DRRRESSES: WANT

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...?

You're just invited to the reception and not the ceremony, but it's an evening reception? Yes, dress code is the same - unless otherwise specified, something in the realm of cocktail attire.

Cool, thanks

The evening do thing is a totally foreign concept here. You're either invited to the whole thing or not. I have been to more weddings in the UK though than I have here (weirdly) and ime that would be totally fine. Everyone who has been there all day will still be in their fancy dresses so you'll fit right in. I think it would seem stranger if you came dressed down. Break out the fancy, I say.

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Not totally foreign - that's what we did!

That's what my mom and stepfather did, too, come to think of it.

Did you have a private ceremony and invite ppl to the dinner etc?

I feel like it's much more common here to be invited to the whole thing soup to nuts. I mean that's the default, right? In the UK it's very common to have a set of family/friends at the ceremony and meal and then invite another set of more casual friends to the drinks and dancing. I've found that most people here have never heard of that kind of thing before.

I'd never heard of it before being ivited to only an evening do myself. The whole concept seemed really strange at first.

I think being invited to the whole event is definitely more common, even if the ceremony and the reception are separated by hours and miles.

We got up at an ungodly early hour and went to the courthouse with about ten people, friends and family, and then had our reception at a bar and invited, I think, about 30 people. My parents got married in a church in front of maybe ten people, friends and family, and then had an insanely huge reception at a local yacht club (not as fancy as it sounds).

Yacht clubs never are.

Yeah. I think now it's becoming more common to do stuff like that but it's will sort of thought of as unusual especially by older or more traditional people. I remember telling my mom we were going to the drinks/dancing part once and was really confused. But you're not actually invited to the wedding? etc.

To be fair, we issued an open invitation to anyone who wanted to accompany us to the court house, but not too many people wanted to get up that early.

I remember invites to big Mexican-American weddings, when I was a kid and it was the some people were invited to the wedding only, some to the reception after and others to the breakfast at midnight. Baptisms and quinceñeras were the same, several events not everyone was invited to all of them. Might still be that way.

breakfast at midnight!!!

AWESOME