DRRRESSES: WANT

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?

going to a silly girls' night out in a few weeks where we must all wear ridiculous animal prints, I bought this "leopard" one:

http://www.forever21.com/images/model_front/11163091-01.jpg

christ.

wowzers

it's weird but i like it
i find that wearing dresses like that is kinda hard with shorter hair because there's a surprisingly lot more skin showing if hair isn't distracting the eye/braion from everything else on display

maybe that's just me being self-conscious though

brain!

my god i am really on top of the typos today

My hair is pretty long now! It touches my shoulder blades. But yeah, I have definite ideas about which looks work with short hair and which with long. I am going to hair spray it up like I'm in Ratt.

I figure I should step it up after only being 1/2 sparkly during the Sparkle Party:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/429545_10151253401535612_300509644_n.jpg

this is my other option which is more demure but I'm worried that belted bit might not be stretchy enough, damn the beer belly

http://www.forever21.com/images/model_front/00049287-05.jpg

I might actually wear that one again though

i'm just thanking the stars that my friends don't tell me what to wear
i don't even know people irl who do that, i don't think?! is this a bachelorette party or something?

Although it is not a thing I would wear, I quite like that first dress. Especially if you work some metal hair.

no, it's just for fun. No one's forcing me to go and as you can see, last time I went kind of low key about my sparkles. I felt underdressed though, so this time I thought I'd go for it!

The last time this happened was February, and I see most of these ladies at pub nights and whatnot, but sometimes I just want to wear something ridiculous and dance. And my shy husband(/most of them in our friend group) takes a LOT of convincing to go dance :P

I hope I can get the metal hair to work! I'm a fidgeter so my hair always ends up smoothed down by constantly touching it.

My hair is ridic long right now. Almost to my waist. And I need new dresses. The ASOS one was too big for me and looked like a sack. :(