le gowns!

over the weekend, Pants was kind enough to humour me and take me gown shopping. i was looking at gowns because my band aubriot will be playing the George Washington University Student Inaugural Ball, which is Black Tie Invited... and though i feel terribly uncomfortable dressing up, i still enjoy it — so i jump at any opportunity for me to get a dress i’m probably only going to wear once, because i never get invited to dress-up things.

anyway, we only went to a couple stores, and there were very very very few full-length gowns to be had (Lord & Taylor had one that i liked, Calvin Klein, and it was so essssspensive i didn’t even bother to try it on). Macy’s had the best selection + prices. i was pretty disappointed that most of the dresses were knee-length or grandma-style. no offense to grandmas, but grandma style pretty much ONLY looks good on grandmas. on lassies around my age, it looks like either our mom dressed us or we’re from some ultra-conservative religious group.

so here are the few gowns i tried on:

this one was the winner of the in-person judging, though it seems that the fabric is faulty.


this one was too big, but a pretty colour.
this one was the right size, same style as the coppery one above. still not quite right, but nice.


this one had sparkles! sparkles! but it didn’t look so great in person.

this one was really pretty. they had an even more awesome shade of green, but not in my size :(

pants said this looked to much like a prom dress. which it probably was. but it’s red! i kinda wanted red... you know... to be a rock star ’n’ all.

this is the white dress i already have... which is a prom dress... but i prolly won’t wear cos it’s white.

and these are the Hello Kitty fleecy jammies pants wouldn’t buy for me. PSH!