What styles are modern & chic for evening wear?

Today’s evening wear is fashioned from new hi-tech lighter fabrics that allow for more movement. Some big evening wear trends for 2021 are two-piece dresses, open back dresses, gowns with cutouts (open-sides), and open shoulders.

The modern woman started wearing cocktail dresses instead of floor-length dresses to formal affairs awhile ago. However, floor-length gowns and dresses with puffy sleeves or puffy skirts are going to be big in 2021. Jumpsuits, rompers, silk lingerie such as pajamas, slip dresses, and sheaths are on-trend. You can also rock the dance floor with feathers and sheer fabrics.

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Party Pockets
Party pockets? Would you wear an evening gown with pockets?  Forever pockets have been popular on dresses, skirts and pants. Now young and seasoned designers are adding pockets to the cocktail dress and evening gowns for a casual chic look. These designers feel that pockets can give a four-figure priced dress a less pretentious, relaxed elegance.

What is casual formal wear?
Casual formal wear is comfortable style clothing for formal evening events. The world is becoming more and more casual and now casual style clothing is creeping into evening wear. Women don’t want to feel uncomfortable and are embracing styles such as long tee-shirt style dresses, loose sheaths, and sporty styles for evening wear. Casual formal styles are appearing in fabrics not traditionally associated with formal wear such as stretch fabrics, jerseys, cashmere and cottons. Casual evening wear is worn with flats sandals and large handbags that can carry all the tech savvy modern essentials, smart phones, pads, etc.