Over the top party dress

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My dd needs a party dress for her show next month, I want an over the top party dress, a bit like the american pagaent beauty queens. Have been looking on e american ebay, seen a few although the postage tends to be hefty. Haven't got time to make one - any ideas?

But I am thinking of going for the whole over the top thing with the red and white number.

Out of curiosity, why are you so determined to be OTT?

have bid up to £10 on the red and white one!

It is for a dance show, so she needs to be over the top so she can be seen and it is that sort of number, I also like to indulge my fantasies through her!

God i am turning into one of those Texan mothers!

LMAO @ this thread!!!!

thanks Beth and her brood... I think!

Have you bid on the red and white one yet, TSAP? I think it's ace!

yes put a bid of up to £10 yesterday and will see hoe I do. DD thinks it is fab she has also chosen a quite hideous shiny pink nylon one for drssing up - will get link.

Not sure if I shoud be concerned that DD shares my addiction for outrageous clothing and ebay.

classy little pink shiny nylon effect pink number

this looks quite nice

have got vertbaudet catalogue - not sure which item you mean

The A & Felicie collection two-tone dress

It is very cute, she has one a bit like it already, the colour is not strong enough for the stage though.

I am not after a dress for party/ church in real life we taste very tastefully! I am after something she could wear in a show and then use for dressing up.

Lurve the pink number for dressing up!

With the red and white one, you could make a fab headdress/decorated alice band type thing to match with some artificial flowers, and one to go round her wrist too, and little socks with a red frill round them....

....can you tell I'm getting carried away with the idea now?

god it is catching!

I have just shown dd the original website with all the pagaent dresses and she wanted all of them. What kind of beast have I created!?

We took her to a kids disco at the church hall the other week and her friends mum had put ringlets in her hair. My dd was so jealous (she still has really fine baby hair) she asked me to do give her ringlets. So when we went out for a meal I said I would try, she ended up with a dodgy afro - which she adored! She teamed it up with a chunky necklace and one of her dressing up numbers with chunky clip on snow white earings. She looked like Pat Butcher on acid. AS we walked in the restuarant the whole room came to a standstill and dd said "look Mummy they all think I am beautiful"

lol TSAP

Dd2 is like that! She is 6.5 but loves dressing up, and will know what she is wearing for a party days beforehand! I'm just pleased that she still likes pretty girly party dresses rather than "fashion" IYSWIM! I really don't know where she gets it from though, because the rest of us are TOTALLY uninterested in clothes! Have also done the hair thing, only dd2 gets me to put it in little plaits while it is wet, then she sleeps in them, and we tease them out in the morning - definitely a Crystaltips on acid look, but she loves it!

I am a girly girl so she gets it from me. I worry sometimes if I am making her too girly, but I think she is just like that. As ong as you keep it in balance I think it s fine, she is just as happy in her welly on the beach with her dog, well maybe not as happy but content She came to the salon with me the other week and they glossed her nails she felt so proud. Dp thinks its a bit sick!

We have to choose our outfits the night before just for a normal day. All the clours ahve to match, so she won't wear a skirt with pink flowers if there isn't pink somewhere else in the outfit.

LOL! I like the white dress with the red frilly trim. My daughter isn't a real girly girl and would look daft in the pageant dresses but some of the others are great.

Dh and I tend to go down the "let her express her personality" route re the dressing thingy - dd2 is quite happy in wellies and jeans when appropriate, but gets a great deal of pleasure from choosing her clothes etc so we let her when she has the opportunity - after all she spends most days in school uniform! I think dh would be less happy about it if she was our only daughter, but dd1 couldn't be more different, very much a tomboy, so he is able to put it in perspective and see it as dd2 being "herself" rather than dd2 being "stereotypical girl" IYSWIM.

And there is nothing nicer than watching your child getting a great deal of pleasure from something that they do, is there, regardless of what it is they are doing!

I love the red & white one for a show. DD is 3.5 & she's started saying to me (quite tomboyish still) Mummy your top doesn't match your trousers/shoes whatever.
I'm going to try the mad afro look as we've a do on Saturday night & she has a lovely new dress & very girly shoes but has that rubbishy hair that looks lovely for about 5 minutes then collapses into fuzz. PMSL at your disco image.
DD has her toenails done because I don't like to see tiny girls all made up & painted but DH thinks we're mad.

Have won the dress!

Hehehe TSAP, I just searched messages to find this thread to ask if you had got the dress!!!! Well done!

Now, what about accessories?

I have it all planned, going to check out local haberdashers to make her a wrist and headband as you advised

I wanna see a picture when she wins