I have a few op-shop dresses like this but feel my height and proportions just make them look clunky on me. She looks great, though – her proportions are perfect for such a cutesy outfit! With my – significantly broader – proportions, I think a cutesy blouse can work, but it needs to be “grounded”, as it were, with black trousers or jeans. Otherwise it looks a little Alice in Wonderland after she drinks the potion and grows incredibly large…
i have noticed lately that the pics of men show predominantly classic, timeless, ageless, elegant looks an hey stil manage to look fresh, not stodgy — but the women look faddy, trendy, costumey. does this mean there are no feminine versions on the street of the mens’ classic seersucker suits and fresh contmeporay classic outfits? only the latest mui mui or droopy vintage? please prove me worng!
e if women were wearing a femme version of classics and still looking good I would shoot it but they simply are not. at least not as much as people outside the cit might think.
if you can find those women and shoot them please prove me wrong.
Actually I know I have shoot plenty of those ladies(especially outside RL’s office) but they don’t come around very often – check the archives a little more closely
I LOVE little girl style dresses. It blows so badly that with my bleedin’ huge gazongas I can’t carry it off anymore. I look like some twelve year old who sprung a set before her parents noticed enough to buy her new clothes. That’s just NOT a good look…and it sucked when I was twelve too.
Anonymous
August 15, 2006 at 9:28 am
i like the way her sleeves are scrunched up (at least it appears to be). LOVE your blog!
Anonymous
August 15, 2006 at 9:58 am
love the combonation of the ‘tea-time’ dress with ‘play-time’ shoes…
very sweet.
Alice Olive
August 15, 2006 at 10:04 am
Oh that’s extremely cute! (Different shoes though?)
Anonymous
August 15, 2006 at 10:14 am
i love this little dress..
Gidget Bananas
August 15, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Very retro cute, that dress. Did she say if it was vintage?
Julia
August 15, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Love her, the dress and the bag, but absolutely despise the shoes with this outfit.
Jonathon
August 15, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Definitely cute! I think the big white buttons really make the dress fun and playful.
Kathleen
August 15, 2006 at 8:24 pm
I have a few op-shop dresses like this but feel my height and proportions just make them look clunky on me. She looks great, though – her proportions are perfect for such a cutesy outfit! With my – significantly broader – proportions, I think a cutesy blouse can work, but it needs to be “grounded”, as it were, with black trousers or jeans. Otherwise it looks a little Alice in Wonderland after she drinks the potion and grows incredibly large…
e
August 15, 2006 at 10:18 pm
i have noticed lately that the pics of men show predominantly classic, timeless, ageless, elegant looks an hey stil manage to look fresh, not stodgy — but the women look faddy, trendy, costumey. does this mean there are no feminine versions on the street of the mens’ classic seersucker suits and fresh contmeporay classic outfits? only the latest mui mui or droopy vintage? please prove me worng!
The Sartorialist
August 15, 2006 at 11:03 pm
e
if women were wearing a femme version of classics and still looking good I would shoot it but they simply are not. at least not as much as people outside the cit might think.
if you can find those women and shoot them please prove me wrong.
Actually I know I have shoot plenty of those ladies(especially outside RL’s office) but they don’t come around very often – check the archives a little more closely
ralph
August 15, 2006 at 11:57 pm
“Classic” for women = “was trendy last year”
sorry to dissapoint you, mates
lizzy washington
August 16, 2006 at 12:03 pm
i would love to see it with scrunched leggings—liek Daryl K with gothy platform heels …. i love hte dress.
Jessica
August 16, 2006 at 5:43 pm
i love this little dress…it is a great fabric, has great buttons, but i don’t care for the shoes with the dress. she still looks super cute though!
Anonymous
August 16, 2006 at 5:58 pm
What is considered classic greatly depends on whom you are asking. In a colorful place (like NYC), the answer can be rather varied, even surprising…
Hilde
August 16, 2006 at 8:23 pm
beautiful!
AnastasiaC
August 16, 2006 at 9:15 pm
what a sweet simple dress
she is petite so pulls it off!
K
August 16, 2006 at 9:32 pm
wow! this looks exactly like my school uniform before they changed the design!!
Alice
August 16, 2006 at 10:02 pm
The collar, the scrunched sleeves and those BUTTONS. For me its all about those BUTTONS!!! I didn’t even see the shoes for those BUTTONS.
Killer Kitten 12
August 17, 2006 at 1:09 pm
I LOVE little girl style dresses. It blows so badly that with my bleedin’ huge gazongas I can’t carry it off anymore.
I look like some twelve year old who sprung a set before her parents noticed enough to buy her new clothes.
That’s just NOT a good look…and it sucked when I was twelve too.
Anonymous
August 21, 2006 at 1:39 pm
If I could find “classic, timeless, ageless, elegant” clothes in a petite size I would be more than happy to wear them!
30-something woman