Velvet in pink is one of those combinations that looks expensive before you’ve even added anything to it. The fabric already does most of the heavy lifting. It catches light in a way that flat fabric simply cannot, and that quality reads across a room, across a photograph, across every setting you’d actually want to wear something this considered in. Yes, velvet requires a little more care. We think that’s a fair trade. The dresses we’ve pulled together here range from deep dusty rose to brighter, more unapologetic pinks, from fitted silhouettes that feel like proper occasion dressing to easier shapes that work for dinners and events where you want to look like you thought about it. All of them share that particular velvet quality of looking significantly more expensive than almost anything else you could put on. These are not background dresses. Velvet pink commands attention and earns it, which is exactly the combination worth spending a little extra on at the dry cleaners.