| Formal dresses are fun. Everyone likes to get | | | | them off. I also like to look at the formal dresses in |
| dressed up now and then. To feel beautiful and like | | | | the department stores just for fun when I go |
| you look your best. I even enjoy shopping for formal | | | | shopping. My friends and I oh and aw over the |
| dresses, as much of a pain as it always turns out to | | | | pretty ones and make fun of the ones that we are |
| be. I enjoy trying on dresses that are entirely too | | | | sure no one will ever buy. |
| expensive for me to buy just to see what I look like | | | | Now the one downfall to formal dresses is that they |
| n a $400 gown. There are some every beautiful | | | | tend to be very expensive. The department stores |
| dresses out there. | | | | are actually probably the best place to look for |
| I have a few stores I really enjoy and they are | | | | formal dresses if you are on a tight budget. They |
| always the first places I go for formal dresses. There | | | | also have the benefit that most of them also have |
| is a place in my hometown called Cache that just has | | | | plus size formal dresses, whereas many of the |
| some beautiful stuff, though most of it is too | | | | boutiques and smaller stores do not stock them for |
| expensive. There is also a boutique in Ithaca, NY | | | | some reason. To me this seems a little unfair but I |
| called Pookie and Sebastian's. I have bought tow | | | | am sure they have their reasons. I personally can |
| formal dresses there, and am still in love with both. | | | | never find anything in the department stores but |
| Unfortunately they are sitting in my closet waiting for | | | | others seem to have a lot of success, especially if |
| another occasion to be worn and I am terribly afraid | | | | you are looking for a plus size formal dress, or do |
| that by the time I have another occasion to wear | | | | not have much money to spend. |
| these dresses; I will be too old or overweight to pull | | | | |