We're Living in the Revenge Dress Era
glamour.comBy It was the summer of 1994. The dress was black, off-the-shoulder, short, and form fitting. The look might not sound scandalous by today’s standards, but when wore the little black Christina Stambolian cocktail dress to a London event on the same day that her husband, admitted to the world that he’d been having an affair, she may as well have been gleefully bashing the prince’s car windows in with a baseball bat, à la during the Lemonade era.
Diana’s now iconic “revenge dress” was a sleek silk weapon, a sartorial sword. It told the world, and her ex, that she had no plans to shrink away in self-pity.
On that summer night in London, Princess Diana came to slay.Revenge might be fun to watch on screen or read about in books, but it hasn’t always been encouraged in real life, especially not when it comes to women.
Getting back at someone who wronged you was historically seen as unladylike or vulgar. Women were encouraged to take the high road, to be the moral centers of the family, to cinch up their corset and carry on.
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