Not Plain White Dresses—In 2026, It's About This Pretty Dress Trend With This Sandal-Color Trend

Shop the dress-and-sandal combination Jennifer Lopez wore for vacation in Rome.

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Jennifer Lopez wearing a scarf dress with a head scarf and metallic gold flip-flops in Rome, Italy
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Here's a simple fact: If you ever spot Jennifer Lopez vacationing somewhere, she will be wearing the latest seasonal trends. That's exactly the case at this very moment, as Lopez was just spotted vacationing with her kids in Rome, wearing the quintessential summer-2026-vacation-in-Italy outfit. And her outfit also confirmed what we here at Who What Wear have found to be another fact in 2026: Fashion people are forgoing plain white dresses on occasion for scarf dresses, one of the most popular (and prettiest) dress trends of the season.

Scarf dresses, made popular by highly influential brands such as Dôen, Posse, and Reformation, have gone absolutely viral this summer. They're defined by scarf prints and scarf details, such as asymmetrical hems and straps that tie at the shoulders. Lopez's dress fit into the latter, and her banded mini dress also featured scarf-like embroidery. So what to wear with these eye-catching dresses? The sandal-color trend that's equally eye-catching and also versatile: metallic. Lopez opted for a pair of gold flip-flops, and given that they go with everything and dress up or down, if you're going on vacation and only want to pack one pair of sandals, these are it.

Scroll on to see J.Lo's Roman vacation look and to shop scarf dresses and metallic sandals for your own adventures this season.

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Jennifer Lopez wearing a scarf dress with a head scarf and metallic gold flip-flops in Rome, Italy

(Image credit: COBRA TEAM/Backgrid)

Jennifer Lopez wearing a scarf dress with a head scarf and metallic gold flip-flops in Rome, Italy

(Image credit: COBRA TEAM/Backgrid)

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Allyson Payer
Allyson Payer
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Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.