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I've seen people wearing a style of dress I like. What on earth is it (dubious description contained within)?

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ShowOfHands · 28/07/2010 10:54

Okay, so I'm not allowed to post on s&b as I am a fashion pariah. Undoubtedly, there is an alarm going off at hq and later I'll be taken round the back and shot. But, can you help me first?

I see the Great British Public looking effortlessly stylish as I plod past them in a state that can only be described as 'clothed at least'. I keep seeing the same dress. Well not the same dress. I'm certain they're just similar dresses or there's some kind of rent a dress shop near my house and this is in the popular range. Either way, I like it/them.

I'm babbling. I don't belong here you see.

It's a maxi dress. That much I know. But long. Really long. Like touch the floor long. And generally it's dark in colour. Usually black, sometimes grey. And it's not all flowy and billowy like a game gal in a sanitary product advert. It's clingy but not. It sort of looks like it's made of a heavier/thicker material than the cotton/silk maxi dresses. It sort of pools at your feet and calves. You can see people have legs when they're wearing them.

Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I see them all over the place.

I'm probably not describing it very well. I am aware that what I am essentially asking is if you can distinguish one long black dress from another. I can't. Clearly.

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Megglevache · 02/01/2011 16:25

brilliant. SOH I loved you before and have even more of a rush on you now lady Grin

ShowOfHands · 12/01/2011 19:55

A rush Meggle? Isn't that what Ina May refers to? A hippy contraction if you will.

You can gerrof doing that on me.

I've worn my puddled jersey whatsit dress 8 million times btw. I adore it. It doesn't adore me. Clothes generally don't. I look like a sack of spanners draped in an ill fitting tarp.

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