Shirley manson dress sheer

As Garbage members reflect on their 20-plus years as a band and their new retrospective coffee table book, This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake, one career highlight that quickly comes to mind is the 1999 Grammy Awards, when Garbage were up for Album of the Year.

Frontwoman and fashion icon Shirley Manson commemorated the occasion by wearing a bold dress emblazoned with the artwork of Garbage’s nominated sophomore effort, Version 2.0, but she realized too late that the album’s cover art didn’t totally cover up her body.

“This sounds like a lie, but this is the God’s honest truth: I had zero idea it was see-through,” Manson says now of the infamous outfit.

“I look at photos now and go, ‘I turned up for the Grammys in that?’ It’s just like, Jesus Christ, what was I thinking? I was just fixated on the fact that I thought it was really smart to advertise our record on the Grammy red carpet, because I think