Please educate me in "little black dresses"
 

Our xmas party this year is semi-formal.

The thought of buying a dress for this is almost worse than buying pants.

I have no idea what to look for or where to go. I don't want to spend a small fortune either.

I have just below the knee black boots that I could wear or black closed toe open back (with a strap) sandles or pink strappy sandles.

Help?

I would suggest checking out Banana Republic and Ann Taylor. They both are stores that regularly have dresses. BR has stuff right now for holiday party-wear.

Well, first they're black. Second, they're little.

Which is why I refuse to conform and continue to wear pants. Nice silk pants with strappy sandals and a suitably dressy top, but pants nonetheless.

Little Black Dresses only have to be little if you're little. I own at least three LBDs and I'm probably the most plus-sized lady on the board. Sorry, though, all my LBDS come from Lane Bryant and Torrid, so I'm not much help.

I'd echo the Banana Republic suggestion, as they always have nice dresses there. Check out Forever 21, too, I hear they have reasonable cute stuff.

Banana has about 10 different styles of LBD that are fantastic. The red dress I wore to T's wedding was a BR dress and they have several very similar in dresses black.

Thank you!

While I'd much prefer pants, from what I am hearing everyone wears dresses to this thing.

I'll check out BR.

Sorry dear, but I can only get you out of a little black dress. Someone else is gonna have to help get you into one.

tequila!

Tequila makes my clothes fall off!






(and for everyone other than KatieSue, it's a song reference, so don't go gettin your hopes up)

Other good places to check might be Nordstrom Rack, Loehmans (I got a great LBD there a while ago for way cheap), and if you have a BR outlet near you - the one I go to is in Carlsbad.

Oh and Ann Taylor loft, same kinds of things as at Ann Taylor but cheaper pricing. Also I've gotten a few really good deals at Ann Taylor online.