What is this actually called in common parlance -- a pencil dress?

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Like this:

http://www.realdealsandsteals.net/catalog/866_6_1.jpg

Or possibly this:

http://www.realdealsandsteals.net/catalog/866_6_1.jpgp

Or like either of these but with a kind of ruffly top, like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/dress.jpg

roxymuzak, Sunday, 18 January 2009 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

A pencil-line shirt dress!?

roxymuzak, Sunday, 18 January 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)

Anyway, this is all I am wearing for the next 2 months.

roxymuzak, Sunday, 18 January 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)

i always think of this as sexy secretary-wear, but i guess that's not what it's officially called. anyway, i support wearing it exclusively.

horseshoe, Sunday, 18 January 2009 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

A shift dress.

leigh, Monday, 19 January 2009 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

i also support wearing it exclusively

i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 19 January 2009 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

i thought a shift was more shapeless? this dress seems highly structured.

is that a corset on the top one?

shiitake maki (La Lechera), Monday, 19 January 2009 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

you know i think of this kind of dress as the opposite of a shift dress, too, but i gis'ed "shift dress" and some of the dresses that turned up looked like the ones in roxy's post. confusing!

horseshoe, Monday, 19 January 2009 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I was under the impression that a shift dress had a completely different line.

roxymuzak, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 06:35 (seventeen years ago)

I have looked at a few things now, and I think a shift dress is supposed to hang loose and not have a definied waist.

roxymuzak, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 06:36 (seventeen years ago)

Hmm, maybe more of a sheath dress?

leigh, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 08:21 (seventeen years ago)


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