DRRRESSES: WANT

would wear with grey tights imo

otm

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/shopping/80982/100-party-dresses-under-100

it's flash so i can't actually repost pictures of anything from the slideshow, sorry. #52 i really like and was shocked to see it was from the newport news catalog?!

oh wow thats really pretty

reminds me of something from recently, like something some celeb wore to an event maybe? cant put my finger on it

Newport news as some great stuff - you just have to search a bit. Bonus is that it's pretty cheap.

I have a couple dresses form there.

women be shoppin sale alert: 70% off sale at modcloth, i got 4 pretty nice dresses for work for $60 total. lots of sizes available.

Damn, most are sold out by now!

man do i wish i had dress-disposable income right now!

look at this beaut
http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2010/01/500x_lede_pic.jpg

i am not loving those giant plastic rhinestone things but the basic dress part is <3

except i dunno about the triangles over her nether regions...

i got a nice black winter/fall dress at Zara yesterday on supersale (and a new bag on sale elsewhere, whew finally! oh, the organization), but main discovery here is that the only sane time to ever shop at Zara is before 10:30am

looking at modcloth site makes me only want to wear dresses ever

i got a beautiful rodarte navy blue dress with a sheer black thing over

ooooh pix plz

you got a rodarte dress??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?! arent those like $20k?

not sure i like that gothy triangle-crotch givenchy couture thing....

i was weak: on sale and a 30% off coupon...

http://bananarepublic.gap.com/Asset_Archive/BRWeb/Assets/Product/729/729330/big/br729330-00vliv01.jpg

Nice dress! I just bought two on ebay, and I've got a few in my modcloth cart.

it looks more fitted on me bc i have bigger boobs. i think that model looks like she is playing dress up in her mom's clothes tbh.

oh mannnnn as soon as i can i am gonna be all up in modcloth's shit but atm my buying is strictly work-related :( (justifying this purchase because i got rid of 35 pieces at consignment shop yesterday and also hello new job = new wardrobe amirite???)

It's always the boobs! Haven't wore a button-up shirt in years cos of the girls.

But yeah, new job def = new clothes. I'm selling a buncha crap on ebay and pouring it right back into the wardrobe. Circle of life, really. Wore a great denim shirtdress today that I got for $50 at anthro. Wish I had a pic to post...

Bad shot, but you get the picture:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_580e8gfCdyw/S0nrYvPRrBI/AAAAAAAAFDM/DxCZbDtSi8E/s1600-h/2010-01-09_1943.jpg

or not.

ok so you know the wedding dress i ordered online? well, it arrived today and I FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!!! everyone should buy one of these:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34412052

it is super flattering and comfortable and adjustable, and just basically the most amazing dress i have/will ever own. stoked!

photo and link, please!

where the shit did my link go??

try again:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34412052

duh:

http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.102161771.jpg

(mine is optical white and not shiny)

Niiiice.

do you think it could be styled for work? i will go check that store on the way to my gym that i am pretty sure carries it...

totally! this store sells them with a matching tube top/bandeau, so that would give you back/bust coverage (the back is really low). the straps are really wide so you can wear it like a cap sleeve as well.

Lovely dress, just1n3! Glad you are happy with it.

beautiful

that's gorgeous!

i also bought this from modcloth, for our pre-wedding day photo shoot:

http://static1.modcloth.com/productshots/0035/8948/11602-1.jpg?e5bf3c7f9729d012caf630f7b889833585b6117c

it's so cute! i found the perfect short navy cardi to wear with it, and i'm gonna pair it with my biker boots (boots & dresses are my favouritest thing ever).

this his how i want to try and wear my wedding dress, if i can figure out a bra solution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=y9-AHJRVLbA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2Fbutterbynadia%3Fblend%3D2%26ob%3D1%23p%2Fu%2F9%2Fy9-AHJRVLbA

well that didn't work out quite how i wanted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-AHJRVLbA

gahhh my wedding dress didn't quite go how i expected it to, and i'm pretty disappointed: there was an issue with the middle of my bra showing at the front bc of the deep v which i thought i could easily solve on the day by putting in a few stitches to close the gap. totally didn't work well and the front looked really bad. wish i'd tried it first, but was so short on time. i think i'm gonna have the two long straps resewn so that they overlap more. also: the way i wanted to wear it didn't work out either - the shoulders kept falling down, which i was going to solve by using a pretty silver vintage sweater clip, but the clasps were too sharp and would've ripped the dress. so i ended up having to wear it a different way that didn't look so good in the back :( :(

I'm really sorry to hear that. The whole mix-and-wrap aspect doesn't sit well with me tbh because things that are jerry-rigged often don't work quite as imagined -- exactly that kind of thing. ;_;

If you have two vintage clip-on earrings, maybe they would make good shoulder clips to hold the material at least partly bunched up? Or for more structure, you could hand-sew the fabric into little bunches and hide your stitching w the earrings.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Plam14UGUAM/SnUMGL7T8HI/AAAAAAAAAAo/JRBfaqNNfEs/s400/McQueenDress.jpg

i meant to put this up a month ago and forgot about it, but it is on the cover of the UK glamour this month and I was reminded. Alexander McQueen at his finest.

xp the problem was that the way i wanted to wear it - the two long pieces coming over the shoulders and then back around underneath the arms, then wrapped around the waist - meant that the tension was pulling the shoulders off. i figured using a sweater clip at the top of the back would use the counter-pulling of the shoulders to keep them up. i don't think the sweater clasp was long enough anyway.

i ended up doing it a way that my friend had suggested, which was similar but covered a lot of the back up and left me with a big ugly knot in the middle of the back.

basically, the lesson learned here is 'don't leave things to the last minute'. the dress itself is perfect, i just wish i'd had time to figure out the front, and i could have gotten it repaired pretty easily so that the front pieces gave me better coverage.

tbh i was pretty much in tears (lol bridezilla) as i was getting ready: my mum was USELESS and only made me feel worse about the whole thing, i really wish i'd just gotten ytth to come help me get ready instead :/

awww. tbh i'd be surprised if any bride did not have some moment of wardrobe panic!

Nij, that McQueen is a dream.

J, I have narrow and sort of rounded shoulders and I spend about 3 hours a day just hauling bra straps back up, so I would never assume a shoulder wrap-around would work for me -- I'd at least cross the straps in the back. However it's a known fact that hardly any one notices these things except the wearer, and everyone else will probably have thought it was supposed to be exactly the way it was.

awwwww so sad about the wrap dress drama, but hey! most pictures of you will be from the front anyway and i'm sure you had bride's glow going on to hide all the fuss anyway. *hugs*!

oh man that mcqueen dress is amazing

ok so last weekend we were in LA and it was motherfucking hot and i was so damn uncomfortable in my cords, and my capri jean things didn't fit me right, and i felt like i was having to walk round sucking in my stupid belly. so i have decided that despite my ugly legs it's gonna be a dress-only summer: so much more comfortable, it makes up for the embarrassment of the whole world seeing my legs.

http://www.modcloth.com/productshots/0040/1421/13221-1.jpg

http://www.modcloth.com/productshots/0037/4298/12185-4.jpg

http://www.modcloth.com/productshots/0020/6587/6463-2.jpg

http://www.modcloth.com/productshots/0035/8960/11602-2.jpg

also ordered these sandals from israel to go with all my new dresses. it's gonna be a bohemian summer!

adorable!

Gladiator sandals always looked a bit painful to me.

i love them! they're my favouritest shoes of all time! i had a pair when i was 18 that i wore every day for a year, i loved them so (right through a pretty harsh winter, no less).