The Newest Dress Trend? Wearing Two At Once

Given how popular dresses are and have been throughout history, genuinely new trends don’t come around all that often. Even the really shocking ones, from completely sheer maxis to the tiniest micro-minis, aren’t so much new as just risqué. So when one comes along that isn’t just a recycled fad from a past decade, it’s a big deal, one that I, as a fashion editor that looks at clothes all day long, don’t take lightly. 

With that, you can imagine my excitement when Tory Burch‘s spring/summer 2023 runway show took place during NYFW, displaying a handful of looks that didn’t just include one inventive dress, but two, styled together in a completely fresh manner that I couldn’t wait to copy. Specifically, the NY-based designer showcased sculpted, sleeveless minidresses layered on top of longer, slip-like and sometimes sheer dresses (and skirts), adding dimension to the ensemble with little to no effort. In other looks, she layered see-through mesh maxis on top of metallic dresses of the same length, allowing the below pieces to shine from below but in a mellow, muted manner, thanks to the translucent fabric on top. Genius. 

Now that the collection is available to shop, many online have gravitated towards the double-dress trend that Burch debuted on the runway, with others on Instagram coming up with even more inventive methods for wearing two dresses at once, adding a voluminous slip dress under a bias-cut one for increased shape or doubling up on clashing-colored dresses to create eye-catching contrasts. Below, see all the ways that fashion’s finest are seeing double in the dress department in 2023.