From Dressing Room to Standing Room: The Concert Style Edit
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
The tickets are secured, and your fall/winter concert calendar is looking raaaaaather promising. Now, the million-dollar question: what are we wearing?
Dressing for a show in the colder months presents a particular challenge: you'll need to brave the elements before finding yourself in a venue that's approximately a thousand degrees.
We've assembled three dark feminine concert looks with enough punch to suit just about any band on your schedule. Whether you're headed for the mosh pit or the VIP balcony, consider your wardrobe officially on tour.
Forbidden Fruit: Dark Cherry, Plum & Blackberry Dark Feminine Fashion
From black cherry to midnight blue, these sumptuous shades are ripe for the picking
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
Summer has a way of making everything look a little more appetizing. Cherries ripen. Blackberries stain your fingertips. Plums practically glow in the afternoon sun. It's only natural that our wardrobes would follow suit. These are the rich, fruit-inspired shades we're reaching for all season long.
The Alt Bride Ascends: Dark Feminine Bridal Fashion
A refined fashion edit for brides who favour statement over convention
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
Da da da dum… a hush falls over the room as the bride steps into view, the air tightening before breath returns in a collective exhale. Her dress, and the confidence with which she inhabits it, leaves the guests momentarily stunned, the groom most of all.
This is not a silhouette chosen to appease expectation; it is a gown that mirrors her inner self, whether through sharpened corsetry, darkened lace, unexpected colour or a hemline that refuses tradition. For the alt bride, the aisle is not a compromise but a reveal, and what she wears should feel like culmination.
Below is a meditation on seven styles that sit just to the left of tradition and the designers that do them well.