They make my shoulders look HUGE!
:dubious:
But seriously, those sundresses where the waist is cinched in right below the bustline and the rest of the dress billows out in a very …billowing… way. It either looks like the poor shapely woman wearing it is an unshapely (yet tall) little kid, or it makes the wearer of slighlty more ample (yet still lovely) proportions look like an upside down fig tree.
Why even make that stuff!?
I do not own a dress, or skirt, but I have seen those dresses(mostly looking like they are towel material.
Our next door neighbor wore one.
It hides your stomach.
Our neighbor is 3 months pregnant, so it works good for her.
Me, it would make me look pregnant, not a good look.
Hate 'em. They make me look very pregnant, which is not really the look I’m going for. Why are they always touted as being ‘great for every figure’? No, not unless ‘every figure’ is willowy and tall.
I’m tall and borderline willowy, and these dresses make me look like I’ve just given up on fashion and decided to wear a potato sack. They do look mighty cute on toddlers, especially with matching frilly pants peeking out behind. Perhaps that’s what’s meant by “every figure” - every figure of a girl three or under.
Links? anyone?
I have to see said dress before I can have an opinion.
Aren’t these called “Empire” waisted? I’ve never felt they were very flattering (particularly not on me - I’m a long-waisted man).
They must be out of vogue at the moment, because I can’t seem to find any in the catalogs. But yes, they are all about maternity and NOTHING about the female form. I hate that.
I just moved from DC to NYC, and these things are everywhere! In NYC, everyone wears them with jeans beneath them. Seriously. Dress + jeans. I’ve seen the skirt + jeans variation as well. Perhaps I’m old and unfashionable, but I don’t get it. Just seems uncomfortable to add more layers–especially to a sundress!
My niece is five. I bet she’d look darn cute in one. She’d also look darn cute in a potato sack.
I was seeing some of them around OU this weekend and Kristen Davis wore one on the Letterman repeat (from early June?) last night.
I’ll see if I can find any online examples, as I don’t have pics of my own of them, what with me hating them and all.
NCB, are you wearing ladies apparel nowadays?
If yes, please comment on the type of purse you like to sport about town in the summer months.
Fashionista minds want to know.
I hate them too. As I have a fairly large bust, the bust is actually on my bust rather than below, so it all looks rather silly.
I like those straw satchels than you sling over your opposite shoulder. The smaller ones, about 1/3 to 1/4 the size of a shopping bag from Macy*s. Of course, I prefer them to have some sort of closure, whether snap or zipper.
I’ve also been known to simply carry my pocketbook, with my keys and new tiny little phone stuffed inside.
For formal wear, a clutch (with only the absolute essentials inside, so as not to bulge it out), as I despise any straps competing with the fabulous lines of what I’m wearing.
Someone on the board claims to look good in empire-waist dresses. She’s one of the very, very, very, very few. Most people look like crap. Pregnant at best (without the healthy “glow” of pregnancy) just fat and shapeless at worst.
It’s so funny when watching Sense & Sensibility or Pride & Prejudice and there are the men, whose clothes look amazing…(come to think of it, men should dress like that today - why don’t those fashions ever come back) and then the women wearing those horrible, disastrous sacks. Tall & willowy doesn’t seem to help.
Though I couldn’t find exactly what I had seen, here are a few examples of the type. In addition to empire waist, the term babydoll also gave up a few hits.
Basicaly, they are little girl dresses being foisted on grown women. Granted, in some of the pics I’m about to link to, the models still make thme look great. I blame posing, padding, and camera angle. Trust me, in real life, even those dresses are hideous.
One other thing, a lot of the hits were for wedding gowns. And some of those looked good. Or, at least, passable.
As always, taste is taste, and ymmv.
Sure, looks good here…
I wore babydoll dresses back in high school. It was 1992, and it was more in style then. Of course, what looks good on a high schooler isn’t going to look good on a grown woman. I wore striped and patterned tights as well, but I wouldn’t wear them now.
Yeah, empire waists are horrible unless you’re pregnant.
I don’t mind the empire waist on these particular dresses, because the remainder of the dress is form-fitting. I hate the ones that are all baggy like a housedress. When I find a good example, I’ll show youze.
Kirsten Davis wore a “high waisted sundress” on David Letterman last night. It looked good on her. (She’s definitely willowy.)
Here’s an example (but even this isn’t exactly what I had in mind). I’d throw a rope over the rafters before I’d wear this number.
Yes, that is what they’re called. Barbra Streisand seems to have a fixation on them, as I can count on one hand how many times I’ve seen her not wearing one. She doesn’t look that great in them, either.
Oh and there’s no way I could wear that style, either. They tend to make me look like a beached whale in a tent, and I avoid that look as much as possible.
See post #9. I didn’t like it on her, either. Yes, I’m very hard to please, why do you ask? 
