Black Dress Blog Posts

In this section of the Apparel Search fashion guide you will find blog posts relevant to black dresses. Black is one of the most popular dress colors and is in most wardrobes — a safe color to wear to most events, from a cocktail party to a premiere. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search: it collects the black dress posts from the fashion blog, and links the little black dress definition at the top.

Black Dress Blog Posts

About Black Dresses

The seven posts collected here show how much range one color can hold. Nicki Minaj in Gorgeous Halter Gown is a red carpet halter dress. Gabrielle Union Wearing Fit & Flare Dress in Black is the classic silhouette story — a fitted bodice and a flared skirt. Ali Larter in Black Long Sleeve Bodycon Maternity Dress proves the color works for maternity dressing in a bodycon cut. Hollywood's Little Black Dress is the history post, about the LBD as a Hollywood institution. The remaining posts — Shawna Thompson Wearing Fine Accessories at ACM Honors, Izabella Miko Wears ESPION and MUGNAI to Lovelace Premiere and Ashlee Simpson Wears Ocnarf Sairutsa and ELAHN Jewels to American Ballet Theatre — are accessory-credit posts, where the black dress is the canvas and the jewelry is the news.

The little black dress earned its place because black does three things at once: it flatters nearly everyone, it photographs cleanly, and it repeats without looking repeated, since the accessories can change the whole impression. That is why the definition linked above treats the LBD as a category of its own rather than a color choice. Fit and fabric decide the rest — a bodycon, a fit-and-flare and a halter gown in the same color are three different dresses. Readers choosing a black dress will find cocktail dress, dresses, evening dress and maternity dress guides in the topic block below.