If You're Petite, May I Recommend These 17 Amazing Wedding Guest Dresses?
Being 5'4", I'm (nearly) considered as petite when it comes to shopping. With the specialist category created for people 5'3" and shorter, it's ideal if you need items such as jeans and dresses to be not as long as mainline sections. Although I can of course still shop the non-petite sections, often midis can reach into maxi territory, and maxis become a tripping hazard.
If you're perusing dresses online, look at the description for the model's height. This way, you'll be able to see where the hemline lands on them and work out where it would roughly be on your frame.
If you're searching for a particular outfit for, say, a wedding, then you're in luck, as I've already done the hard work for you. I looked at hundreds, and I mean hundreds, of dresses to find the best petite iterations and mainline styles in lengths that'll suit shorter women.
Keep scrolling to see the wedding guest dresses that'll be perfect for petite people from the likes of COS, & Other Stories, Rixo and Taller Marmo.
Shop Wedding Guest Dresses for Petite People:
For a fancy ceremony, bring out Taller Marmo. This option is especially gorgeous if you're heading to a destination wedding.
How pretty is this print? Perfect for an upcoming spring wedding.
A lovely option if you're going to a more formal, black tie wedding.
Reformation does some of the best petite occasionwear options, like this beautiful red dress.
This golden butter yellow hue is one of the biggest colour trends of 2024.
I am completely in love with this mini. Zimmermann comes up big in my opinion, so I'd suggest going a size down if you're between sizes normally.
This will hit you at the perfect point if you're petite.
This story was published at an earlier time and has since been updated.
Opening Image: @eniswardrobe
Harriet Davey is a freelance fashion editor who has been part of Who What Wear's extended team since 2017. She previously worked in print at Look magazine and has since worked across print, digital and social for many other titles, including British Vogue, Stylist, Grazia, Refinery29 and Marie Claire. Also a stylist, Harriet has had the pleasure of producing cover shoots and editorials along with commercial shoots for brands including Boux Avenue, Watches of Switzerland, Benefit Cosmetics and Revolution. To add to this, Harriet also works in live TV styling for ITV’s This Morning. Back to Who What Wear. With hundreds of published stories on site, Harriet knows what the WWW reader wants. Keeping up to date with the latest It buys and runway trends, she can guarantee to keep you one step ahead of the most stylish people. When not writing or styling, Harriet loves to go shopping (yes, more fashion). If she’s not in a local Hackney bar or restaurant, you can find her forever searching for her next holiday destination.
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