Jessica McClintock, perhaps best known for absolutely dominating the prom dress section of Dillards for the entirety of most American Gen X and millennial girlhoods, has died at age 90.
But before she was churning out the strapless or tank dresses so many of us would get awkwardly felt up in, McClintock was the genius behind the Gunne Sax dresses, linked to San Francisco “flowers in your hair” hippie culture, a style that is currently enjoying a very welcome (in my home at least) revival in the form of the cottagecore prairie dresses, which have returned to fashion in all their flowery, flowy, Victorian ghost glory. To celebrate the contribution Jessica McClintock made to the aesthetic of looking completely modest and like one knows how to roll a tight-ass blunt, here are some of the best vintage Gunne Sax dresses I could find while scrolling through Etsy and wondering if there’s a chance I might meet a stranger who will marry me shoeless in the mud at a music festival so I can justify buying one.
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