Carrie Underwood Proves Her 'Idol' Finale Dress 'Still Fits' After 20 Years

“Still fits!”

Longtime American Idol viewers undoubtedly recognized the dress Carrie Underwood wore on the show on Monday night (April 28).

Underwood made her highly-anticipated return to Idol as a judge for the first time this year, marking a full circle moment two decades after her career-launching victory in the show’s fourth season. On Monday, powerhouse country star wore the same dress she was wearing when Idol host Ryan Seacrest crowned her the winner in 2005. Underwood offered a close-up glimpse of the gown as she shared her “2005 fit check,” and exclaimed that it “still fits!”

The nostalgia continued throughout the show with American Idol’s third season winner, Fantasia, returning to the show’s stage with a stunning performance. Underwood also reunited with other former 2005 contestants: Lindsey Cardinale, Anthony Federov, Constantine Maroulis, Vonzell Solomon and Mikalah Gordon.

One night earlier, on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame night, Underwood took the stage to revive her iconic cover of Heart’s “Alone.” The country singer famously took a “risk” — with a dramatic hairstyle — when she defied genre boundaries and chose to cover the power ballad by legendary rockers when she competed on Idol in 2005. Then-judge Simon Cowell even predicted that Underwood would win the show and “sell more records than ay other previous Idol winner.”

“Song choice is so difficult when you are doing something like this because just as much as people are listening to you sing it, they’re thinking about the original song,” Underwood said as she rewatched her 2005 performance in the online Idol To Icon series. “I remember week-to-week, you know, we would get critiqued, and it would be like, ‘oh, you know, you’re playing it so safe,’ ‘you’re being so safe with your choices,’ and it’s like, ‘well, does that matter, if I do a good job?’ And this week, I was like, ‘OK, I’m just gonna throw caution to the wind.’ And I think I even remember, like, writing in my journal how much they were not gonna like me singing this song. And being, not so much worried, I was like, ‘they’re gonna hate it. Whatever. I really wanna do it, so OK, let’s go.’ You never know what’s gonna happen.”