Is it ever okay to wear a toilet dress as a wedding guest?

If you remember the days before Covid, you can probably remember the moment when we all started to dress like pioneers of the 19th century, a call (high) collar at the same time. This was the beginning before the prairie dress became omnipresent and we were all very new that we hug the oversized silhouettes and bizarre romance by designers such as Simone Rocha and Cecilie Bahnsen. Inexplicitly, a global pandemic led to the fact that most of us were exchanged with minimal movement inside: the era of the bare dress. While we have been living in this era for some time now, it seems that wedding guests have decided after a number of brides to wear sheer wedding dresses for their wedding in a similar way.

At the beginning of July, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley took part in the wedding of her younger brother and wore an individual outfit from the newcomers from Ilkyaz Özel. In a dark pink, she wore a column skirt that was completely visible with a sheer -flowing top with Cape -Cämel, her pink bra. It felt like a brave decision for a wedding guest, but at the same time she looked perfectly chic. Huntington-Whiteley look, sexy without being openly sexual, the decisions that are more and more wedding guests are made.

Katherine Ormerod, writer and former fashion actor, recently borrowed an off-White 2013 slip dress from Virgil Abloh from her girlfriend Camille Charrière (no unknown personnel on a Christian context) to take part in the wedding of Virginia Norris, founder of Fashion PR agency Virginia & Partners. In Marine silk it has a sheer top panels and a transparent skirt. “It was a clearly ‘fashion’ amount in which the head to toe black was both acceptable and welcome,” says Ormerod about her choice. “I had a tiny look at the types of clothes that chose the bride, the sheer lace, and I described my look in broad blows for approval. I felt completely like me and loved it to wear it, but I got it with a curved short sleeve for the ceremony and the cocktail reception paired to keep it a little lower.”

Katherine Ormerod in a white dress — Katherine Ormerod in a cream -colored dress With the kind permission of Katherine Ormerod

Norris in her part confirms Ormerod’s perspective. “My letter for my girlfriends was to wear what you love, I don’t mind if you think that it is ‘too much’, actually too much. I had tried to hide that it was transparent shine.”

As a result of this draw on more spatial options, brands and designers have seen an increased demand for sheer parts, whereby many have to adapt their clothing to meet them. Hermine de Paula, a British designer who specialized in decorated clothes, said she and her team had most of her pieces, just to find out that people actually wanted to wear her. “It is also not just for brides,” she says, “but for wedding guests who want to give a feeling of essential sensuality in their appearance.

Stylist Lex Alexandris wears Hermine de Paula for an event in London Kristin Vicari

In fact, the running blinds spring/summer 2025 were flooded with transparent tulle, light airy layers and translucent tip. There were sheer skirts in 16arlington party dresses and Dior’s asymmetrical dresses, while Chloés Boho -Silhouetten were interrupted with mere flowing fabrics. As always, Cecilie Bahnsen put their oversized silhouettes with sensual scissors, and Simone Rocha has infused her romantic designs with a daring edge in the form of a diaphanic organza and fleed rubles through light layers. As with Huntington-Whiteley’s outfit, the overarching effect was more sensuality and etheric than everything was hyper-sexual.

There are many brands that are currently using this change of opinion. Rat & Boa, for example, has many long, chic Maxis, many of which are completely transparent and can be in the specific section “Wedding Guest” of his website. Similarly, the label, which is based by the sisters Jazzy de Lisser and Lola Bute, sells debute and sells with lace strings and completely sheer clothes that deal with Bute’s love for slightly subversive decisions. She has supported sheer designs for many formal events, including the Vanity Fair Oscars party last year. Paloma Wool also sees success with its revealing clothes, and of course Nensi Dojaka continues to play with light fabrics that show the female body.

Lola Bute wears Nensi Dojaka at London Fashion Week Dave Benett – Getty Images

What are the rules if you intend to avoid the traditional flower dress for the next wedding to which you are invited? “There are two things to take into account,” says Ormerod. “[The first is that] Weddings are all context and b) The bride calls the recordings. If you take part in a religious ceremony, a slippery dress will always feel inappropriate. So if you don’t want to make new enemies, you may want to avoid visible underwear. But if the bride is a girl with a bare dress, I wouldn’t feel nervous at all. “

Harriet Davey, fashion journalist and frequent wearer of mere clothes (she wore one of the wedding of a friend in December), agrees. “I would say that there are no rules when it comes to wedding guests -dressing, apart from the fact that there are no rules for wedding guests. The bride actually set me on my outfit and it was great how it worked so well, with the blazer for the ceremony and without the evening.

Harriet Davey in a Klossen dress that wore her for a wedding With the kind permission of Harriet Davey

If you cannot completely absorb the idea of revealing too much, whether as a wedding guest or elsewhere, there are styles that achieve a happy compromise, such as Staud’s very wedding-friendly calluna dress, which is available in different colors and prints. Or you could simply lay more transparent fabrics about something spawier – Bode’s beautiful gold -plated mesh blouse would look wonderful over a simple black dress.

When it comes to dressing for formal events, the rules were abandoned in favor of a free approach. Now it seems to be the most stylish woman who choses clothes for the sheer joy that they bring.