Little black dress Little black dress A little black dress (LBD) is a black evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often quite short. Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little black dress to the 1920s designs of Coco Chanel and Jean Patou intended to be long-lasting, versatile, affordable, accessible to the widest market possible and in a neutral colour. Its ubiquity is such that it is often simply referred to as the "LBD". The "little black dress" is considered essential to a complete wardrobe by many women and fashion observers, who believe it a "rule of fashion" that every woman should
Black Is the Fashion for Dying to anger one too many people. "Black Is the Fashion for Dying" is told through third-person limited point-of-view narration, with each chapter focussed on the experience of a different character. The title originates from a line of dialog that Richard Blake devises when he is completing the re-write on "Tiger in the Night". Black Is the Fashion for Dying Black Is the Fashion for Dying is a mystery novel by Jonathan Latimer and first published by Random House in 1959. Latimer's last novel, it drew on the author's experiences as a contract screenwriter in Hollywood. The novel was published in