heels for a sitting down party/dinner or mostly-sitting office job imo
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
love that roxy
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
betsy johnson model makeup is on point
I LOVE that dress, Jenny. Where is it from?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Simply Be
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
i really like that green color on the dress roxymuzak posted! both these dresses are super cute. i'm not a dress person, but sometimes this thread makes me go "mayyyybbeeee"
― rayuela, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
big up betsey johnson
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
i cannot find a picture of the black dress with beige polka dots i bought the other day, but it is a thing i have wanted for about 6 months now.
― sarahell, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
So jealous, kate!
I was also a little jealous of the girls who worked by me, but now they don't have jobs so now I just feel bad. They were nice.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
I tried on some dresses at Betsey that fit really well on the hips but were way too tight in the chest.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
New crop of Anthropologie dresses I want. I was boycotting this place, still am I guess because I can never afford to buy a dress.Josephine Dress:http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?navAction=jump&id=23883945&parentid=SEARCH_RESULTS&color=015Dakota Dress:http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?navAction=jump&id=24608317&parentid=SEARCH_RESULTS&color=010Annike Sleeveless Dress:http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?navAction=jump&id=23883747&parentid=SEARCH_RESULTS&color=011
― *tera, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
The Dakota dress is my favorite dress style of all time (shirtdress with tie waist and full skirt); trying to decide how I feel about the "shirt tail" hemline.
I have a shirt dress and a shift dress that I want multiple copies of in different colors. The shift dress was made for me by my mom, because no shift off the rack would or could ever come close to fitting me; she said she might have saved the pattern and will try to dig it up to make more. the shirt dress I am thinking I might take to a seamstress to try to copy without deconstructing the dress itself. I could live happily in multiple copies of both of those dresses for a long, long time.
― quincie, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
Know what you mean. I have five dresses I wish I had replacements for when they die. Going to suck.
― *tera, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
I have found that ross & tj maxx are great places for cheap impulse summer dress buys that don't make you feel guilty. I rarely find any clothes there, but always see cute dresses. Ymmv by location.
― tehresa, Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:44 (eleven years ago) link
I picked this up at H&M, it is marked down to $20 this weekend (from $50) and also comes in a great orange.
http://origin.kaboodle.com/hi/img/b/0/0/1bd/4/AAAACz8hgKEAAAAAAb1Bfw.jpg?v=1326773127000
― teeny, Sunday, 27 May 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
Love! I want this dress!
― tehresa, Sunday, 27 May 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Ladies! I have a couple of weddings to attend in August and I'm clueless about summer wedding attire. One ceremony is in a church, the other in a hotel, and I think the receptions are both at community halls (I don't think either will be hugely posh or fancy). Anyone done this before who can offer some basic suggestions? What should I absolutely NOT wear in terms of colours and styles?
I've spent tons of time looking at dresses online but none of my favourites seem particularly 'summery' or 'weddingy' :(
― salsa shark, Monday, 28 May 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
If you feel dressed-up, and attractive, and you're not dying of heat, I think that's great, whatever you end up wearing. Who wants everyone to look the same in their wedding pictures?
― ljubljana, Monday, 28 May 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
More in the spirit of the thread, I'm pretty much in love with this right now, but it's an Alexander McQueen so kind of beyond what I can afford :/
http://www.stylebop.com/grafic/looks/018/272x610/018941.jpg
― salsa shark, Monday, 28 May 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
xpost that's what a friend of mine said too! maybe i'm overthinking?
Well that's completely natural. Are the people very very traditional, would be offended by someone wearing black, etc.? If not, anything that says 'it's summer' and 'I have dressed up to celebrate your day and I feel gorgeous' has got to be good.
― ljubljana, Monday, 28 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
that alexander mcqueen dress is rad. would wear/covet.
i just tried on like 10 dresses in a boutique near my house and they were all cute and fit fairly well but just weren't what i'm looking for :/ i really liked one dress in particular but it only came in navy and white. and navy only looks good on me if it's a black-navy not a blue-navy (if that makes sense) and this one was the latter. and white, well, that just seems dangerous in my world of biking around and eating things and sitting down in various places. so that was a bit sad.
i'm having a bit of a "wtf all my clothes are boring" week... which is making me be creative, but still, all i really want is 2 new dresses!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
which reminds me, don't wear a white dress to the weddings
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
i would err on the side of demure with wedding attire. like if you think you might be showing an uncomfortable amount of cleavage, you probably are. i think florals and solid summer colours are good choices, nothing too short, not a tube dress.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
something you feel "wedding fun" in
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 May 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
haha yes I am trying to aim for 'wedding fun'. I'm just not really a flowery bright colours sort of person so summer is a bit difficult. I'm hoping I can find a dress that'll be suitable for other weddings and fancy things that come up (could I wear the McQueen to a wedding? I seriously had a dream about that dress last night I can't stop thinking about it even when I'm asleep)
I am feeling the 'wtf all my clothes are boring' thing, too. Bought a few new things online to try to spice it up again (doubly new, in the sense that they are styles/clothes I haven't really worn much before! exciting)
ljubljana: one of the weddings is catholic and the other is a civil ceremony. I can't imagine my catholic friend will be upset by whatever I choose to wear, though (the flipside to this is her fiance and his family are very conservative Christians). I guess I'm mostly worried about not dressing up enough, or dressing up too much, or wearing something others think is too short. Ack!
― salsa shark, Monday, 28 May 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
If you're going to be concerned about short, don't go for that (and definitely consider the fiance's family if anything is likely to offend them). Sadly this excludes the McQueen!
― ljubljana, Monday, 28 May 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
btw i think a fun black or grey dress with bright/sparkly accessories is just fine for a wedding! if that's more your style. and you can wear something like that plenty of times again
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, 28 May 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― ljubljana, Monday, 28 May 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
"i'm having a bit of a "wtf all my clothes are boring" week... "rrobyn: I am in that same mood!
― *tera, Monday, 28 May 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
i don't quite know what to do about it except: go shopping!i'm going to go to the jeans place tmrw and get new jeans, which i really needand pop into a few boutiquey placesi mean, my other issue is that the things i really like wearing are in the laundry, haha
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
but it's always good to have a new summer dress!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
yes, fun black or grey would be good. I already have 'fun black' in my wardrobe so I wouldn't even have to spend much money... bonus. Thanks for the suggestions.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 10:26 (eleven years ago) link
I've never had a "my clothes are all boring" moment, but I've had the opposite. "none of my clothes are normal! I need staples"
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
this is on its way to me! get here quick, coral dress of my dreams!
http://us.dorothyperkins.com/wcsstore/DorothyPerkinsUS/images/catalog/07593316_large.jpg
Also, pro-tip, ASOS dresses shrink a LOT in the wash. I might just have to dryclean them (Even though the label says machine washing is okay).
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I like the length of that
― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
I got a pretty bonkers vintage dress at the thrift store yesterday, A-line dress that I think was home sewn, with thin red stripes on a black background sewn on a bias so the stripes coalesce into an op-art diamond in the middle of the chest (and again in the back). It's polyester & long-sleeved so I can conceivably wear it in only two winter months, but I was still stoked.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:52 (eleven years ago) link
Abbott, that sounds like my kind of dress!
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
Hey if any of you living in the NYC area would like to get free food and drinks (no admission fee either by the way), I'd be honored if you could join me at an event we're hosting at a venue overlooking MSG. We'll be selling everything from our collection with a 20% discount, but if you want to just come hang out that would be great too. We could use some help spreading the word so if you have friends that you think would like to attend please let them know, and thanks in advance for doing so!
Here is the website (again):
www.claudiapatel.com
Here are the details of the event:
June 5th (this Tuesday) 3:30pm - 8:00pm251 west 30th st, 16th floorNYC
Hope to see you! If you come by be sure to say hi to me.
― Evan, Friday, 1 June 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
This is not usually the sort of dress I like but something about it makes me totally WANT!http://www.sundancecatalog.com/product/womens+clothing/womens+dresses/womens+short+dresses/paprika+print+dress.do?sortby=ourPicks#
― *tera, Friday, 1 June 2012 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
My coral dress got here. It's made out of neoprene, and it hides nothing. I love it.
― homosexual II, Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
I can't to afford to buy all the eShaktis I want, it drives me nuts.. but I got this in the mail today, can't wait to get home and see how it looks!
http://img.eshakti.com/clothImages/CL0023468P.jpg
<3
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 11 June 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
pretty, love the colour :)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
this is dress season imo
Been meaning to order a custom dress for two months but keep forgetting to get someone to measure across my shoulder blades!
― ljubljana, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
The dress fit like a dream; there's some ruching in the back of it to keep it tight. The only problem is the sleeves are too long! Or perhaps my waist is too high.. I had to have the same alterations done to my wedding dress :P Tiny little (broad) shoulders!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
I've been trying to buy some version of this for years:http://www.asos.com/Hybrid/Hybrid-Dress-With-Button-And-Belt-Details/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=2343205&affid=1130
but I don't really like either of those colours. I got a similar ish one in white off ebay years ago and tried to dye it a cool shade of green but it just looked mouldy and faded :((
― kinder, Monday, 25 June 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
heh, ask and ye shall receive:http://www.asos.com/Hybrid/Hybrid-Dress-with-Button-and-Belt-Details/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=2001141&affid=1130
(like these colours less)
― kinder, Monday, 25 June 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
35% off at eshakti till July 4...
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 June 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
& I bet JUN125 is their monthly 12.5% discount code ;)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 25 June 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link