Flatter Your Figure: Dressing for Formal Events
Filed under: Clothing, Dresses, Flatter Your Figure
Formal events are often the events for which we want to look our very best. You might be seeing people you haven't seen for a while, or meeting new people you'd like to impress. Either way, you want to look absolutely amazing.
The thing is, formal gowns often show body parts we normally keep covered, like our backs, shoulders, and arms, and they sometimes cling to our stomachs and hips in ways that are unflattering -- not exactly what we're going for on a big night out, right?
Here are some tips for working with your figure when finding a dress for a formal event:
Because the red carpet of the Academy Awards is still burning in my brain, all I can see is red and maternity, though last night they weren't together. However, if you happen to be pregnant at your next red carpet event (of which I know you have so many!), Vera Wang's Jersey Gown in scarlet puts both together. In a departure from the usual silk, satin and taffeta for evening wear, the dress is made of super soft, super comfortable stretch knit jersey, is ruched at the bust and at the empire waist, which makes the dress both perfectly comfortable if you don't want to "suck it in," or if you can't (because you've got a baby bump!)
If you've been trolling through the after-Christmas sales at your favorite mall, you've probably noticed a veritable bounty of what folks in the fashion world call "formal shorts." (Shorts they are; formal they are not.) 
So the countdown to your Holiday party (or Holiday parties, you socialite, you) begins. Styledash wants you to look fabulous, and how could you not look positively stunning in this dress by Lela Rose? 
We like to cover fashions for the curvy girls, and I've just come across an online boutique that does gorgeous, sophitsticated dresses for women who are size 12 and up called 
Our friends over at 
