DRRRESSES: WANT

can i ask how you feel about prints? i like a print in a guest-of-wedding dress, but not everybody is into that.

emil.y i think you should wear something really simple, like just a stretchy black dress thing and then wear that marvelous cape you have over it

i guess it's too hot for that though :(

oh that's right you have that amazing cape!

it might be too hot but if you have to go to a winter wedding any time get that dress made for you and wear your cape!

alternately, just wear something super simple and monochrome and dress it up with a decorative scarf

Yeah, I'm going for a dress - I kind of figure that menswear-inspired will just allow me to be my normal scruff self too much, and I want to kind of glam it up for a change. Or, well, 'glam' for me. I had a look on Dorothy Perkins without much success, I have to say. I quite liked this:

http://media.dorothyperkins.com/wcsstore/DorothyPerkins/images/catalog/01000100_large.jpg

...but I'd rather have long sleeves, which seems to make things impossible, argh.

xposts, ahahahaha, yeah, cape would be awesome! Might boil to death in it in August, though.

Eeep, huge, sorry.

Oh I like that very much. You could do that with a cardi for sleeves? A light one? Or a shawl!

or a BOLERO!

i just wanted to say BOLERO!

I should so go for a bolero. BOLERO!

We should ask for an autoreplace like you get with DUMPLINGS!.

when there's a lull in conversation, you will always have your BOLERO!

yes i like that, too! yay prints!

off to look for a BOLERO!

sorry i'm not helping with the dresses
i would honestly just go get something really simple and dress it up with accessories/scarf/shoes/hairdo (your hair is beautiful, consider a pretty hair ornament as a central wardrobe piece?)

Eeeh, hair ornament? I'm not sure where I'd even start with that.

this is totally unhelpful as it is beyond your budget and i don't know if tracy reese has a retailer in the uk, but i went looking for long-sleeved dresses:

http://tracyreese.com/images/product/medium/1302_3_.jpg

the only shrug on the dorothy perkins that looked like it could function as long-sleeved is this: http://media.dorothyperkins.com/wcsstore/DorothyPerkins/images/catalog/28000044_2_thumb.jpg it's available in beige if that coral is too bright for you.

Haha, that dress is hella stylish, but not really my colour scheme either (I don't think Tracy Reese does have a UK retailer, but I'm not that up on these things - it's not one I've heard mentioned before, anyway).

Not convinced by the shrug. I found an ebay BOLERO! that I like but it might be a bit heavy for a summer thing? But then surely the nature of a BOLERO! is that it is light? http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/400238822141?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla

link to purchase that long sleeved Tracy reed dress right now, please.

yes ma'am

it is expensive but some of the stuff on her site is onsale. i will retrieve some sale options

la lechera otm - get a simple monochrome dress in a shape that suits your body type and then glam it up with a diamante barrette or similar and a nice BOLERO! or short cardi (you could buy a cheap cheap cardi and replace the buttons with fancier ones, too).

If you like the short-sleeved dress and nothing else jumps out at you, you could always put a stretchy knit top with long sleeves underneath it. That might be a bigger challenge to find than the dress, perversely, but something in brown/beige/grey/pink/peach with long or 3/4-length sleeves underneath could work.

http://ris.fashion.telegraph.co.uk/RichImageService.svc/imagecontent/1/TMG8407459/m/brown-dress_1863874a.jpg

what about something like this? with a tie? you could wear an ornate tie pin.

http://www.eshakti.com/Product/CL0023238_OS/Swirling-dots-skirt

oh swirling dot skirt, i want you v much

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the cut of that tracy reese, though I don't know if I would be comfortable with the print (love it, too, but just not on plain ole me).

i know what you mean. i have a general aversion to floral prints (i blame the 90s) but sometimes they look fabulous but i still don't think they're really me. i do think that dress is lovely but maybe not my thing?

it's very important that i agonize about whether this dress i can't afford suits me

i went back to the tracy reese site to find sale dresses to post here but there were so many dresses and i went into a trance. dress trance.

also that dress is so demure! maybe with a different neckline.

Ummm. It looks like bespoke might not actually be too late. If I can make it to a fitting tomorrow, anyway.

Go! Go!!

DO IT YES DO IT

yay!

omg yay!!!

*hoists emil.y up on our shoulders and parades her down the street to the bespoke place*

http://cdn.yoox.biz/34/34237501vn_12_f.jpg

want

(margiela)

neat.

Oasis is killing it right now imo. Tried on both of these today, both looked nicer in person but not quite the right fit for my body shape:

http://media.oasis-stores.com/pws/images/catalogue/products/3470089804/xlarge/3470089804_2.jpg
(drawings of London)
http://www.oasis-stores.com/London-City-Scape-Dress/Dresses/oasis/fcp-product/3470089804

http://www.oasis-stores.com/Triangle-Collar-Shirtdress/Dresses/oasis/fcp-product/3770027305

oh man that london dress

That London dress is fantastic!! Love it.

the margiela is so great!

Returned a skirt, received credit for entire $150 gc I'd used to purchase said skirt AND two dresses, heh. Shopping before they catch on, just in case..

I've just been to pick up my dress. I have no idea what other people will think, but I really really like it.

that's all that matters imo
congrats on your new plumage!

Ended up buying five dresses bc of gift card screwup..paid $110 total. I'll take it!

The designer I work for is doing a 30% off sale until end of August. To avoid being unforgivably spam, anyone who is interested can reach out to me if you'd like for details.

yay emil.y! pics maybe?