A post shared by Hot 4 The Spot (@hot4thespot)As for what makes a dress The Dress, alas, there is no scientific formula. If there was, designers would be deploying it to print money.
Clearly, there are ingredients which help, such as being worn by Holly Willoughby or the Duchess of Cambridge. Affordability is also key: rare is the dress over £150 that achieves ubiquity, though in more affluent parts of the country, dresses by Self-Portrait and Rixo have proved exceptions to this rule.
Particularly in wedding season, where a colleague recently noted two guests in identical green and blue floral Rixo dresses, with the added misfortune of having been sat on the same table.
Like Queen Letizia and Inmaculada Vivas Tesón, the guests laughed it off – the only sane response to a humorous situation. After all, most of us have been there.
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