Many styles were brought back from previous eras, including fedoras, newsboy caps, berets, and even the bowler
Since Gautreau was a fashionable woman, its no surprise that she chose to wear something fashionable for the portrait: an elegant black evening dress with a heart-shaped velvet bodice and jeweled straps, which is the sort of dress that would have been worn in Paris, and black was a popular color for evening wear
I personally wish she wore a replica instead of the real thing." [18] [19] In an interview with BBC in June 2022, Kate Strasdin, a senior lecturer in cultural studies at Falmouth University, remarked, "You can't even handle a dress like that without damaging it in some way, let alone wear it, so it was inevitable that there was going to be significant damage just by even wearing it on the red carpet
Popular styles include A-line, sheath, mermaid, and fit-and-flare silhouettes