EmRata, Margot Robbie, and J.Lo Just Made Overalls a Trend Again

We get that it can be hard to keep up with whether or not overalls are cool. People don't talk about them often, and you don't see them on the runway or on the street style scene much. But they never really went away. They're not quite a basic or wardrobe essential, but they're not not a basic. They're just sort of always available if you want to buy a pair, and if you wear them, you won't look like you're stuck in the past. All this being said, a few recent celebrity outfits are starting to indicate that overalls could be set to make a trend comeback.
Just this weekend, both Emily Ratajkowski and Margot Robbie wore overalls, and earlier this year, Jennifer Lopez donned a denim pair (all of which are affordable, we might add). What struck us about Ratajkowski's and Robbie's overalls was that neither were made of typical blue denim. Robbie's were railroad striped and EmRata's were red. After perusing the overall stock at several major e-tailers, we noticed that many of the new overall arrivals were similarly patterned or colored. Could these celebrity-approved atypical overalls be the 2019 version of overalls? We certainly wouldn't be surprised.
Keep scrolling to see how these celebs are styling their overalls and shop more atypical overalls like Robbie's and Ratajkowski's (and denim ones like J.Lo's).
On Emily Ratajkowski: Oliver Peoples sunglasses; Dickies Twill Red Denim Overalls ($60); Jennifer Meyer Good Luck Necklace ($3950); Nike Air Force 1 Sneakers ($100)
On Margot Robbie: BDG Ryder Striped Denim Overalls ($99); Chanel backpack
On Jennifer Lopez: Madewell Skinny Overalls ($148); Hermès bag
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Next up, the three denim trends Jessica Biel would give a hard pass to.
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.
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