So Shana left me a link in the comments to the sperm dress, (go check it out, it’s hysterical!) and I found this dress at left browsing the seller’s other items.
This is a gorgeous dress, although the waist is very defined (the waist measures 28″, so you’d have to measure at least an inch less than that) and you’d probably have to wear a cincher of some sort under it. It’s B38, too.
This one picture doesn’t really do it justice — go check out the auction, which has three days to run, and see the rest. The lace is a very nice rose pattern and seems to be in tip-top condition!
I really like the shape of this black lace dress — I do still believe black lace is not for ingenues, and this is not an ingenue-style dress. It’s designed for women, not girls. I’m so tired of slip dresses, strapless tube dresses, and drop-waist jersey monstrosities all designed for folks who are too young to know about Logan’s Run or to worry about the concept if they did.
It’s just pure laziness on the part of the designers, in My Opinion. admit it — almost anything looks good on a nineteen year old with flawless skin! You could dress most runway models in burlap and tin foil and they’d still look beautiful. (And I bet I could spend ten minutes on Style.com and find an example, honestly.) but older women are more demanding. They want to wear the dresses, not have the dresses wear them. They want to look good because of what they’re wearing, not in spite of it. I think that’s why I love vintage so much — it seems to me as if the 1950s were the last time that women were the focus of designers’ energies. Juniors patterns from the 1950s are all the same: puffy sleeves, big skirts, jumpers and party dresses. They are just one step up from little girls’ clothes. The women’s sizes, on the other hand, are triumphs of draping, with neckline variations and skirt details and cuffs and collars and sleeves of every kind. They’re interesting, and they show interest.
It might be a supply-and-demand thing, that older women are buying “career” clothing (suits and whatnot) or that they’ve just stopped buying dresses that are either impossible to wear or unappealing, which makes for fewer dresses targeted to the older demographic. Whatever it is, I wish I knew how to turn it around.
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