Is The Guardian trolling us with this wedding guest fashion edit?

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Has anyone else seen The Guardian’s "Best Wedding Guest Dresses" article from last week? It's so bad... Even the opening image is a weird choice! (One girl actually looks like she's in pain??) And the clothes are all awful.. Not a single thing I’d wear and most of it looks horrendously unflattering. Am I the only one who thinks this is a list of what NOT to wear to a wedding??

www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/jun/06/best-wedding-guest-dresses-uk

Of all of them, I counted 1 you could maybe get away with for a wedding. The rest are dire. The pineapple one made me laugh, great way to tell everyone you're there for a swingin' good time!

I agree with you to an extent, but I do also think there is some deliberate click-baitery going on here (possibly by an editor rather than the actual journalist). There is no other justification for why they would have used as the first entry on the list one that is described, with some understatement, as a very unusual/incongruous choice: 'This oversized linen dress might not be one that you’d normally have down as “wedding guest” attire'. It would have been eyebrow raising halfway through the list, but putting it first can only be because they wanted hate-shares.

I saw this before your post and thought the same thing. I think someone must have been leaving and decided to have a laugh. It's awful.

There's another thread on this article here if you want to enjoy some more excellent observations on the offerings🙂

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5349774-wedding-guest-outfit-seriously?page=1

It’s the current fashion for young people. I’ve been on the Selfridges/HarveyNicks/Liberty websites for a posh frock and quite frankly I’d rather go in a pair of curtains than pay money for this.

haha we have a wedding in the summer coming up, just sent this to my group chat to make sure we havent all ordered #1 given what a clear winner it is 😂

What on earth is that hideous brown thing? Just possibly suitable to wear for a muddy forest school visit….

TBH I find virtually all fashion journalists’ ideas weird, if not frankly 😱.

So glad it's not just me! The Guardian's fashion is often (purposely?) ugly and expensive, but this article upped the monstrousness. I scrolled through to the end trying to find anything vaguely wearable, to a wedding or otherwise. Nope.

I looked at this because my daughter needs an outfit for a nice wedding soon. Let's just say I never sent her the link. WTF.

The painted Kozo dress looks like something Worzel Gummidge's mum would have worn.

.. but it’s sure to be comfortable and forgiving long into a day of festivities... is obviously the best thing she could say about this dress!

All a good laugh.

I thought of Aunt Lydia.

If someone attended my wedding wearing that first dress, I'd pull them aside and check that they were doing okay.

I was going to disagree. But the more you look at it, the worse it gets, actually.

https://emikostudios.com/products/kozo-dress-in-orange-check-copy?variant=46759766622427

Here’s their website. I though I would take one for the team and get one but the disclaimer says that the motif is hand painted on and may differ, so I’m not sure…

https://emikostudios.com/collections/bridal

These are the actual wedding dresses. Surely the designer must be a friend of the journo who wrote the article?

I suspect AI, look at the lady with the pained expressions feet under her dress, the toes look very odd!

Oh my, if the guest outfits weren’t bad enough, behold this one for for bride 😳

I meant the see-through number with the glum looking model at the top. To be fair to the designer, some of the others aren’t too bad.

Quite nippular though.

I love the Tomei.

I actually really like some of them, but have no idea why they have chosen to style all the photos in a way that suggests the bride is in a hostage situation.

Fuck me.

…I do like the green stripy one though.

What ridiculous clothes. And why are models always put in garments at least two sizes too big for them these days?

for the bride that’s always wanted to flash her parents, (future) in-laws and entire social circle…

Yes you're probably right, we've probably all played straight into their hands