Hollywood's influence on fashion helped the little black dress's popularity, but for more practical reasons: as Technicolor films became more common, filmmakers relied on little black dresses because other colors looked distorted on screen and botched the coloring process
Black and White Off-the-Shoulder Maxi Dress
[9] Betty Boop, a cartoon character based in part on the 1920s "it girl" Helen Kane, was drawn wearing a little black dress in her early films, though with Technicolor later, Betty's dress became red
In fact, the formulas I've come up with have become really trusty, fail-safe wedding guest dress outfits for those nuptials and events where you really don't have a clue what to wear
It was a societal expectation at the time that if a loved one died, the family members would dress in black for a period of time (the person's exact relationship to the deceased determined just how long)
This is because the image is bistable, similar to the famous Rubin vase illusion