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Capsule #95 ft. Darshita Goyal
What to wear to your friend's wedding. A comprehensive list!
Holly Beddingfield
April 18, 2025
Hello!
Hope you’ve all had a nice week 🫶. In today’s newsletter, I’m helping you find something to wear for wedding season. When you live in jeans it can be hard to switch gear and figure out what you like for a formal event, so hopefully this helps you narrow down what you might like!
I’m also sharing back your thoughts on SPF and ageing from last week’s issue, dropping some great recs for your weekend, and Darshita Goyal is here with an excellent Hot & Not.
Have a great weekend!
Holly x
P.s. this issue is quite image heavy. Click ‘read online’ in the top corner if your newsletter gets clipped (especially in Gmail 🥲).
💍💒 What to wear to your friend’s wedding 💒💍
Or sister’s or cousin’s or colleague’s. Finding something great to wear allows you to get excited for these events! Not knowing where to start is such a blocker to allowing that pleasure in. I hope this helps!
I’ve selected options across a range of price brackets. Shopping for occasion-wear is generally not the cheapest endeavour, and I do think there’s value in getting something that will hold up for years of wear. There will always be more weddings and you’ll be grateful to have a good option on standby.
You might notice that there are no fully black looks. I asked people on my Instagram yesterday if they’d wear black to a wedding, and the result was really split! A slight majority think it’s fine, but 47% said they wouldn’t. I chatted with people about it and found that black is more widely accepted in the US than the UK (Americans were shocked it was even a talking point), that some people check with the bride first, and lots of people think it’s fine themselves but avoid it for fear of ruffling feathers.
I also asked if pale/butter yellow was too close to white for a wedding, but 87% people agreed it was fine
Other options I haven’t list here but which can be great— borrowing something from a friend, renting something, or buying secondhand. Once you feel confident with a brand’s sizing and your body shape, you’ll see there are so many options on Vinted and eBay. If Reformation dresses fit you well, for example, the secondhand market is your oyster. But for today, a selection of new things for your perusal.
Ok let’s go!!!
🌊 If you want something fail-safe and classic and BLUE…
Forget what the hardline colour analysis people say, there is a shade of blue for everyone
Links: Abercrombie & Fitch, Reiss, Dissh, Rixo, Club London
💃 If you want something fail-safe and classic and RED…
Worth it just for having this emoji 💃 as a talking point
Links: Peppermayo, Reformation, Rat & Boa, & Other Stories, Kitri
🌸 If you want something pastel…
Simply gorg
Links: Selected Femme, Hutch (lime ruffle), Hutch (blush), Aje, Rotate
🗡️ If you want to feel a bit edgier…
For the girls who don’t love wearing a dress but could be convinced by the right one
Links: & Other Stories, Mango (brown), Mango (burgundy), Because of Alice, French Connection
🪩 If the vibe is fun…
For the “formal but fun” dress codes, or the sort that ask you to wear something fun/playful/that you feel your best in. Take advantage of that invite!
Links: Warehouse, Hutch, Never Fully Dressed, Georgina Hardinge, Mango (top and skirt)
🌺 If you want to wear florals but still feel cool…
Nothing frumpy here x
Links: Mango, Kitri, Reformation, & Other Stories, Reformation, Ro&Zo
👯♀️ If you want to wear something short…
Guaranteed to wear again!
Links: Aligne, Mango, Kitri, French Connection, De La Vali
Next up!
Last week’s Capsule was all about SPF anxiety and whether our obsession with it is preventing us from enjoying the sunny months. I asked you how you felt about SPF and your face ageing, and here’s what you said:
46% said I act chill, but I’m not deep down
39% said I’m at peace
14% said I’m not into it…
Some of you expanded further (thank you!). Some highlights:
“I admittedly have had botox a couple times, but not in a while. I may do it one or two more times just to chill out the "elevens", but I'm generally not concerned.”
“As a person in recovery I find myself being grateful for the opportunity to age.”
“It gives me a deep-rooted sense of panic in my quiet moments. When I'm out with friends or lovers, I can feel beautiful and not care. But I live alone so there's a lot of one-on-one time with the mirror. This anti-ageing shit hit me like a train at 28 – me and my friends joke that it feels like an older age than 30, somehow. I notice lines around my eyes and definite sagging of cheeks, prob not visible to other people. I don't think I'll get botox or anything, I really don't want to, but who knows.”
“The fact that every woman has the same face now, with fillers and botox and buccal fat removal or whatever else, is way worse than aging naturally.”
And finally…
News from the Capsule universe this week:
The Capsule roundup of some great moments from Coachella weekend 1
The four Met Gala chairs got Vogue covers
And GQ collabed with Vogue to make a fashion portfolio on Black Dandyism ahead of the Met. This photo rocks
“I’m half Nigerian. There’s nothing more dandy than an African man dressed to the nines, really showing out, going to a party or a wedding.” - Ayo Edebiri
Chinese TikTokers “exposing” luxury dupes are going viral in the wake of tariffs… I think this is the most measured take
A$AP Rocky is in his feels again (can you blame him?)
Excellent and important news
One of the biggest creative minds of our generation is ready to sue!
Miley will premiere her visual album at Tribeca Film Festival. Very chic
Brace yourselves: another celeb beauty brand has entered the ether 🥲
I did not predict that Addison Rae would use this British institution to promote her next single
A bunch of people were not vibing with Katy Perry’s space tourism this week. Including but not limited to: Em Rata, Pitchfork, and Olivia Wilde
Jonathan Anderson has officially been announced as the new creative director of Dior Men. Women’s next???
And some news ahead of Easter weekend… ‘Judas’ is back in the charts after Gagachella
This week, Darshita Goyal popped into Capsule to share what’s 🔥hot🔥 and what’s not 🙅♀️ …
Darshita is a freelance writer with a special interest in youth culture and the internet. She also works as a strategist and consultant for brands looking to understand Gen Z or break into the Indian market. You can also listen to her yap about pop culture on The Kitty Party Pod — she’s trying hard to be consistent x :)
🔥🔥🔥Hot🔥🔥🔥
making invites for dinner parties, dating your friends, glossier merch, somatic therapy, journaling without deeping the aesthetic, reposting your bf’s small business, condiment claire, ugly chicken’s waffle fries, gift wrapping, baby sleep music for adults, being a phd student, fuguku bags, bullet points in texts, squishy jellycats of ugly frogs, laura thompson hand soap (no, you need to smell it), wishing randoms happy birthday when you see it on their story, singing lucy won’t you wake up on loop, pulling your own tarot, making maps lists for every city you visit, asking questions, silly tattoos with no meaning, non-chefs sharing recipes online, watching things for discourse, trying to stay in touch
Hot Not… 🙅♀️🙅♀️🙅♀️
icks in general, putting people in boxes because of their accent or ethnicity, gift cards, commenting before reading the article in full, wellness drinks, weddings that are movie productions, the word ‘bespoke’, saying yes cause you can’t say no, text debt, the ssense-ification of brand socials, hating on opening acts at concerts, mushrooms (all kinds), the word ‘cute’, being cliquey, health studies that change their mind every month, overhyped reservation-only restaurants, shaming someone for being earnest, exposing people for copying ew
📺 Watching: Sinners in the cinema. Plus the Coachella highlights: Addison Rae and Arca performing ‘Arcamarine’, Ravyn Lenae performing ‘Genius’, Charli performing ‘Girl, so confusing with Lorde’, and of course, the Lady Gaga run of Bloody Mary/Abracadabra/Judas/Schieße.
📖 Reading: Biz Sherbert’s first Coachella diary for American Style, a boots on the ground look at fashion (and vibes) at the festival, plus the Margaret Qualley profile for i-D. Don’t sleep on the photos!
🎧 Listening to: SABLE, fABLE, the lovely new Bon Iver album, ‘Tell me I never knew that’, the new caroline song featuring Caroline Polachek, ‘Headphones On’ by Addison Rae, and Jade Thirlwall on the Dish podcast.
Zeus ⚡️
There’s been lots of talk of recession indicators recently, but Zeus is here with some actual data: Google searches in the US for “press on nails” and “blonde to brunette hair” are up 10% and 17% since February respectively. It looks like shoppers are already making steps to recession-proof their spending…
If you’d like to adopt Zeus or one of his friends, click here to learn more.
Thanks for reading! I’d love to hear how you’re finding Capsule - let me know here. And if you have a friend who might like it, do refer them! 🥺
See you next week 💋