What kind of thing are you looking for, Maria? How about

Black pearls: [link]

Sterling with garnet and marcasite: [link]

I guess it depends what the beading on the front looks like.

I own a slip, but I usually wear it as a dress or nightgown.

I am not very modest at all.

I don't like slips. If I'm wearing a light, gauzy skirt, I don't want the added layer of a slip.

ChiKat is me.

I've been looking on Overstock for most of the afternoon. How come I didn't find those? Hmph.

I looove the marcasite and garnet one. That's close to what I was picturing in my head. The black pearls are a good idea too.

I own slips - haven't worn them in ages. but then most of my clothig is easy clothing. somewaht heavier fabrics with body - my unwritten/unspoken/not-so-well-followed rule is that 90% of my clothing must be easy and forgiving - the rest can matter.

I am much more disturbed by what is happeing on Justic League than I am about how people's underware looks under their clothing. as long as it is uner.

Well, today I am wearing a grey linen skirt that's pretty lightweight. I wore it without a slip at my grandmother's memorial service and noticed (whoops!) that when backlit, it was fairly transparent. So right now I'm wearing black underpants, a white slip, and the skirt, and feeling fairly confident that nobody is noticing what's under my skirt. Which is, to me, the point of appropriate undergarments (in a work context) - to be not noticed.

I guess I feel that if a skirt is so gauzy as to actually be see-through, it hardly matters what you wear under it.

How come I didn't find those?

Magic.

Maria, the black pearls I got at Overstock had some shading to them that made them closer to being multihued than I was expecting. I still like them, and think they would be nice with that dress though.

Speaking of Overstock, ita-- are these basically the same thing as your pillows? [link]

I am always perplexed by women who seem to have matched not just jacket, skirt, and hat, but jacket, skirt, hat, shoes, and purse, all in the same (non-black) color.

I can do this once. With hot pink. I bought the suit and shoes ant the same time, and wore the shoes to the store to get everything else. It makes me feel very put together. Though, honestly, I feel even more put together when I wear the shoes, jacket and hat from this ensemble with teh black and white checked pants that have pink ladybugs embroidered on them and a bit of rick-rack (is it rick-rack if it's straight?) at the hem.

Oh, wait. No purse. Changing purses is way more than I am willing to do for a look. I'm more likely to decide that I just won't carry a purse.

Gorgeous bridesmaid dress, Maria. Maybe something in jet beading for the necklace? I know I'd like it. (eta: except now that I've gone and looked for some it's really quite expensive. I must have always looked at fakes before)

I am not wearing a slip. I don't think I own a slip. Another layer in the summertime= crzxy.

I'm leaving that typo, it's expressive.

a v-neck empire waist with beading right underneath the bust

Is the beading glass beads? Can you go to a bead store and find reasonable matches? You can make your own!

For that dress, I would suggest black shiny beads, or silver, or a dark shade of translucent purple. Probably anything with red in it would be too matchy-matchy with the dress. Other matching ideas are to match the necklace to any flowers they hold/wear, except where bridesmaids always seem to have pink flowers, and pink is so problematic for so many skintones.