DRRRESSES: WANT

is there a thread on ils for secondhand shopping?

If not there should be. I suck at thrifting. In fact, I haven't actually really done it since HS when I was all about going to church thrift shops for hideous printed polyester button down shirts. I am extremely intimidated by them now mostly because it seems like you have to wade through aisles of craps to find the gems and I don't have a lot of patience for that. Anyway, if there isn't then you should start one.

ok i'm over here in the green section, see you by the hats

oh my word:
http://www.notjustalabel.com/shop/66715

http://www.notjustalabel.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/portrait/products/fish-chip1.jpg

There's a ton of other ones too like a PINT OF BEER dress. I <3 that site

I wish my life necessitated crazy shit like that. I shoulda been Nicki Minaj :(

http://www.notjustalabel.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/grid-4-portrait/products/shark1_3.jpg

oh my god I want to wear that to school

Let's start a fancy, slightly menacing gang

^^^ irl lols

while searching for 80's big hair ads I came across this

finally a dress that I can wear over my sumo suit

http://pzrservices.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ccbc69e2012875918911970c-pi

oh my god

the 80s were wild

Dress AND parachute

One hundred percent of that dress is a Victorian little girl's day dress remade for adult women. The infantilization is amazing.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100312045322/americangirl/images/0/0e/SamanthaSkatingPartyDress.jpg

http://img0.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.14039492.jpg

"the designer's work in 'The Room'"
says a lot!

i thought we talked about pettipants on this thread but couldn't find it ANYWAY i bought a pair and they are the best - way better than the bloomers i had, which were too bulky under a lot of my dresses (and too short) and way better than a regular petticoat/slip bc there is virtually no way to flash anyone, anything, accidentally or even on purpose (if that's your thing)

and i really want this for winter:
http://img.eshakti.com/clothImages/CL0023006P.jpg

oh, I love that. I'm feeling a little turtleneck on this chilly morning!

i'm sure its been discussed itt but what the fuck is up with every dress/skirt suddenly having that cut where its 2 feet longer in the back?

i feel like this look exploded out of nowhere over the summer

YES! I saw tons of them at a music festival recently

Especially those sheer tunic-style dresses? All with the short at the front and long in the back

Mullet dresses :(

thighs in the front, bridal train in the back

omg

THE STEPHANIE SEYMOUR

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/November-rain-dress.jpg/220px-November-rain-dress.jpg

I HATE those bi-level dresses. They just look so dumb.

a friend who is pretty smart about fashion and trends explained it to me as "girls like to feel like a princess"

"mullet dress" is good tho, i'm gonna start using that

yeah mullet dress is otm, ffm wins!

feeling like a princess explanation is o_O to me.

imo if you wanna dress like a cartoon character here's how you do it
http://i.imgur.com/cfp79.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/JS1rf.jpg

which of course leads me to look for this fantastic picture of shelley duvall and her beautiful dress

http://snoreandguzzle.com/images/duvall.jpg

and boots!
this colorblocked suede witch look rules

oh man I want that olive oyl dress so bad! Can it be my prize for winning? Yay!

Mullet dress does not feel princessy to me either. Confusing!

maybe she used the word "faries" in there w/ the word "princess" idk

http://blog.chron.com/shopgirl/2012/07/would-you-wear-a-dress-inspired-by-1980s-bad-hair/

Not picking on you gr80! Maybe we all have different ideas of what princess life is all about.

i mean that's what gunne sax dresses are for, no?

http://img2.etsystatic.com/000/1/5840702/il_570xN.229929674.jpg

that is to say that nothing about mullet dress screams "princess" to me -- it's more like "modest/flashy" (or "flashy/modest" depending on which direction you're walking i guess)

LL is more on my princess vibe. Or ball gowns, because I was brainwashed by Disney.

princess to me would be a full skirt a la cinderella

^^^ exactly

http://www.bridalwave.tv/OlegCassini.jpg

princess dress

otm

Someone ask Je55e to repost that Gunnesax dress poster he has at home!!!

i dont have the body type for gunne sax but would wear:

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/b/0/0/34/c/AAAAC7Qo64EAAAAAADTNjw.jpg?v=1235190275000

My mother still has her midnight blue velvet and lace medieval-style Jessica McClintock dress from the ACTUAL '70S Y'ALL, and it's one of the ones in Jesse's poster.

That dress was the definition of a princess to me forever and ever, along with this illustration from a children's book:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Una.jpg

If you see a person who looks like that, you know she is a princess.

Oh man, my mom loved to put me in Jessica McClintock stuff when I was kid. I found a pic recently of myself in a pink number with lots of bows and impressively enormous sleeves.

she also had a fragrance iirc

i had it! smelled like lilies of the valley iirc.

I love this but why does it have to be BLACK? I want it in, like, emerald green or something.
http://images.asos.com/inv/media/5/4/0/4/2244045/black/image1xl.jpg
(ASOS)

Nothing against black but I seem to only wear monochrome when I really want to be wearing amazing colours.

Maybe not the right thread but if you're invited to a wedding evening do only i.e. not the whole wedding part, the dress code is still the same right? Just checking I can wheel out the dress I always wear for fancy occasions and it won't be too much...?