What Do the Housewives Wear on Ultimate Girls Trip? Four Borrowed Dress Codes

Key takeaways

• Seven Housewives, six franchises, nine episodes on Bravo: Lisa Barlow, Gizelle Bryant, Teresa Giudice, Vicki Gunvalson, Luann de Lesseps, Kyle Richards and Porsha Williams.
• The season dresses to a brief. Most of the big looks are costume calls for recreated parties, not free choice: all white, ugly leather pants, '80s workout gear, 1920s tailoring.
• Kyle Richards' White Party has the strictest rule on the show — head-to-toe white, and Luann performs in angel wings.
• Vicki Gunvalson wore '80s workout gear head to toe for her Bunco night, the one look on the trip that is activewear rather than eveningwear.
• Confessional wardrobes run separately: sequin dresses, metallic fringe, a rhinestone blazer. White midi dresses of the White Party type listed at $70, $120 and $200 on one brand's own US catalogue when we checked.

Quick answer — there is no single house style. The premise is a tour of the franchise's own history, so each party carries a dress code borrowed from the original episode. Learn the four briefs and you can read almost every outfit on the season.

Who is on the trip, and what does each one wear?

Seven veterans, one from each corner of the franchise. Everyday clothes are their own; party clothes are assigned.

What is the dress code at Kyle Richards' White Party?

All white, no exceptions, at her Encino house. It is a restaging of the party from the second season of the Beverly Hills show, and the rule is the point — the original scene is remembered partly because of how uniform it looked on camera. The wrinkle this time is Luann, who performs in angel wings, and an emotional undertow: Kyle hosts on what would have been a wedding anniversary.

If you are dressing for one yourself, the useful detail is fabric weight, not shape: thin white cotton goes transparent under party lighting, so the looks that survive on camera are lined.

Why are there ugly leather pants?

Because one Beverly Hills argument turned a pair of leather trousers into franchise shorthand, and the trip restages that lunch around them, with Crystal Kung Minkoff back in the pants at the centre of the original row. It is the only look on the season that is deliberately unflattering.

What did Vicki Gunvalson wear to the Bunco party?

'80s workout gear, head to toe, for a restaging of her Orange County Bunco night at The Quiet Woman: leotards, leg warmers, high-cut briefs over leggings, headbands. It is the only athletic wardrobe on the trip, so the buying side sits with our activewear desk. Retro-aerobic is back in mainstream ranges, so it is unusually easy to copy.

What is the Gangster Brunch, and how do you dress for it?

Dorinda Medley's revival of her New York brunch, and the closest thing this season has to a true 1920s brief — pinstripe tailoring, fedoras, drop-waist and fringe, long ropes of beads. It fits the season's Roaring 20th title neatly, since the franchise is marking twenty years. Fringe is the piece worth buying rather than renting: a beaded fringe dress reads as costume at brunch and as a party dress everywhere else.

What are the confessional clothes, and why do they look different?

Confessionals are shot separately, so they follow no brief at all. If a look seems disconnected from the scene around it, that is why. What wardrobe loggers have catalogued so far:

What does a White Party dress actually cost?

We priced three white midi dresses of the right weight on Abercrombie's own US catalogue on Sept. 21, 2026. These are not the pieces worn on the show; they are the same brief at three budgets.

All three run XXS to XL in petite, regular and tall — which matters more than price for a code that is strict about colour and forgiving about everything else.

Are these the exact pieces the cast wore?

No. Reality casts largely dress themselves, so brand names leak out more often than on scripted shows, but party costumes are often one-off, vintage or pulled — which is why a 'matching' listing is usually the closest cousin, not the thing itself. How loans and pulls work.

Where else is this autumn's reality wardrobe worth watching?

The same logic — one cast, one rail, one season — runs through the RHONY cropped jackets, the Salt Lake City mesh and puffers and the Mormon Wives sweat sets. For costume rather than clothing, there is the Traitors castle and the ballroom costume shop. Scripted wardrobes live on Drama Style, and the year's carpet is in the Emmys best looks. Full rails: Reality Looks, Shop the Look, Guides.

When does the next episode air?

Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo. Mic Drop, Please is Sept. 27, built around Luann's Halloween bash, and Bluestone Manners follows on Oct. 4. We keep this page at the same address and add each party's dress code as it airs, through the Oct. 4 finale.