I totally planned to go to Target tomorrow to look at dresses before you people got on the subject. I have decided that I can be the kind of person who rocks a casual day dress.

It was hilarious to see these fucking hipsters in their ironic John Deere hats come in with their cans of PBR, do a double-take at the hippie women with long frizzy hair and flowing embroidered pants and clogs just tearing it up on the dance floor, and then back out slowly to rejoin the rest of the hipsters and their ugly plaid shirts and white belts in the front room.

I might have paid money to see that.

I like flowing embroidered pants. I should find some and buy them.

I like flowing embroidered pants. I should find some and buy them.

Check out Holy Clothing. (I don't have any of their pants, but I have a skirt and a dress from them, and they are lovely and comfy. Also embroidered.)

Yay mac!

I have decided that I can be the kind of person who rocks a casual day dress.

I love dresses for spring/summer. I have a bunch. If I lived somewhere warm year-round, I'd probably never wear pants.

I do like capris, too, though.

Steph might actually make me shop

I'm starting to look for a dressier summer dress for my brother's wedding in Florida at the end of August, and I'm not liking what I'm finding so far. Everything is either way too matronly or way too teen, or is sleeveless. Is it too darn hard to make a short-sleeved dress that is actually pretty?

I won't be buying it until the beginning of August at the earliest, since I won't know for sure what size I'll be in by then (I'm hoping a 20, since I just started wearing 24 pants--yay!), and to be quite blunt, I don't know what stores other than my usual plus size ones even carry clothes in that size. Does Macy's have decent dresses that don't cost too much in 20? I really don't want to spend more than $60 on it.

Oh, and the reason I'm looking at short-sleeved dresses is that I'm definitely getting that sagging skin on the underside of the arms. I'm just hoping the neck skin doesn't look as bad when I'm done.

Kathy, do you prefer a brick-and-mortar store so you can try the clothes on? I have a large mental list of online plus-size stores, but less so on brick-and-mortar ones.

I think that most large department stores have plus sizes (certainly up to 20); I don't know about prices, though. I bet you can look on their websites ahead of time, though, to see if you even want to go check them out.

Right now, I'm just looking, but I think I'd rather try on the dress before buying (which is why eBay isn't an option as much as I'd like it to be). At least, then I'll know if the style is right, I like the color on me, and the length is what I'm comfortable with.

I have no problems shopping online for casual stuff, though, because it's just not as important if things are perfect since all clothes are transitional for me right now (except for socks and shoes).

I love 3/4 length sleeves.