Friend’s awful dress and my reaction

I'm not certain anything clothing wise can be “ objectively hideous” but your friend is being very immature if she expects you to lie about clothing she’s asked your opinion on. You obviously have very different tastes and you’ve accommodated that in the past, acknowledging she can carry some eccentricities off. If she didn’t want your opinion she shouldn’t have asked , and I don’t think there is anything to “ salvage” here - if anything it’s for your friend to apologise a. For expecting you to lie b. For taking a huff when you were trying ( albeit failing!) to be subtle ! She must have already been uncertain of it to ask your opinion anyway! You have nothing to apologise for.

Good grief thats hideous.
Probably less so on a little girl attending a princess party

There's nothing wrong with being honest.

She asked for your opinion. You gave it. If she wasn't willing to accept whatever you said, then she shouldn't have asked.
Doesn't matter if you liked it or hated it. It's your opinion. She asked for it. Life goes on.

And it also comes in white (bridal category) for the bride with no taste but plenty of money.

OP that dress is truly awful!
I would not have been able to control my face either, and I work in a field where a poker face is a requirement....
Your 'friend' needs to toughen up if they are going to make such bold fashion choices. That's not on you to solve.
As for the nasty responses on this thread, shame on you all

Surely if she likes to dress in quite bold fashion she understands that not everyone will love it? And she should have enough self confidence to accept this and if she thinks it’s great will go ahead with it irrespective of your thoughts? I just can’t imagine that your opinion would matter that much in the grand scheme of things. She wants to make a statement and be noticed, and she will be. So just don’t mention it and move on.

Can anyone have that much money available for a single dress, and that bad taste?

Gosh, that's all been a bit of a mess, hasn't it? I'm sure that we could all have done without the personal attacks.

How many posts have had had deleted OP? Impressive! - I'm not being sarcastic!

Yes, the dress is seriously hideous. I wouldn't let any friend of mine go out wearing such a monstrosity.

Awful, and im very easy going and accepting

I thought the same but with dog poo bags!

The 80s called and want their bridesmaid dress back.

It's definitely panto dame/bad cross dresser (like when Ros in Frasier gave away her old bridesmaid dresses to a man)

But seriously, 2k on that monstrosity?

Dolce & Gabbana are trolling the people who will buy that dress…. I mean they’re actually flipping through children’s fairytale books like Cinderella, picking the worst dress they could find and landed on one that one of the ‘Ugly Sisters’ was wearing, chuckling like a giggly kid on a wind up and then making it out of the most plasticky man made material for added effect and charging £££££ for it whilst laughing their bloody heads off

@Besafeeatcake I think that's abit harsh, she says that her face reacted before her brain could tell it to keep quiet! I'm not sure what the best reaction is if you truly detest something - lie and say it's gorgeous?!

FFS because she did.

Looks like a 1980s toddlers tea party dress

My thoughts too. Was it perhaps for a "fancy dress" do😄?

All that dress needs is leg o' mutton sleeves and it'll be @Marmalademorning's 90s bridesmaid frock.

OP I cannot believe the bashing a number of posters have given you for not having the ability to mask your feelings when dropped on with no warning. I wonder how your friend would have reacted if you'd said it was awful? I wonder if she's having second thoughts and feels bad she spent so much on it?

YANBU that is a hideous dress did she buy it from a vintage shop.

We've been told about both. Read OP's posts.

I think OP was spot on, it defies grammar and is objectively hideous.

I had the same with a friend’s hairdo. Unfortunately she walked in and saw my reaction before I could school my features into neutrality.

Could we at least know the price? Please

Chryst almighty! Jesus of Nazareth! That is the most ugliest thing I honestly have ever seen in my entire life. And I am not kidding, I promise! And she paid ANY money for that, even a penny, let alone a lot? It looks like a bunch of sewn together plastic shopping bags or household garbage bags! That is so beyond hideous that the definition of 'hideous' has jumped the shark and it needs it's own separate definition of hideous in the dictionary, with that as a picture next to the entry. More money than sense, comes to mind when I think of your friend. I had my mouth wide open in shock for around 10 seconds just looking at it. There is no way I could hide my impression of that, it wouldn't be possible. Don't blame yourself, there is no superhuman strength that could give you a poker face that could hide the shock.

Many years ago I worked with someone and we were going out for the night. Her dress sense was not to my taste and always different. She asked me what I thought, so I just said thats the sort of thing that you like to wear isnt it. She was more than happy with the answer. Situation avoided.