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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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)