Who Invented the Little Black Dress?
The “ little calamitous dress , ” quintessential staple of any woman ’s wardrobe , is n’t as timeless as most hoi polloi think . An LBD is a classic in that it ’s neither a trend nor is it ever out of manner , but its story is a amazingly unforesightful one , dating back only about a century to the other 1900s . While history tends to accredit French interior designer Coco Chanel with popularizing the excogitation , the question of who came up with the little calamitous frock first is a little more complicated than that ....