Oh yeah, that dress would be awesome with petticoats.

I always worry vaguely about the whole lamb/mutton thing since most of my sartorial advice comes from sixteen year olds. But it`s not exactly a look dressed to seduce, what with the whole cargo pants and band t-shirts thing going, so maybe I needn`t be fussed.
 
Sophia, yeah, I feel for your friend. Faith is weird and God answers prayers in weird ways ime. But we had a similar situation with a dear friend who did die of stomach cancer. Her local church believed so fervently that she would be healed that it caused something of a crisis of faith for them when she died. Not healthy. But I understand that desire, wanting something to be other than it is. I just hope it doesn`t rob her of time with and support for her sister while they are still together.

I would be so overdressed!

No, he would be underdressed.

Man, I missed that about being in University. We were such obnoxious dressers. We'd team-overdress at the drop of a hat.

Now I have to do 50s-fu all by myself.

But it`s not exactly a look dressed to seduce, what with the whole cargo pants and band t-shirts thing going, so maybe I needn`t be fussed.

I vote we not fuss. Other people can be so tiresome. Maybe I'll re-evaluate when I'm 45. Or 50.

I just feel so bad for her, because she seems so sure that her faith will make her sister better, and it seems like a terrible burden to have if her sister dies-- that maybe if she was more faithful, her sister would have lived.

Oh yeah, that is awful. And wrong-headed in a way that's not useful.

No, he would be underdressed.

I would also be overdressed for the setting. I may still wear a dress, but not that one.

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I would also be overdressed for the setting.

Eff the setting, IJS.

I love team overdressing! I went to rock shows in full formal-wear not once but twice! Love. I never pull stuff like that now. I have become old and stodgy.

Hee! I should not have made such a blanket statement - I know better!!

I have a very rounded-out behind. The Trixie dress is very unflattering to my behind because the waist hits at just the wrong place on my lower back/ass-shelf. Which pulls the back of the dress up and creates an odd, reversed asymmetrical hemline on me that a-line skirts don't do for some reason. I worry the Peterman dress will do the same now cause it looks like the waist would hit in the same way.