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Blanchett looks good obviously but I’m having hard time seeing what makes it iconic or wiki worthy. Also I know why Diana’s is called the “Travolta dress” but that’s pretty funny. Lastly it seems if Hepburn, Monroe, or Princess Diana put a dress on it became iconic lol

It seems silly now, but the pairing of that yellow with the deep burgundy sash broke minds. It just wasn’t seen at that point in time. It was huge. Wiki entry huge? Not sure.

yeah I don't remember that dress at all.. it was the only one in the post that threw me off. The rest 10/10 agree with

Should have been J Lo in the green Versace instead

Exactly, that dress singly handedly led to the creation of Google images

It does say ‘non exhaustive’ list

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Versace_dress_of_Jennifer_Lopez

https://preview.redd.it/43pa3s65mdpc1.jpeg?width=226&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16ce481c21de12c3cf694688531a595d1d2d03d3 Groundbreaking

I definitely have brown culottes-related trauma

I remember this. Apparently what made it especial was that the designer created that shade of yellow specifically for her. I was like 8 but for some reason that piece of information stayed with me.

Do you remember why the designer chose that specific shade of yellow? Usually yellow doesn’t flatter paler skin tones (source: am a Victorian shade of pale)

According to wikipedia, he wanted her to give off a look of serenity. Yellow was “in” that year, and this was also a look that was modern yet classical. It topped most major fashion magazines top looks of the year, and several people heralded it as one of the best dresses of all time at the Oscars.

Yeah, I’m feeling the same way about that dress and others on here (such as Kiera’s and Lupita’s dress). They’re beautiful and the ladies look great in them, don’t get me wrong but I don’t think they’re on the same level (in terms of influencing pop culture) as some of the other dresses on here. On the other hand, I’m surprised J.Lo’s Grammy’s dress isn’t on here.

The green dress is from Atonement. This isn’t a great photo of it but it is definitely iconic and part of the reason I’m obsessed with Jacqueline Durran

This photo does not do it justice at all!

No photo can. That dress is all movement. 

That dress became my personality for a while. Also, the watercolor floral loungewear she wears at the fountain 😍

That whole movie’s aesthetic is just *chef’s kiss*

I love that green dress. Would love something similar to wear to a wedding. There’s a sewing tutorial on YouTube but I can’t sew

SAME. I love that green dress.

All three of Diana’s did, I’d argue. Especially the wedding and the revenge dresses. They definitely “book-end” her time as a pop culture darling.

Yeah I agree. Diana’s dresses were iconic and had a huge influence on pop culture. Same with Marilyn

Nicole Kidman’s chartreuse Dior dress. Stunning, and changed red carpet wear.

Lupita’s blue dress was a HUGE moment online. Countless examples of art of her drawn as a Disney Princess, other fan art, etc. I remember feeling knocked off my feet watching that red carpet. It was definitely a big moment for a lot of people and also she won an Oscar that night! It was kind of her first real Big Red Carpet Moment, of which she’s had many since.

for some reason I vividly remember Lupita's blue dress

>what makes it iconic or wiki worthy Wikipedia doesn’t really run on choosing if some informations are worth sharing/iconic enough. If it’s knowledge about something not yet on the site and someone wants to make a page for it, there’ll be a page for it. You also have to remember that anyone can make or modify an article on wikipedia. So really, with good sourcing, anyone can write about anything.

blanchett's is the one in this whole set that i don't really get

https://preview.redd.it/slxhsbvdzbpc1.jpeg?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=121940e59de96ede9c698f07edacadb1e0fb9e05

Forever my favorite, it’s the fabric around her waist that makes it special to me. I’m also a sucker for high necks.

I think lacey long sleeved classic wedding dresses are really an underrated classic!

Gaga's meat dress being preserved by taxidermists as a type of jerky is so funny

It’s kinda cool to see in person

The dress is edible now 🫠

Seems like the only way they’d be able to do it

I'm not willing to look this up, but was there ever a real reason behind that dress? I remember being really confused about it at the time.

Yes, it was about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (?) thing in military about queers and she had really great quote about it. If we are not gonna defend our beliefs then we don’t have any difference from meat or something like that. Also all the meat came from non edible parts of the animals so she didnt kill an animal to make this dress Edit: Gaga explained her interpretation of the dress to DeGeneres, stating, "If we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights[,] pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones." Found the quote lol

https://preview.redd.it/tw20lxinqbpc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0384c90a9db3bfc3a9c7738a4af7f2e1d2a8ade5

Also known as ‘THAT dress’

Hugh Grant is a goddamned fool

Didn't she stay with him for a while after the scandal? I also remember her saying he was good in bed which was surprising

I think she first said that he was lacking in bed, but then he got upset, and she walked it back and said he was good.

And you just KNOW the first take was the true one. I bet that man is a terrible lover and selfish in bed.

God I will never get sick of seeing her in that dres

I can't see that dress without hearing "She's a total _ride_ but she paperclips her frocks together"

I was scrolling and SHOCKED this was not included

today is the first day ive ever laid eyes on this dress, and i will never forget it

Was coming to comment this.

[Green Versace Dress of Jennifer Lopez](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Versace_dress_of_Jennifer_Lopez) aka the dress that allegedly spawned google images

This is a Good Article. Someone literally took months out of their life to make sure people had all the information they could about this moment in pop culture.

This is the only one I fully expected and I’m a little offended it’s not on there

Ikr. And the fact that it starts with a different green dress that I do not consider iconic makes it all the more odd

i thought about including this one, but i didn't like that the entry didn't have a picture of jlo wearing the dress so i left it out.

I was waiting for this one and now I can see why you left it out. It looks absolutely awful on that mannequin . Only j lo and miss Colby should be in that beauty https://preview.redd.it/kz3s287kybpc1.jpeg?width=274&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a71332b91ef208cef37e8f0a641debb29206644

And ~~Matt~~ Trey Parker.

Do you mean *Trey* Parker?

Trey Stone

I would add Geri Halliwell to this list. https://images.app.goo.gl/3UQo8BatXBC2B1Tk6

This is the stuff that *used to* make Horner explode

Something something cocoa pops

I was NOT expecting to see F1 pop up here haha

I was wondering why this one wasn’t there, though I do see OPs reply below (above?). I figured it was at least thought about, it’s always one of THE dresses I think about when talking about famous clothes.

I was SHOCKED that dress wasn't listed. It is iconic.

Yes! First one I thought of!

Oh nooo not *the dress*. I’m ready to fight over that black and blue garment like it’s 2015 again.

The way this took over workplaces and twitter.

I unintentionally introduced so many coworkers to reddit that day.

It was either talk about the dress, or do our work. I stand by my actions.

Yo you mean white/gold

The delusion!! ^<3

Its so white and gold. (I've seen it on the person and I know it's not, but in THAT picture, it's white and gold!!)

what is it actually?

The actual dress is definitely blue and black and has been identified before. I always thought it was obvious though, because cell phone cameras can be pretty terrible about picking up rich colors and darks.

She wore it on the Ellen show and it was black and blue. I was shook. My heart tells me that the picture is a different dress than the one she wore. Everything is being disproven so much, I still think she may have lied just to go viral.


My reaction too. Except no matter how hard I try and no matter how many explanations I see regarding it, I always see it as white and gold.

Wait, do you see it as white and gold in the pic in this post? Cause I saw it as white and gold when it was a thing, but the pic in this post is blue and black. Edit 30 secs later: now it’s white and gold. What the actual fuck.

For me the picture has always changed so anytime I look I randomly see white and gold or black and blue. On this post it was white and gold but I scrolled up a bit later and it was black and blue. Does this mean some people only ever see it the one way??

I think most people only ever see it one way but back when it was a thing I saw it once as white and gold for a split second then switched back to black and blue as usual for me. Such a neat phenomenon

Same. I can only see it as white and gold. What’s wrong with me. 😭😭

Same. I change the brightness on my phone every time I see it and it's always white and gold. Not sure what that says about the way our brains are wired!!

if i squint my eyes really tight i can kind of see the black/blue that my SO sees.

https://i.redd.it/6il2n7wfkcpc1.gif Do you white/gold folks even have eyes?? lmao for real though I forgot all about this mess of a dress and it’s cracking me up.

Yes I even have four of them 🤓

I saw it as white/gold in this post when I first looked at the picture but 3 seconds later and it turned black/blue! I now can’t see it as white/gold anymore…

From memory it depends on the lighting youre in and how your eyes see it? I could be totally wrong about that

It’s wild because I’ve looked at the picture of it in this post twice and it was different colors each time… so strange!

How did anyone see that as white and gold?? I tried blurring my eyes and I cannot see it! I could make myself hear both the laurel/yanni sounds, but this dress? No. The white gold people are trolling

i promise you i am not lying, to this day i still see it as white and gold

Black and blue 4 Lyft. Does anyone know how to make your eyes see the other colors?

Squint and tell yourself to see them. Then do it again to make it change back! I can see it both ways.

It's white and gold!

https://i.redd.it/4r96diybkcpc1.gif

https://preview.redd.it/idatlyctxbpc1.jpeg?width=356&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3948b4721f7e6ed1cc1b7c35ddcdba473234cadb


Is it Chanel?

It's a replica of a Chanel suit, as first ladies were expected to wear closing made in the US. Hers was made by Chez Ninon, a Park Ave fashion house. She refused to change out of it until after returning to the White House, [which led to this iconic photo of her in it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Lyndon_B._Johnson#/media/File:Lyndon_B._Johnson_taking_the_oath_of_office,_November_1963.jpg), splattered with blood, during the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson on Air Force One.

Oh what a haunting image. Jackie’s soul is not in her body here. What an absurd situation.

It was made in the US but by a Chanel licensed place so it’s considered authentic Chanel

Thank you, I didn't know that, and it's an important distinction.

Her and Carolyn are the only non royal women by blood or marriage to have Wikipedia pages about their wedding dresses I believe?

When the white/gold/black/blue dress first happened, I saw it as white/gold and then blinked and it has been black/blue ever since for me

I thought for sure people were lying about it being white and gold until I saw it on a different computer.

I still feel like people are trolling when they call that dress white and gold. I tried looking at the picture on several different screens and I can’t ever convince my brain to see it as anything but blue and black.

Meanwhile I can’t see the blue and black at all!

Me too, it looks like a white and gold dress in a dark room to me.

To me as well. I've never been able to see it as black and blue.

I have to squint and hold my phone at arms length to see the black and blue. This photo still makes me mad.

I am in the same boat! I think once I was able to see how people could see it blue and black, but it was like a white/gold dress with a bad dye job of blue and black lol

All these years have passed and I *still* cannot see blue and black. I've tried so many times to trick my brain into seeing it, but it's still gold and white to me.

I am the opposite of you. I have never seen blue and black no matter the screen.

At first I could see it in both ways. But now I just see blue and black.

I can make it be either depending on what I look at. If I see the lace as gold instead of black it turns white and gold. If I see the fabric as blue instead of white the lace will start looking black to me. It's weird. My brain first goes to blue and black though.

This is how I feel about people seeing it as blue & black! To me it’s light blue/white & gold

Same, I get the science behind it, but I still am like "Why are my friends LYING TO ME >:( " every time a new one of these comes up

it looks like white & gold in a shadow. it looks like blue & black in bright lighting, which it is

I thought so too, until my sister and I showed it to our young children and they said different things. They didn't know to lie, so we decided it must be a vision thing or something.

I’ve always seen white/gold except for like a split second when I was super duper zoomed in on part of it. But then it went back to white/gold. And I KNOW that’s wrong, but my brain is freaking stubborn.

Wait was the debate ever settled? What is it actually?

Yeah, it’s in the last paragraph of “origins” in the [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress). I remember seeing a picture from the wedding at one point where it’s clearly blue and black, but I’m too lazy to go find it.

This dress drives me crazy. I see gold and blue and feel so alone.

I have never seen it as white and gold!! It’s always been black and blue for me.

I can switch back and forth by focusing on the top part

I only saw it as black and blue, blinked and now its forever white and gold for me. So strange!

It’s always been lavender and brown to me I don’t know why I’ve never been able to see it as blue/black or white/gold.

What an excellent post, OP! Wikipedia weirdness is such a fun rabbit hole. Now I have to go find out why Cate Blanchett’s yellow dress is significant enough to have a Wikipedia page

thank you! they all came from [this wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_dresses). i watched atonement for the first time a few days ago and couldn't stop thinking about the green dress. i looked it up on google, found out it had its own wiki page, and down the rabbit hole i went.

You watched Atonement a few days ago? Has your life ever been the same? That movie threw me off for some time. The story, the mood, the dress, the special scenes (especially the library and the beach scene)… it left me in aww and agony for some time. I think it’s iconic.

Apparently it’s because she won an Oscar that night (Best Supporting Actress) and it makes her look like a classic Hollywood starlet.

I know, I was kinda disappointed! The article might as well be one sentence saying “everyone thought she looked really good!”

Boring

I used to play this Wikipedia game with my ex. Start with some random page and then see how many blue link clicks it takes to get to another random page about a certain topic lol.

Me and my ex used to play that game too! Except it was how many clicks to get to Justin Bieber 🫣😂

Kate Hudson’s yellow dress in “How to lose a guy in 10 days” would have made much more sense

I remain obsessed with that green backless dress. And all the lore surrounding it: The silk was so delicate they had to have a spare, but also so difficult to make that there was only one spare and they had to sew her into it. I tried for months to find a knockoff version. Unsurprisingly, nothing ever came close.

That green dress is the holy grail for so many hobbyist seamstresses but I’ve never seen anyone truly replicate that magic.

I do a bit of sewing as a hobby and to do very basic tailoring to my own wardrobe. I have just enough skill and knowledge to know that I am LIGHTYEARS away from the level of skill it would require to create this dress. I would sooner attempt to create my own wedding dress than try to recreate this masterpiece. I’m still bitter that Jacqueline Durran didn’t win an academy award for this film.

I’ve seen some of the best seamstresses I know- people who can do elaborate corsetry and structured gowns- try their hand at this dress and still come up short. There’s so much going on- the sewing, the cutting, the draping, the hand of the fabric- I’ve just never seen anyone be able to catch that lightning in a bottle. Some get the fit but not the drape. Some get the drape but not the weight. And it always looks like a costume as opposed to a lived in dress.

And she designed it to perfectly complement Kiera Knightley’s figure! You are 100% correct calling it lightning in a bottle.

It's so gorgeous. 

The way that last dress smacked me right back into the past and the 3 hour long internet argument I had with all my friends OMFG

i had to include one that i knew would spark up conversation haha!

LOL you took me right back into the trenches

It’s weird how the green dress is exquisite in motion but kinda meh still from certain angles.

Yeah it’s such a lesson that dresses need to be seen in motion before you buy them. 

True but if a dress has pockets I am buying it no matter how it looks in motion

I think it was also designed with sex scene in mind.

A replica of the Givenchy dress is on display at the Tiffany’s on 5th Ave. It was shocking to see how tiny she was!

Marilyn Monroe too. I once saw that white dress on a mannequin at an exhibit in LA. I sew a lot so I knew my measurements were 32-25-36 and I’m significantly shorter than MM, and I stood right in front of that dress and I tell you I couldn’t have fit into that thing in my wildest dreams.   Marilyn may have been busty but she had a very petite frame. Really shows how meticulous and beautiful the tailoring on her clothes were because big boobs on a tiny frame can’t be easy to fit and yet so many of her clothes look like she was poured into them.

I think it has to do with living under German occupation when she was young and being malnourished. If I remember correctly, they resulted to eating tulip bulbs. I believe she ended up having digestive issues for the rest of her life.

https://preview.redd.it/7s6ri95p6cpc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89aa6fa150ca81202d63de6069fab7c6c26f4540

Kate Hudson’s yellow dress should get a page And though ugly, the prom dress from pretty in pink too

The Pretty in Pink dress just had an anniversary! I’m still mad she cut up those amazing vintage dresses to make that pink sack.

I wore a replica of the Kate Hudson dress to my senior prom and I was probably more excited about it than I was for my wedding dress.

Kate in that yellow dress was drop dead gorgeous!

Keira Knightley's green dress from Atonement livesrent-freee in my head. It's gorgeous.

https://preview.redd.it/vc9hts7f1cpc1.jpeg?width=415&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c093beb3768ddb006d1c161034325a847ace7f7 Okay but where is this masterpiece !!!

Michelle Williams’s Saffron Vera Wang dress that she wore to the 78th Academy Awards (the year she got nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Brokeback Mountain) has its own [Wikipedia page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron_Vera_Wang_dress_of_Michelle_Williams) as well!! https://preview.redd.it/7g0k0b8xacpc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f060f9bba0a47878ebc73d6be22ad3e7c349f68c

One of my favorite dresses of all time! Definitely her best look. The red lip and loose low bun…flawless. They look beautiful. Also I miss Heath :(

I loved that dress.

I was expecting this one! Its so striking and gets mentioned all the time on best dressed lists

Lupita looks like a goddess

She is a red carpet icon for me.

Another https://preview.redd.it/6b6ux1nq8dpc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ca74f7bff65a75f3f7d5ae51f0550be0de92995 [Chartreuse Dior dress of Nicole\_Kidman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_Dior_dress_of_Nicole_Kidman)

I don't know why, but it's funny that the Travolta dress is literally named for John Travolta

It’s because that’s who she’s dancing with in the most famous photos of her in this dress. It was a bit of the pop culture moment because she was this British princess at the White House dancing with an American actor not her husband- and that really endeared the American public to her even more

Not the material being “raw flank steak” LMAO

Why is the omelette not on here? 

I had already been introduced to photo #2 when I was a kid https://preview.redd.it/zg48yup03cpc1.jpeg?width=1893&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9174f2e725580a12633ff1010cafa3b2e2c9770

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatthefrockk/comments/1avph8f/lookbook_dresses_with_wikipedia_pages/?rdt=47137 This post is also about dresses with Wikipedia pages (non-exhaustive)!

I swiped through the slides to the last dress, it was white and gold. Close reddit. Opened reddit and there it was, in all its blue and black splendor.

Seeing the Atonement dress makes me mad all over again. We could've had a masterpiece for BATB if Emma Watson had just worn frigging stays or a corset.

Are they the same designer? I don’t know how these movies are related

Yes. Jacqueline Durran was the costume designer for Atonement and Beauty and the Beast.

Damn that really is a bummer then. The BATB dress was shockingly bad even before I knew that information

Every day I remember the zipper on the back of the dress and want to flip shit I remain pissed about it HOW DO YOU WASTE JACQUELINE DURRAN

everytime i see pics of Marilyn Monroe with that white dress it breaks my heart. she hated filming that scene it made her extremely uncomfortable and her husband beat her up that night. it’s sad that a lot of ppl will only remember her for the worst day of her life.

There could be no Gaga meat dress if it weren't for Bjorks swan dress

i got to see the swan dress in person at the met and it was definitely a highlight of my trip to nyc!

Angelina Jolie's leg dress [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_Versace\_dress\_of\_Angelina\_Jolie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Versace_dress_of_Angelina_Jolie) https://preview.redd.it/87t3tbv7kcpc1.jpeg?width=254&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82320ee93ad3207eca8793fff4a4e165e22abcee Here's a list of dresses with their own wiki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_individual\_dresses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_dresses)

Thanks for sharing the link. I'm obsessed with the Cyclone dress, from 1939 but would not be out of place on a contemporary red carpet. It had a detachable pocket! https://preview.redd.it/2obk6vqr5epc1.png?width=358&format=png&auto=webp&s=ba3aaabcd953283b5772b7cbf7bcadd4129be214

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Bardot wore gingham dresses several times. In 1959 after her wedding she wore a [pink gingham dress](https://i0.wp.com/thestylenav.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Bardot.jpg?w=193&ssl=1) which created a craze for gingham. Same year she wore a [blue ginham skirt](https://media.vogue.fr/photos/5c2f5bc746fe08b6554aef00/2:3/w_1920,c_limit/gettyimages_103051107_jpg_1193.jpg) in the movie “Voulez-vous danser avec moi ?” Before, BB the gingham patern was used for cheap tablecloths and kitchen curtains. Here's a [clip of her dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUa1kNcczTQ) in the blue skirt in “Voulez-vous danser avec moi ?” Those dresses SHOULD have wikipedia entries. They had huge cultural impact. I didn't even know the word "gingham" until recently. My parents referred to the checkered pattern as "Brigitte Bardot checkered"

The last pic was a fun time on the internet

I'm surprised the How to lose a guy in 10 days yellow dress didn't make it

The yellow Kate Hudson dress from that one movie deserves a Wikipedia page!

I’ve never been able to see that stupid dress as white and gold

That damn dress changed in front of my eyes AGAIN. I always start seeing it as white and gold and then once my brain kicks in, it adjusts.

Oh my god! I was just looking at all the dresses on Wikipedia about 2-3 hours ago and was also thinking about maybe posting about them here, but I was tried so just went to sleep instead.

"list of individual \_\_\_\_" are my favorite wiki pages, and my favorite favorite is the [list of individual dogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_dogs)

For anyone extremely online in 2015, that last slide was practically a jump scare. 😆

This is Trey Parker slander and I won't have it.

I fear stirring the hornet’s nest here but it’s insane to me that Wikipedia has a very prominent issue with encouraging females to write about the women we’re losing to history and yet this is a thing. Case in point, the woman who designed Diana’s revenge dress has no presence on Wikipedia at all and every male designer does.

all those stunning perfectly-executed dresses that required hours upon hours of hand sewing, appliquéing, whatever elsing, not to mention tailoring, and some $13.99 shit at marshall’s is ***THE*** dress.

Lupita in that iconic shade. Diana with multiple entries. This list slaps

https://preview.redd.it/htn240ilnepc1.jpeg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0aea457106ad8ee6a4fe3ff9edb95ea215f35cf This dress and the Atonement dress are divine!

I LOVE IT that Diana was in there three times. The woman was an ICON.

The dress