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The guidance in the guide to a mother of the bride dress for a beach wedding reinforces why a midi or tea-length hemline is so often recommended for outdoor and coastal settings, where mobility and elegance both matter

A good rule of thumb is to aim for something you'd wear for a job interviewyou want to look put-together, but you also want to be yourself

Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick, who writes the popular newsletter The Trend Report, sees this as a stylistic callback to iconic images of, say, Harrison Ford at Cannes in the 80s or Paul Newman at home in the 60s, but reflected through the current lens of skate culture, hence the baggier short silhouettes