Nice, Betsy.

This [link] is what I'm wearing to my upcoming weddings. [ETA except without the freaky hair and facial expression.] Both are afternoonish ceremonies with dinner reception. I'm trying to figure out options for a wrap or coat of some sort - it's supposed to be about 50 this weekend, and god knows what it'll be like on the 29th. Ideas? Shoes for the first one at least will be strappy black sandals, a lot higher (and less delicate) than ita's.

ita you liar, you have loads of pretty dresses in your closet. Still, why not add one more?

I have only one pretty dress, okay two, but only one that fits me at my current boobage. And even so, I have way more dressy dresses than I have opportunity to wear them.

My problem is that I look at those pictures and love the dresses, but I can't see them on me. I completely lack that ability to transfer a dress from a reed thin model to what it might look like on my size 18 bumpy body.

Blarg.

ita you liar, you have loads of pretty dresses in your closet

I have going-out dresses that I'd describe as ... well, words that imply less delicacy than pretty. Hot, perhaps, or eye-catching (I don't shop by occasion, but rather because I passed something in a store window), but NSM with the pretty. The dress I wore to the LA F2F is probably the prettiest I had before this, or maybe the blue I wore to last year's weddings.

Let's just say -- this was the first time in 26 years I've needed delicate shoes.

Aimée, they're yours (as of about 11pm Saturday night, I suspect).

Damn, ita. Please take a picture when you're wearing that dress.

ION, the existence of Graeters pumpkin ice cream (back for the season) is proof enough of a benevolent deity. Sweet lord, is that stuff amazing.

ita, I love that dress! I hope we get pictures.

Dear Empress,

Please consider this my application to the Princess Army: [link]

--Ellie

Hot, perhaps, or eye-catching (I don't shop by occasion, but rather because I passed something in a store window), but NSM with the pretty.

Okay, this proves my point. You have enough dresses to actually need to categorize them beyond "pretty."

ita, that dress is gorgeous! Betsy, I saw that jacket, too. I want it for my wardrobe, but can't justify the cost right now. Sigh.

Aimée, they're yours (as of about 11pm Saturday night, I suspect).

WHOOT!!

Dear Ellie, You are not only hereby inducted into the Princess Army, you are now a Tiara Sergeant. Because of that dress. Oh my gawds that dress.

Love, Empress

PS Does it come in adult sizes?