Gravitating Toward Festive Black Dresses This Holiday Season
This doesn’t always ring true, but for the 2021 holiday season, there’s nothing chicer than black dresses. Think jet-colored gowns for a black-tie gala or sequin- or feather-adorned LBDs worn to festive cocktail parties. And right now there are few things we want to wear more than a velvety black dress.
In years past, holiday dressing meant a spangly silver mini for New Year’s Eve or a holly berry red worn on the night before Christmas; but that was then, and this is now. Black dresses are the ideal reemergence holiday piece. Here’s why: We just experienced more than a year without party stimuli like strobe lights, pumping music, and close proximity to strangers. That time could, for some, be compared to a dive in a sensory-deprivation tank. Because of this, reemergence has recalibrated what we may have once considered mundane to exhilarating. And this includes fashion. Take, for example, the black dress—once a humble closet workhorse that you could rely upon for any occasion, it has now become the ultimate color to don on festive occasions.
