Forget Slips—Olivia Rodrigo Just Wore the "Dated" Dress Trend Set to Define Pretty Style in 2026
Coquette core is making a comeback thanks to Olivia Rodrigo.
The singer, who recently dropped her first single Drop Dead from her upcoming album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, was recently spotted out in a babydoll dress. She styled the little pink number with a pair of white knee high socks, a metallic pair of heeled Miu Miu mary janes, and Rixo's Amoria bag.
The look felt quintessential Rodrigo: it's sweet but a little sour. It's feminine but with just enough edge. It exemplifies what has made her personal style an obsession amongst Gen Z and millennials alike. She is just able to put together a look that feels like so many things all at once. This look would have killed in 2016 just as much as it does now. It feels equal measures vintage and new.
And while it feels like we hit babydoll dress-peak a couple of seasons ago, this look is good enough to revive it for another year. We're here for it and will be wearing it while chewing gum and stalking our crushes on the internet, which is exactly what Rodrigo would want.
Shop the babydoll dress below.

Tara Gonzalez is a senior fashion and social editor at WhoWhatWear. where she is interested in exploring the intersection of fashion and culture and why we are drawn to wearing the things we wear and what that says about the world we live in. Previously she worked as a senior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. When she isn't writing trend deep dives for WWW, she's working on her newsletter on Substack, Cult Classic, which explores the very best fashion in film and television. She has a degree in creative writing from The University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and pug Bjork, the later of which has a very extensive collection of dog-sized Sandy Liang sweaters.