DRRRESSES: WANT

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.

x-posts

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

It's pretty common to have an evening thing kind of separate from the wedding day bit. But I've never actually been to one, only whole weddings! It's a co-worker's one tomorrow (my boss will be there, lol). We just invited everyone to the whole thing for ours - was too young to really have co-workers tbh and would've felt weird inviting them at that stage in my life; it was family and schoolfriends. Now my friendship group is quite different.

anyone have their eye on anything at eShakti? they sent me a $50 gift card for today only, but I think I've purchased everything I want! free to a good home?

woah lex for real? I want!

lex you are so generous and nice

Seriously dude.

is this too twee for a tall lady?

I really love with but I normally don't really do cutesy things liek the peter pan collar.

http://img.eshakti.com/clothImages/CL0025224L.jpg

i think the black on black of the collar reduces the cutesy-ness significantly

Awww. I'm just normal! E, I will send the info over FB in case there are any evil lurkers. I think that dress is fucking BOMB. I have a monthly discount code too, hopefully we can make this thing -cheap-!

Ah, I love you!! I am excited!! I might pull a couple others to get your opinion on but i really like that one. Can't fb from work so will have to do tonight but YAY and Thank you! I need a new dress so I'm pumped! <3

Em I think you're right. It would be a whole other story if the collar was white or something.

Glad to help! I am a little burnt out on eShakti, too many purchases lately but I suppose as a result they love me & send me this stuff. Hope it works! It was sent with no context whatsoever, so weird!

Ah, rats. I think maybe the card is tied to your account because it keeps saying not valid or already used. Thanks anyway.

Awww! I would offer to do it myself but I bet it would just deliver to my house :( Sorry to get your hopes up dude! That 10% off should at least work, but that's nowhere near as fun as a free dress. :(