Anonymous
08/15/2025 22:26
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can someone post some photos, please? I'm not sure what you all are talking about.
https://tnuck.com/products/lemon-blanca-midi-dress
https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/the-peregrine-square-neck-midi-dress?category=dresses-midi&color=030&type=STANDARD&quantity=1
https://www.hillhousehome.com/collections/nap-dress-shop/products/the-ellie-nap-dress-farmers-market?variant=41363556728875
This type of sleeve is not flattering on me so I wouldn't wear them. But, they are very pretty dresses, imo. LOVE the lemons.
I feel like these are all designed for a life that I don’t lead and no one I know leads. Where would you wear this? The farmers market on Sunday? (Why wouldn’t you just wear something more casual?). A play date at the park (again, why wear something this fancy)? It’s too casual for the office or for a real party. I feel like it’s designed for women that live in a Hallmakr movie and go out to garden brunches with their girlfriends and drink lemonade and eat salads. I guess maybe I could see wearing it shopping in a cute downtown on a beach vacation …. But I’m not buying a dress for that one specific thing I’ll do once. I also think these will look super dated in 2 years and will join the cold shoulder tops in the landfill.
You don’t have a single summer dress that you would wear to a summer barbecue or brunch with friends? Normal women do in fact occasionally do these things and it is fine to have an outfit or two to do them in.
I actually wear long summery dresses grocery shopping or running errands. They’re pretty comfortable.
I do but they aren’t those flowery things with ruffled sleeves or multiple flounder tiers. And just gojng to a bbq once of those ruffled dresses seems too fancy and overdressed. Maybe you live that life where you’re regularly wearing this kind of stuff … I imagine a world of SAHMs in Savannah having brunch and barbecues and wearing these, with their hair in long loose blonde curls.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 21:03
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My mom is a doctor and always wore cute dresses to work for as long as I can remember and she did fine. I work from home now but probably pushed the boundaries of lawyer work clothes while I was in the office. Who cares?
A dress can be cute without looking like it belongs on a prepubescent girl. Surely you can tell the difference and are just being disingenuous.
My transplant doctor is Persian and wears gorgeous wrap dresses. Some are prints, but they don’t look like Mommy and Me florals.
DvF invented wrap dresses as a professional "uniform" for women. Thats not what OP is talking about.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 20:58
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My mom is a doctor and always wore cute dresses to work for as long as I can remember and she did fine. I work from home now but probably pushed the boundaries of lawyer work clothes while I was in the office. Who cares?
A dress can be cute without looking like it belongs on a prepubescent girl. Surely you can tell the difference and are just being disingenuous.
My transplant doctor is Persian and wears gorgeous wrap dresses. Some are prints, but they don’t look like Mommy and Me florals.
A doctor is not a corporate job.
I mean those ruffles and sleeves are ridiculous but she wore very dainty summery dresses in bright and pastel colors. So do I.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 20:19
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My mom is a doctor and always wore cute dresses to work for as long as I can remember and she did fine. I work from home now but probably pushed the boundaries of lawyer work clothes while I was in the office. Who cares?
A dress can be cute without looking like it belongs on a prepubescent girl. Surely you can tell the difference and are just being disingenuous.
My transplant doctor is Persian and wears gorgeous wrap dresses. Some are prints, but they don’t look like Mommy and Me florals.
I mean those ruffles and sleeves are ridiculous but she wore very dainty summery dresses in bright and pastel colors. So do I.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 19:36
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:They are clown clothes. Wear them anywhere but for a Sunday stroll or grocery pick up and many of us, men included, are side eyeing you.
I remember a decade or so ago the post tried to start a local style section and they featured an early 30s woman in exactly one of these kinds of dresses. The comments were comedy gold and I think the section faded away.
These little girl dresses are always the first idea fashionistas come up with as an antidote to the mythical DC drone wardrobe. The assumption is we are all awful at fashion. It isn't quite true and it isn't really different from other large cities. Walk through Manhattan or London at rush you will see a sea of black particularly in Fall and Winter.
Face it, these are dresses you shouldn't wear anywhere that matters.
Why should I care that people in Manhattan and London are wearing all black in fall and winter. That sounds depressing to me. And irrelevant to summer in DC.
So why are you on the FASHION thread if you truly don't give a damn?
The secretly *do* care, very much so.
There are different types of beauty and fashion. Not everyone thinks mindlessly buying what is promoted on catwalks, style blogs, and magazines each season is the only definition of fashion.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 17:04
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Have clothing designers just decided that women are leaving white collar professions so why bother dressing like you have a plan for the day besides stopping at WF for a matcha latte and bouquet of wildflowers?
Women and men need to relax and stop dressing to impress and start dressing to enjoy life and do their work in a relaxed atmosphere. They are going to office to get the job done, not to attend queen Victoria's court.
“ Fashion is a powerful mode of self-expression, and I’m not trying to misrepresent myself as a goat cheese torte-wielding, yes dear-ing trad wife just because I fxxx with ruffles. And I'd venture, neither do many people with several vintage nightgowns languishing in their closet. I’m married without children—I clock in and clock out every weekday before going home to a cat I treat more like a temperamental roommate than a baby. I work for The Man, not a man. And the last thing I want is for my outfit to say the opposite of what I believe.” https://www.instyle.com/trad-wife-fashion-trend-8696104
Anonymous
08/15/2025 17:02
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:I love dressing like that. I'm wealthy and educated, and above all, I don't have weird American hang-ups about what constitutes femininity in 2025.
Before it was a style in the US, I had to spend hours online looking for stuff sold in Japan. Or go to Japan (and see my cousins).
You don't need to wear only what you find in stores. Some decades will be harder than others to find what YOU like to wear, but a little persistence pays off!
Do you work in a professional setting?
Anonymous
08/15/2025 16:59
Subject: Re:How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:WTF is a "dimity floral"? I really need to know.
https://www.etsy.com/market/dimity_dress
Anonymous
08/15/2025 16:54
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:My mom is a doctor and always wore cute dresses to work for as long as I can remember and she did fine. I work from home now but probably pushed the boundaries of lawyer work clothes while I was in the office. Who cares?
A dress can be cute without looking like it belongs on a prepubescent girl. Surely you can tell the difference and are just being disingenuous.
My transplant doctor is Persian and wears gorgeous wrap dresses. Some are prints, but they don’t look like Mommy and Me florals.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 13:05
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m talk and long dresses look amazing on me. I’m dreading when they go out of style.
I have huge boobs and they look awful
On me. I can’t wait for the trend to be over. I’m so jealous of women who can wear these and look good.
Anybody who is size 10 or bigger look awful in these floral thingies.
Agree, but I'd say anyone over a size 8 looks like they are wearing a moomoo. And if your short you look like you are trying to look like a child. These are designed for slim banana shapes with long legs and no more than a B cup. Even then they make the wearers look stuipid.
What's a "moo moo"?
Someone doesn’t know how to spell mumu. The length is flattering on me. It’s the ruffles at the shoulders that are bad. If they just put straps on them, we could wear them with those cute cropped cardigans they’re pushing at us.
Actually, someone knows it had different spellings in marketing and chose the spelling that closely resembled cattle on purpose.
Moomoo is not in dictionary.com. Mumu is.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 12:04
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can someone post some photos, please? I'm not sure what you all are talking about.
https://tnuck.com/products/lemon-blanca-midi-dress
https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/the-peregrine-square-neck-midi-dress?category=dresses-midi&color=030&type=STANDARD&quantity=1
https://www.hillhousehome.com/collections/nap-dress-shop/products/the-ellie-nap-dress-farmers-market?variant=41363556728875
This type of sleeve is not flattering on me so I wouldn't wear them. But, they are very pretty dresses, imo. LOVE the lemons.
I feel like these are all designed for a life that I don’t lead and no one I know leads. Where would you wear this? The farmers market on Sunday? (Why wouldn’t you just wear something more casual?). A play date at the park (again, why wear something this fancy)? It’s too casual for the office or for a real party. I feel like it’s designed for women that live in a Hallmakr movie and go out to garden brunches with their girlfriends and drink lemonade and eat salads. I guess maybe I could see wearing it shopping in a cute downtown on a beach vacation …. But I’m not buying a dress for that one specific thing I’ll do once. I also think these will look super dated in 2 years and will join the cold shoulder tops in the landfill.
You don’t have a single summer dress that you would wear to a summer barbecue or brunch with friends? Normal women do in fact occasionally do these things and it is fine to have an outfit or two to do them in.
I actually wear long summery dresses grocery shopping or running errands. They’re pretty comfortable.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 12:01
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
My mom is a doctor and always wore cute dresses to work for as long as I can remember and she did fine. I work from home now but probably pushed the boundaries of lawyer work clothes while I was in the office. Who cares?
Anonymous
08/15/2025 11:44
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:I am 5'4 and slim with small breasts and they look terrible on me.
I'm 5'0" and otherwise just like you and I look like my clothes are eating me alive with anything (ruffles or puff) on my shoulders. It's awful. I think it's because my shoulders are narrow.
I buy a lot of used clothes.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 11:41
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m talk and long dresses look amazing on me. I’m dreading when they go out of style.
I have huge boobs and they look awful
On me. I can’t wait for the trend to be over. I’m so jealous of women who can wear these and look good.
Anybody who is size 10 or bigger look awful in these floral thingies.
Agree, but I'd say anyone over a size 8 looks like they are wearing a moomoo. And if your short you look like you are trying to look like a child. These are designed for slim banana shapes with long legs and no more than a B cup. Even then they make the wearers look stuipid.
What's a "moo moo"?
Someone doesn’t know how to spell mumu. The length is flattering on me. It’s the ruffles at the shoulders that are bad. If they just put straps on them, we could wear them with those cute cropped cardigans they’re pushing at us.
Actually, someone knows it had different spellings in marketing and chose the spelling that closely resembled cattle on purpose.
Anonymous
08/15/2025 11:37
Subject: How can anyone take us seriously in these dimity florals and huge shoulder ruffles?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I’m talk and long dresses look amazing on me. I’m dreading when they go out of style.
I have huge boobs and they look awful
On me. I can’t wait for the trend to be over. I’m so jealous of women who can wear these and look good.
Anybody who is size 10 or bigger look awful in these floral thingies.
Agree, but I'd say anyone over a size 8 looks like they are wearing a moomoo. And if your short you look like you are trying to look like a child. These are designed for slim banana shapes with long legs and no more than a B cup. Even then they make the wearers look stuipid.
What's a "moo moo"?
Google "moomoo clothing" and hit images. I can't believe I have to mansplain how to google.