Sunny Dresses for Sunny Days Ahead

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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Today (and yesterday…and all last week in fact) I’m lusting after this gorgeous tiered and ruffled creation from Japanese designer Ritsuko Shirahama that I first spotted on Lucky’s Shop Girl blog. It’s constructed from comfy knit Tencel and then layered with the loveliest yellows and orangey-peach silks and would basically be like wearing this warm, sunny day.

However, it’s frustratingly close to $700. This Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent tank dress is less expensive at $264 (ha, listen to me…”it’s like, cheap in comparison!”) and has the same warm yellow color and flirty frills.

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11 Comments so far
  1. novel idea April 1, 2008 4:16 pm

    So, like, if you had a sugar daddy, you’d get the one up top, and since you don’t yet, you’d get the one at the bottom?

  2. Relax April 1, 2008 4:24 pm

    Sorry “novel,” but Johanna wasn’t the first nor will she be the last fashion blogger to compare hi-lo looks. They pretty much all do it.

  3. susie April 1, 2008 4:39 pm

    rachel, i loooooove that top dress!! it is gorgeous. although, calf-length??

  4. the cheaper one is better April 1, 2008 4:57 pm

    Eh, do you really think all those ruffles would be flattering, anyway?

  5. rachel April 1, 2008 6:11 pm

    I know….I *almost/kinda* like the second one better too. Probably infinitely more wearable. I was thinking the same thing about the calf-length. Looks fine on the tall & really skinnies out there but for the rest of us….notsomuch.

    The construction of that top one is pretty special though.

  6. Anon April 1, 2008 7:29 pm

    The ruffles, the “if I had a sugar daddy/since I don’t yet” vibe…
    oh, man!
    I feel like I’ve just seen my ASJINE ex.

    On another note, Project Beltway has been really stepping it up lately, so good job Rachel!

  7. seriously April 1, 2008 8:03 pm

    I agree with “relax”. Relax Johanna.

  8. K April 2, 2008 3:35 pm

    “Novel idea” was not Johanna. Johanna would NOT, like, write like. I doubt she’d say it.

  9. rachel April 3, 2008 3:25 am

    Anon,
    Thanks for the stepping-it-up compliment
    ( :

  10. StyleArbiter April 3, 2008 9:57 am

    Jo,

    Surely you know, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

    I’m surprised, and more than a little disappointed, that you resurface under the pseudonym “novel idea” to protect, and implicitly lay claim to, a concept that has been a mainstay of mass-market fashion journalism since before you were born. It brings to mind Al Gore’s patently absurd claim that he invented the Internet ;-)

  11. Liz April 8, 2008 12:31 pm

    I love yellow dresses for spring! Here is a gorgeous plastic island dress at Modachique… http://www.modachique.com//printed-doll-dress1.html