The LBD: Still on Season This Season
If there’s one thing you can count on being on-season all season, it’s black. Both the color and the style are timelessly beautiful. What’s more, the little black dress is the one fashion trend that will always stay on trend no matter what the trends. It knows no social stratum, size, or style boundaries. Whether it set you back $50 or $5,000, is a size 2 or 12, is pleated or comes as a sheath, it is still a little black dress.
The LBD Then
But did you know that wearing the LBD was not always considered chic? That’s right. Once upon a time, the LBD was a style pariah. Before style icon Coco Chanel introduced black as a fashion color, the hue was mainly associated with mourning. In fact, worn outside this circumstance, the LBD is considered indecent. Coco changed all this in 1926, when she published a photo of a short, simple LBD in Vogue. Straight, calf-length, and decorated by nothing more than a few diagonal lines, the dress won praises everywhere. Vogue called the dress ‘Chanel’s Ford’ because like the Model T, the LBD was simple, accessible, and for women of all sizes, color, height, and fashion orientation.
The LBD Now
Today, the LBD remains a runway staple. From London to Milan, from the streets of New York to the clothing stalls in Tokyo, the little black dress remains the one dress women can rely on to pull them through the most formal, casual, or ‘happening’ of social occasions. And if there’s anything the gleaming metallics and the dizzyingly colorful, sometimes bizarrely impractical collections from the recently ended fashion week is making us appreciate even more, it’s the simple beauty of the little black dress. Some designers feel the same and are tossing out the colors, paring down the details, going back to black.
This week, we did a little round-up of the LBDs you can - if not should - wear this season and the ones you really shouldn’t be trying on, much less bringing home.
1. Trendy but work-appropriate
2. Lacy and lovely
3. Beautiful and Timeless
4. Mumsy at best, grandmotherly at worst
5. ‘Who done this to you, Hudgens?
3. Take our word for it. these, please!
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