Sirens Lilly Pulitzer Dresses Explained

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7 days ago

if you need me I'll be out here decking myself out in pink and green due to being obsessed with Sirens.
Pretty much everyone on the show—other than Michaela—wears Lilly Pulitzer, to the point where you might be wondering...literally why. And apparently creator Molly Smith Metzler was simply trying to be true to life.
"Quite simply, I spent a summer in Martha's Vineyard and I've since spent some summers in Nantucket," she told Variety. "My best friend has a house there, and it's for real. Lilly Pulitzer is for real. They all have it on in Nantucket. Then there's the Nantucket reds, the salmon color pants. The first time you see it, you're like, 'Where am I?' It's so bright. It's sort of like, if you've been there, you're in on the joke, you know the pants to buy. It also takes a certain status to put on a dress like the one Simone has one when we meet her."
"It's ridiculous," she added. "I love Lilly, I have some Lilly, but it's a little ridiculous. There's something so saturated and bright about it. We're so fortunate Carolyn Duncan, our costume designer, took that and just ran with it – most of the stuff on the show that looks like Lilly Pulitzer is actually custom."
As for the lockets that all the "sirens" on the show wear, it's not that deep. Smith Metzler explains that people of Nantucket are into "basket necklaces" and they're essentially a status symbol that made its way into the show.
"So, the locket — no, there's no drugs, but the lockets are a real thing in Nantucket Island," she said. "It's something you can only buy in Nantucket, they're called basket necklaces, and they usually have ivory from Wales in them. But they're very expensive, they're handmade, and everyone in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard is wearing them. It's a status symbol. You're not in the club if you don't have one. Carolyn Duncan made that happen, made all of them happen. It's a great symbol of having arrived. You have the key, you have the necklace, but it's a little culty. It's a little like wearing a cross, like a religion. You know something that everyone else doesn't."
On that note, Simone's signature pink dress is sold out, but there's this if you're in the mood to channel your inner siren this summer.