Looking for ideas on the latest short gown styles to wear as a wedding guest or to rock to any other type of occasion? This post will treat you to an assortment of beautiful short occasion dresses including Nigerian-style short gowns (sewn with ankara materials, lace, etc.) and cute short English gowns spotted on our favourite female celebs.
Our readers love taking style cues from the celebrity fashion playbook, and this post features pictures of some of the best celebrity short gown styles – the latest Nigerian-style short gowns and trending English-style short dresses.
This post is in 2 parts. Let’s get straight into the action – see part A first, and then swipe/ scroll down to see part B.
12 Celebrity English Short Gown Styles for Nigerian Wedding Guests (PART A)
This section of the post features the latest styles of English short gown styles spotted on female celebs at Nigerian weddings and events. Here you go:
#1. Champagne Gold Lace English Short Gown with Draped Side Detail AND Green Satin, Peplum Midi Fitted Pencil Dress. Both Ladies Completed their Look with a Matching Hat/ Fascinator and Clutch Purse
#2. Ooze of Confidence: Ogo Looks Elegant in Black Midi Bodycon Gown with Side-Drape AND Nina Dazzles in this Gold Short BodyCon Dress with Puff Sleeves
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#3. The Amped Glam: Mustard Yellow Off-Shoulder Short Tiered Ruffle Dress with Puff Sleeves AND Pink One-Shoulder, Midi Skater Gown with Black Details
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#4. A Dose of Glamour: Black Short Pencil Dress and Yellow Midi Bodycon Dress
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#5. Classic Elegance: Toke Makinwa and Stephanie Linus-Okereke Prove to Us that Short Lace and Print Skater Dresses Never Go Out of Style
- MORE Styles from Toke: 16 Gorgeous Toke Makinwa’s Wedding Guest Styles You Should See
#6. Lady Boss Elegance: Ini Dimma Okojie Oozes Class and Elegance in this Green, Trumpet-Hem Midi Gown with Crossover Neck and AGAIN She Gives Us ‘Effects’ in the Asymmetric Pink One-Shoulder Short Frill Dress
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Latest Nigerian Short Gown Styles (PART B)
Let’s dive right into the styles. Play the video slideshow below to see the latest native-style Nigerian short gowns. [After that, scroll down to see the English short gown styles are down below].
- SEE ALSO: Latest One-Shoulder Aso-ebi and Wedding Guest Styles
- See Celebrity Lace Styles Celebs Wore to TV Girl Tomike’s Wedding
Nigerian women love variety when it comes to dressing for weddings and parties. Besides sewing their wedding guest outfits in the popular native-styles using lace, ankara fabrics and others.
Female wedding guests in Nigeria also love to show up in english-style short- or midi-gowns. I hope you’ll be inspired by the above-featured gowns whenever you don’t feel like wearing the specified uniformed wedding aso-ebi, the English-style short gowns are a smart and elegant option.
Dare to Recreate Any of Those Styles of Nigerian and English Short Gowns?
It’s no secret that Nigerian women wear some of the most elegant occasion-outfits, and that includes short gowns. For some time, Nigerian women gave a long break to wearing Englishwears to weddings.
English gowns are steadily making a comeback, with our female celebrities turning up in short and long English-style gowns at weddings.
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With the number of Nigerian fashion designers now making ready-to-wear dresses, female wedding guests are no longer limited to buying their Englishwear gowns abroad.
They can now buy it locally at cheaper prices – and our tailors have stepped up their game. If you like to follow celebrity fashion, the good news is that our female celebs are not shy about revealing or tagging their Nigerian designers/ tailors on Instagram.
We also list their dress designers alongside celebrity wedding guest styles we feature – so you can contact them if you want to use the same tailors.
The reality is that in Nigeria, not every wedding guest buys ready-made dresses, because there are many good tailors around. Also, good Englishwear materials are also available in nearly every Nigerian market.
If you have a good tailor and prefer a ‘cut-and-sew’ outfit to a ready-made one, types of fabric for sewing the English short gown styles include scuba and materials, lace, satin, jacquard and more.
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What’s Your Short Gown Style?
There you have it on the latest short gown aso-ebi styles and also the trending English gown short styles to wear to a Nigerian wedding.
The above-featured styles should last you a couple of months, if you want to recreate them for any special occasion.
Thanks for reading. If you enjoyed reading this post and looking at the styles gallery, definitely help us share it on social media so that others can also see the styles.
Now, I want to hear from you: which is your preferred style – English short gowns or short gowns using Nigerian-type fabrics?
Also, tell me: which of the above trending short gown styles are you likely to buy or sew next? Comment below to tell me. One last question, which of the above celebrities rocked it better?
Pearl says
lovely dresses, am so proud of my country(NIGERIA)
Stella Anokam says
Thanks, dearie.
I like the gown
Thanks, Bose. I’m glad you liked the featured short gown styles for wedding guests. We have many more wedding guest outfit lookbooks you’ll love. Look around this blog:)
Wow wow wow, beautiful! I would really love to be one of your models, I live in south Africa. Your Talented, good job
Thanks for your feedback, Tebogo. Aww, I’m sure you’ll be a beautiful model:) I am glad that you like the featured short ankara gowns and mini- and midi-length African native wears with print fabrics. Those clothes are not my creations – they are the works of some talented Nigerian tailors and fashion designers. Our purpose of featuring them was to inspire our readers who are looking for wedding guest outfit ideas.
*Welcome to NaijaGlamWedding and thanks for commenting, we love our South African sisters:)
How to make purchase request? I am in Congo (DRC)
Hi Irene, welcome to NaijaGlamWedding. We don’t sell dresses – we are a magazine website. What our readers do is to take find a tailor/ dress-maker who lives near them to make their desired gown/ dress for them. Take your mobile phone/ tablet PC along when you go visit your tailor and show him/ her the style you like, ask them to sketch it and replicate the style for you. I am sure that there are fabulous dress-makers in Congo.
Hello.please Stella I need you to hook me up with a good and reliable wedding planner in Lagos that can plan my introduction and engagement for me.I’ve been finding it so difficult to get one coz am out of the country
Hi Temitope, welcome to NaijaGlamWedding. Ruth Olamide of La’ Heiress Hospitality Services is one of the awesome wedding planners in Lagos, and you can reach her on [email protected] or 08103193930 – tell her that I pointed you to her, so that she can score you some friend-friend discount. Just in case, I have a circle of wedding vendors here https://goo.gl/VhMYC0 (click).
Those are some gorgeous dresses.
Thanks, Bike. I am glad you like the featured short gown styles. By the way, your blog is awesome.
Cool. Fashion is really evolving in Nigeria. Great!
Thanks, Mimi. It’s amazing how Nigerian tailors and designers are making international-quality outfits (gowns, skirts and trausers using prints and traditional fabrics) that you can proudly wear anywhere in the World.
Do you have an affiliate program? How can I become a representative for the dress styles.? Do you have a catalog with wholesale pricing?
contact email address please
Thank you
No, Pat. We don’t
Wawoo those dresses look nice I love them all.am a fashion designer too I based in Mozambique.
Thank you, Blessing. I’m glad you like all the featured short gowns wedding guest outfits.