DRRRESSES: WANT

also, laurel, you could have been talking about me, until you got to the part about the posture and dignity

You should meet her sometime. Maybe we'll have a girls' night.

By which I mean we'll go somewhere that serves alcohol and allows conversation.

I RLY like that dress, bell. I want you to have purple or red tights for it and your Chie shoes!

oh wow bell, v v jealous of that dress!

i went vintage shopping and got a dress that's very much like the grey tory burch dress, front pleats and all, except it has 3/4 length sleeves. it was $22. i am the winner!

also an a-line red silk minidress with a heavily beaded collar/frontpiece that seems to have been custom made in kowloon city many years ago. swoon.

i got two dresses at value village (2nd-hand dept store) in the suburbs today! one is a seersucker h&m halter dress (white & grey v v thin stripes) and the other is a really thin cream & red patterned short sundress which i will say i'm not really going to wear in public unless i'm wearing a bathing suit underneath. so yeah 2 dresses for like $10!

my friend got this kinda crazy yellow sundress with big pink roses on it that is total early-90s awesome. it is the dress of summer happiness.

oh and i also got this cute dark teal corduroy jumper mini-dress thing, possibly much like what bell_labs was talking about on another thread (fall work wear?) but it is way too mini for me and i feel that i've finally reached the age where i srsly can't get away with a freakin corduroy jumper not even with tights or leggings okay, for real now. but i have a younger friend who can yaay!

i do want a mini dress though, just not a jumper-style one because damn straight my legs are ruling right now and there's not much summer left

went bridesmaids' dress shopping with some friends last week, want this muchly but it was $200, not the style they picked AND I am not a bridesmaid. Sigh. Anyone know of any online retailers with this style but cheaper?

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v310/224/57/516053577/n516053577_675859_7856.jpg

yeah i like that style too! but in a less 'dressy'/formal fabric perhaps, so it's obv less wedding-like

i am wearing my seersucker dress today :) dresses are fun

yeah, this one was very "I am going to a wedding." I just love that pleating technique - anyone know if there is a name for it? I saw a shirt with this style in H&M last year but it was on a mannequin and all attempts to find it on a rack were fruitless (and the H&M employees I have encountered are generally useless, so I didn't ask.) I have been coveting this pleated fabric since!

v cute!

ffm, i saw this woman yesterday with your color hair and a black dress with this canary yellow cardigan draped on her shoulders and thought of you and that you should rock this look if you are not already!

oh gosh, that does sound cute! I want to own cardigans, but never find/buy cardigans. A few years ago, my Grandma bought me a few yellow shirts because she wanted to see me in more yellow - unfortunately, they were too baggy and shapeless! Fail, Grandma :(

i LOVE cardigans

i finally tried on this black cowlneck dress i've been eyeing at banana republic and it looks great except for the fact that it has the STUPIDEST FUCKING SLEEVES
http://www.bananarepublic.com/Asset_Archive/BRWeb/Assets/Outfit/124/OUT12465/outfit/br-otf-out12465oviv01.jpg

why? they are so fucking dumb and leave an awkward gap between the armpit and sideboob, as illustrated above. i reallllllly want a cowlneck belted dress too :(

ok that pic came out too small:
http://www.bananarepublic.com/Asset_Archive/BRWeb/Assets/Outfit/124/OUT12465/outfit/br-otf-out12465odv01.jpg
better illustration of armpit weirdness

http://www.bananarepublic.com/Asset_Archive/BRWeb/Assets/Product/588/588090/main/br588090-00p01v01.jpg
from the front it is such a perfect office dress!

you know when a sleeve is making a models arms look chunky - AVOID

it made my arms look geriatric. serious ugh

that is weird - because the dress is so cute! :/

i know! if it goes on sale (which i assume it will because the sleeves are so wacky) i might get it to wear with a jacket over it.

i also love the purple tights/shoes combo

could you wear it with, like, a tight black t-shirt (long-sleeved or short-sleeved) on underneath or wld that be weird

yeah that might work! but there's no way i'm buying it on non-sale

oh god I've seen that cut before.. I don't understand why they do that!

Unfortunate, because I like the look of cap sleeves. But that IS the widest part of the arm.

On the other hand, sometimes I think you just gotta suck it up and realize no one is really looking at your upper arms.

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/pinupgirlclothing_2015_56280210

My birthday is in a few months and I spent a lot on my boyfriend, so he told me to look for stuff online (shopping is terrible in Toronto except H&M, Gap, etc) and I am obsessed with this site now:
http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/pinupgirlclothing_2015_211204590

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/pinupgirlclothing_2015_106800131

A lot of rockabilly sites online carry clothes from stopstaringclothing.com, so that's a good place to look for the greatest variety.

Other nice 50s links I've found are reddressshoppe.com and www.unique-vintage.com. (The second one isn't actually vintage, it's all modern dresses that could be fit into various decades. Useful, if what you really need is a swing dress in perfect condition in a modern size 10.)

Also mybabyjo.com but I think they carry mostly Stop Staring dresses too.

Let me say that I had mixed reviews of my last order from Stop Staring: The dress was strongly constructed but very basic -- no lining, no interfacing, no nice finishing details. It looked like a nicer dress online than it actually was, esp for $120. I returned it.

oooh is unique-vintage the one you were telling me about a while ago? i kept meaning to ask you for the name!

oooh thanks for the tips Laurel!

from unique-vintage, this is gorgeous:

http://www.unique-vintage.com/images/7859parisdress.jpg

This may take a while..

http://www.bananarepublic.com/Asset_Archive/BRWeb/Assets/Product/588/588071/main/br588071-00p01v01.jpg

it has POCKETS but i could not bring myself to spend $130

POCKETS :D

http://www.bananarepublic.com/Asset_Archive/BRWeb/Assets/Product/588/588071/side/br588071-00p03v01.jpg

i think i like them because they allow me to do something when i feel insecure.

Looks like purple is trend for this season (along with "turtle"")-- I read it in amny.

i love this bc i am a purple gal.

ooh that dress is so cute! wanting! not sure that i'm into purple for me, maybe if it were more plum. or a nice blue-red!

tehresa i bet that will go on sale in a couple weeks

i know. i am going to stalk their website!

I am so happy about the purple because it suits my skin & hair perfectly. Yay purple!

me too!

i want purple shoes to wear with purple tights.

ooooh. seriously some days i get a little ridiculous with the purple. like yesterday i started to roll my eyes at myself bc i was wearing a purple sweater, carrying my purple purse, and also my purple shopping/grocery bag. it was a little too much.

and i bought some purple tights at uniqlo!

yes, you have to be careful! I get over-matchy by accident sometimes.

OK I need advice. I need to find a dress for my brother's wedding in SF in November. It is a Friday evening wedding in a Russian Orthodox church followed by dinner reception at I think the SF University Club. Not black tie, like dressy cocktail attire.

Does there exist such a dress that I could purchase for said marital occassion, but could also wear (with different accessories or whatevs) for work? Because if such a dress existed, I would feel OK about dropping bigger dough.

For example, see upthread OH HELLO PHILLIP LIM DRESS THAT IS DELECTABLE AND ALSO $650. Could that be worn to the wedding *and* to work? Because then *maybe* I could justify that kind of cash.

Anyhow your thoughts and examples would be most appreciated--just keep me in mind when browsing dresses!

Oh and said dress would have to be notblack and notnavy. But I'm open to all other colors!

i think you could do that if the dress looks more worky if a jacket or sweater can be put over it? i would aim to find a dress based on the party more than based on being work-appropriate. but then, i care not for work.