Fashion Friday: Dress Shopping

So as usual, my favorite type of outfit is a dress...and yet again I am looking for another dress for a rehearsal dinner next weekend for one of my dearest friends wedding's!  Sooo I thought I would do a little online shopping and see whats out there, and while I'm at it participate in Fashion Friday from Blonde Episodes



Here are a few dresses I've found so far (some obviously not appropriate for rehearsal dinner)...I'm trying to shop sale more now that I am a grad school student, blahh:

Not sure if this is formal enough
but definitely very cool

I've been eyeing this dress for awhile
from anthro but I have so many like this
not sure I want another...

Super neat little dress from
South Moon Under, not sure it's formal enough

Just like this one, def not formal enough
(from SMU as well)

Been really wanting a maxi lately...
SMU has some really cute ones

Found this cute little jersey dress
at Old Navy, may just have to stop by...

Love this dress from Lilly

This one is so fun with the bubble bottom
but still formal with the gold on top

Could never afford but this dress is just
absolutely beautiful, a girl can dream :)

Well I guess I better go looking for a dress now :)  What're your favorite places to shop for a dress?

Happy weekend!

Easter Dresses

I am having the hardest time finding an Easter dress this year!  Every spring as a little gift to myself I allow myself to splurge on a fun springy dress for Easter...but so far no luck!  I'm very disappointed in Ann Taylor Loft which is my typical go to for my lovely Easter frock; their selection this year is horrendous, I didn't even try anything on (not to mention they had no sizes in the store).  I've also visited Urban, South Moon Under, The Bead, and Cloud 9 and have found very little (truthfully I probably could have found something at Cloud 9 but wasn't positive what I wanted yet).  Anyway, my last attempt today is Anthropology so I thought I'd spend my time this morning sharing some of the dresses I've found online that I'm going to try and snag tonight...if Anthro doesn't work I'm going to be up a creek without a paddle (ok I have plenty of dresses in my closest I could fall back on but still!).

I mean I would probably be absolutely fine without a dress considering I still don't even know where I'm going for Easter!  It's all dependent on my brother's lax game tomorrow night, if he wins they play on Sunday (which I am morally opposed to but oh well) which means we'll be traveling down to Chapel Hill (the games are at Durham but I refuse to say I'm going to Durham, gross) and spending Easter there.  If he loses we'll be in Buckingham where there will probably be about 5 other people at church...either way my dad has promised that we will still have our annual Easter egg hunt (a big deal in our household) - I'm hoping to win it all this year and stay as far away from Duncan as possible (he always steals my eggs)...Tighe's already trying to rally for a 30 second head start...no way!

And back to dresses...

I absolutely adore this one but I think it is
a wee bit expensive...

So we'll see what my shopping extravaganza tonight brings...I'm not getting my hopes up too much.  Gosh, this reminds me of a picture that I so wish I had in DC with me to post here.  When my sister and I were little my mom dressed us up in these huge Easter dresses one year (they had crinoline in them and were super itchy, we had worn them as flower girls in a wedding).  It was my brothers baptism I think and immediately after church my sister and I ran upstairs to put on our play clothes for the Easter egg hunt.  We came back down and my mom insisted we put back on our dresses for a family photo, we were livid.  The picture sits on our piano in the living room, it's an adorable family photo, minus Tighe and I who are scowling at the camera and have our tennis shoes on with our dresses :)

Happy almost Easter!

Summertime Style

As I was relishing in the beautiful weather Monday (that will hopefully come back later this week!) my mind began to drift to my very favorite season, summer!  I think many of my blog posts will probably be about summer as there are just SO many things in summer that make me happy, but today I have begun thinking about dresses.

Summer dresses make me oh so happy, they are just so versatile (especially when you work in an office where you can wear just about anything so no summer dresses get left to the back of the closet!).  You can throw out those annoying tights that keep getting snags in them, put away those bulky sweaters that make you feel like a box, and pop on a presch (more on this word in another post) dress to start your day.  How can you not be happy when you only have to pick out one piece of clothing and feel like you can go galavanting through the meadows skipping and frolicking in the sunshine...ok so I don't get to do THAT every day but...

Anyway, summer dresses epitomize summer for me so I picked a few out from some of my favorite stores to get you excited about what's to come in the next few month, take a look:

Even though I'm not as preppy as I used to be, I still love Lilly Pulitzer every once in awhile :)

(Find it here)

A little less preppy but still super fun...

South Moon Under always has
presch dresses!
(Find it here)

This would be fun for a graduation party!
 (Find it here) 

A little less colorful but still
super comfy and cute!  (Find it here)

Fun for the beach (Find it here)

Sooo what are your favorite summer dresses?  What do they remind you of?  My first thoughts are spring party, Bethany Beach, barbecues, sitting by the pool...uuhh can't wait for summer, it'll be here before you know it!