Dress Style I Should Avoid

[Kitty]

your white dress at NY Dance Festival is very lengthening and stunning. You look tall and long line. It's turtleneck and low back. don't call seeing you in halter neck though maybe could be better

Thanks,
that white turtleneck dress does not qualify as a low back because it has shoulders and neck covered.. the point is that the dress shouldhave some fabric on top to draw the eye up and lengthen..

regarding halter necks, i just know this from everyday life, that i look very nice in them. my shoulders look nice in halters, and they are usually not very low in the back.. also the white and pink one that i wore at nationals and columbia was a halter neck. it looked most flattering on me .

 

[TAK]

I have short legs and should avoid skirts that are too long. (Right?) I should also avoid costumes with blocks of different colors stacked vertically in any way.

Also, I have a long torso and an hourglass figure, so two-piece costumes with a gap above the skirt waistband (which is way below my natural waist) look awful on me - they are open at just the wrong place and make me look very pudgy.

 

[JANATHOME]

LOL... The latin I just put up for sale, which I am sure I will take a serious loss on...

Lesson learned, do not buy a dress that you are no longer at an age to wear!

 

[liz]

I have learned that I need to draw attention to my legs and away from my boobs. I had them done a few years back and they are to big. Just wanted a lifted and got talked into implants.
I like the look of sleeves but, I get way to hot. I really like a skirt. I would pick the belly showing over the back. I hate to see vidoes and see my back with crease ( back fat). I know it is from using the right muscles in my back. But, it drives me crazy. I don't like the sides showing, kinda makes me look straight up and down. I think red is the best color for me. Have to stay away from the pastel colors.. to soft on me.

 

[contracheck]

I have "love handles" - and I hate them and I need to avoid dresses that are open on the side.

Now I am saving money for liposuction.

Liposuction? Try instead Body Shapers. These high quality Italian products shape up a body real nicely and they cost less than $40.

 

[mamboqueen]

Liposuction? Try instead Body Shapers. These high quality Italian products shape up a body real nicely and they cost less than $40.

They have worked for you?? :mrgreen:

 

[Laura]

I have to avoid anything that puts too much opaque fabric on my upper chest. I need to have some opening there, most often in a deep and wide V, so that I don't look bovine with my ahem large mammary areas.

Also no horizontal lines anywhere except for the hem and sometimes an Empire waist. Even though I have an hourglass figure, I'm still too heavy through the hips and thick through the waist to have any horizontal lines that would make me look wider.

 

[dressgirl]

such an uplifting thread!! I said in another thread that if I were dancing, the style that would most make me get my groove on would be a nun's habit. It covers all points that I feel I need to cover and still allows for movement......and is a dress. Or perhaps a sari with a scarf.

At least you know that when someone expresses this to me at the booth, I am sympathetic.......not necessarily cooperative but sympathetic all the same

You know, I take this all back. I just haven't danced in soooooooo long. I would wear a great wide open portrait neckline.....plunging a bit :0 and an empire waist with a silk skirt. And sleeves made of steel encased mesh.

 

[skwiggy]

I have short legs and should avoid skirts that are too long. (Right?)

I have short legs and a long torso, and I find that long skirts and long dresses are the most flattering pieces of clothing I can wear.

 

[skwiggy]

I try to keep my arms covered and my back open.

I have a long muscular back, so I try to show it off as much as I can. I have been told in not so many words that my arms are not my best feature , so I always try to keep them covered. Which is another reason to go for an open back, so I won't be so freakin' hot from the long sleeves. I also like to show off my neck and chest area, but that can be challenging with the sleeve requirement.

I haven't really found any colors that I think are terrible on me, but I try to stay away from white both because it is not slimming, and because it's more difficult to keep clean. When I go for reds I try to go with blue-toned reds rather than orange-ish ones.

I tend to gravitate towards bolder colors rather than softer ones, but when wearing the mint green dress in my avatar I have been told that the soft color works well on me.

I try to stick with long continuous lines rather than horizontal lines for similar reasons to others who already chimed in.

 

[skwiggy]

Liposuction? Try instead Body Shapers. These high quality Italian products shape up a body real nicely and they cost less than $40.

I imagine these look silly under a cut out latin costume.

 

[fascination]

such an uplifting thread!! I said in another thread that if I were dancing, the style that would most make me get my groove on would be a nun's habit. It covers all points that I feel I need to cover and still allows for movement......and is a dress. Or perhaps a sari with a scarf.

At least you know that when someone expresses this to me at the booth, I am sympathetic.......not necessarily cooperative but sympathetic all the same

You know, I take this all back. I just haven't danced in soooooooo long. I would wear a great wide open portrait neckline.....plunging a bit :0 and an empire waist with a silk skirt. And sleeves made of steel encased mesh.

I rather doubt that I will ever get too far past a portrait neckline...at least in a long gown...unless it is even more revealing...I tend to gravitate toward that...though I have found that empire waist, in my first gown, didn't slim me down but made me look bigger...that was a surprise...I thought I had that all pegged...anyhow, steel encased mesh sounds intriguing

 

[fascination]

as for colors, wish I could wear pastels but my size and my tan don't recieve them well....I tend to do best with bold or jewel tones though I have recently discovered, in an off the rack gown, that a color matching my tan is quite nice on me....I would love to wear dark colors due to my size but I never wanted to disapppear dancing with FP, now that I am with NP, who is bigger and better known, I am kicking around my options

 

[dressgirl]

I think fascination, that the empire waist in my case, is just simply practicality. I could do with more fitted as I do have a waist......but the explosion that is my hipline occurs so quickly below that, I do believe I would be better making my waist higher. After my knee operation, I shall dance again, or at least dance around my booth with one of my men (!) and I shall allow my waist to be my waist and embrace my hipline. But perhaps not my thighs.

 

[DancerForLife]

An interesting resource that I found helpful is a book called 'The Science of Sexy', by B. Bayou. The book asks you to measure yourself in a few key places (shoulders, bust, waist, hips), and based on your height it classifies you as one of several size types / categories. Then goes into detail as to what looks good for someone built like you vs. what to avoid. There are pictures of both the do-s and the don'ts, and even though we do find instinctively over time what works for us, I did find some new ideas there.

I'm still in search of a suitable long term style. Definitely no super short skirts, no straight cut two piece dresses. Halter necks, gloves, long skirts tend to look good. In terms of color I avoid black, brown, and generally earth tone colors. Stronger pastels are great, the weaker ones tend to wash out... White can work, as long as there is another color present.