February 13th, 2009
Unique Boutique floral print corsage mini prom dress: your thoughts?
The Fashion Police would've been ALL OVER this dress when we were young. Just look at it: it's one part ballerina's tutu, one part trashy princess, and another part that looks vaguely like something the 'Like a Virgin' era Madonna would've totally worn.
These days? Let's just say we're not so keen.
We are a little confused, though, because we didn't find this while policing one of our regular prom-dress hangouts, but at ASOS.com, where it's priced at £250. Or rather, where is WAS priced at £250, because almost as soon as that dress appeared on the ASOS website, it sold right out.
Tell us, then, readers: are our instincts guiding us wrong on this one? Is this dress just as fabulous to grown adults as it would've been to our eight-year-old selves? Tell us!
I had a barbie costume…i think it was an ice skating thing…that this reminds me of. I didn’t even much like it on barbie. That said, with a little…well, a LOT, more structure, I think the direction of this dress is probably a good one. I think many teens would look better in this than they would in a long gown too rigid and mature for their young selves. But get a handle on that tulle people!
Looks like she’s got her skirt stuck in her pantyhose in several places. Worst day I ever had in church was when I couldn’t stop giggling over a woman in front of me who had done the same thing.
I would have loved this in highschool in the early 90s – paired with some Docs, it would have been (to me at the time) the perfect combination of girly and asymmetrical balanced with the look of 8-hole docs.
I agree with a poster above that on a teenager this could be quite cute. Not so much on anyone past 18/19.
I agree. Teeny Bopper stuff only.
i’m a teenager & i love this. i might not wear it to prom, but the skirt is gorgeous. don’t care much for the flowers, though. this might be nice in a darker color so it doens’t look as much like a ballerina tutu.
I agree with a previous poster, it looks like the skirt got stuck in her pantyhose. And I know that in my old high school, my principle probably would have made them go home and change before coming into prom, to be honest.
I sort of love it. This year is my prom year, and I decided on a long dress but this is all kinds of awesome. The back looks a little bit awkward, and I’m not really a fan of white and pink, as a general rule. It’s not for everyone, but on the right person, it could be so perfect.
Um, It kinda looks like she got runover by a car…
I might be inclined to consider this as a wedding dress … BUT ONLY because it would be fairly easy to modify the skirt portion of it so that it would be longer
… also, the roses are a bit big for my taste, and something needs to be done in regards to the strangely rose-petal-shaped bits of corset fabric that are sticking out at the waist, ready to poke all those who challenge them .. o0
… now that i think about it … with all those modifications it’s really not worth buying.
I like the corset part and the general idea of the dress, but I’d prefer the skirt a little bit longer, with the hem and the ruffles ending on approximately the same level. The way it is now it looks like somebody tore off the underskirt.
By the way: Is that a shoulder strap in the lefp picture? Where did it disappear to in the right?
Ugh – your instincts are spot-on!
tutu much
O.M to the G! this is just perfect!;) well,i’m a teen and i s0o s0o s0o l0ove this.:D
I like the idea of it, but with a more normal looking skirt part.
im gonna buy this dress when they get it back in stcok and im gonna wear it to my grad
That is a really cute dress.
Does anyone know who makes that dress?
In a Gothic Lolita sort of style, it would be great! Darling! Cute! Innocent!
That is the perspective I see it as. Its hard to judge it as something else other then Lolita. Maybe not in the now fashion….
I donno.. I think its cute.
I’m a teen, and I adore this dress! Sure, the skirt’s a bit awkward in places and it worried me in the original picture, but on the runway you can chalk it up to couture. Truth is, I’m a ballerina (I’ve been up on pointe for four years or so) so the whole “tutu” aspect just adds to the appeal. My grandmother, bless her soul, thinks it’s the ugliest thing she’s ever seen, but for a modern audience I think it’s fabulous (the whole flower, corsage-y thing reminds me of the dress SJP wore in Sex and the City!) And the point where the bodice meets the tulle adds to the effect of a disheveled ball gown. I could’ve done without the random tulle hanging down, though, and agree that it would look amazing as a traditional full-length dress with a different skirt. But if it ever comes back in stock, I will snatch it up! ^.^
http://www.formaldress4u.co.uk/acatalog/NA12.html#
*shudder*
i’m a teenager too. and i kinda wanna murder the cracked out barbie doll who imagined this nasty thing. no. instincts were correct. this is gross.
I think it’s cute, but not as a prom dress. A celebrity, haute-couture-styled party perhaps?
actually I really like it. Not for a prom dress no- well…maybe, you’d really have to work the “Princess Ai” angle it to pull it off. Yeah, I could see it working, but never for the copy-cut-out sort of girl.
But still a spiffy, hot, fun sort of dress.
i actually think it’s pretty cute
I loove this dress. I would change the color and wear it down the aisle at my wedding. With some killer stank ho heels it would be great punk dress. DIFFERENT COLOR NEEDED THOUGH. Maybe all white.