Dresses over Jeans?
 

I'm confused. But it seems that there is a current trend of wearing little sun dresses over jeans for casual going-out-at-night wear?

Anyone?

If this is true I'll be in 7th heaven ;)

It's true in the Tweener land o'fashion, but I don't know about elsewhere.

Tori gives her fashion blessing.;)

Go Fug Yourself has been pretty consistent in trashing this look for quite a while now (particularly if instead of jeans, leggings are involved).

I don't think I've seen it much in person, but while it seems a little silly to me there are far worse things (uggs).

Thank you Tori! ;)

Leggings are scary. It does seem pretty silly to wear jeans under a dress - but since I'm not a dress gal myself I thought it would be a happy compromise.

Oh well.

Hey, if you like it, do it. Who cares what other people think. I only mentioned it because Go Fug Yourself is the only source of fashion commentary I am regularly exposed to (and they frequently trash things I think look fine).

I generally don't but I am trying to update my wardrobe and don't want to end up with something that is from tweenland and not adultland.

I prefer to wear lacy panties under my dresses. It just helps make me feel all girlie.

Then yeah, you may want to not. My recollection of ragging on Go Fug Yourself is that it is tilted heavily towards teen idols.

Given what we talked about on Saturday, I'd shy away from that trend, if I were you. It's a fad. Any pieces that would be worth buying would have to be really inexpensive and therefore of lesser quality. All in all, if you're not sure now, it's likely going to be an unnecessary money dump that you wear once, maybe twice.

I'm trying to not buy into anything now until I'm finished with school. In the meanwhile, I'm dumping anything that's no longer age appropriate and no longer wears well. And anything else that suits my fancy when I'm in a "clearing out my wardrobe" mood. When I start buying again, I'm going to go for classic numbers that will hopefully not make me look old. Let's cross our fingers on that one.

No no no - say it isn't so. I didn't like the look when I was a kid any better. I saw someone wearing this the other day and just said "why?" Why do you need the jeans? You've got the cute little dress and now you've wrecked it. Or hello - how about a top with those pants instead of a whole 'nother outfit?

Usually the dress involved is not a dress at all. Or at least, a dress that could get you arrested.

This look has been around for a year or two now, mostly among people younger than us, BTD. Whaddaya mean, I can't shop at Charlotte Russe anymore?

On the upside of this trend - cute tops with long torsos are back. Some even lean towards the dress side of things. So there's a line you can move towards. Goodbye, inadvertent midriff!

Thanks guys. I'm so oblivious to trends but I saw this and thought ooo maybe.

BE - cost/quality doesn't matter. I know I'll only wear them once or twice anyways since I hate dresses. The purging of my closet is done though. YAY!

And CP - I haven't been able to shop at Charlotte Russe since I was 13. ;)

Definitely don't do it like this.

I love Fug.

This seems to be a throw back to the 80's when you wore leggings instead of jeans. I think some people can pull it off as an outfit. It depends. But it truly is just a trend that is being RE-trended.

If you like it then go for it. Wear what you like!

Well, ok, I can, but I shouldn't. And I'm not, not anymore. I swear. :p

I'm digging the longer tanks and tops. For the most part, it suits my body well. Even better if it's empire, for my body type.

It's strange being not-so-young and at college with a bunch of people that are typically between 5-10 years younger than me, and a handful that are 15+ years older than me. I've found myself going to school looking like a lot of the younger kids. At an American Marketing Association event last semester, I bumped into one of my favorite professors. First, we laughed about everyone being dressed up. Did shots with a bunch of people (hey, there was an open bar!). Then started talking about age. I mentioned I was 28. He was stunned. I was happy.

So, I get a school pass on doing the whole Abercrombie/Hollister thing with the long tanks, sloppy jeans, flip flops with my hair tied back. I still shouldn't do the dress thing, though I've been tempted.

They have some very cute stuff. I don't see anything wrong with wearing a cute pair of jeans with a cute tank and flip flops or other shoes. Maybe it's the *young look* but it's not like you're wearing a Sesame Street t-shirt.

I may try it on. Or try on a *dress that really isn't a dress* top and see how it looks. I finally started wearing shorts (all hail Bermuda shorts!) and open toed shoes. I suppose dresses are next.

You know, anytime anyone calls them Bermuda shorts, I think of Merlin from The Sword in the Stone or Doc Brown from Back to the Future.

Excuse me. All hail long shorts! :p

And you've seen my legs. This is a GOOD thing.

Haha! I didn't mean it *that* way...

I meant it like it's a funny thing... because they are Bermuda shorts. Even better, I'd imagine, if they could be worn in Bermuda. With a drink in my left hand. Maybe an umbrella would be appropriate. And some 60 SPF. And some cabana boys. Bearing grapes. And palm leaf fans.

OK, this is going to far, even for me...

I am SOOOOO glad that bermuda shorts have made a comeback. I love em'! Much better than the past few years when everything was super short, somehow just not appropriate for a mother of 3, 2 being teens.

BTD, I think the little knit dresses over jeans is a cute look. I have been seeing it alot in Sacramento. Not for me, I think I'm to "old" for that look, but I can see you passing it off ;)

Count me in on the long shorts bandwagon....except that my curves force me to buy shorts with a drawstring waist. Otherwise you can flip quarters into my butt.

I should try that next time I see you. Don't wear the drawstring shorts. :D

I like the long top or even short dress over jeans look. I'm old and I still wear it. Maybe that's why people make fun of me. ;)

Where are you all finding the long shorts? I could use some new shorts. And please don't give me names of mall stores that only sell sizes 0-5.

Sounds like a fun bar game :D

I so wasnt gonna go there...


thank you

:D

I've worn that look- and gotten many compliments on it.

...but I was never one to follow "trends". :) So if it's an "out" look- I guess I don't mind.

Actually, I've seen them everywhere this season. Check your usual haunts and they'll probably have a version of bermudas.

Target and Kohls.

Don't forget the coin slot cream

Usual haunts. Ha. I hate clothes shopping and have no usual haunts, but I'll check Kohls for sure!

I love Kohls, and as Walmart's plus sections continue their sad decline, I may be spending more and more of my clothing dollar at Kohl's. Usually I just go there for work clothes.

In Kohls I found that the misses pants don't fit right but in the Jrs dept the larger sizes come up high enough where I am not exposing my coin slot. Target has a cut "Mossimo Lowest Cut" that isn't low at all. Not sure why it's called that but it's awesome.

Thankfully I manage to overlook most teen fashion but I've been seeing skirts and dresses over pants or jeans for years. Dancers go for that combination quite a bit, I've always assumed to keep their legs warm while also having something with a little movement when they turn. And also to show off how skinny they are despite multiple layers of clothing.

For me, it would depend on how it looked when I put it together on me

I did buy one of those longer tops but then didn't like how it looked with my jeans. So, I wore it with comfy cropped stretchy pants to lounge around in.

True as someone said, there are now a lot of shirts with the longer length, babydoll type smocks? Empire waist? Both really cute.

The age deal. Well, shopping puts me in a mid-life crisis. I am too old for things I really think are cute and think I am too young for things that I really ought to be wearing. :rolleyes: Phooey. {as I sit here in my camouflage longer shorts with a brown tee, barefooted...}

Crystal, I agree with the longer length shorts. I dug out my summer clothes for our vacation and was dismayed that they were a bit snug. :( So, I went shopping and found a couple of pair of longer length shorts and I am so glad I did. I don't feel like my a$$ is hanging out all over town and I feel like I am dressing my age. Cammy and all. :D

I really don't like shorts. I prefer skorts if I'm going to go that route. However, I did spy some linen shorts at BR yesterday (on sale) and I may go back and try them on. Linen may trump the concept of shorts.

It's too hot to wear long pants. Period.

I did see skorts when I was out shopping...I was tempted...I think my butt is too big. They don't seem to look right on me.

:(

I wear them and my ass is NOT small. But, it looks smaller in a skort than in shorts.

They would look more girlie, wouldn't they? Sometimes I feel like I dress so unfeminine. But so comfortable. :D

Ugh. Shopping.

Need to do more of that.

I am not a big fan of skorts. I'm sure there is some underlying childhood trauma to blame for that ;)

I am going to hit up the Kohl's by my office during lunch this week. See if I can find some fun and flirty long tops that aren't quite dresses to wear with jeans. And perhaps a dress to wear when I go to Vegas (for sure) next month since it will probably be way to hot to wear jeans at night.

.................................... (Where's my blank smilie?)

I suppose I should have put up a warning for you. Sorry! ;)

MAN, I WANT TO GO DRESS SHOPPING.

I just want to go somewhere where I can actually wear a dress.

You can wear a dress anywhere. Just about.

Not to work.

Well, not your work.... :) Which is just about every day for you. So... ummm...

Hmmm...

I'm starting to think skirts look good again. I haven't worn skirts regularly since, oh... jr. high (before my thighs started rubbing together, ugh)

But the more I see myself in shorts, and the more I see what becomes of my legs, the more I'm thinking a few wispy long skirts or cute A-lines might be just the thing.

I'm with you on needing a place to wear a dress.

I love to buy them, though.

When we were attending Council Meetings {I tagged along...} I would dress nice and professionally.

Daily? T-shirt and jeans. I know a lot of moms who dress up just because.

Doesn't seem practical.

I'm beginning to feel I'm going to end up on an episode of "What Not To Wear".

Well, I don't think of dresses as necessarily "dressing up." I've been turned onto just wearing skirts and dresses more often. Unfortunately, I just don't have as many dresses as I'd like.

Hopefully, I'll still want dresses once I have the funds for them.

After wearing jeans so much, I feel like a tomboy and it feels strange to wear a dress, like dressing up. Even a casual dress. I did pick one up and wore it casually and it felt right. It was black, of course.

Oh man, I think I would definitely be on 'What Not to Wear'. I don't always match my shoes/purse, I know my clothes are currently too tight...my accessories are whatever I had on from the day before...{gold hoops, bracelet}...but I do buy a lot of them...just never use them...

I would love to be on WNTW. I don't know how I'm ever going to be able to scrape up enough to get a new wardrobe any time soon.

Someone nominate Erica for WNTW.

I, on the other hand would rather have a root canal with no Novocaine then be on national TV.

Oh, that is the show? I just kept thinking about the show/magazine where they show the people who fug up.

Ew, how about that show where the people stand inside the clear box and people guess their age? That seems so cruel but I'd love to do it and have them do all of that work for me. I could use an overhaul.

Oh, I've seen that show - I forget what it's called. I've seen some people in serious need of some help on that show. I almost cried for this one woman. Her teeth were soooo messed up. The rest was cake, but when she fixed the teeth, she looked almost 20 years younger and had so much more confidence.

When the WNTW hosts do their "surprise" I wonder if any target ever says "**** you all, I like the way I dress so go away.."

No, that's "10 Years Younger", which Where's Barbie? from Micechat has actually been on.

What not to wear is the one where these two insufferable New Yorkers throw victims into a 4-way mirror box and make them look at themselves in their favorite outfits, and then proceed to break down everything they're doing wrong, and then send them out shopping, which they naturally f- up so then they "surprise" the person in some store or another and help them shop with the rest of the money.

Oh... almost forgot... they throw the old clothes in the trash.

I've watched WNTW for years now, and it's so very rare that the person doesn't realize their mistakes...and it's not about clothes being trendy, it's about stuff that fits your body shape. I've learned so much from that show (though I still hate shopping).

It's actually not as good as it used to be, but it still seems to change how people see themselves. Especially when they get a decent haircut. Yeech, about time I got a cut myself.

Alex, they never say "go fvck yourself" because they get $5000 to spend, shopping in New York. *wistful sigh*

You know, I once saw a behind-the-scenes WNTW and there are people that turn it down, for various reasons. Some think they're fine, but more often than that, they realize they need help and are too embarrassed to go through with the show.

But they aren't going to show you that, it makes for bad TV, and the target doesn't allow TLC to use their likeness. Supposedly, the drop-outs are when they pick up more local NY/NJ targets.

WNTW is one of the shows that Erin and I always watched together when she was younger. I still really like the show, and I'll record episodes for her.

Our running gag while watching and discussing: I regularly have to remind my daughter that I'm straight.

They don't throw them away. They donate them (and it could be argued that someone else will now be dressing poorly).

Oooh, so they're spreading the disease of bad clothing!! Or they're ensuring future work. Hmmm...

LOL

Yeah, I have considered that, having to get rid of all of my other clothes. But, hey, a big part of my wardrobe are my concert t's. I love those things!

And, I agree, CP, it is all about fit. I can take an armfull of really nice things into the dressing room but if I think they don't look right, I will not buy them. I won't try to 'carry' an outfit because of its' current fashion popularity.

I actually hope that when the WNTW team shows up at my house it will be Susannah and Trinny and NOT Stacy and Clinton. Stacy is the LEAST helpful of all of the WNTW people. She spends more time being "funny" (not) than actually giving good advice. The Brits are so much better.

I agree but in the latest BBC season Trinny and Susannah are gone and their replacements suck.

BBC has had some follow up shows where they go back and see if the person is still dressing better or has reverted to their former ways. Most have at least reverted back a little bit.

But if they like the way they dress, doesn't that imply they'll end up having to spend $5000 on clothes they don't want to wear at the cost of being ridiculed in front of a couple hundred thousand people?

Of course, if the person does tell them to sod off that episode never gets made and therefore is never seen.

Oh, that's just SAD!

I think one of the BBC folks has made the fugly gals' site a few times.

I personally adore Clinton. So there.

Clinton doesn't bother me too much. It is Stacy that ruins the show for me. But, I actually watch the show once every 3 months or so. Plus, I'm a picky bitch.

One day Stacy is going to get the **** kicked out of her. I hope it's Clinton who does it. She is the most gratuitously snarky, unhelpful, Simon Cowell of the fashion world wannabe and her own style of dress leaves a lot to be desired.

I really need to watch the British version- everyone says I'd like it way better.

You guys have it covered.

WNTW is the only one of these shows that I'll watch. Sometimes they get a bit mean, and sometimes I'm not sure I dig what they're pushing, but most of the time I think they do a good job. Yeah, Stacy is a bitch, and sometimes it's a bit too much.

I watched that 10 Years Younger show a couple of times and that makes being on WNTW look like a cakewalk. Not only do they do that horrid glass booth where random strangers tell you you look old, but they do all the surgery stuff...I'm still not a fan of the concept that you are not a good looking person for your age unless you get work done. Blech.

There was one WNTW ep where they told a flat chested woman that she absolutely had to wear gel-filled bras in order to look good. I'm all for the idea of informing her about how padded/push up/gel bras help (I wear a padded bra, like most small chested women, much of the time) but the way they put it, she wouldn't look good at all without it. Sigh. The message ends up being, "your body is not good enough."

THANK YOU. I definitely prefer the British WNTW to the American. Stacy and Clinton are too... well too NY. And they always tell the person to sport a vintage look.

Susannah and Trinny do much better with talking about cuts, and proportion. They're less worried about patterns and colors, which Stacy and Clinton seem obsessed with. I'd only ever consider this show if it were the British team.

They should do an exchange! How fun would that be? :)

For real? They should have given her options, not an ultimatum.

I don't think the fashion industry is to blame. We are all responsible for our own choices.

Dig. :snap:

I'd add - way before the fashion industry existed, people were trying to wear especially pleasing outfits/hairstyles/tatoos/piercings/etc to impress others. This still goes on in tribal societies, and has nothing to do with an "industry", of any kind.

What's the protocol on thin, light-colored blouses? Bra or tank top/shell?

I either wear a camisole or the same colored bra.

Not that I am such a conservative dresser, though. :evil:

I stopped by BR to try on some shorts. They were $20 cheaper than on Saturday AND I had a $25 rewards card. Total price for linen shorts - $4.48.

NICE!

I don't want to look like everyone else and even though I am pretty strong, sometimes the crap does get to me and bring me down. Not enough to change, though.

Enough to not look in the mirror for a few days, maybe. :D

I'm like a goldfish, memory is very short.

But, it is hard on some people and some people do take it too seriously and judge others harshly.

Okay, where are these shorts? Does the BR stand for Banana Republic? I don't get out much...:blush:

Yes, BR is Banana Republic. BR has been an old staple of mine because their clothes tended to fit and they were good for work. Now that my job requires a VERY different style of dress I don't do much shopping at the store any longer. I tend to spend more time shopping the sales at Anthropoligie.

But, Calliope likes the BR bag just fine. :)

Thanks for that tip! I will have to see what is around here for me, I think there is an Anthropoligie store close by, though.

I went to the Kohl's by my office today (in RSM) and it has bunches of stuff compared to the Kohl's in HB.

I bought a long dressy top to wear with my jeans and an actual dress.

Oooh, that reminds me I need to nip over to Kohl's after work and check up on the super skirt (by check up I of course mean finding a second skirt to "get free" and getting "my skirt" from the customer service desk and finally buying my precioussssss)

Well, they still don't carry the superskirt online, but look what I found! Those are almost identical to the green, black, and cream ones I already have. Soooo tempting to get the pinker shades! Ooh, or the brown (which they call "Bootstrap" hahaha pandering to trends much?)

Oh, damn you! Those are cute. Where's my credit card?

Okay, I have pictures! Not very flattering shots of what I deem to be very cute items, but deal, at least you can see the items I was talking about.

Super Skirt in action:


Much uglier shot (never hand your camera to a man in a La-z-boy):


And the other skirt I got, being worn with an equally cute (though not together, of course!) top, which I also got in burgundy. Since it's blurred to all hell, it's hard to tell all the cute pintucks it has. Makes me think of Edwardian clothes with the high waistline and coming down over the hips.

Did someone say BR? I was just there this past weekend. My $15 birthday gift was burning a hole in my pocket.

I got this top in the Mulled Spice Berry color.

Cute skirts Morrigoon.

I'm hit and miss with BR. Sometimes I find lots I like and sometimes nada.

Cute skirts!

I got a few more sale items from BR. Another pair of linen shorts, some pinstripe capris, a couple of simple T's and a simple t-shirt dress. Nothing fancy, but great for summer heat beating.

Morri~ I really like the last top, looks perfect for summer.

S4S~ oooo, that mulled spiceberry.....very pretty.