DRRRESSES: WANT

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).

oh and i bought these to wear underneath, since most of these dresses aren't lined:

http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.138845466.jpg

aw!

i know right?!? i'm always a little nervous about flashing my underwear when i'm wearing anything above the knee, and i thought about a cotton petticoat but then i came across these on etsy and was totally sold.

v cute, j!

i am also incorporating a ton more dresses into my wardrobe for summer because it is so hot and gross here. office clothes are gross for commuting but dresses are a little easier. i found some good deals at ross.

Bloomers! Cute.

yeah i usually prefer pants, or tights/leggings with dresses but i wore the red dress today (which i got at the modcloth sale for $15 awhile back!) with a cute/cheap white lil' cardi from target (i love target - i got 4 of these cardies bc they were so perfect, elbow length to hide fat arms and a little shorter so good with loose dresses) and it was so terribly hot, i would normally be feeling like shit but dang i was comfortable and happy!

I feel the same about short dresses! You don't always FEEL exposed, but god forbid you sit down on the subway, because you have to see other women's underwear across from you to realize how much YOU are probably showing. Petticoats imo are most useful for keeping dresses from sticking to your sweaty legs and ass -- the outer layer of the dress doesn't stick and then you don't have to tug on your skirt when you stand up. It's not nec more comfortable (because the petticoat still sticks to you) but it's like 90% more discreet.

Too add: petticoats are most useful for loose-skirted dresses that reach below the knee. For short skirts, I favor a pair of cut-off tights to prevent jiggling and rubbing.

oh man the other day my dress kept blowing up against my thighs when i walked making me feel very awkward and exposed. it was SO annoying. what is diff btw petticoat and a half slip? ruffles?

No, they're the same! "Slips" in this country tend to be polyester knits which cling a hell of a lot and are really hot -- really what you want is a cotton or non-slinky underskirt half-slip.

A full-slip is the kind that has bra-ish straps and hangs from the shoulder, I mostly hate that kind.

...because I don't have very square shoulders, so straps fall down. If you have swimmer/gymnast shoulders and things stay up for you, maybe a half-slip is the way to go.

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/e1/a/AAAAAjk8MSEAAAAAAOGr_g.jpg

Got this and I'm wearing it today. Isaac for Target, lol. It has a huge, stiff crinoline layer that keeps the skirt sticking out.

Wonderful! That, to my mind, is the perfect summer dress: cool and loose and allows for sitting on the ground without discomfort.

Also very very accessorisable.

I thought at first that you wrote "SPITTING on the ground," and later, "accessible."

Obv you're more rock and roll than I am.

Haha.

kind of want this etsy dress i can't afford:

http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_430xN.141939932.jpg

have any of you guys ever bought stuff off etsy?

It's wonderful!!!! Except for that elastic waist. Will take same dress with actual darts, pls!

And "Only jewelry".

i know, the waist really makes it less cute!

On her it looks fine/awesome. I just don't think it would translate for me.

Oooh I like Roxy's dress a lot and the etsy dress is <3. I didn't think Issac was doing Target clothes anymore.

I have bought jewelry and an apron from Etsy just arrived in the mail today but I've never bought actual clothes from there.