Uggggly dresses (she's baaack!)

on the "numbers" above each 'collection', then you click on the individual dress to see descriptions and prices. I wonder how many people are buying $1,100.00 dresses for young girls.....

Beverly

Now I've gotta clean the beer off my keyboard....

lisa

Just for the record, "couturiere" is the feminine form of the noun. Both are French.

Yes, there are, (or were, pre-Katrina) a number of rich folk in this burg who used to buy expensive dresses like that for their spoiled brats

- just to get them ready for their debutante gowns, I think. Said brats frequently manage to spill cherry juice or chocolate on them - I know, because I have seen some of them in the upscale thrift or consignment shops. It's just another form of bragging "see how much I can spend on MY kid". I leave you to guess how much Mom spends in the boutiques every month.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Thank you, Beverly, for the web site. I don't think my youngest DGD, age 7

1/2 would be particularly interested in those dresses-they don't have horses on them. My eldest one, on the other hand, was really into these frilly dresses till she became a teen. Now that she is a junior in college, she is more into the Audrey Hepburn type of clothes. Emily

You're welcome, I also found that site a little hard to navigate. Not every one of the dress is frilly, some are quite lovely, but when the designer started adding ruffles and bows, on a few s/he didn't seem able to stop.

Beverly

Beverly

They look to me like she took one basic design and the Laura Ashley'd them to death!

Just to provide the history:

On the Etiquette Hell message board was a lengthy post WRITTEN BY SOMEONE ELSE, NOT ME with one-liners about various "professional," "designer" attire for weddings. Along with the tiered confections that ACCORDING TO THE WRITER WHO IS NOT ME resemble wedding cakes or female genitalia, there were several fancy-dancy flower girl dresses. Mostly the ORIGINAL WRITER WHO IS NOT ME didn't care for the color schemes, but one had a huge back bow that made it larger than the kid wearing it.

Because I knew alt.sewing would enjoy the ORIGINAL COMMENTS MADE BY THIS PERSON WHO IS NOT ME, I copied the post and put it on here.

So these perfect, lovely, $$$$$$ and worth every penny because they are made by individual personalized "couterieres" in "duppioni" little girl duds were mixed in with the whack-jobs intended for brides who lack mirrors in their homes.

As far as I'm concerned, the only problem with that original post (WHICH I DID NOT WRITE) was the size of the thumbnails...tiny.

(Insert comment here about the size of the mind of those who'd leap to the defense of these hard-working conscientious "designers" who work so hard...)

HTH

--Karen D.

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 5:31:01 -0400, Kate Dicey wrote (in message ):

my reaction too - looking at the dresses I cold see the pattern envelope description - with sleeve and collar alternatives, with or without bows, ruffles and sashes....

As a kid, I much preferred the stuff my mom made me over stuff such dresses. Then again, at those prices, how many do you have to sell?