👗Dress Emoji
Generally, the 👗 emoji just means a dress. People use it to represent clothing, fashion, or something that looks dress-like.
The 👗 emoji represents a dress.
- Unicode
- U+1F457
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :dress:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👗 Dress emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Dress emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F457 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your dress looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Dress emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :dress:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F457.
How to type the 👗 Dress emoji
No picker to hand? The dress can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Dress emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Dress emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around dress for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👗, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👗 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 👗 means in other countries
Reads as formalwear or general women’s fashion everywhere, with the occasion doing more work than the garment itself.
Implies dressing up for an occasion — a wedding, a party, or a date night out.
Just describes an everyday outfit choice, without any extra signal attached to it.
Before you send it: Safe for outfit planning or compliments in pretty much any context, casual or formal.
What 👗 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F457, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 👗 Dress emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F457 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👗 existed there as
KDDI au EB6B, SoftBank E319.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Dress was approved as U+1F457 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👗 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.