I spotted the lovely Geo Print Shift Dress on the floor at Banana Republic today and loved it! In the dressing room I slipped it over my head and still loved it. The splashy mod print, the braided detail at the neckline, the blousey 3/4 sleeves...
...and then I looked down.
At my hips.
Now, I am not a size zero (this is a Small), but please believe me that my hips do not naturally look like this. Why oh why did this dress have to have pockets placed right here and cut just like this?
I could totally see myself sporting this shift in Vegas next month with some platform peep-toe pumps. I didn't try a size up, but even if those pockets could hang completely straight, it then wouldn't fit everywhere else - and really it did not feel tight at all. It felt great. It just didn't look it. Sigh...
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Oh no! The the wrong seaming and misplaced pockets will do you in every time!!! I really like the print though.
ReplyDeleteOh no! Seams in the wrong spot and misplaced pockets will do you in every time! The print is really cute though. Don't you hate when these things happen!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, wow--what a way to ruin a perfectly cute dress!
ReplyDeleteoh..that's awful!!!!
ReplyDeleteugg I know! I like this dress so much I will probably try it on again and see if there is anyway I can smooth those pockets down... but I think this dress is just engineered wrong (for me anyway!)
ReplyDeletewhat a shame!!!it does look like a super cute dress, so maybe.........i would try it on again, just to sure. It could be worse!!
ReplyDeleteOh that's too bad. I swear I think some design changes are made just before things go to the manufacturers. And they don't try them on a sample to see if it works irl. Boo.
ReplyDeleteSo you're hips are a perfect obtuse angle...well, maybe the kiddies can use that later in geometry.
ReplyDeleteIt is such a fab dress, though. And any tailor can sew the pockets flat - it's a well-known trick of the trade to make pants, skirts, dresses, etc. lay flat. You lose the use of the pocket, but the line is much better on the garment.
I am absolutely convinced that they do not have people with even the slightest amount of hips try these things on. I am not one that has ever been called "hippy", but I definitely have curves and dresses like that do the same thing to me! It is cute though... wonder if it would fit properly if you sewed the pockets shut.
ReplyDeleteyes, i agree with kristin. that's a great dress. i would get the pockets sewn shut.
ReplyDeleteI like the pockets-on-a-dress look, but it's quite hard to find one that doesn't add some extra hippage. This one is really cute!
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