Maxi Dresses

Foofoogal · May 11, 2009

http://www.target.com/Juniors-Mossimo-Supply-Co-Dress/dp/B001SFW8SI

check it out! lol
I so remember me and my sister wearing maxi dresses. Such fun.
Will ya huh?

Lily Powers · May 11, 2009

Foofoogal said:
http://www.target.com/Juniors-Mossimo-Supply-Co-Dress/dp/B001SFW8SI

check it out! lol
I so remember me and my sister wearing maxi dresses. Such fun.
Will ya huh?

The thought crossed my mind, but it's a little too trendy for my tastes. I'm afraid if I put one on, it would look like the trend was wearing me and not the other way around.

Fleur De Guerre · May 11, 2009

I like them on other girls, but even if I did feel the urge to go all 70s and put one on, they are never quite 'maxi' enough on me - I'm too tall!

Inky · May 11, 2009

Nope, not for me. I promised to never wear a trend I wore the first time around. I spent most of my freshman year in high school (1974/75) wearing maxi dresses.

KittyT · May 11, 2009

I think they're extremely unflattering on everyone. They remind me too much of the muumuus my mom wears. yuck!

kamikat · May 11, 2009

I had a brief, but intense (read: lived in a school bus, following the Grateful Dead) hippie period in the early 90s. I lived in patchwork and quilted maxi dresses. I even sold them for a while. I might get one as a beach/pool cover-up, but I won't wear one as street wear.

Amy Jeanne · May 11, 2009

KittyT said:
I think they're extremely unflattering on everyone. They remind me too much of the muumuus my mom wears. yuck!

Exactly what I thought as I clicked the Target link. I need sleeves, a defined waist, and a little leg to show.

ClaraB · May 11, 2009

Amy Jeanne said:
Exactly what I thought as I clicked the Target link. I need sleeves, a defined waist, and a little leg to show.

Exactly!

Foofoogal · May 11, 2009

maybe a little (or a lot) of mystery goes a long way. lol

KittyT · May 11, 2009

Foofoogal said:
maybe a little (or a lot) of mystery goes a long way. lol

or maybe not. ugly is ugly.

ClaraB · May 11, 2009

Foofoogal said:
maybe a little (or a lot) of mystery goes a long way. lol

not my kind of mystery. lol

MissAmelina · May 11, 2009

kamikat said:
I had a brief, but intense (read: lived in a school bus, following the Grateful Dead) hippie period in the early 90s. I lived in patchwork and quilted maxi dresses. I even sold them for a while. I might get one as a beach/pool cover-up, but I won't wear one as street wear.

Oh my god...I am glad I wasn't the only one....I didn't make dresses then, but I knotted a bunch of those hippie bracelets and necklaces.

Everyone should have a communal hippie experience.

But the maxi dress needs to be put to rest. I did have a nice denim one from J.Crew that I wore to pieces.

And Andrea? Picture please.

Amy Jeanne · May 11, 2009

KittyT nails it again.

Viola · May 11, 2009

Maxi dresses can look good if you are very tall and very boyish and slim.

I am curvy and short. I look like I wrapped myself in a bedsheet to answer the door in a hurry if I wear a maxi dress. My inseam is like 28" and a maxi dress is pretty much a toga with aspirations of world conquest on me, and I end up with no figure at all.

Makes me sad. I wish I was tall.

lazydaisyltd · May 11, 2009

I think that maxi dresses make girls look like they are wandering around in their nightgowns.

Signed,
Cranky Old Lady

AmateisGal · May 11, 2009

Some fashions really need to stay in the past - the maxi dress is one of them!

Foofoogal · May 11, 2009

I find these answers sort of interesting.
When I think of maxi dresses and hippies as I was one I think of lovely wisp of young ladies with long tresses with daisies in their hair. The look can look very pretty. Especially with a floppy straw hat even. It is coming back and it is coming back strong.
Nothing new in fashion as they say, it just comes back around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwlHJV9CF6c

Viola · May 11, 2009

Foofoogal said:
I find these answers sort of interesting.
When I think of maxi dresses and hippies as I was one I think of lovely wisp of young ladies with long tresses with daisies in their hair.

Yeah, that is who I think of it looking good on. Tall, thin women who it drapes in a way that emphasizes her delicacy. Unfortunately, like any other look that's on trend, it isn't worn just by women who suit it, but by people to whom it is a very unkind look. And nothing makes, for example, a rather solidly-built or stocky woman look stockier and more like masonry than this look.

Miss_Bella_Hell · May 11, 2009

I'm not against maxi dresses at all. Just find one that does indeed have a defined waist. Plenty of them I've seen don't, but others do. It's a great dress to wear to the beach or on a 90+ degree day IMHO.

However it's not at ALL my normal 40s or 50s garb, that's for sure!

I don't really eschew trends just because they're trendy. [huh] If they're unflattering, then I do!

Medvssa · May 11, 2009

Viola said:
Tall, thin women who it drapes in a way that emphasizes her delicacy.

Indeed, if you look like a pre-raphaelite muse go for it. Otherwise

There are flattering styles for all body shapes. This one is not very forgiving for the majority of the population.

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