Trend Alert: The Body Conscious Party Dress

December 9, 2007

What: The new shape in party dresses? Form-fitting.

What the fashion heads say: This from The New York Times style page: “What happened to last winter’s easygoing party frocks that replicated simple geometric shapes, the circular pouf, the triangular trapeze, the rectangular shift? Turns out they were all square. ‘The baby-doll dress is dead,’ Sarah Easley, an owner of Kirna Kirna Zab

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MizHalsegan 1 December 9, 2007

I agree, it is important to buy clothes that fit. So many women don’t. Good riddance to the baby doll dress anyway. Not a good look for grown women.

Kali 2 December 9, 2007

Hi Angela,

I totally agree with you. I have a gorgeous pouf short high waist evening skirt that is hand painted, I can’t wait to wear it this holiday!  Form fitting dresses were going to come back anyway as the slim fitted look is sleek and sexy.

ctcutie 3 December 11, 2007

The form-fitting dresses should be back and reign. I’m so tired of shapeless sack dresses, trapeze dresses and babydoll dresses….they’re so unflattering to any figure. And I don’t understand a lot of clothing manufacturers and designers still adhere to that look

Meg_TheFloridaBargainQueen 4 December 11, 2007

Hallelujah!

Finally, more dresses for people like me who have curves and actually want to show them off.

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