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The Little Black Dress

Published: September 22nd, 2018

The Little Black Dress

The Little Black Dress Is a black evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often quite short. Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little black dress to the 1920s designs of Coco Chanel and Jean Patou intended to be long-lasting, versatile, affordable, accessible to the widest market possible and in a neutral colour. Its ubiquity is such that it is often simply referred to as the LBD.

The "little black dress" is considered essential to a complete wardrobe by many women and fashion observers, who believe it a rule of fashion that every woman should own a simple, elegant black dress that can be dressed up or down depending on the occasion: for example, worn with a jacket and pumps for daytime business wear or with more ornate jewelry and accessories for evening or a formal event such as a wedding or a ball.

In 1926 Gabrielle Coco Chanel published a picture of a short, simple black dress in American Vogue. It was calf-length, straight and decorated only by a few diagonal lines. Vogue called it Chanel's Ford Like the Model T, the little black dress was simple and accessible for women of all social classes. Vogue also said that the LBD would become a sort of uniform for all women of taste. This, as well as other designs by the house of Chanel helped disassociate black from mourning, and reinvent it as the uniform of the high-class, wealthy, chic. As Coco herself proclaimed, I imposed black; it's still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.

I for one love the Little Black Dress and I have more than one, I always feel good and it stands out in a crowd simply elegant one is never over dressed or under dressed in a Little Black Dress.

Ashley Shye As always a pleasure xx