Death to the Dress?

Thursday means fashion day at the New York Times and today's NYT article hinted at the pending doom of one of the most beloved articles of clothing - the dress. The dress comes in many shapes, sizes and speaks to sun/fun/all that is sacred.

I think of it as a standard but this gal at Elle has a kill mission.
“The eye is looking for something new, and so is the psyche,” Anne Slowey, the fashion news director of Elle magazine, said last week from the set of “Fashionista,” a new fashion reality show in which she will play herself, a fashion editor, only meaner. “The dress has been done to death,” Ms. Slowey added, “not to sound really cliché.”

It would be interesting to see what would replace it, what could? I think it is here to stay. I love the freedom of a dress even though I do prefer my thighs not to rub together. It sounds like Ms. Slowey is just salaciously trying to push her own show because the article indicates the dress is alive and well. They call 2007 the year of the dress with "sales of more than $5 billion in the 12 months that ended last April, and a rate of growth in dress sales fully 30 percent higher than the year before." Who knows but summer dresses are at the top of my wish list.