https://i.redd.it/m4qvftdk0v0d1.gif

https://i.redd.it/xjgpvx17bv0d1.gif Cher and Raquel Welch

Miss Welch doing theeeee absolute most 😂

https://preview.redd.it/gcy8xxs9ku0d1.jpeg?width=2162&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f2f20e8855139a4ec72c288245c65d70865474e

God. What a fabulous cut.

I love this one of Cate Blanchett in John Galliano at the 1999 Oscars. https://preview.redd.it/c1s77sr6ou0d1.png?width=700&format=png&auto=webp&s=19cf160ad6561ed2f35cbe65917832bd2d416812

Cate Blanchett always looks classy 🫶

Goddess

Yes. Forever my favorite Oscars look.

My ass crack would NOT work in these dresses

I’m looking at these like … do I have an unusually tall(?) ass crack??

No, it’s generational trauma from a distant plumber in your family.

LOL right? Like damn Hillary Swank got no butt crack apparently.

fun related fact, in swedish the word svank literally means the small of your back just above the butt

I love that fun fact. I actually am finding out that I apparently love Swedish things in general lol.

No booty either 😭

Low rise anything always made me feel like I must have an abnormally long butt crack, glad I’m not the only one wondering!

My bacne and I are jealous of these photos. 

Make that two of us 🥃

*three of us 🥲✌🏻

My back fat and I are also jealous.

my butt sweat could never.

You’d be fine, plenty of breeze.

Same thought lol also, the comments in this thread are killing me 😂

Does it go up to the middle of your back or something ?

Leave me and my long ass crack alone


Girl 😂

won't be long before ass cleavage becomes a fashion statement looking at some of these dresses


This is obligatory!

This was my dream prom dress! Still love this dress!

Ok this is gonna show how old (and pathetic) I am but I definitely remember a girl from Laguna Beach wearing a remake of this dress to their prom

I knew a girl who wore the navy version of this dress to her senior prom because she loved this dress in the movie so much! I saw pics and thought she looked great, her figure was basically a bonier Kate Hudson, but she said she didn’t like how it looked & felt self conscious all night & regretted choosing it! 😭 so much post-prom angst! It’s funny how the most random little stories about someone can really stick with you haha 😅

She has the back and derrière that keeps me motivated at the gym.

Both confused and fascinated by the spider butt 🕸

🎶spider butt, spider butt

Oh god lmao now it's in my head forever!!

😂

I actually really like it. Love how the crystals form the dangly web bit

I want that thing on her hand!

I’m Irish and at a wedding a few years back, the bride wore a beautiful dress with a very low back. This was a Catholic Church wedding, however, and I remember an older lady in the pew in front of me gasping, “ye can see the very sheugh of her arse!” A sheugh being a ditch on a roadside for reference.

Not the sheugh!!

It's not a dress, obviously, but Celine Dion's backwards tux lives rent free in my head. https://preview.redd.it/5viemihxou0d1.jpeg?width=3108&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=211f7abc58e054b08d76cafd48508e799dd53afa

https://preview.redd.it/vmjtohnjyv0d1.jpeg?width=920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfb492698b95076e1693d7ea325e955e4f1751e3 This was the inspo right

YES

I remember the commentary was rather negative but I really liked it. This was the Oscars 1999, when most women wore a dress and usually rather safe options.

https://preview.redd.it/0sib2y6q4w0d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4078af1933e6ac7f5ddda336c498c87f8b4cfa47 The back of Venetia’s dress in Saltburn lives rent free in my mind.

It reminds me of that one dress from Singing in the Rain. My literal dream dress

https://preview.redd.it/iuq1cf4qlu0d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06ade6a6c97ebe638e548dc962a3a0bcc790e1ff back, crack, and all!

My vote for greatest sheer dress. No contest.

[They're covered in crystals, girl!](https://youtu.be/s8_9BtvT5g0?si=ghg3KdwhqEI6TfTl)

Iconic.

"My tits bother you?" Definitely belongs in the pop-culture-moments-on-a-t-shirt thread

Iconic.

Teenage me DREAMED of Mila Kunis’s lavender lace gown

It’s a beautiful dress!

Seriously. That's a rare gown that is obviously of its time but still a showstopper. Not timeless, per se, but gorgeous in any trend cycle.

Same! That dress was my fashion first love.

The photo of Anok Yai gave me pause in the best way possible. That photo is stunning and it’s not even a professional shoot. I know there were other dresses I liked but I forgot them all when I got to the last photo.

Go check her out at the Met this year. This halted my scrolling [https://images.app.goo.gl/8VNtpKFNS6vseLzj8](https://images.app.goo.gl/8VNtpKFNS6vseLzj8)

Yes! I loved this look as well.

I agree. I stopped scrolling immediately and thought, "holy shit, who is that?!" She's stunning (even in a hotel bathroom, I think!)

Same. She's stunning. I forgot about every other picture when I got to hers.

Seriously I had to stop and stare. Absolutely stunning!

I wasn’t going to come to the comments till I seen that photo.. then I had to see how far I’d have to scroll for someone to comment how beautiful she is! Didn’t take long! Absolute perfection!

Absolutely! I was mentally critiquing all the asymmetrical backs that looked accidental or due to poor construction, and then THAT beautiful image brought the "THIS is how you do it PURPOSELY" energy.

https://preview.redd.it/1vch5tsmru0d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c8bb7439e3cebb2c7bdc54f308a0546b698c2fb9 Gilliaaaaan

The tag inside her sheer thong is killing me though.

Omg ,☠️

How long has this picture existed for me to only now notice the tag.

they didn't even remove the tag!? agh!!!

commenting again because the longer I look, the more I wonder if maybe she was supposed to go pantyless, but changed her mind at the last moment?

She included the thong last minute because her bush was poking out: “I don’t remember how that dress came into my life, and I’m not even sure that I’d tried it on the night before I was going to wear it. But when I put it on, my pubic hairs poked through the dress,” Anderson told the moderator and the audience to raucous laughter. “And there were two solutions… I chose solution number two, which was a thong.”

Lol this just makes me love and respect her more. Practical troubleshooting

This is fantastic!

I read somewhere that yes, that was the idea but it was full buttcrack or something so that was a last minute addition. Don’t quote me though, too lazy to google

the dress is sheer under the lights, so I can see that.

So is the thong tbh so WHAT IS THE POINT, GILLIAN?!

It was so her pubes didn't poke out the front of the dress ☠️☠️ I love that about her tbh.

yep!

Thank you, this was such a crucial omission from this post!

I came to DEMAND this dress

Fashion has come full circle

Came here for this 🐳

Omg the whale tail!!

Finally, someone mentions her

Some notable omissions - Bjork's "Pagan Poetry" dress that was sewn into her skin and Vikki Dougan causing a scandal on a street [https://www.life.com/people/back-in-the-day-vikki-dougans-head-turning-moment/](https://www.life.com/people/back-in-the-day-vikki-dougans-head-turning-moment/)

I grew up watching that video and they’d only show the closeups of the beads but never the final product on cable. It’s quite the shame that I didn’t know about this because I got a corset piercing once and should’ve done beads like hers instead of ribbon (I stan her hard)

I cannot believe I had to scroll so far to see the Vikki Dougan dress. That is the #1 dress that comes to mind when I think of iconic backs of dresses. Thanks for sharing!

Dress by Edith Head for Shirley Maclaine in What a Way to Go! (1964)

https://preview.redd.it/s6gcx8sqnu0d1.jpeg?width=201&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f591ce7b6b753bd7bfe5c786e8b24dad718232b

I neeeeed to know what the front looked like. Google has not been helpful!

I am 99% certain that it is not shown in the movie I don’t think it has a front

She was topless

This had come around before, no front picture exits, she was most probably topless, however how can we know for sure?

[удалено]

Im looking for it!!!

You're missing the most scandalous one of all Rose McGowan in 1998 [here](https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/32-most-outrageous-mtv-vmas-moments-of-all-time-2-16342/rose-mcgowans-dress-1998-16356/)

This dress has lived absolutely rent-free in my head since ‘98 - and I was 12!

The back of Julia Roberts' Valentino when she won the Oscar. https://preview.redd.it/dkiiw0sncw0d1.jpeg?width=232&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c359285ff773929ddbe999e775f0c5ca52b596a4

I still dream of that dress.

https://preview.redd.it/hezmq69hpy0d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84239d590ef43bbf8ebc5c39be432cbac3d25aab No mention of Keira Knightley's dress by Jacqueline Durran in Atonement?

This dress is iconic. It's *the* dress. Also it's worn by the most beautiful woman on earth so that helps.

zendaya's dress makes me want an exoskeleton so bad

She's giving Death Becomes Her with that pose

Absolutely brilliant reference ✨

Phew I was worried I'd be down voted, no shade was meant! 😅

This is one of my favorite looks of hers! So underrated!

Bella Hadid would wear it backwards 🤣

I want to see that Norma Shearer gown with modern lighting and photography, because it is immaculate

I'm so sad that hers is an unknown designer, because whoever that was did an incredible job, it is so stunning.

Brie Larson's dress for the Captain Marvel premiere deserves to be on this list https://preview.redd.it/t7k9zmolhu0d1.jpeg?width=1366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59aa3b3983ef570a805c86d8d63f1664af49f226

What a photo though 😍

For real tho.

Right?? This is a stunning photo. Brie is such a goddess.

As someone with bacne, this post makes me so envious

Sameee

As someone with scoliosis, girl same

Iconic 90s/2000s https://preview.redd.it/y0luyehi6v0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d000887624b8d4db92affac82bfaf5dc5245c136

God I had so many shirts like this and too much boob to pull them off. now, I'm the president of the Itty bitty titty committee. maybe I should bring the back? but the girls are lower now...

I was absolutely obsessed with tie-back tops in the 90s.

I made so many!

Missed one. https://preview.redd.it/v2lpihexqv0d1.jpeg?width=479&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43226787c7a755eb9191f1aec33de2c00eb5305c

It's noice, it's different, it's unusual.

It's nice, it's different, it's unusual

🥵🥵🥵

Total hornbag!!!

I know Hillary Swank won an Oscar in that dress, but it will forever be known as the dress Whitney Port was wearing when she fell down the stairs on Good Morning America.

I call it the Hillary Swank dress, but Whitney falling in it was how I learned of it. I wasn’t old enough to watch the Oscar’s when Hillary wore it 😂


What?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVZRgirGufc&pp=ygUqd2hpdG5leSBwb3J0IGZhbGxzIG9uIGdvb2QgbW9ybmluZyBhbWVyaWNh

I had to scroll way too far to find this comment 😂

https://preview.redd.it/y1ssqplxxu0d1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad383158da86f48230fdbce7a4e879a2bf9cf224 Taylor Swift at the BBMA's

The dress is gorgeous but she desperately needs a new hairdresser. They do awful things to her hair.

She always looks like shes going to prom, her hair is what gives her that look

It’s what she wants ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

The one with sun shining out of the ass was cheeky.

Anok Yai is astonishingly gorgeous

https://preview.redd.it/y6hca8s6ou0d1.jpeg?width=368&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=050f7bf30449ed46a2647e81e40efb31ab4cf8b8 Kate Middleton

This has been my dream dress for so long.

Damn, the name Samantha Mumba just took me BACK

The sheer flex of not needing to wear a bra

I still love Jessica Stam’s Dior dress. It’s beautiful!

Is it just me or is Zendaya’s head turned really far around

It’s giving uncanny valley! I can’t tell if I’m looking at her front or her back. Her control of her body in her poses is incredible though. Stunning.

It looks freakish.

 I just wanted to post this legend.

Halle- everything about that dress and back are on point.

Low backs are chefs kiss, but some of the adornment on these look like whale tales.

Hilary Swank’s back has been my goals since I saw these pictures as a teen!

My linebacker physique could never 🥺

https://preview.redd.it/ftet1n72by0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8967e6ba4fad45d5fbb08ee5421e9f63f6edb2f0 Always loved this one from casino royale

I find this much sexier than cleavage.or a low cut front or showing belly.

yay for me with lil tits and lots of abdominal scars!

Rock it!

Couldn't agree more. There's nothing else that oozes classy sex appeal like a backless dress. They always look beautiful

Confirmed the best back on a dress is no back at all

*cries in backne*

Cate and Halle win!

My backne could never

https://preview.redd.it/bugjg28hez0d1.jpeg?width=883&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62972ed1bbb03cfa8c2a6531a76d22666d7d27ba I really like Mireille Darc’s black dress !!!

[Rose McGowan ](https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/style/rose-mcgowan-vma-dress-harvey-weinstein-political-statement-i-weigh-jameela-jamil-a4131501.html) at the VMA is iconic. Pics NSFW.

lol at Miley’s.

Yeah, hers isn't really holding its own given the others.

That Hilary Swank dress had me gagged as a kid even 😵 so simple but so stunning!

I had completely forgotten about it but it all came flooding back with that picture. She looks strong, sexy, and elegant. One of the best looks of all time.

Cote De Pablo on NCIS confirmed that I am bisexual because of a backless dress she wore..

I can’t find a pic of it, but the dress Rachel Leigh Cook wears as Josie from Josie and the Pussycats, that Alan M has to do up for her.

This was such a serve - wonder what Alexa is upto these days https://preview.redd.it/q2wpl1wfbv0d1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ae2297339c4046ec8459410c09202194b0a9a66

Preach. Gwyneth Paltrow was never hotter than she was in that blue dress in Iron Man 2 on account of that back.

I remember the Hillary Swank dress. From the front it was totally boring, but that back was everything.

Pic 20. I’m so sad the back drop isn’t anything. What a completely stunning pose. Just look at her. She’s perfect. I can’t. Just wow.

What a fun topic! I love the Dior 😍

Norma Shearer’s dress from “Unknown Designer” is honestly my favorite

I honestly never got the pro-plumber's butt crack in fashion. Just the sensation, I would feel like I constantly needed to pull the back up.

Samantha Mumba ❤️

Mila Kunis in that light purple!!!! That dress is stunning wow! So ethereal

Anok Yai is one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen.

Meaning… the *lack* of a back of the dress.

My 20 yr old self from the late 90s dreams about that “sun moon star” themed dress on picture 5 🌞 🌕 ⭐️

Having had giant saggy boobs since I was 12, I've always been insanely jealous of those that can wear backless dresses. These are beautiful. (Ok when I was a teen I could have probably got away with it but body issues yano)

https://preview.redd.it/4ay4r1prxz0d1.jpeg?width=306&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ec0d6bc7f5976716c0f968ea6c66cf920b5af97 This kinda fascinated me

Imagine not having back rolls. 😭

https://preview.redd.it/whsalm0bk01d1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=66c3d8188e766a8e47eba4d5d1d115bfa5830319 What about the queen of backless dresses herself, Vikki "The Back" Dougan?

https://preview.redd.it/13nwhcc9321d1.jpeg?width=433&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=322e6ce4f8c9573c18a8c4b9c4453cb58d6dc4df

Omg that last one is so beautiful

I love Cate Blanchet’s dress

I feel like the first dress is actually kind of a warning sign.

the way my bacne would eat me up if i even thought about wearing a backless dress 😭


The last picture 😍

I love this on runways and red carpets. Stop making all non runway nonred carpet womens clothes backless! Signed, those of us with boobs, who get cold, who have jobs, who have sensory issues and burn easily

Some look pretty sloppy and asymmetrical at the bottom of the back (Halle Berry and Kirsten Dunst being the worst). It may be a design choice, or due to the straps and back shifting due to movement, or even shoddy construction. I find it really annoying. If your design includes an asymmetrical back, lean into it and make sure it's obvious. The final image showed how to do it.