When a publication like Cosmo goes on about two recent latex couture sightings, one pretty much on the skirts of the other, I guess we need to take notice (see here).
We reported here on Maya Jama’s dress last week, her couture choice still making news, in the Cosmo article above and beyond. It seems though that Jama started a trend (or is keeping one alive) and another UK star, Amelia Dimoldenerg has followed suit…in another stunning long black latex dress. Now, although we are happy with all this latex attention, we can’t say we are surprised. The LBD, be it latex or any other material, is many a lady’s go-to. But as Cosmo says above, and these two ladies make clear, if you are wearing a little black dress these days “you better make sure your black dress is latex.”
We’d have to agree.
Sure, we have plenty of variations of the LBD in the Dawnamtarix catalog (see here, here, and here) and we’d surely push for anyone looking for an LBD to buy a latex one. But designers of every stripe and textile have offered the little black dress across the decades. Supposedly sprung from Coco Chanel’s designs back in the 1920s, we’ve seen this wardrobe choice worn as much by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Marilyn Monroe stepping out in her figure-hugging sheaths, Betty Boop “Boop-Oop-a-Doop!”-ing in one, to simple elegant choices of the type worn by Kate Middleton.
Affordability as well as versatility has made the dress the ubiquitous fashion choice, no matter the occasion, what it might be made of, or even how one might, or might not, accessorize when wearing it.
So, no, it is no surprise that even a latex version of this time-honored classic has made and stayed in the news the past week and into this one. And will stay pretty much forever.
