Top row, L to R: Derek Lam, 3.1 Phillip Lim, MaxAzria

Middle row, L to R: Cynthia Steffe, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Elise Overland

Bottom row, L to R: Halston, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Halston

A good friend of mine, though in her twenties and no longer regularly cavorting around sticky-surfaced jungle gyms, largely determines her wardrobe based on two qualifications: 1) Can I run away [from a tsunami, predator, pack of wild puppies, or potential crazed politician] in it? and 2) Can I climb trees in it?

Despite the fact that she rarely faces these conundrums of overexertion on a day to day basis, I suspect she’ll find the deluge of one-piece jumpsuits seen in New York this week to be just the uniform she’s looking for in case she needs to 1) jump out of an airplane, 2) fix a car, or 3) narrowly escape a rabid pack of raccoons by scaling a 50-foot tree.

It never hurts to be prepared.

Top row, L to R: Rachel Roy, Lacoste, Catherine Holstein

Bottom row, L to R: DKNY, Proenza Schouler, Preen