Not childish! The babydoll look is now growing up and brings lightness into the new season

In addition to patterns, styles and materials, fashion plays with different cuts season after season. Such as the round silhouette, which is currently seen in the form of trousers with barrel legs, or with slim designs such as column skirts. Last summer the hips slipped down a few levels when the designers introduced the so-calledwere among their collections. This will be the case in the coming spring/summer season 2025Fashion trendbut vice versa – andBabydoll style dresses and skirtsbring the seams back all the way up under the bust. Find out here why this look can do so much more than just look cute.

As airy and comfortable as babydoll pieces are, they can actually only have their origins in nightwear. The cut, which becomes wider from the underbust onwards, does not restrict the waist or hips. And actually:Babydoll dresseswere first designed in the 1940s as a short form of nightgowns when fabrics became scarce after the Second World War. The 1956 film “Baby Doll,” in which the protagonist wears a short, girlish sleep dress, later popularized the name and the look has since been associated with playfulness and girlish qualities. In the 1960s the...to the big oneFashion trend, for example with the London mods. Similar designs that the subculture wore back then are still there today.

For example, for Spring/Summer 2025, Chloé showed a mini dress with girlish details such as ruffles and puffed sleeves that played at least as much with the ideas of grown-up, formal clothing as the looks of the. That was the case back thenBabydoll-Looknamely also as rebellious, since he played with exactly these characteristics. Grown women wearing childlike clothes? This often caused outrage (along with the ultra-short hem, of course). It took place in the grunge era of the 1990sFashion trendhis way out of the childhood bedroom into the world of punk when singer Courtney Love clunked him outand wore torn tights. Although the babydoll appears very feminine again today, fashion houses are also playing with contrasts like this.

The Danish designer Cecilie Bahnsen combines herBabydoll dresses and topsmade of delicate, transparent fabrics, for example black onesand knee socks. For Loewe's spring/summer show, chunky, sporty sneakers were also combined with the ultra-short dress; Giambattista Valli put cool sunglasses on the model and dipped the cute bow dress in a deep, elegant red. The asymmetrical designs by creative director Chemena Kamali for Chloé were sensual and playful at the same time: the airy, floral fabrics floated over the catwalk like gentle clouds and were received thanks to the styling with open,and delicate sandals a fairy-like and hippie-esque, but hyper-feminine touch.

Of the fashion style of the early daysare reminiscent of the designs by Alberta Ferretti and Vivetta, but with an elegant twist. Young pop stars like Ashley Tisdale and Hilary Duff combined them with sequined scarves andfor the red carpet. How is the whole thing stylishly brought into the here and now? With high-quality materials, calm tones such as cream or light blue and harmoniously coordinated. In this way, oneself actsBabydoll dressin girlish pastel tones, anything but childish, but rather grown-up. And it's not going to daycare, but to the next dinner party.