I loved wearing party dresses to school, but I dont think it would have been seen as appropriate without the jeans underneath
In 1850s America, womens rights activists such as Amelia Jenks Bloomer and Elizabeth Cady Stanton horrified polite society with their controversial pairing of what at that time were two distinctively gendered garments, said Cassidy Zachary, a fashion historian and co-creator of the podcast Dressed: The History of Fashion. The dress reform movement, aka the rational dress movement, took off in the United States and parts of Europe during the Victorian era when women wore heavy dresses and restrictive corsets, which led to overheating, difficulty breathing, tripping down the stairs, crushed organs and other medical issues
Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
You can also dress it down with trainers and/or distressed denim