I'd look like a complete sack of shit in that dress. I have a decent enough figure but it'd look totally unflattering.
Black and white generally are colours that people seem to be drawn to as 'safe' but they are actually the worst colours for a lot of people. Except they don't realise. They make people look washed out.
All four women in the picture above look ok but I wouldn't say it was particularly flattering - it's the colouring. It's not the best colours for any of them. There's other comfortable dresses that would suit them better. Tbh it makes a couple of the women disappear (but that may be the desire for some) and the dress takes over. It's like wallpaper with arms and legs.
It's a dress that I guess many will feel 'safe' in. But I think it's a push to say it's particularly attractive.
Wall to wall seasonal trends do my head in, in the UK. You can go for a whole year of colours that just don't suit. The recent obsession with beige was dire. I find shopping in Europe so much less obsessive and much broader in availability of a range of simpler less fussy stuff even in the same UK/EU chains (where you can often buy some of the same stuff but there also just more stuff that's less driven by the fast fashion element).
It's deeply frustrating. I hate the British market generally. I don't think it does much for women's figures and getting the best out of how we look or the complete flip of that and putting comfort first and being really practical without being awful. For me I think that dress being that popular if most reflective of how terrible the British market is - it was a simple dress which wasn't fussy and was safe colours so it was a hit. That's depressing.
You can tell Brits apart from other nationalities when abroad by the way they dress way more than you should be able to.
My biggest beef with clothes shopping here is endlessly trawling through 'nearly but not quite' shite because it's been made fussy with unnecessary bits stuck here and there or stupid impractical cuts that only suit you if you are rake thin, average height and under thirty. Or it's all designed for Conformity Kate - the willowy tall woman who isn't reflective of 90% of women in the UK.
I think the British generally are obsessed with being on trend rather than just finding things that look good - it's so much more fickle. A fashion for trainers with dresses started in 2019? Fuck that shit. I've been doing that since the 90s and never stopped! Why does everyone do this to themselves and feel they have to do what everyone else is?!
It's definitely a case of each to their own. Personally I don't grasp the concept of viral fashion at all. I simply try and find things that are different, fit well but won't date too badly. This seems to be a task which is a lot harder than it should be. Sadly I think theres a lot of us, who get stuck between these utterly dreadful trends that come around and then when we finally find one that's not too awful jump on it, because there's fuck all else available.