In 1998, Rose McGowan wore a beaded, chain-mail-esque dress over only a leopard-print thong to the VMAs decades later she shared that it was her first red carpet since she was allegedly raped by Harvey Weinstein in 1997. There is incredible power in choosing to reveal one’s body. Although it became more normalized by the ‘90s, the bold look turns heads in any decade. Sheerness, which paired well with the grunge ethos, was beloved by designers, with Alaïa, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Prada, and Atelier Versace sending various takes on the trend down the runway. But the ‘90s ushered in a true renaissance. President” dress catapulted sheerness back into the spotlight, and stars like Jane Birkin and Cher kept the controversial look alive in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s.
In 1962, Marilyn Monroe’s famous “Happy birthday, Mr. The dress-which made it to the big screen before the entertainment industry adopted a set of self-censorship guidelines called the Hays Code-was so revealing that it would still shock by today’s standards. When Bow’s character, Prudence Severn, is invited to a costume ball with the theme “the less worn, the easiest mended,” she takes the message literally, wowing in a barely-there gown. Silent film starlet Clara Bow secured her sex-symbol status with 1925’s My Lady of Whims thanks to a scandalously see-through dress. Wait till I get my divorce, and I’ll make his eyes pop.” (Her scandalized husband, James, 60, told the paper, “Bertha wore not only diaphanous skirts but slit ones.”) In 1913 diaphanous so-called X-ray skirts and dresses caused such outrage that the mayor of Portland, Oregon, ordered wearers be arrested, while The Oregon Daily Journal reported, “X-Ray Skirts Break Up Home of Millionaire.” Regarding her fashion-related divorce, Bertha Hanscom, 30, said, “My husband is an old fossil…I’m built for the X-ray skirt, and I’m going to wear ‘em. Sheer garments continued to scandalize after the French Revolution. The style, which writer Louis-Sébastien Mercier dubbed “à la sauvage, ” “did not leave the beholder to divine, but perceive every secret charm,” Mercier wrote. But the artwork, in which the subject’s breasts are visible through a sheer layer of fabric, is emblematic of the attire favored by French courtesans around the turn of the 19th century. The mysterious 18th-century Portrait of a Young Woman in White by an unknown artist has enjoyed a renewed cultural interest as the cover of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. While ‘90s revivals-including Hunter Schafer’s recent callback to Prada’s spring 1997 ready-to-wear collection and Lily-Rose Depp’s homage to Kate Moss in i-D-have dominated the trend’s resurgence, translucent garments have been making jaws drop and eyes bulge for centuries. The sheer-dress trend, while varying in levels of (im)modesty, is inescapable, as barely concealed nipples, belly buttons, and thongs have graced every red carpet from the Grammys to the Oscars. Lately fashion has left little to the imagination.
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