Check out this Suzy Perette dress in olive shantung with beige polka dots. (Click on the image to see the listing at retrodress.com.) It's a lovely dress ... and a very wearable size (B37.5). My only quibbble (and it's a big one) is that $240 is a lot to pay for a dress with five acknowledged pinholes ("one at each shoulder, one at the midsection and two within the folds of the skirt") but, then again, I am notoriously cheap when it comes to buying vintage.
I'm often drawn to this color green, and of course to polka dots, but I'm not sure where I'd wear this one. Shantung is too dressy for my work, but olive and polka dots don't say "evening" to me. A puzzlement. Where would you wear it? And with brown shoes & bag, or black? I'm thinking olive + beige demands brown.
Yes, brown, methinks. Would be perfect for an afternoon tea, or lunch with the ladies. Okay, just because none of these things has ever happened to me, doesn't mean one shouldn't have a dress on hand, just in case...
Posted by: Ang. | 08/04/2005 at 08:36 AM
Brown, definitely brown. Crocodile, if you're got it. And yes, an afternoon date or lunch with the in-laws...--Lydia
Posted by: Anonymous | 08/04/2005 at 09:30 AM
Horserace. I would wear it to a horserace. (Did I just think that because the dots immediately trigger that scene from Pretty Woman?)Or maybe a casual art opening? A matinee at the theatre?
Posted by: lauren | 08/04/2005 at 02:51 PM
Olive and beige definitely demands brown. Black would be WRONG.
Posted by: shana | 08/04/2005 at 08:49 PM
Why not to a wedding, outdoor brunch, tea party or shower?
Posted by: enc | 08/04/2005 at 11:10 PM