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Jan
6

Party Dreses – So We Have 4 More Outfits You Might Enjoy Browsing

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Posh Square sells trendy and affordable women’s fashion and stocks quite a few plus size items. Quite a few of items are a bit young for me but they also have we have got nine sustainable dress options for your upcoming holiday event that will surely remain versatile staples in your conscious closet for years to come, intention to ease a certain amount your stress and keep you from resorting to fast fashion. I wanted to share some other party outfit ideas soI put gether any outfit fully from one retailer since it can be annoying to pay shipping from 3 different places to get one outfit online.

There are 4 more outfits you might enjoy browsing.

If you need gift ideas I put gether a bunch of holiday gift guidesin case you’re having trouble coming up with ideas.

I’m off to take care of some more holiday shopping. I guess I jumped gun a bit as long as I’m realizing I put up a post about holiday party dresses in October! I am wearing my favorite blackish over knee boots, that I’d still wear if I opted for leather or fleece lined leggings. Lighting was a bit ugh to work with but I wanted to share some holiday party outfit ideas so that if you were inspired you could get your items before your holiday events.

My metallic, cold shoulder dress is from Posh Square.

It’s quite short on me since I am 5’11” so if I were actually wearing it to an evening event in Connecticut I should wear leggings or tights underneath to keep chill off my buns.

Basically the behind scenes of these pictures -it was 8 am on a Sunday morning and there was seltzer in my champagne flute. Consequently, over dress I layered my favorite statement bib necklace. On p of that, you know what that means. Striving to check all of those boxes while still keeping it ethical and ‘eco conscious’ can be a daunting task. Known let us be honest, biggest dilemma with these is usually what to wear.

Aug
25

These Dresses Hug The Breasts – Collectors Weekly

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They fal off, you have these beautiful dresses that the bride and bridesmaids are constantly hiking up because they’re attached with cheap stretch fabric.

These dresses hug the breasts, and that’s not a very good foundation for a garment. Party 1920s dresses were made for movement, like the designs at left from the National Suit Cloak Co, with their dropped waists and unstructured tops. Alice Joyce. You can find more info about it on this site. Via wikipedia.

They always have to slim them down because the dresses were quite dumpy by today’s standards, when costume designers create garments for movies set in the ’20s. I’m sure that the dresses were these boxy, boyish shapes, and to our contemporary eye, that doesn’t look very chic. In the 21st century, we want to see a bit body more, and designers weren’t really showing much of it because women didn’t want to look womanly. They wanted to look streamlined, They didn’t want to look super feminine. Women were going places un chaperoned and were just more physically mobile. Furthermore, they’re climbing in and out of cars more, and so they need a shorter skirt to get in and out unescorted. There’s a gentleman or driver to help you, when you’re getting into a horse and buggy. You can’t have those long gowns constricting your legs, in a car, you could drive yourself.

That style dominated throughout the 1950s, especially for the ‘middleclass’ woman in America.

The New Look worked its way down to her, she was buying that ‘trickledown’ fashion, she was not buying Dior. Remember, it’s really the first time we see Middle America wearing these cute, strapless, ‘prom style’ dresses. With that said, that was a popular party dress style, a strapless dress with a very full skirt and a tiny waist. Notice, socialite Betsy von Furstenberg and friends getting dressed in a Look magazine article from When the strapless dress first became popular, its structural foundation was much stronger compared to modern dresses of stretch fabric. Basically, via shorpy.

More than a hundred years ago, you wouldn’t have had enough clothing to designate certain dresses for special occasions. Moving into the 1910s and ’20s, we started to see major upward mobility. ‘middleclass’ women could consume, the economy was great. With more ‘ready made’ clothing, fashion production became easier and cheaper. Did you hear of something like that before? You could now have specialized clothing for different occasions, including parties. That pop art period and the music people listened to were all converging and influencing fashion, and fashion was also influencing them. On top of that, you had artists like Andy Warhol, and his muses were wearing very mod styles. They were wearing mod suits, the Beatles weren’t wearing party dresses.

You turn the pattern on a diagonal and lay it on to the fabric, with the bias cut.

They’re now diagonally on the body, The lengthwise and crosswise grain are not horizontal or vertical on the body. It hugs the body more closely, That changes a garment fit. It hugs your curves, since there’s more stretch on the bias. For example, we go from the boxy, boyish shape of the ‘20s to a very womanly shape. Then, when you refer to the Old Hollywood look, generally most people are 1930s thinking, and it’s these idea silk satins or velvets that cling to the body. In the 1970s, the colors were really muted and muddy, these earthy rusts and oranges and greens. We turned to super bright and neon colors, in the ’80s, people wanted something fresh and different. It’s that fashion idea cycle, that we want to see what we haven’t seen in a long time. Plenty of info can be found by going on the web. As Lycras and spandexes were entering the market in larger numbers, you also had loads of fabrics with more stretch to them so tight party dresses were really popular.

Publicity stills taken of Norma Shearer (left, in and Jean Harlow (right, in flaunt their sultry, bias cut silk dresses. Photographer George Hurrell captured Old glamour Hollywood styles, that amped up the sex appeal using halter tops and ‘low cut’ backs. Although, left, this Yves Saint Laurent ensemble from 1980 raised the bar for bold shoulder detailing. Via metmuseum. Although, right, Iman models for YSL’s Rive Gauche line in 1980, that incorporated bright colors and excess fabric just beneath the shoulder line.

The 1960s are interesting because you start to see a speeding up of trends.

By the end ’60s, mod was almost dead, and fashion had moved onto this very chunky embellishment, especially for party dresses. Women wanted heavier, more bohemian embellishments on their dresses, instead of streamlined. Therefore, designers incorporated these mock necklaces that were actually sewn onto the dress around the collar or the neckline. You’d have this big, chunky, embellished cuff on your dress, instead of wearing a bracelet. We recently had an oneshoulder dress from the ’80s donated to the Columbia collection, and the shoulder with a strap has these giant fabric flowers. Ok, and now one of the most important parts. They’re huge, and there are plenty of them. It’s really cool that they were bringing so much attention to that one shoulder with all this fabric, It’s a little jarring to the eye today.

Now look, the garment literal foundation is of much lower quality, not only are the rhinestones and fabrics cheaper today. You can’t see corsetry built into a dress anymore, unless you’re buying expensive formalwear. Since there was still this notion that the foundation had to be good, they all have ‘builtin’ boning, the collection I currently work with has some cheap 1950s dresses, things you would’ve bought at an inexpensive department store. Keep reading. The French designer Madeleine Vionnet is the most credited with mastering the bias cut. You would think they’d use less fabric, yet the bias cut actually uses more fabric, since we were in the Depression. Besides, during the daytime, everyone had to be very utilitarian. Let me tell you something. They really wanted to live it up, when people went to a party. It’s this culture of escapism. That’s right! Hollywood movies in the 1930s are all about escaping the economy troubles and everyday life. This is the case. Because they wanted that freedom once in a while, they cut back a whole heck of a lot more on everyday dresses and splurged a bit more on their party dress.

The 1960s were like Heck no!

We’re tired of these usedup, old fashioned ideas. For example, we’re going to focus on today youth. Young women wanted to wear short skirts. It was the first time you had skirts above the knee. You also had a more streamlined effect as mod influenced fashion in all areas. Anyways, your party dress was probably a basic, A line shift dress that hung its weight from the upper body. It went straight from the shoulder to the hem, or had a Aline effect, it didn’t necessarily hug the bust. They were pretty boxy. Also, the party dress is definitely more casual now, and there’s a much wider variety of silhouettes and styles. That’s where it starts getting interesting. If you were wealthy enough to have a party dress, onehundred years ago, you didn’t own a huge variety. Anyways, most middle class women would have had one good dress to wear for evening, parties, weddings, and similar formal occasions. Since it didn’t matter if you wore the same dress, you didn’t have dresses for different occasions. Known people wouldn’t even know you wore the same dress repeatedly, you didn’t have as many parties to go to. You weren’t should be photographed and have your pictures spread around. Of course it’s not a big deal when only the people at that event see your dress.

Just in time for the Oscars, WayneGuite helped us compile a gorgeous, decadebydecade guide to the best party 20th dresses century, looks as ‘show stopping’ today as when they first hit the scene. Left, this 1930s advertisement shows the diagonal seams and limited ornamentation of popular bias cut dresses. Right, this Vionnet gown shows how lowcut backs contrasted with excessively low hemlines, even in the ‘Depressionera’ when extra fabric was a true luxury. Via metmuseum.

I lived through much of what was represented here, as a Boomer born in 1951.

The organization by decade is a great presentation of the times fashions. Actually, very good interview questions! Now that the ‘jeans and T shirts’ plague has reached our fancy restaurants, cocktail parties, and nightclubs, it seems as though nobody cares about dressing up anymore. Yet, as fashions become increasingly casual, the perfect party dress is like a secret weapon turning anyone into a rose among daisies.

You can find chic, well made frocks, and afford them, too, since vintage is in vogue. Vintage ain’t just for commoners. It is retro looks are regularly featured on the redish carpet, with celebrities plucking gowns from past designer collections or straight from vintage racks stores. What are the most stunning, ‘decade defining’ looks, with so many classic dresses to choose from. On top of this, even if it used a great deal more material than a setin sleeve would, the dolman sleeve was very popular. Let me tell you something. It’s similar to a loose, kimonostyle sleeve with no seam between the bodice and the sleeve. There’s excess fabric under the arm, It’s all one piece. Notice that for the most part, they were cutting back on fabric, that definitely flouted the law. There were no restrictions on embellishments like sequins, or spangles as they would’ve called them, or elaborate, ‘rhinestonecovered’ buttons. With all that said… Many garments were decorated in buttons, sequins, or anything people could get their hands on to embellish a party dress.

Like this set from Right, Left, pattern makers like McCall’s and ogue made the New Look available to middle American women, teenage girls at a high school dance in monochromatic, multi textured dresses, circa Via shorpy.

Some were less shapely and more sack like, and then others had a lampshade look with a hoop around the hip area. They generally went just past the hip, or fell somewhere between the knee and hip, and flared out around the hoop. The lampshade silhouette was pretty avant garde. We had a ‘lampshade style’ dress, when I worked with the collection at North Dakota State University. That said, clearly this was widespread, she lived in orth Dakota, its owner might been upper class.

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Instead of better tailoring or putting in boning or a petersham, Nowadays, designers make up a lot through stretch fabrics, that was like a waistband that was put inside a dress to attach the bodice to your waist. Whenever meaning they weren’t being held up at the bust it was the woman’s waist and her hips that held up the dress, most strapless dresses in the 1950s were boned and had petershams. Your foundation would be much lower, and there was no need to hike up the dress. Now regarding the aforementioned fact…

This all has a trickle down effect. Have you heard of something like that before, this is the case right? It’s not that the ‘middleclass’ woman in America was buying Poiret. She’s seeing those looks in magazines, and then copying them herself. Considering the above said. Styles from different Eastern countries were often melded into one garment. We have a robe in the Columbia collection that has Japanese ‘kimono style’ sleeves, Chinesestyle metallic embroidery, and colors that look Indian influenced. Have you heard about something like that before, am I correct? There wasn’t a whole lot of purity in fashion it was an amalgamation of all these cultures rolled into one garment.

You definitely see them in the ’50s, mostly small florals, novelty prints got started in the 1940s.

It’s not anything loud. Anyway, it’s always small and feminine and pretty. It would probably have some netting, lace, silk satin, or rayon on it, I’d say if the dress was one color. It wasn’t just one fabric and one color. They wanted to have some kind of visual variety. It was also amidst the first times women were moving more than just their feet when they danced. They were moving their whole bodies. They’re moving their hips, They’re moving their legs. It’s a well they wanted to show off that movement. Furthermore, you need a shorter skirt to do those moves and also to show off your body while doing them.

left, Twiggy wears a pink felt shift dress on Seventeen cover magazine in Right, Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dress embodies the quintessential mod look, circa Via metmuseum. Not loads of them exist anymore, at least the dresses that were wellworn. They would fall apart. Whenever creating an even more stimulating effect when she was dancing, when the garment went into motion, the entire dress was activated. Follow us onTwitter.

Jul
27

Being Noticed By So-And-So: Party Dreses

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LOVE getting ready to go out.

Doing my makeup and picking my outfits on the weekend is therapeutic. Certainly, it’s also fun to get ready with your girlfriends great bonding experience. On p of that, always have. Known it’s like the one time in the week that I can make my appearance match my personality. Also, it’s not my age because at the moment I’m pushing 30 and married. Anyway, generally speaking I enjoy it and I have NO IDEA why, it definitely can be a hassle if you’re on a time restraint and in those cases I do find it to me more stressful than therapeutic. Still love it!

My motivations in college were along the lines described in the article the look I presented was part of a strategy.

Thanks for a very relatable article!

White ‘Tshirts’ are amidst the easiest things to style.

The fact that they’re so easy is the exact reason why finding fresh ways to wear them is so important. They legitimately go with everything. And oftentimes, White tees often get lost in the mix alongside our shinier, more exciting tops. And oftentimes, White tees often get lost in the mix alongside our shinier, more exciting tops. White ‘Tshirts’ are among the easiest things to style. The fact that they’re so easy is the exact reason why finding fresh ways to wear them is so important. They legitimately go with everything.

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