Duchess Meghan’s Unexpected Backless Dress Infuses Some Heat Into Royal Fashion

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When it comes to royal fashion, modesty prevails. Certain members of the British royal family, like Princess Catherine and Duchess Sophie, so often execute their royal duties dressed in conservatively cut hems and necklines, and even non-senior royals like Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie don’t often stray far from the status quo. These sartorial parameters are exactly what make the wardrobe of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, so exciting.

With every passing year since she and husband Prince Harry stepped down as working senior royals in 2020, Meghan has become more and more comfortable with taking fashion risks with her clothes. While she's still just as capable of pulling off her typical royal uniform of a midi dress or wide-leg trousers, she's also experimenting with some looks that we might have once never expected to find in a royal's closet.

Behold: the duchess spent a recent date night wearing a slinky backless black dress. Besides the sultry backless feature, the form-fitting St. Agni piece also includes an asymmetrical halter neckline that wraps around her neck to reveal a sliver of décolletage.

She paired the dress with geometric black and gold earrings, then swept her hair up in her go-to slicked back high bun.

In photos shared to Instagram by close family friend Ignacio Figueras, Meghan appeared in the look during a dinner supporting Sentebale, an organization co-founded by Harry and Lesotho's Prince Seeiso to support young people in southern African countries like Botswana.

The outing follows the couple's appearance at the Royal Salute Polo Challenge at the Grand Champions Polo Club in Florida last weekend, where Meghan once again pushed the envelope on royal fashion in a white Heidi Merrick halterneck dress with a torso cutout and a pleated midi skirt.

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