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This T-shirt Costs $550. Hear Us Out.

For Jillian Simpson, 41, wedding season once meant panic-buying flouncy dresses that didn't suit her style. But last June, the New Yorker bucked convention and paired a floor-grazing black skirt with a white T-shirt from the Row for a friend's Philadelphia nuptials. 'Certain occasions used to pull me out of character—I don't even like dresses,' Simpson said. 'But a luxury T-shirt always feels totally me, whether I wear it with a black-tie skirt or jeans.' Welcome to the new era of boundary-defying power tees that boast refined fabrics, subtle details and hefty price tags. (The Row's Chiara tee, for instance, with its signature vertical back seam, rings up at $420.) These not-so-little luxuries are working hard in women's wardrobes, replacing starchy button-downs for the office and going-out tops at night.