My wedding dress was £230, I think, so $370-ish. It wasn’t even designed as a wedding dress - it’s All Saints off the peg. I did get a lot of gathered parachute silk and pewter beading for that much, though.
I am such a bargain shopper, the most I have spent on a dress is probably $30. My wedding dress was $150, though, so I counted that even though my mom bought it for me.
I love to buy dresses, that’s pretty much all I wear. Yesterday I got a dress at Target for $6 and today I got a silk Bebe dress at a thrift store for $10. Both are super cute and fit great. My usual upper limit for dressses is $20- something has to be fanfreakingtastic to spend more than that.
It involved a remortgage (not just for the dress, obviously, but for the whole wedding.)
I included my wedding dress ($400) in the poll. Other than that, I don’t wear dresses so my answer would have to be $0.00.
I think I paid $300 for a brides maid dress (definitely between $100 and $499). But I ended up being able to wear it to a ball, so I got two nights out of it. Yay!
I usually buy a new dress every time I go to a wedding, and I go to a lot of weddings, but I’ve never paid over $100 for one.
Well actually I did buy one for myself, a $200 emerald green gown with rhinestone adorned spaghetti straps and a plunging back. Every other dress I’ve bought was under $50.
I think the most expensive dress I have was bought for me by my boyfriend - either that or the dress I bought for my graduation party for grad school. Both were somewhere around $300 I think.
My wedding dress was £120 from Debenhams, although it wasn’t a white traditional one, but a nice green formal dress.
£235 for a Vivienne Westwood dress. I say I look hot in it, so…I feel it’s worth it to have one thing I really feel sexy in.
Hello up there- my wedding dress was also £120, from Debenhams!
Somewhere around $750 for a dress by Willow, which was a new Australian label at the time. I fell in love with it in the store, but when I got home I quickly realised that the dress was too distinctive to get much wear out of. Fortunately it was the signature piece from a pretty sought-after collection, and I was able to sell it for a small profit. Nowadays I’m much more sensible - I splurge on basic items, and spend much less on special occasion clothing.
My wedding dress was several hundred dollars (it was a bridesmaid-style dress - I didn’t go for the whole “look like a wedding cake” look), and that was the most expensive dress I’ve ever bought. I don’t wear dresses (slacks or skirts with tops is my look). When I had to buy a rehearsal dinner dress and a sister-of-the-bride dress for my brother’s wedding earlier this year, neither of those topped $75.
I counted my wedding dress, but it was several times more expensive than the next runner-up.
Brought a Gunne Sax dress in 1974 at Lord and Taylors and paid $125 for it. My parents nearly had a cow when I told them how much it cost, I was only supposed to spend no more than $75 on my “graduation/ prom dress” so my 2 older sisters gave me rest of the money to pay for the dress as a gift. Wore it for several years to weddings and special occasions.
I honestly haven’t a clue what my most expensive dress was, but I know it was less than $100. I always buy my formal wear on clearance or at Marshall’s or Ross, and I normally try to keep purchases under $30 each.
I got lucky, though: I was going to buy an expensive prom dress for senior year, but a friend’s mother found me a gorgeous homemade raw silk bodice and silk combo at the Value Village for significantly less than the price of the fabric.
I bought my wedding dress at Nicole Miller when she was designing more simple wedding dresses. Paid just under $500 for it.
$250, IIRC. It was in the 200’s. Retailed at $700. Had a lot of hand beading. It was beautiful. Wore it to my senior formal in high school in 2004. I assume my wedding dress will be 1k or 2k.
My wedding dress cost about $150 because my mother made it for me. Even then, I didn’t buy it; she did.
Other than that, I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than $60 on a dress. I owned two formals in high school that were less than $50 to make and I haven’t spent much on dresses since then. I have several and wear them often. I just don’t spend enough. I wear skirts more often. The most expensive one of those was the navy wool that I made as a copy of an Ann Taylor skirt from about five years ago. That cost me more than $50 after fabric, pattern and notions. I love it though and it looks great.
I pretty much can’t wear dresses due to sizing, the only one I remember buying since I started paying for my own clothes was an $11 sundress. If you’ll accept “the most expensive ensemble (underwear and jewelry excluded)” instead, the suit and blouse I wore to my graduation dinner in 1993 cost about $250 - they were from a seamstress. One advantage of the inability to get dresses that fit is that I rarely buy a complete outfit for an occasion; it’s a new blouse for a suit I already had, or a fancy jacket for a pre-existing skirt and blouse… but very rarely a whole new outfit.