Chic Wedding Guests Are Suddenly Wearing This Potentially Rule-Breaking Color

Generally speaking, I don't believe in fashion rules. Clothes are supposed to be fun no matter your age or body type. However, there's one specific instance in which I do trust traditional fashion commandments: weddings. It's probably never a good idea to wear white to attend a wedding, because you don't want to compete with the couple. But what about white-adjacent colors? Well, that's where it gets murky.
Attending the wedding of model Mariacarla Boscono in Italy last weekend, former Vogue France Editor in Chief Carine Roitfeld wore a gray dress so light that it almost looked white. Similarly, Amelia Morales wore a light gray dress that could easily be mistaken for white while attending the wedding of Princess Theodora of Greece last month. Neither dress is explicitly white, so do they break the rule, or are they safe to wear? I'll let you be the judge of that.
Roitfeld attended model Mariacarla Boscono's wedding in Italy last weekend wearing a gray dress so light that it almost looked white.
Attending the wedding of Princess Theodora of Greece, Amelia Morales wore a light gray dress that could easily be mistaken for white.
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Erin got her start as a Who What Wear intern in 2011—back when the site only published a single story per day. (We have since increased that number twentyfold.) She graduated magna cum laude from USC and lives in Los Angeles. In college, she also interned at Refinery29, where she was promoted to editorial assistant and then assistant editor. After nearly three years at R29, she came back to WWW in 2015, where she is now the Associate Director of Fashion News. From the Oscars to the Met Gala, she leads the site's entire red carpet coverage strategy. She specializes in celebrity and fashion news but also enjoys writing travel features and runway reports. She frequently contributes to WWW's social accounts and has a sizable following on her personal TikTok.