This Is The Dress That'll Define Fall 2019 - Refinery29 |
- This Is The Dress That'll Define Fall 2019 - Refinery29
- The Bigger, The Better: How Poofy Dresses Became Fall's Go-To Silhouette - Refinery29
- People Can’t Stop Raving About These $30 Amazon Dresses - Glamour
- Reformation’s square-neck, puff-sleeve milkmaid tops and dresses are everywhere - Vox.com
- 10 Celestial Wedding Dresses That Have Us Over the Moon - Washingtonian
| This Is The Dress That'll Define Fall 2019 - Refinery29 Posted: 21 Aug 2019 03:05 PM PDT   |
| The Bigger, The Better: How Poofy Dresses Became Fall's Go-To Silhouette - Refinery29 Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:00 PM PDT  Now that fall's arrival is imminent, our favorite dress designers are back at it, revamping that beloved clothing item with a totally ~fresh~ spin. But out of all the new dress trends on the market, one is, by far, the fairest of them all: poofy dresses. And we're completely smitten with dresses of the super-sized variety.  |
| People Can’t Stop Raving About These $30 Amazon Dresses - Glamour Posted: 21 Aug 2019 07:36 AM PDT It's not yet time to break out your Amazon Coat from storage. But the site seems to have another viral fashion hit on its hands: a long-sleeve midi dress from seller R.Vivimos, available in 18 different prints, for $29.99. Its popularity has really blown up in recent weeks thanks to Grace Atwood, founder of lifestyle blog The Stripe and cohost of the Bad on Paper podcast, who started a hashtag on Instagram for the #AmazonNightgown and has a Highlight on her profile of different people wearing it. "I found out about it a few months ago, via Hitha Palepu's newsletter," Atwood tells Glamour. "She referred to this $30 Amazon dress she was loving, so obviously I clicked on it and was like, 'Oh, I need that.' I ordered it in two colors." Once she got it, she started wearing it around and outside the house. And that's when she started noticing something…interesting. "I would get stopped on the street and asked where I got it. It looks like this beautiful vintage thing or something Ulla Johnson would make," she says. "Then people started messaging me, 'I got your Amazon dress!'" "I still didn't think it was a big deal until I was home on Cape Cod with my family—it started to be this thing where at least five people a day sent me messages with them wearing their Amazon nightgown," Atwood says. "Every time I log into my DMs, I have at least a couple of messages." Atwood originally bought the Amazon Nightgown as a beach cover-up, "but then I realized that if you put a pair of cute gold Loeffler Randall heels on, you can take it out of the house." She wrote a whole blog post about it. Atwood has an Amazon shop through her site, and she can see what people are buying via her affiliate links—and she says people have been digging her Amazon Nightgown. Some of the customers have been fellow influencers, like Blair Eadie of Atlantic // Pacific, who wore the dress on her blog. "She's a good friend of mine, but we don't have similar tastes—Blair's this style icon and everything she does is fabulous, while I'm in cutoffs and T-shirts most days," Atwood says. "Even her more high-fashion audience has a need for this because not everyone can buy the dresses she's wearing." There you have it: Another season, another Amazon find bringing people together.  |
| Reformation’s square-neck, puff-sleeve milkmaid tops and dresses are everywhere - Vox.com Posted: 21 Aug 2019 05:00 AM PDT Welcome to Noticed, The Goods' design trend column. You know that thing you've been seeing all over the place? Allow us to explain it. What they are: Crisp white square-neck, puff-sleeve blouses and dresses that give the impression that the wearer's primary profession is milking cows or scrubbing the bow of a pirate ship. (But in a glamorous way, like in a Sofia Coppola movie.) There might be a corset element, like lacing, or other feminine touches such as smocking, ruching, or ruffles. Possible descriptors of this style: wenchcore, prairiecore, yodelcore. Where they are: On celebrities, Instagram influencers, and probably the 20- and 30-something fashion-conscious women in your life. You'll see them in the racks of your favorite adorable boutique and, as of this summer, in fast-fashion megachains like Forever 21. Perhaps most ironically, they are particularly prevalent in urban areas, presumably far away from the nearest dairy cow. Why they're everywhere: The first thing to know about any fashion trend is that if we're covering it at Vox, that means it's been around for a while. Rachel Tashjian, a style writer at GQ, tells Vox that she attributes the current omnipresence of milkmaid tops to Prada, which over the past few years has heavily featured puffy sleeves and corseted bodices. In the brand's spring 2017 collection, creative director Miuccia Prada put square-neck crop tops over romantic blouses, and since then, other brands have followed suit. But the average influencer isn't wearing Prada most of the time. Brands like Reformation, known for sexy-cute dresses and tops in the $200 range that are beloved by young celebrities, were on the forefront of the trend over the past two summers, and have only leaned in more heavily this year. And when both Prada and Reformation are selling a certain look, it's only a matter of time before the Asoses and the H&Ms are churning out even cheaper versions. Reformation founder and CEO Yael Aflalo tells Vox that square necks and puff sleeves have been a staple of the collection since early spring, when the brand noticed that the Lacey dress had sold out fast. "We've definitely seen Victorian and peasant dressing becoming a lot more popular over the past couple of years — think Little House on the Prairie with a modern twist," she says. Aflalo has also watched the trend play out in pop culture: "We're seeing these eras reflected in film at the moment too, with the release of movies like The Favourite, Midsommar, and Little Women. So we really got behind the trend — it's a super effortless and easy detail to add to your wardrobe." She says Reformation is still embracing the trend and doesn't expect a slowdown anytime soon. The square-neck milkmaid top is just one of a series of eye-catching developments in women's shirting. "The blouse has become a much more central part of a woman's wardrobe over the past few seasons: really long or voluminous sleeves, or an interesting tent shape, or an unusual neckline, sometimes Edwardian high instead of Renaissance low," Tashjian explains. Remember two years ago when every shirt randomly had its shoulders cut out? And who could forget that same year, when fancy brands began selling button-downs that were for some reason asymmetrical and covered with cutouts, ties, and pinstripes? In fashion's desire to "elevate" the simple button-down or T-shirt, it ended up going a bridge too far. The milkmaid top could be considered a flirtier, pared-down version of the blouse that's doing a little bit too much. Tashjian says the trend is also related to other pastoral fashion trends like prairie dresses. "[It's] puffy, romantic, girlish and fun rather than sophisticated and tough or obsessed with polish," she explains. "It's a dream of another kind of life, which sounds like a lot for one garment to do, but I think that's what these pieces are about: a brief reverie about a more relaxed and even provincial way of living. It's the least expensive vacation." :format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19056560/56679284_2381652171866942_2752283621019615232_n.jpg) There is also something about the idea of a milkmaid that is inherently sexy — it's a profession you can easily imagine on the cover of a romance novel. After all, the story writes itself: Dashing nobleman notices that the poor young milkmaid is hot and somehow has perfect skin despite working directly with livestock; they begin a forbidden affair; maybe she ends up deciding he sucks and she's better off hanging out with the goats. This stereotype of the young milkmaid with a heaving bosom, besides the obvious association with milk and breasts, may have come from a 14th-century European fable. "The milkmaid and her pail," which is sometimes falsely attributed to Aesop, tells the story of a milkmaid who daydreams about how the milk she carries on her head will soon make her wealthy and beloved. Lost in reverie and pride, she loses her balance, and the milk comes crashing down. (The moral: Don't count your chickens, etc.) Several paintings in the 18th and 19th centuries depict said milkmaid, often as a young, pretty girl in a bucolic setting, capturing the essence of Victorian ideas about womanhood and purity. It's partly why so many of the images we see of the milkmaid dress trend feature white, willowy models — they're drawing on the same outdated ideals. The irony, though, is that milkmaidenhood was likely a highly disgusting profession. The history blog Two Nerdy History Girls, written by two historical fiction authors, found a depiction of a 17th-century milkmaid in Covent Garden in a 1771 novel titled The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, which described the milkmaid thusly:
This is likely not the kind of visual association that Prada or Reformation would prefer you make when shopping for poplin blouses. The look there is "daydreaming pastoral teen," not "rat-infested street urchin." :format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19021649/25918_9_0.jpg) That we decided to look like hot milkmaids at this very moment in history could theoretically be explained away by "our uncertain times," in that everyone suddenly dressing as if they live in the Swiss countryside with negligible access to running water is a pushback against smartphones and politics or something. I would believe that! And maybe it's sort of the case. But as with most pieces of clothing that are suddenly everywhere, there is something about a milkmaid top that makes the wearer look objectively good. Shoulder-baring tops, for instance, expose a part of the body that doesn't have the same kind of baggage as, say, women's stomachs or thighs; huge, clomping sneakers and sandals can have the effect of making the rest of one's body look smaller by comparison. Square-neck milkmaid tops with puffy sleeves do both of these things: They highlight your collarbone, while the exaggerated sleeves make your waist appear thinner. I own at least three of these shirts, and that optical effect is not lost on me, even though I'd love to say that the reason I like them is because I have a desire to sell all my possessions and move to Provence, which, who doesn't? :format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19038380/56236270_10158314597773272_8358206928693755904_n.jpg) As with any fashion trend, once it disseminates enough to be noticeable, it's probably already on its way out. With summer coming to an end and the colder months approaching, the milkmaid top will likely sunset, at which point we'll have to find new clothing to let us dress away our collective fear of the future. Perhaps we should decide to bring back the Victorian muff instead. Who could possibly check their smartphone with one of those things? Sign up for The Goods' newsletter. Twice a week, we'll send you the best Goods stories exploring what we buy, why we buy it, and why it matters.  |
| 10 Celestial Wedding Dresses That Have Us Over the Moon - Washingtonian Posted: 21 Aug 2019 05:23 AM PDT Celestial wedding dresses exude an enchanting, out-of-this galaxy bridal style. Featuring star and moon embellishments, glitzy fabric and other stellar details, these types of gowns are becoming the next sensation for brides wanting a modern and magical wedding-day look. Think you may be interested in wearing a gown inspired by constellations on the big day? Check out our "Written In The Stars" styled shoot, which was featured in our latest issue, to see some of our favorite celestial wedding dresses. From cosmic-inspired accessories, like starburst diamonds and halo crowns, to star-covered dresses, these looks will leave you starry-eyed. Wedding Dress: Barbara Kavchok from Soliloquy Bridal Couture | Necklace & Belt: Hespera Jewelry Company | Earrings: Tabandeh
Jacket: Denim & Bone from Lovely Bride DC | Pants: Soliloquy Bridal Couture   Wedding Dress: Oscar de la Renta from Carine's Bridal Atelier | Headpiece: Moonstenfelt via Etsy | Headband: Untamed Petals from Lovely Bride DC | Earrings: Shah & Shah | Bracelets: Tabandeh | Rings: David Yurman from CityCenterDC (bypass ring with pearls); Shah & Shah Wedding Dress: Willowby by Watters from Betsy Robinson's Bridal Collection | Headpiece: Epona Valley from Neiman Marcus | Earrings: Jennifer Behr
Wedding Dress: Ashley Justin Bride from Jeanette's Bride 'N Boutique | Headpiece: Maria Elena Headpieces & Accessories | Earrings & Rings: David Yurman from CityCenterDC   Wedding Dress: Matthew Christopher from Zoya's Atelier | Bracelets: David Yurman from CityCenterDC | Hair Pin: Jennifer Behr
Wedding Dress: Nouvelle Amsale from Zoya's Atelier | Earrings & Bracelet: Tabandeh   Wedding Dress: Marchesa from Rizik's | Veil: Love Couture Bridal Wedding Dress: Dear Heart from Lovely Bride DC | Headband: Jennifer Behr | Necklace: Tabandeh Wedding Dress: Lazaro from Love Couture Bridal | Bolero: Linda Richards from Betsy Robinson's Bridal Collection | Earrings: Tabandeh | Bracelet: David Yurman from CityCenterDC A special thanks to all the vendors involved: Photography: Sean Scheidt | Venue: AutoShop | Florist: Sophie Felts Floral Design | Styling: Lindsey Evans Studio for THE Artist Agency | Fashion Assistant: Tony Greene for THE Artist Agency | Hair & Makeup Artists: Amie Decker (makeup); Kelly Small (hair) of Amie Decker Beauty | Model: Nadine C. at MODELOGIC This article appeared in the Summer/Fall 2019 issue of Washingtonian Weddings.  |
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