Bette Midler Suits Up For The Garden, With New York As The Beneficiary

Bette Midler has traded her usual stage wardrobe for something with dirt-resistant intentions, teaming with Los Angeles label Flora Animalia on a line of clothing built for garden work. The collection carries her sensibility into a decidedly unglamorous setting — pruning, planting, kneeling in soil — while still keeping an eye on how the wearer looks doing it. Proceeds benefit the New York Restoration Project, the nonprofit Midler founded to reclaim green space across the city. A crown for the carpet is one thing; a getup for the flower bed, benefiting New York's own parks, is a different kind of good taste.

With reporting from Vogue.