As a modest dresser, I’m grateful that designers are incorporating items in their collections that can seamlessly blend into my everyday wardrobe. For a large part of my life, I spent extra time sewing up slits on dresses, going up in sizes to get a looser fit, and resorting to ordering modest clothing from questionable international sites. Now, the modern-day consumer’s desire for comfort has resulted in more loose-fitting, oversize, and covered-up options than ever before. On the runways, we got everything from skirts-over-pants layering at Maryam Nassir Zadeh to ethereal maxi gowns at Peter Do, who continues to reign as the designer grabbing everyone’s attention during fashion month.
As much as I am grateful for the recent shift in the sartorial world, it’s hard to ignore that even when the global modest-fashion market proved to be worth hundreds of billions, there was still a lack of attention on it until the clothes modest dressers have been wearing all along just happened to go mainstream.
There’s still a long way to go for modest representation, and that’s why I’m taking matters into my own hands and styling the biggest modest trends of S/S 22 below. There is no cookie-cutter definition of a modest dresser, so while I put my own spin on these six trends, the options are endless. Keep scrolling to get inspired and try out the trends for yourself. You won’t regret it.
