Dresses of Summer

Showing dogs in dresses can be very flattering, professional and cool during hot summer months.  A great well-fitting dress can make any woman feel great!  However, an ill-fitting dress can emphasize a woman’s flaws.

Dresses can be a little more flamboyant than suits because of their prints and cuts.  Huge trends this year in dresses are cut-outs and geometric lines.  These fun details can go from cute and chic to raunchy and slutty very quickly.  If you’re shopping in the Junior’s section, stop.  Just stop.  They are just not going to be professional and classy enough.  Misses have great designers that are on trend and include classy cut-outs and geometric lines.  Plus, often the quality of clothes in the Misses department is far better than what may be found in Juniors.

If the cut-outs and geomantic lines are too much for you, then stick with a simple pencil dress or an A-line dress.  Pencil dresses are simple and timeless, they will often elongate a woman’s body and accentuate curves, just remember the Spanx!  A-line dresses look good on everyone because no matter your shape or size they are fitted on your chest and give you a waist. 

As for prints, I love them, but not all prints love me!  Prints come in all shapes and sizes (yes sizes) and not all are meant to be worn on every body.  If you have a larger area or not even, a larger print can emphasize that area.  For example, below I’m wearing a printed dress that has larger print right along my hips.  The larger print portion of the dress makes my hips and stomach look huge and bottom heavy (which is opposite of what I really am).  Large print will make you look larger, where smaller prints will make you look smaller. 

Stripes have also become a hot trend and knowing how and where stripes hit different parts of your body will make all the difference.  Horizontal stripes will always make you look larger, where vertical stripes are slimming.  Just be careful of black and white vertical stripes, they can look like a prison uniform.  Another trick is smaller stripes will make you look thiner while thicker, bolder stripes will make you look larger.

Please remember to go through the check list (Post December 27, 2013 - http://dress4bis.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=2) when buying a new dress.  While they may fit when standing still, dresses often will ride up while running, twisting, and bending.  Remember to twist, run, and bend over in the dressing room.