspired by visions of their mothers in the 1980s and ’90s in South Korea (where Kay is from) and Vietnam (where Kay and Luong are from), they’ve honed in on supremely wearable tailored separates and dresses with special details that are sometimes off-kilter and always thoughtful.
The number one must-have for me this season is their oversized oxford shirt in sky blue. An oxford shirt may seem like a boring choice, except that nothing Commission does is boring! This one has a curved front yoke that gives it a vaguely western feel, and underneath —this is my favorite part — are two rounded slits on either side of the chest. When I first saw the pictures, I immediately thought “ME!” (Perfect for breastfeeding!, I joked to myself.)
This isn’t the first time I’ve fallen head-over-heels for their pieces. A few seasons ago I purchased a mint green satin button-down shirt with their logo embroidered on the left pocket. They called it a banker shirt, I think, and it would pass for the classic satin shirt under a gray suit favored by so many businesswomen, except for an elastic ribbon at the back that makes the top half of the shirt balloon a bit. When I talked to them about their collection at the time, I recall them showing me a photo of a woman, maybe one of their moms, riding a motorbike, the back of her shirt blowing in the wind; the elastic was their attempt to recreate this same silhouette on those of us standing still. I thought it was genius.
This mint satin shirt is one of the items in my closet that I can always rely on to make me feel good about myself, and became an essential even when I was heavily pregnant — I wore it unbuttoned and let my belly just hang out (from their mothers to a future mother, I guess, it was perfect). As such, I knew the blue oxford shirt would equally pull its weight. It had to be mine.
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