DRRRESSES: WANT

I could dress up so much more for work than I do. My only rule is that swear to god I am not wearing anything with a fitted waist that is not stretchy to sit at a desk for 9 hours. If it's a swing or trapeze dress or has stretch or w/e, then bring it on as long as it covers me up.

those are both too short for teaching, i'm afraid (unless i want people to talk, which has happened to me and i do not care to repeat)

See both of those dresses look way too short for work to me. I'm tall so that they would most come just a couple inches under my butt and be a no go even with tights. That said, I love them both a lot.

my 'everything' was perhaps OTT, clearly there are some office appropriate dresses - especially for my office where almost anything goes (which is fun and makes me experiment more!) but I fear everything on ASOS' site would require tights underneath anyway as most of the stuff my 5'3" coworker orders in are things I consider short on her (I am that rare prude/drag queen hybrid) and I have amazing legs and tights are ridiculous in the summer. perhaps I will order a winter dress or two. why won't they give us our bonuses so I can spend that instead of mentally spending it??

these *just* came in the mail from eshakti (fyi rrobyn I did get dinged with $20 C.O.D. this time) - excited to try them on!
http://img.eshakti.com/clothImages/CL0024477P.jpg
http://img.eshakti.com/clothImages/CL0024392P.jpg

xp lol jinx E

& LL!

i'm not looking for suggestions for things to wear to work btw, i just was wondering if maybe i am behind the curve in dressing-up-when-going-out trends (though enbb otm - those dresses are cute, just not something i could/would wear to work)

remember: people stare directly at me for HOURS at my job, it's not like i am sitting at a desk. on the days when i sit at a desk i unapologetically dress like a total slob.

Laurel's dresses are cute but definitely too short for me to wear to work. Anywhere, really.

That birdie dress from eShakti is kind of amazing...

I went a little bananas with the job interview stress/job offer excitement shopping, though, so I do not need to go look at eShakti right now.

Well, I'm short and those models are like 5'9" so keep that in mind, and I would wear both of those with tights, for fall. Not for now!

And honestly, I'm prudish about my skirt lengths/self conscious about the cute little fat pockets around my knees, so.

Hey, the Stevie Nicks skirt I'm wearing to work today is on sale at eShakti - http://www.eshakti.com/Product/CL0022030/Tiered-lace-skirt

i'm totally cool with wearing super short skirts, just not to work

I'm rather fond of FF's first dress, with the tree of life motif but it seems social/cocktailly/evening. My gf would prob disagree but wear it with boots nonetheless.

I famously (infamously) told a gf a zillion years ago that I thought I would have had nice legs for a women but, still, I'm not so sure I would want to display them too prominently in a work environment and just below the knee seems 'decent' and appealing to me. Over the knee would have to be too high and 'sexy' and at the knee or just over it is nagl, imho. I'm also male, boobless and kind of lanky so it may just be an unexamined body-issue thing since the gams would be the only selling point I think I'd have.

that's really pretty, ca! be strong: I am stuck in an endless cycle. I ordered 5 dresses with gift cards from various returns/discounts.. and one of them is way too huge in the bus so back it goes for refund.. they gave me a $20 gift card for the C.O.D. charges I incurred (and now send along $10 coupons with emails saying 'thanks for ordering!') and really - I will never hit a zero balance with these guys. but this dress was one of them and fits me superbly, so hoping the two I linked to upthread will work. going to stay away from anything with a banded waist because I think that's where the bust issues come into play - I have a medium torso with most of my height in my legs.

I think you are single handedly keeping Es@kti in biz at this point!!

I'm irked by a lot of mid-calf skirts I see out there now. It's just not a very flattering look on anyone. I prefer just at or right above the knee for work but like LL I am totally OK with short outside of work.

LL I have a tent set up in your camp for sure. I wear dresses sometimes to work but automatically cover the top half with a top to stop me from freezing at my desk, and I have like 5 tops that I wear with jeans to work and that's about it. A lot of girls here go to great lengths to look sassy for the office with shiny hair and tailored shorts and heels and whatever but I just can't do this for work.

If I'm going out somewehre fun like drinks with my girlfriends or to a particular concert or a nice dinner I'll dress up because its' a fun occasion and I want to dress like I'm having fun. But I don't want to dress like that for work, because I don't want that kind of attention from people I don't really care to impress, and bc above all I'm there to a) work and b) be comfortable when I'm sitting down (cf Laurel)

also occasions when I do dress up I could probably count on one hand throughout the year lol

I sound like such a sadsack haha

xp heh, you might be right, E! what can I say, they're willing to cover my lady bits. Unless they ridiculously refund my entire order again when I send this dress back, I will cool down for a while.

OMG VG LET ME XP WILL YOU
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i love you, sadsack or not. heh.

sadsack = my boobs in too-large bust dress

haha oops sorry for multiposts FFM

<3

look sassy for the office with shiny hair and tailored shorts and heels

Well, there's your problem...

Sorry, I have opinions about business shorts.

hehe it's okay. those were amused frustration caps, not angry frustration caps ;)

tailored shorts - I saw that too! I have a coworker who busts those out. why??

is this a good place to mention I bought oxyclean and soaked old white clothing in it and now they are brand new looking again? I used a toothbrush to scrub the yellow pits first then soaked about 4 hours. I can bring a long cherished but closeted white dress back into rotation now!

well, one of the women who wears tailored shorts dresses like she's going to a nightclub. poufy hair, animal prints, those weird sheer tunics that are short in the front and long in the back...she's kind of a freak of nature.

but yeah there's a few women who wear them and I just can't handle how much leg they show. They're freaking MID THIGH ffs.

lmao everything you described sounds like my coworker. Birds of a feather.

Some days it's like, is there a ropeline to get into the office now? WTF.

i have no prob with dress shorts, but not in front of stoods

Maybe I'm just jealous that they all have better legs than I do

Got this one over the weekend:
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing%3F.out%3Djpg%26size%3Dl%26tid%3D61999639

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/products/mx/NMT59TZ_mx.jpg

being rich would be the best

oh i LOVE that

also re: upthread, dont feel bad, i bought a kylie minogue shirt today. lol

Gah, I was hoping there would be a picture of the dress I got without my stupid face getting in the way, but this seems to be one of the only ones. I really really like the dress. I like me a lot less.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8297/7883687774_14cba49f2e.jpg
Matt & Sarah Williams' Wedding - 11 August 2012 by craigboney, on Flickr

I love it and I love your face

^^^ otm

that fabric looks amazing

Yeah the fabric looks very cool!

The fabric is actually old curtains. The girl who makes the dresses basically works with discarded stuff, so it's mostly sustainable dress-making...

That's a great dress and you (and your face) look gorgeous!

That looks pretty sharp! Glad you were able to get that made :)

***curtains*** ***dress***
that is fantastic
that is speaking to a deep part of me
my high school fashion ambition was to dress entirely in textiles from a grandma's house – crocheted afghan, green and orange brocade, and curtains like that!

that is speaking to a deep part of me
me too -- maria
(not so much singlehandedly taking care of 7 bratty kids or the falling in love with a drill sergeant, but definitely the curtains!)

i most certainly enjoy creative reuse as well -- love it, in fact!
beautiful dress, em
the face is merely ok ;)

emil.y, what a great dress! and your face is srsly great even when you're sort of making a face! (pictures: 1/500th of a second of yr life/self, sometimes less!)

omg i really want that black & white dress roxy posted.

so much.

me too