DRRRESSES: WANT

I'm scrappy

When Max was young I was obsessed with calling him a "happy scrappy puppy." It got weird.

In dresses news, I'm using some of unemployment to sew, and I made myself a navy blue pencil skirt! No pictures til I fix the wonky side seam but I am pleased, having used no patterns and ending up with something almost outside-worthy.

yay! i cant wait to see it!

Awesome, Fine! Was just looking at machines tonight.

Sewing machines are pretty great! If you have the time. Suddenly it's all like, hey, I can make those curtains! And the table cloth! And eventually you're upgrading to nicer clothes, etc. It just makes a huge difference from hand-sewing, even if you don't magically become an expert tailor or anything.

Buuuut if you wanted to be an expert tailor, Threads Magazine is toooootally the thing.

I basically learned to sew from a) watching my mom, and b) reading Threads exhaustively before I even had a machine, just puzzling out how the directions would work. I was also young and energetic and poor and creatively frustrated so it gave me an outlet, but seriously, Threads is serious.

Oh yes, I think you told me about Threads before! Thanks for the reminder.

It's been a nice way of feeling productive while unemployed, definitely. Lucky for me I've picked it up at the same time Grandma has given it up so I got lots of free supplies from her! Including soo many shoulder pads.

Unemployed? Are congratulations or commiseration in order? (sorry if I missed it on another thread.)

Oh, no worries! I got laid off along with about 25 other people at my company, with severance which is why I'm sewing myself pretty things rather than looking for jobs (blessing/curse)!

I hope you find something great and sew a lt of awesome clothes in he meantime!

Thanks! That job was irritating me too much at the end, anyway. And now I have time to sew up all the clothes in my closet with holes.. I may also chop up an eshakti with a beautiful skirt but an ill-fitting bodice!

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want. from nina ricci

I think I can get away with stuff like this. but it doesn't come in my size and is like $1600 on sale

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i like the color and somehow the ruffliness appeals to me. once again they don't have my size :(

Love both of those. Would buy both (at a charity store charging about a twentieth of the price).

the blue one is only like $300.. it would be nice if they get my size back in

I have a couple weddings to go to in the spring & nothing suitable to wear - only dress that might work is deep green and raaather short, I like it fine but my parents will be at one of them & I expect my mother would say something like... you're wearing that?!

both are gorgeous!

well now *I'm* browsing for *my* brother's wedding in summer
haven't found anything yet tho this caught my eye (I don't usually do floral)

so pretty!

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this is the one I really want

let's see if I get fed up enough with dress shopping to pay for it..

seriously i look at dresses that are really girly and ruffly and it seems like a hilarious idea & luckily after looking a few times I realize that would totally .. be a thing I would wear once but never again

I bought a dress for my brother's wedding today. Total 180 from the styles I had been looking at, but I love it so much

It's a DKNY, made out of really thick stretch elastane, almost wetsuit material underneath, and the draping is a light jersey knit...hugs everywhere but it's so rad.
Partly bcz of Homo's awesome post in the 'Right to Be Fat' thread I decided fuck it, I'm gonna be me. AND it was on crazy sale on the one-of-a-kind rack at Macy's so i took it as a sign.

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love it .

so after moaning that they only made this dress in black, they bring it out in other colours! Sadly the other colours are coral which would look rubbish on me, and cream, which is SOOO CUTE but I need it for a wedding and I... can't really wear a lacyish cream dress to a wedding.

btw love that navy dress, that neckline is super flattering.

that cream dress is soooo cute tho

my bff just inspired me to rock a pair of yellow shoes with my new dress. I'm gonna DO IT you guys

I love that dress! You're going to look smoking hot.

I'm v excited about it, tbh.

Highly approve of navy dresses in general, those necklines in general, and that one in particular, especially on you in the WDYLL thread.

Thanks :) I've never liked navy - always associated it with school uniforms I guess, idk

No, it's gorgeous! And yellow shoes will be a++.

figuring out that navy goes with everything solved all my problems w/r/t putting together outfits

also - WANT

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acne. cannot have, not suitable for the occasion :(

wow yes to that

I like the colors. tbrr it looks like it needs a good dose of Static Guard. I'd spend all day trying to tug it into submission.

i love that dress

i love kenzo

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also unsuited/cannot afford

I hate shopping for formal events! the only dresses i want are drapey asymmetrical things and yet I don't want to be the only one wearing something weird

but if that's your style, no reason not to?

I love that one, it's gorgeous

i think i have some unresolved issues about places and events where it feels like the expectation is to dress/act in a really feminine sort of way, if that makes sense

like a wedding where the bride has a white dress and the wedding party is all matchy and the women who are guests all show up in cute kate spade looking things and i could totally show up in a kate spade looking thing & on me it would look ironic.

i just have a lot of ambivalence about traditional gender roles and formal events and institutions

I was recently inspired to dig out some moldy oldie classics when I realized that it's sort of ok to wear dresses with holes in them, right? I mean, within reason?

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That might depend on whether you're Nick Cave's date, though?

That is pretty rad, I can think of a couple of sewing/crafty solutions to holes in lace.

1. Cut around the hole to the nearest lace shape/boundary so it looks purposeful.
2. Potentially back the hole with a satin or other fabric possibly in a contrast color or print.

I like #2

Ironically in my case I really really LIKE Kate Spade-looking things, I am not an experimental dresser. I offset that with too much eyeliner and a perpetual cigarette, none of which is exactly revolutionary. The Kenzo dress is wonderful.

Daria, why don't you confound expectations and wear cream cigarette pants and some kind of draped top? If I had the legs for them I would wear cigarette pants all of the times.

xp - that's what i mean

i have this blue toile dress i found in a pile of discarded old clothes outside (what i assume to be a lady's) house while i was walking my dog (lol 25 year old me)
and i used to wear it all the time, but i started to get worried that it looked dumpy, so i stopped and put it into the archives
but now i'm thinking of bringing it back because i think i can fix it up a little

Oh pretty! Yeah, I never really thought of it before for myself but the redefining of the nature of the item is v interesting.

In my dream life I would have little pipe-cleaners for legs and therefore be able to rock silk shantung cigarette pants in a whole range of violently pastel colors like salmon-pink.

i do wear cigarette pants, i am actually wearing them today, but any cream/white/pale colored trousers on me is not a good look, i think - balance wise it should be lighter tops - and i'd be very very likely to spill something on them immediately! i would feel awkward in pink ones unless the fit was impeccable and it's way easier to find a dress that fits me

but the biggest issue is that i would get something on them immediately. i have one pair of lightish taupe work trousers for summer and the same year i bought them i'd gotten some permanent splash of dirt near one hem from walking in the city on a rainy day :(

I love toile. I love blue toile. I would do whatever it takes to make that dress work. Also:

cream cigarette pants and some kind of draped top

In the early '00s I was working for a software company (lol who wasn't?) in Atlanta and they had a Christmas party and most everybody had one some version of office Christmas party formal wear and a colleague brought a date and she was wearing cigarette pants and high heels and I don't even remember exactly what kind of shirt and she looked SO AMAZING and cool and badass and just wow. When nobody else was dancing, she jumped right out on the floor and danced with her date and they seemed to be having so much fun while the rest of us were there in our staid office party outfits* wishing that we had the guts to take such a risk. I will seriously never forget her and I hope that she has had every success in life, because she deserved it.

So, in short, yes to that suggestion.

*tbf I was wearing a long gold wood nymph dress and Fleuvog Frankenstein boots so I didn't exactly look traditional; she just made me feel staid with her convention flouting and joie de vivre.

So jel. I want cigarette pants in every color, especially in black lace with a taupe/peach background--hey, that would be a good look for hiding stains. I love pants and what they say, how they're subversive on women in the most basic sense and how they break the rules of what constitutes different levels of dressing. It's just that the infinite variety of ways in which they do not fit AT ALL is torturous.

God yes. It is a tragedy.