Oooh, purty. It could be (or maybe is) a wedding dress, in which case, it'd be mega-cheap. My wedding dress cost over $1000, so a pretty dress like that for ~$600 sounds pretty darn good to me :)
In a nearly unrelated note, I must be kind of a kink, because every dress I looked at on that webpage, I thought "There's too much fabric! They look like they're for 40-year-olds." Yeah, modesty isn't really one of my strong points it seems ^_^;
Wah? I didn't know that site was run by an LDS... *looks at site* You are right! So... Does that mean LDS are the only people who care about modesty? ><; *frowns*
No, it is just the LDS people get kind of snitty about the fact that clothes "aren't modest" so out in Utah you got all these shops that specialize in modest clothing. If you went out there, you might understand. they can be weird. (I can say that, I'm LDS... hahahaha)
But also to get married in our temples you have to wear dreses like these. No low cut, mut have a back, must have sleeves... that sort of thing. But if you look through bridal mag it is all stuff that is low cut or no back or only strappy. so these shops cropped up all over the place adverting "modest" clothing. It is nice to have places to go... I've sent several non-LDS friends to sites like these when they were looking for modest clothes. :)
I guess my point was more one of annoyance at the level of difficulty in finding non-slutty dresses outside of highly-Mormon populations. I mean this is a bit too "modest" (plain?) to wear to prom, in my opinion, though it would be a wondeful dress to have when you just feel like looking pretty; but if I could find this at Bloomingdale's... *sighs*
I think that first one would make a great prom dress. Dress it up with accessories. Some of the best formal attire is something very plain and simple. Then you can reuse it by just adding different accessories.
Now that wedding dress you showed would be lovely!
I think that's why these places cropped up out there in Utah. It's frustrating when you want to wear something modest and the stores seem to think you want to pimp out your body. You'd think they would realize that not everyone wants to look non-slutty but they don't.
The thing that annoys me is that well, you know how women's clothing is. No one wears just one size. It's like a span of four sizes. Because nothing is made the same. I'd be scared as heck to order clothes off the internet for fear they wouldn't fit! But it seems that's the only way you can find good modest, especially formal attire sometimes.
The stores think we all want to look like we're at the Oscars. See through, no back, low cut, high cut, almost nothing to them dresses.
I feel your pain. I live out east and the stores here don't stock well either. I did find a lovely formal at Sach's 5th Avenue though a year and a half ago. It was just a basic black and I stitched the sleeves together at the shoulder. (It was a dress with long sleeves but they were split open the entire length of the arm. I can't remember now who's awards dress it was supposed to be like. Lucy Liu? I think. At any rate... they had one dress... that one. Thank goodness I liked it! But I hit every store in that mall (Has really nice ones too. Macy's, Sach's...etc) Every one I looked at formals and the clerks came up and asked if they could help and I said "Yeah you got anything non slutty, modest, made for a real woman, mother of two? Something that is appropriate?" Everything was either backless, cut to the navel, skirts cut to the hip, no sleeves, you get the picture.
I'm sorry I'm a mom. But I'm a wife who loves to go with her husband to his affairs and need decent clothes. And I'm sorry but it is not appropriate to weigh 140 pounds, be the mom of two boys, and dress like I'm going to go work the street corner! The clerks all just kind of rolled their eyes and tried to sell me clothes that wouldn't even cover my underware let alone my pasty white fatness.
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Date: 2004-05-21 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-21 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-21 08:44 pm (UTC)In a nearly unrelated note, I must be kind of a kink, because every dress I looked at on that webpage, I thought "There's too much fabric! They look like they're for 40-year-olds." Yeah, modesty isn't really one of my strong points it seems ^_^;
HEHEHE that's what you get
Date: 2004-05-22 08:08 am (UTC)I've had friends who bought dresses from here. There are some really nice ones. :)
Re: HEHEHE that's what you get
Date: 2004-05-22 08:20 am (UTC)You are right!
So... Does that mean LDS are the only people who care about modesty? ><; *frowns*
Re: HEHEHE that's what you get
Date: 2004-05-22 09:07 am (UTC)But also to get married in our temples you have to wear dreses like these. No low cut, mut have a back, must have sleeves... that sort of thing. But if you look through bridal mag it is all stuff that is low cut or no back or only strappy. so these shops cropped up all over the place adverting "modest" clothing. It is nice to have places to go... I've sent several non-LDS friends to sites like these when they were looking for modest clothes. :)
Re: HEHEHE that's what you get
Date: 2004-05-22 11:06 pm (UTC)Re: HEHEHE that's what you get
Date: 2004-05-23 07:47 am (UTC)Now that wedding dress you showed would be lovely!
I think that's why these places cropped up out there in Utah. It's frustrating when you want to wear something modest and the stores seem to think you want to pimp out your body. You'd think they would realize that not everyone wants to look non-slutty but they don't.
The thing that annoys me is that well, you know how women's clothing is. No one wears just one size. It's like a span of four sizes. Because nothing is made the same. I'd be scared as heck to order clothes off the internet for fear they wouldn't fit! But it seems that's the only way you can find good modest, especially formal attire sometimes.
The stores think we all want to look like we're at the Oscars. See through, no back, low cut, high cut, almost nothing to them dresses.
I feel your pain. I live out east and the stores here don't stock well either. I did find a lovely formal at Sach's 5th Avenue though a year and a half ago. It was just a basic black and I stitched the sleeves together at the shoulder. (It was a dress with long sleeves but they were split open the entire length of the arm. I can't remember now who's awards dress it was supposed to be like. Lucy Liu? I think. At any rate... they had one dress... that one. Thank goodness I liked it! But I hit every store in that mall (Has really nice ones too. Macy's, Sach's...etc) Every one I looked at formals and the clerks came up and asked if they could help and I said "Yeah you got anything non slutty, modest, made for a real woman, mother of two? Something that is appropriate?" Everything was either backless, cut to the navel, skirts cut to the hip, no sleeves, you get the picture.
I'm sorry I'm a mom. But I'm a wife who loves to go with her husband to his affairs and need decent clothes. And I'm sorry but it is not appropriate to weigh 140 pounds, be the mom of two boys, and dress like I'm going to go work the street corner! The clerks all just kind of rolled their eyes and tried to sell me clothes that wouldn't even cover my underware let alone my pasty white fatness.
Re: HEHEHE that's what you get
Date: 2004-05-23 08:22 am (UTC)Re: HEHEHE that's what you get
Date: 2004-05-23 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-21 08:55 pm (UTC)