List of dresses

This is a list of individual dresses which are famous, iconic or otherwise notable. Generic types of dress design are covered elsewhere.

Famous dresses worn by celebrities[]

Queen Victoria's wedding dress.

Bacton Altar Cloth, the only surviving dress of Queen Elizabeth I; so-named because it had been used as an altar cloth for centuries
Electric Light dress, a masquerade gown designed for Alice Vanderbilt in 1883 featuring a battery-powered electric bulb
Kimberley Hall Mantua, the earliest complete European women's costume at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lady Curzon's peacock dress, worn by Baroness Mary Curzon to celebrate the 1902 Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
Tarkhan dress, a 5000-year old linen dress considered the known oldest woven garment

Amsterdam Rainbow Dress, dress made of more than 70 flags of nations where homosexuality is illegal
Belle's ball gown, golden dress originally worn by the heroine of Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Berry Dress, a 1994 mixed-media sculpture by Alice Maher
Climate Dress, embedded with LEDs that change color in reaction to carbon dioxide in the air
The dress, a photograph of a dress that became a viral phenomenon due to dispute over the color of the garment
Lobster dress, a dress designed by Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí featuring a lobster
Mayon gown, a red, high-slit dress worn by Catriona Gray during the evening gown competition in Miss Universe 2018
Revenge dress, a black dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales following the revelation that her husband had been unfaithful
Travolta dress, black gown worn by Diana and named for John Travolta, with whom she danced while wearing it
TechHaus Volantis, American electric-powered hover vehicle promoted by Lady Gaga as a "flying dress"
Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic, created in 1987 by Jana Sterbak from 50 pounds of flank steak sewn together

^ ^a ^b ^c Michael Czerwinski (2009). Fifty Dresses That Changed the World. Design Museum and Conran Octopus Ltd. ISBN 9781840915877.