Look of the day- Cute Empire dress

Empire waist dress or Empire cut dress or Empire dress is a type of dress or maybe a blouse where  the waistline is raised above the natural waistline or sometimes higher somewhere below the bust line. This design is supposed to camouflage a bottom heavy figure or a thick waist- it covers the extra curves (in unwanted places) of the body....
However, not all Empires are created equal...instead it could reveal the undulation that we thought are discretely hidden. Just like what I have here...

I was once strutting in this dress in one of the malls in Malaysia...well I thought I was looking sexy in this dress when I last saw myself in the mirror before I left the house...but after having lamb chops and cheese cake at the Secret Recipe, I felt "weirded" and a bit annoyed by those ladies who kept on shoving to my face their brochures every time I pass by their stall that sells those "MAGIC GIRDLES"...I thought it was odd....but I did realize soon after when I went to an intimate apparel shop and the saleslady tried to offer me stuffs for pregnant women....WHAT!...and so this dress went straight to storage and stayed there until....Now I have the solution.

The solution: Wide belts in darker color/shade- we all know that a belt puts the curves in the right place and hides the extra bulge. The darker color creates and illusion of slimmer waist. It has to be a wide belt to cover from the empire cut line to the natural waist line..also it makes the torso look longer.

I have only two wide belts in my closet so here's how they look...

I would wear with this belt on a more formal occasion or to a party or dinner date, put on some heels and hoop earing...

with this belt it is more on a casual tone....

For today I choose this look.

Just right for going around town in a sun shiny day

with simple necklace.

with guitar or probably it's a ukelele designed  connector ring

with flip flops and an anklet.

My Mood- of -the- day

My Thought- of- the- day

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Outfit of the day- Mini skirt/dress collection 1

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Outfit of the Day- a thrifting find

With patience, a lot of faith and some luck, you could find a good item in a thrift shop which we call in the Philippines as Ukay-Ukay store at a steal price. Well, back in the days, these clothes were really very very cheap and hardly anyone would care to look. But, nowadays it's been a fad, a drive, a cause, a movement to buy second -hand clothes for charity, for the environment, for cost cutting...for whatever reason it is, second-hand clothes' prices have gone higher..Law of supply and demand, duh.

So I am just so pleased to find this dress for only 20 Pesos (0.48 USD).

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Sexy Sheath Dress- ways to wear (part1)

Ways to wear  a sheath dress......

A sheath dress can be worn layered with a coat, cardigan or polo. It can be worn as a shirt tucked in a skirt, pants or shorts. Or it can be a skirt, an outer shirt or an inner shirt. Accessories like belts and scarves can also offer variations.. really, the possibilities are almost endless.

Here I shall show my take on wearing my hand sewn sheath dress with different kinds of belts...(I shall show the other options in my next blogs).

A belt usually makes an outfit look more polished while accentuating the curves and there are so many types of material, style and sizes of belts that suits to different body types.

This is my sheath dress as it is (no belt)

Which one do you like?.......See you in my next blog..

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