DRRRESSES: WANT

ooooooooh so shiny!

so gold

oooh, it's beautiful

and something i could way never pull off. you totally could though and yes it is very youuuu

i think i was singing that last word

i hate that i never have the occasion to wear dresses. still.

i wear them every day! just around

i mean i don't think i really have occasion to wear them either, tbh

I wear dresses at home. I have specific sundress type ones that I only wear at home actually.

yeah me too. one is kinda like the one you posted, but its like stretchy at the top and has like inch-wide straps. i wear it to do housework and chill and stuff like that. once i hiked in it.

Yeah, I do the same minus the hiking but should try that sometime.

if you get the right dress it can be really freeing

the right type of dress/skirt is more comfortable to me than pants in general so I could easily see that being the case

yeah i wear sundresses at home. but i feel like i have to be all put together if i wear a dress out of the house and then it feels too put together.

thats what cardigans are for! sometimes a dress on its own needs like jewelry and nice shoes and stuff. but most dresses you can just throw a cute cardi over top and put on some sandals and you're good to go.

my MIL bought a dress last weekend: $!6 on sale from some fancy designer store. too conservative to bother posting on this thread tho ;)

http://img.sewingtoday.com/cat/10000/itm_img/B5210.jpg

http://img.sewingtoday.com/cat/40000/itm_img/M5583.jpg

Slated to be my 2009 additions to the winter wardrobe, with tights and turtlenecks.

Fierce!

http://img.sewingtoday.com/cat/20000/itm_img/V1150.jpg

http://img.sewingtoday.com/cat/20000/itm_img/V1090.jpg

I love all of those.

ooh! cute! so you, laurel!

i can not wear things like that bc i just look like a giant sack :(

Guys remember that fan dress (was it Derek Lam?) in the purple print that we all liked? Kelly Kapoor has worn it in multiple Office episodes! <3

you are right!!

x-post But esp the firt pattern in pink w/ the buttons and the second pattern in general.

Man, I wish I knew how to sew.

So envious of your mad sewing skillz laurel!

YESSSS oh that is a <3 <3 indeed re Derek Lam dress. Good for her! I'm glad someone admirable and awesome picked it up.

Thersa, I'm a little concerned about the Kors dress -- I like it but it might not define enough. Counting on the sleevelessness of the others to show some proportion, and I might not cut the McCall's one quite as full as it's shown.

Haha don't count my dresses before they're, uh...patched? There are a lot of steps in between here and there....

<3

Laurel, can I commission you to make one of those dresses for me?

Maybe! I have to get to Thanksgiving weekend before I have time to think about sewing, and then I have to make something for myself, to get my hand in. Which one were you thinking of, Mary?

I'm loving the shapes of the Butternick white with pockets and pink with buttons.

i don't know why i cant find a better photo than these but believe me when i tell you this dress serena is wearing (from the chuck opens a speakeasy ep) absolutely killed:

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2874/serenadress.jpg

http://www.stylehop.com/fashion-blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/102309-gossip-girl-400.jpg

oh that 2nd photo is so bad :(

but now i'm v curious... maybe i should watch again?

you should. everyone is looking pretty good in that episode.

could never wear this but i like it!
http://bcbg.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pBCBG1-6738178dt.jpg

YES

Is it knit? I love it

it is

http://www.bcbg.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3814585&cp=2769162.2768985&clickid=cat_leftnav_txt&parentPage=family

i could see you in this, rox.

would wear with grey tights imo

otm

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/shopping/80982/100-party-dresses-under-100

it's flash so i can't actually repost pictures of anything from the slideshow, sorry. #52 i really like and was shocked to see it was from the newport news catalog?!

oh wow thats really pretty

reminds me of something from recently, like something some celeb wore to an event maybe? cant put my finger on it

Newport news as some great stuff - you just have to search a bit. Bonus is that it's pretty cheap.

I have a couple dresses form there.

women be shoppin sale alert: 70% off sale at modcloth, i got 4 pretty nice dresses for work for $60 total. lots of sizes available.

Damn, most are sold out by now!

man do i wish i had dress-disposable income right now!

look at this beaut
http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/39/2010/01/500x_lede_pic.jpg

i am not loving those giant plastic rhinestone things but the basic dress part is <3

except i dunno about the triangles over her nether regions...

i got a nice black winter/fall dress at Zara yesterday on supersale (and a new bag on sale elsewhere, whew finally! oh, the organization), but main discovery here is that the only sane time to ever shop at Zara is before 10:30am

looking at modcloth site makes me only want to wear dresses ever

i got a beautiful rodarte navy blue dress with a sheer black thing over