Spring DRESS TRENDS: What's IN and What's OUT in 2024

If you're looking forward to wearing some fun spring dresses this spring 2024, this video is for you. We're gonna talk about some dresses that are very in, some that are considered out of style, and as in every trend video, this is not telling you what to wear or what not to wear. This is just in general what's happening in the fashion world. These videos are more for inspiration more than anything. So with that being said, let's get started with the first dress trend, and anything I wear in this video or feature, I will link in the description box below. Let's start with a dress that is very in for spring, and we talked about this in the spring trends video, but shoulders are very much a trend for spring. I feel like they are always a trend in some capacity for spring and summer, but right now we are seeing a lot of off-shoulder dresses and kind of like a one-shoulder dress, and a lot of just off one-shoulder dresses. I love this trend. I think for a very elegant look, a very evening, nighttime look, the off-shoulder look is so beautiful, especially if you're trying to bring the attention up to your neck and your face. I think this is a lovely trend. I think this is great. I just think it's such a great, relaxed, effortless look. I have this one dress from Dish that I've shown you before. I absolutely love it. It has ruching in just the right place. It feels so nice. It's a natural fabric. I can definitely see myself wearing this throughout the spring and summer, so I will link this below if it's still available. It's an amazing dress. One trend that is out, but you already knew this, are the cold-shoulder dresses. So in are the off-both-shoulder, maybe off-one. Anything that is the traditional cold-shoulder we were wearing several, several years ago is just, it does look a little bit dated. A dress print that is very in are roses, and specifically, I mean, it could be just roses everywhere or just one big ol' rose on the dress, and the rose rosette, the rosette accessories have been very big the last couple of seasons, and we are seeing the roses on dresses. Now, with prints and with florals, florals go in and out of fashion so fast, so you have to be careful with these. You would not wanna go buy 10 dresses with big roses on them, because eventually you'd be like, what did I do? But this is a beautiful trend, and I think there are a lot of beautiful dresses that have this kind of rose look to them. Now, what is out, the floral that is more out, are the more spaced-out florals that we're seeing several years ago, or maybe there was a couple florals up here, and then there's a lot at the bottom of the dress. I'll show you pictures of what I'm talking about. Usually Amazon can come through for me to have some of these more out-of-style floral prints, but like I said, florals do change every season, and also, if it's something that you really love, you know, obviously keep on wearing it. A look that is very in right now are bows on dresses. I talked about bows being a big trend in this video here, and they're just a really big trend for 2024, and so thinking of bows on dresses, I'm like, hmm, pretty sure my Easter dresses when I was eight, nine, and 10 had bows on them, but I don't know about now. I don't know if I'd want that, but I've seen some dresses from, I believe it was Anthropologie, that are actually really beautiful. They feature bows, but they look, you know, they just, they look like something I would actually wear, so I'll link a couple of those below. If you like this look, I think that it can be kind of pretty, kind of a fun accent to a dress, but that is a really big trend for 2024. 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Songmat has given me a discount code to share with my viewers, which is READ12. It'll get you 12% off your purchase at Songmat. I will leave links to all the bags that I showed you in this video below in the description box plus my code, and let's continue. I feel like we see this trend about every spring and summer, but this is the first spring I have actually liked it, and it's fringe dresses. And a lot of times when fringe comes around, we see them in these very impractical, like, you know, you're wearing from your door to the car to the event, and you're standing up all night kind of dress, and you don't even dare go to the bathroom because it would just be a disaster. But this year, I've seen some spring dresses with some fringe that look way more practical, and I even bought one. I thought it was so beautiful, and I still think it's beautiful. It's by the company Rails. It does have some fringe on it, but it's higher up. It doesn't go all the way down to the floor, so I feel like it's not gonna be dragging or I'm gonna be tripping over it or anything like that. So I do, I am liking a lot of the fringe dresses that are coming out for this spring. A dress that is out of style are the high-low dresses. We saw these huge, this was a huge trend several years ago, and then it just kind of died out. And so that high-low hem, you can't even really probably find it right now, but it's definitely not a trend at all, and it does look a little bit dated at this point. We're really in the era of the maxi length. Even a high slit is fine, but we just really are not seeing that asymmetrical hem in fashion right now. A dress that is in, and we saw this come back last year sometime, but it's the drop waist dresses. And when I first saw this come back, I was like, mm, I don't know about this because most of us are not trying to highlight this area. However, since then, I've kind of changed my tune, and I think there's just been more dresses that have come out with this drop waist. But I have this dress. I got it from Revolve. It's under $100. It's a linen dress. I bought it for our trip to Miami, and I just loved it so much. I even bought it in brown because I just love the dress so much. It's just a great little drop waist, smocked dress as an open back, super easy. It was perfect for Miami with some flat sandals. We wore it to brunch. With drop waist, again, like everything, it really depends on the actual item and how it fits on you. And I've also noticed that a huge trend for spring 2024, piggybacking off of this, are these dresses with a fitted or smocked top, and then a more voluminous skirt. So instead of the waist being dropped, it hits at your natural waist, which is obviously a lot more wearable for most women. I've seen so many brands do this style this spring. I showed you one from H&M that I recently found, and one I think I like the best is the one from Madewell, and I will link both below. But this is definitely a trend that is staying around. A trend that is out, that we're not really seeing hardly any of, are the empire waist dresses. This is a trend that comes and goes. Sometimes they're in, sometimes they're out, but we're just really not seeing anything with an empire waist. It's not really an on-trend style right now. There's a lot of other waist styles that are in, but the empire waist is just not on trend right now. One trend that is out, and I'm not upset about it, are the super, super oversized dresses that looked good on three people in the whole entire world. I saw them for sale. I guess no one bought them because they just, I just don't see them at all anymore. I don't see them at all. I don't even see anybody wearing them on Instagram or anything. That was kind of a flash-in-the-pan trend, and it was just very not wearable, and I think they're just a little bit out of style. I don't even think they're really so much out of style. It's just that, I mean, it's just they're a really hard thing to pull off, you know? But what is in style are these, I don't even wanna call them baby doll dresses, although that's kind of the only word I can think of, but it's the mini dresses that are loose fit, more flowy. It's almost like a wearable version of the super oversized dress. They usually have a much shorter hemline. I love these for my petite friends. I feel like these are beautiful dresses. On me, these kinds of dresses tend to be too short where I just feel like I'm always gonna be pushing my dress down, but I do think this can be a really beautiful look for the right person. A dress that is in, and we saw this come back maybe last year or the year before, but it's crochet dresses. Last year, we saw crochet dresses and crochet maxi cover-ups come back in style, and now we are seeing crochet dresses in black with even more detailing in them, just lots of crochet dresses that you could wear to a fancy event or even just wear as a beach cover-up. There's lots of them out there, lots of variations. I think this is really fun. I would be careful that you're finding one that's made well because if you do get one that is made pretty inexpensively, I think this is one that could probably fall apart if it's not made well, specifically crochet dresses. Another dress, or I should say fabric, that is very in right now are these slinky, silky, satiny dresses. It doesn't have to be just your traditional spaghetti strap slip dress. Basically, all of these slinky, satiny, silky dresses are very on trend right now. We're just seeing a lot of them out there in a lot of different styles. Even the satins that I have seen come out are just, they just look a lot better than in the past. I've actually found a couple of satin items that I really love. I think they're beautiful and very well made, whereas in the past, when I've ordered a satin, it just kind of looks a little bit cheap. So, it's come a long way. I will say that. So, if you don't get anything silk and you prefer satin, there are a lot of really good satins out there right now. And then, of course, silk is beautiful. Silk dresses are amazing, especially in the spring. They can keep you cool, can work with your body temperature. And also, this is something that, even when it's not trending, it never really looks out of style. Another dress that is in, and I've talked about this in a couple of videos, but it's black dresses for spring. I loved this last spring and summer. I just found it so easy, especially because I have a two-and-a-half-year-old, and so he's definitely gonna have some hands with something on them. And so, if I'm wearing a dress, you know, and I'm gonna be around him, black is the way to go because then he can put his sticky hands on me and he's not messing up my dress. So, this is a very practical spring color for me. Seeing all kinds of styles of dresses, like spring styles, but in black. And so, I think that's really fun. We're seeing a lot of black linen, a lot of black cotton dresses. Even the one I showed you from Dish, I forget, it's either cotton or linen or a blend or something, but it's a very breathable fabric. A dress that is out, that we're just really not seeing hardly any of, are neon dresses. Neon dresses seemed to be pretty big a few years ago. Maybe it was only a couple years ago, and somehow it just went like this. It just died. We're just not really seeing neon really hardly at all right now. We are seeing a lot of pastels and we are seeing bright colors and red and pink, but not really so much neon. Denim dresses are very in right now. I've mentioned this in a couple of videos at this point, and you've probably seen some, you probably even have one at this point, but denim dresses are a huge trend right now. I don't think that's going anywhere for a long time. There are a lot of denim dresses out there. There's no reason, if you like this trend, not to find one that fits you really well. I'll link my favorites below in the description box, but they are still very on trend. Really practical dress, I feel like. It's pretty much the only Y2K trend that I have been fully on board with that's come back around. This next trend I love. I think this is so wearable and just such a beautiful trend, but it's draping, ruching, and I love this because it just makes the dress a lot more forgiving and wearable, and it just adds a little extra detail to a solid, plain dress that I just think can look really beautiful. It can also look very elegant and just very high-end, very expensive and sophisticated, and again, like I said, if you need to hide your tummy or you're trying to hide a couple areas, a little bit of ruching is the way to go. Now, if you're not really feeling draping or ruching or anything like that, another kind of dress we are seeing popping up are these shift dresses. I've seen lots of shift dresses recently. I find that these are not quite as wearable as the billowy, loose, draped dresses, but they can be very cute on the right person if you can find one that fits you really well, and we are seeing a lot of these for spring. I think these are so cute with all the ballet flats and all the flat shoes that are very on trend for spring 2024, so this can be a really great look, and if you like this kind of dress, you will have lots of options this spring. Now, if you wanna see some denim trends, I did a denim trends video. It's really fun because there's lots of denim styles on trend. Check out this video next. I will see you over there, and I'll see you next time.