Beyond the Little Black Dress - National Museum of Scotland

An article in the Guardian writes about the collection that it brings together more than 60 looks from collectors and designers around the world to chart the evolution of the Little Black Dress. Georgina Ripley, the principal curator of the exhibit says "the dress can be used to view more than 100 years of social change. However, Ripley was unable to trace who first coined the widely used moniker LBD.

We didn’t want to show just literal little black dresses,” Ripley says. “From the very beginning, lots of them crossed boundaries, such as masculinity and femininity. Others walk a fine line between respect and rebellion. We wanted to challenge the viewer