DRRRESSES: WANT

I love toile. I love blue toile. I would do whatever it takes to make that dress work. Also:

cream cigarette pants and some kind of draped top

In the early '00s I was working for a software company (lol who wasn't?) in Atlanta and they had a Christmas party and most everybody had one some version of office Christmas party formal wear and a colleague brought a date and she was wearing cigarette pants and high heels and I don't even remember exactly what kind of shirt and she looked SO AMAZING and cool and badass and just wow. When nobody else was dancing, she jumped right out on the floor and danced with her date and they seemed to be having so much fun while the rest of us were there in our staid office party outfits* wishing that we had the guts to take such a risk. I will seriously never forget her and I hope that she has had every success in life, because she deserved it.

So, in short, yes to that suggestion.

*tbf I was wearing a long gold wood nymph dress and Fleuvog Frankenstein boots so I didn't exactly look traditional; she just made me feel staid with her convention flouting and joie de vivre.

So jel. I want cigarette pants in every color, especially in black lace with a taupe/peach background--hey, that would be a good look for hiding stains. I love pants and what they say, how they're subversive on women in the most basic sense and how they break the rules of what constitutes different levels of dressing. It's just that the infinite variety of ways in which they do not fit AT ALL is torturous.

God yes. It is a tragedy.

Ha! At a recent family function two different people told me that I looked like I should be fencing, and I totally took that as a compliment. I thought I was kind of going for Prince/Kinks, but I'll take "jouster." I love dressing up like a frilly little man!

Also Carl my toile dress is blue. You are gonna pee when you see it, but I have to make sure it doesn't smell/hasn't completely disintegrated in the time I haven't been wearing it.

I can only wear stretchy pants these days for comfort reasons, but fortunately there are a lot of those out there.

So I noticed on those eshakti dresses I bought that there were funny little button tabs underneath the shoulder straps and I just couldn't figure out what they were. I finally asked Ytth what he thought they were: ”uhhh aren't those for holding your bra straps in place?”

DUH

I love that dress, VG - I think that sort of ruching thing is good if you feel self conscious about lumps and bumps. Also thirding yellow shoes with it.

blue chiffon and a gold collar. absolutely.

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/9424/chiffoncollar.jpg

Oh hell yes.

cosign

Cuuuuute

That is so pretty! Love it!

That's lovely.

I'm seeing Peter Pan collars everywhere lately.

that seems very u

Hey Carl A!

Could you tell me the name of the website you have had success buying plus sized dresses from before? I think it's the one with the model you love. A friend of mine was talking about how awful a lot of plus size women's clothing is and I told her I'd try to find out the name of that site. :)

Asos Curve and Simply Be feature my girlfriend. I think the quality as Asos Curve is better than that at Simply Be, but SB has cute trendy stuff.

I also buy a lot of dresses at eShakti.

TY! :)

i have a friend who says she counted and she owned 80 dresses. right after counting she found one that had fallen behind the hamper, bringing the total to 81. each one has a name. the one that had fallen down behind the hamper was called "the unicorn dress," though it does not feature a unicorn.

imagining what it would be like to own over 80 dresses

That was me in my 20's and 134 pairs of shoes was a downsize. I don't know if it was 81 dresses but I had more than 56. Contempo, Foleys and vintage, 50 cents per pound, found the on the floor in old warehouse finds from high school.

I think I have at least 40, but most aren't very good. Got another yesterday! Fit and flare style.cream lace with lime lining. Not v flattering for my pink skin tone, but so cute! And cheap (marshal's)

I bought a petticoat today. It's the best. It has a New York City Opera label in it!

^ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A dress I got in a buy one/get one free deal a month ago got it's first wash today and was ruined. The dress was cheap, liked it a lot though. The dye went all splotchy on it. Followed directions. Trashed it which leaves me with three sundresses, 2 "nice dresses" and one fading red linen dress. Time for more dresses.

Ooo red linen. I still cling to my canary yellow linen shirtdress though I will probably never fit into it again.

That sounds pretty, so don't!

I know its not dresses but ive been on the hunt for the perfect, or really a number of perfect, mid length A-line skirts. I found an Issac Mizrahi floral number that that looked pretty good in the photo. As I do, I skimmed the the best and worst comments. Only one wonman gave the skirt a 1 star rating. The reason? 'Its made of some type of weird rubber-like material I've never come across before. I had to return it!'. Rubber?? I though. I went back to check the what the fabric was in the description - 97% Cotton, 3% Spandex. People are crazy.'

What the hell?

I want all these mid-length A-line skirts. Please post links if you find them!

But they're made of rubber.

I buy most household linens from Overstock.com because that shit's cheap and idgaf about brands or last season's colors and there is always some ding dong giving sheets one star because they come out of the dryer wrinkled. If wrinkled sheets are an issue for you in 2013, your opinion is irrelevant to me. My mom used to iron sheets and pillowcases (until she was sure I wasn't going to burn my hand off with the iron; then I got assigned that stupid task) and JEANS because she had fucked up priorities, just like those Overstock reviewers.

Anyway, on topic, I've had an eShakti dress bookmarked for a couple of months waiting for the right time to buy and it's out of stock now. Fucking tragic.

rubber skirts! rad

I need a-line stuff and how. Another issue: I am 5'3" and have ddd breasts, so normal cap and short sleeves make.my boobs look uncutely mammoth and matronly. Half and 3/4 sleeves balance them out, but it can be very hard to find good dresses with those sleeve-lengths. Also, nothing will button over those guys.

Anyone ever order from She Inside? I just made the discovery.

emilys: I have been coming across a lot of 3/4 sleeves but now can't remember. Will make a note. Been dress browsing all over the internet.

So I ordered a black and white polka dot dress and red shoes to wear to (an ilxor!) wedding. What color shawl and bag should I be going for?

is it black with white dots or vice versa

Black w with dots

my fave!

i wanna say red accessories? but i think maybe i get a lil' too matchy-matchy so :/

Was gonna say the exact same thing!

Yeah I'm thinking all red stuff would be too much red that's why I was thinking black and just leaving the shoes as the one pop of color?

OMG this is my dream dress: white pp collar, a-line, just perfect

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/6024/516201393438am.jpg

Nice!!!!!!!!!!

super cute

reminds me of Chrissy Amphlett :)

no rubber, no credibility
(no, you're right, it's gorgeous)

What is this style of dress called?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26827377/dress.JPG
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26827377/dress2.JPG

whoops, sorry

drop waist iirc

Oh, ok. I thought those were the ones where the dress is straight down and then there's a 'waist' below your actual waist?

I...thought so too?

ljub, I don't know if that kind of dress has a particular name tbh. It's a fitted bodice with a natural waist and a box-pleated skirt, made of what looks like jersey or another soft fabric?