Fashionable Guide – Everything you wished to know about cocktail dresses.
Cocktail dress – shortened women’s clothes for special occasions without a collar and sleeves. It was appear in US times of “Prohibition of alcohol”. At that time, a party with drinks was held in private homes or secret bars. At these places were served alcohol, played jazz, and people went there to have a fun and dating. Such events requires a particular form of smart clothing: a less formal and elegant than the evening, but the more fanciful and flamboyant than casual. Thus was born a cocktail dress.
Initially, this dress barely overlap the knees, was based on latest trends of fashion and expensive, but not luxurious, fabrics. For cocktail dresses were relied special accessories: small purses, embroidered with beads, where was placed only money and powder-box, open shoes with straps under the color of her dress, long, up to the elbow, gloves. By 30th year, due to taste and perseverance of Coco Chanel, “little black dress” – sample cocktail attire “is always at hand” – has become a permanent part of every woman’s wardrobe.





