From Sports Donga.

According to Sports Seoul:

지난해 불기 시작한 미니 원피스 바람이 올해에도 이어지고 있다…신발은 반짝이는 소재의 발가락이 살짝 보이는 오픈 토 힐을 신으면 도시적인 느낌을 강조할 수 있다.

Ouch. Cute dress, but the shoes…? 미니 원피스는 좋은데…슈즈는 좀~?

그리고 동영상을 함 보세요 (좀 재미가 없지만). Watch the news piece on the subject, although it’s in Korean, only playable on Windows, and not really that good.

What Koreans call the “미니 원피스” (mini “one-piece”) appeared on the scene last summer, but will be hitting like gangbusters this summer, according to that paper. Indeed, our cameras caught it creeping onto the streets of Seoul from the first days of warm weather, which our cameras spotted back in early April.

Very nice..센스…굿!

And as the summer approaches, the heat is definitely on. In combination with other trends, such as patent shoes, bright and/or metallic colors, and the ubiquitous retro leggings that are now de rigueur, variations from casual to cute are pretty common. I’ll let the article do the talking to my Korean readers:

셔츠형 원피스 안에 민소매 원피스를 입고 앞 단추를 잠그지 않은 채 벨트를 착용하면 세련된 느낌을 줄 수 있다. 하늘거리는 검정 스커트와 함께 입어도 좋다. 스키니진이나 레깅스 위에 입으면 캐주얼한 느낌을 살릴 수 있어 활용도가 높은아이템이다.

So expect to see these worn in combination with or even as t-shirts, along with the also-ubiquitous “skinny jeans” and other accessories to make the look more flexible, casual, and demure – especially for the more conservative dressers or women who don’t feel so comfortable with showing a lot of leg, which is common in a fashion culture where even having defined calf muscles causes people to think of themselves as having “daikon radish legs” – the dreaded 무다리. Minidress with jeans, anyone?

Cute, I guess.

아니면 t-셔츠와 반짝반짝하는 미니 원피스? 퓨쳐리즘과 캐쥬얼? How about a t-short over a minidress, and with sparklies all around, to boot?

“멋쟁이신사 나가신다 길을길을 삐겨라~!”

여러가지 콤비네이션을 보일 수 있을 거예요. 일반적으로 이 원피스스타일은 유행을 탈 수록 미니원피스도 인기 많아지는 것같네요.

Covering all the bases.

Since the “one-piece dress” is coming back into style, so is the minidress, it seems. Look for all sorts of combinations and styles this summer, with the trademark Korean use of jeans, leggings, tights, and thigh-high/calf stockings used to dilute the sizzle factor for more everyday use.