The Little Nothing Dress Is Back, Right on Time

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. Every few decades we collectively ready ourselves for the return of the “Little Nothing Dress”, consciously or not. Right now, we’re all tired of all of those super feminine sundresses that felt like such a good idea when we bought them.  The little nothing was born out of fatigue with the prim and oppressive looks of the 1950s. In her article the “Ultimate Little Black Dress,” late British fashion journalist Meredith Etherington-Smith sets the scene for arguably the most iconic little nothing, Holly Golightly’s. “The opening scene of Breakfast At Tiffany’s, featuring Audrey Hepburn walking along having breakfast in her night-before iconic little black dress is one of the great fashion moments in cinema history. Givenchy’s inspiration for the dress has its roots in another iconic fashion moment, more than forty years before,” she says. “His was in 1925 when Chanel produced a collection of boyish ‘garconne’ dresses, many of which were black. These drew the comment from Harper’s Bazaar at the time that Chanel had created ‘the little black dress, the Ford motor car of the season.” You can almost

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