Model Tess Holliday, who wore the dress to the 2020 Grammys, tells Evening Standard Insider: I can totally see someone wearing it and having a beautiful little picnic in their backyard...Even if we arent going anywhere, we still deserve to feel good at home. Though the dress debuted last summer and Holliday wore the dress in January, it divided red carpet critics at the time (though Holliday says Rick Ross stopped to tell her how beautiful I looked)
The silhouette has been used in formal fashion for decades, but designers continue to refresh it with new fabrics, necklines, colors, beading, corset bodices, floral appliqus, and modern details
To test this, they manipulated naive participants' perception of the dress by using occluders to block out the background when they used black occluders (see above), this induced the perception of the dress as white and gold in nearly everyone
The average collar point is 2.5-3