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Dress Emoji 👗

A sleeveless dress with a flared skirt, the dress emoji represents dressing up rather than dressing down. It's used for date nights, parties, and looking put-together, often showing up alongside other outfit emoji when someone's building 'the fit' for an occasion.

What 👗 means

An emerald green dress with strapped sleeves, a V-neck, a tucked brown band below the chest, and a beautiful flare at the bottom.

The 👗 Dress emoji signifies 'dressing up' for various occasions, mostly casual. It could represent an evening dress, a sundress, etc.

How and when to use it

Although it's stereotypically assumed to come under the woman's clothing section, 👗 is a gender-neutral emoji. So, when you say you're dressed up and you're actually wearing a dress, use 👗.
👗 is also attached to adjectives such as pretty. If you're texting someone or putting up a post caption that has the word 'pretty' and/or the essence of being pretty, use this emoji. Like, "I don't need a dress to tell me I'm pretty👗".
If you're referring to a casual dress code in any context, you could use 👗. For example, "Don't dress up much, you can keep it casual 👗".
Even while sharing content about breaking societal ideas of the 'perfect' body shape, use 👗. For instance, "There isn't a perfect body type 👗 Just perfectly beautiful bodies".

Other Names

👗 Green Dress
👗 Sun Dress
👗 Evening Dress
👗 Casual Wear
👗 Gown
👗 One-Piece Dress
👗 Skirt
👗 Strapped Dress

👗 in real conversations

What does 👗 mean when a girl texts it?

Usually a wardrobe question or a plan forming — 'what should I wear,' a dress picked out for an event, or a photo caption from somewhere dressed-up. It leans toward going-out energy: a date, a party, a wedding, rather than an everyday outfit. Pair it with a question mark and it's almost always someone asking for a second opinion on the fit.

When does 👗 typically show up before a night out?

Group chats use it as a countdown marker — someone shares a dress option, asks for opinions, and the replies use 👗 as shorthand for 'yes, wear that one.' It also captions the finished look once the decision's made, tagging a going-out outfit specifically rather than whatever's comfortable for staying in.

What does it mean to dream about buying or wearing a 👗?

Traditional dream-symbol guides read a new dress as anticipation — stepping into a new role, a fresh identity, or excitement about an upcoming event. A torn or ill-fitting dress in the same tradition gets read as anxiety about how you're being seen. Take it as folklore rather than fact; there's no clinical research backing any of it.

The lowdown

Category: Objects › clothing
Codepoints: U+1F457
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :dress:
Keywords: clothes, clothing, dress, dressed, fancy, shopping

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.