<p>I like that dress, but I really like to have my skirt whip around when I jitterbug.</p>
<p>I love to dance- but I am not very good ( & H doesn’t dance)
I am quite envious- did you take lessons?</p>
<p>sewhappy I like that dress! Wish I needed it.</p>
<p>mathmom, I’d do the skirt with a blue taffeta blouse with a great collar…but I love blue. I found a nice selection of formal blouses at Macy’s…after searching all over.</p>
<p>Of course, I realized that my dress recommendation for Mathmom violated both my rules – avoid black and cover the throat! But that dress is fun. I may go try it on again even tho I have no place to wear it to.</p>
<p>wnp – I can’t get the link to the hound’s tooth coat to come up. I love hound’s tooth. Friend has a black and white hound’s tooth coat with divine green satin lining. </p>
<p>This is what I may ask for from Santa this year –</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.amazon.com/100-Unforgettable-Dresses-Hal-Rubenstein/dp/0061151661/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323550290&sr=1-1[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/100-Unforgettable-Dresses-Hal-Rubenstein/dp/0061151661/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323550290&sr=1-1</a></p>
<p>Sewhappy, I LOVE the mustardy color dress. That shape looks very good on me.</p>
<p>I bought a stretchy offwhite lacy tanktop thing that would work with my black skirt if I don’t find something better. It was on deep discount - I’m going to wear it today to a really casual tree trimming party today. We’ve got a nearby Macy’s that I could definitely check out.</p>
<p>Ms. Black & White would like blue taffeta! Oh, I can picture that.</p>
<p>Often read, almost never post on this wonderful thread but I thought of you all yesterday when dh and I were in Las Vegas–he likes to hit the black jack tables and I like to shop. I went to the outlet mall in Primm and there was a Karen Millin outlet there. I’m almost positive I first heard about Karen Millin on this thread and have been meaning to stop at her shop that’s about 30 minutes from my house. The outlet was filled with gorgeous, well made pieces in lovely fabrics and colors. I think I tried on about 20 pieces but, alas, I’m not quite 5’3 and am rather short-waisted and her pieces are more suited for taller women with longer torsoes than mine. I did purchase a great sweater that was marked down from $200 to $32 and wore it to dinner last night. A fun addition to my wardrobe but I wish more had fit.</p>
<p>I did a search for Karen Millin and nothing came up. Please, someone tell me, am I remembering incorrectly that there was a discussion about this designer?</p>
<p>Oh, and I love black and white…love black and chocolate brown together too–very sophisticated.</p>
<p>mathmom, I love the mustardy yellow color dress too but it was alh who contributed that. Mustardy yellow is one of those amazing colors that works year round, any holiday, always striking and really flattering for many.</p>
<p>collage, Karen Millin stumps me too. Can’t figure out where people shop that designer. Isn’t Vegas amazing for shopping? I’m going in January.</p>
<p>collage-you are not losing your mind. Bunsenburner likes Karen Millin.</p>
<p>Karen Millen:). I have a pair of her khakis and a dress too. But I’m long-waisted, so there you go. BTW, mathmom, I think I’d look for a blush-colored top, if possible. Even a blush colored silk camp shirt, or tee shirt. It’s a very sophisticated color combination, IMO, unless you can’t wear the shade next to your face of course.</p>
<p>Mom2Mm, I took jitterbug lessons with my first college boyfriend. I’ve taken a handful of dance lessons with my husband, but nothing as good as those first lessons. </p>
<p>Sewhappy, I get confused, sorry for not giving you credit alh! Not sure if mustard is my color, but I do love the cut.</p>
<p>Gotta. Go. To. Vegas. Karen Millen outlet sounds great. DH gave two thumbs up to the dress I got at that store. I will be wearing it for the New Year’s “party” - we usually celebrate at home, but we do dress up. 
We have a dance party just for the two of us with YouTube music played on TV via Wii. </p>
<p>I have to catch up with this thread - my Internet connection has been pretty iffy on the road. I think I will have to look into some designer eyeglass frames soon, because typing on my iPhone has become a challenge. My 20/20 eyesight, which I attribute to eating a lot of blueberries and other berries as a kid, is finally beginning to deteriorate.</p>
<p>Any suggestions for neighborhood holiday open house? I hate to wear black pants and a nice top. I just rebel against doing that.</p>
<p>^There were lots of women wearing sparkly cocktail dresses at the two neighborhood events I went to.</p>
<p>Oh goodie. I want to dress festive! </p>
<p>Sounds like a fun neighborhood, Mathmom.</p>
<p>sewhapy - if you like how you look in a sparkly dress, go for it! Why not? Who made the rule that everyone has to look like clones at neighborhood parties? :)</p>
<p>Sewhappy, I was pulling my ornament box out of storage today and LOL’d @ the shoe ornament collection that you lnked the other day. It is so me! And I recall that there was a 2010 one on sale! Even better. 
I spent some serious $$$ today at Neiman. I have never had much success with flats, but I tried on a pair of very chichi designer flats that just went on sale, and ohhh… my feet fell in love with them. At this rate of shoe acquisition, I will have to change my name to Imelda soon! DH texted me from Europe asking if I wanted him to buy me anything . Uhmmm… I think I already got my gift. :)</p>
<p>Bunsen, I think it’s okay to love shoes. Shoes are definitely an art form unto themselves. They are a metaphor and also a functional object. They help us take journeys. They are our foundation, the extension of ourselves that comes in contact with the ground we walk on.</p>
<p>Hurray for shoes!</p>
<p>The neighborhood holiday thing is in the afternoon so not sure on a sparkly dress but my neighbors already know me as a slightly demented lady so it’s okay.</p>
<p>The list of clothes that was posted about what to wear over 50 basically sounded like my closet, right down to the Target cardigans, but here’s something that happenned to me yesterday. My husband told me that I was trying to look young and needed to go jeans shopping. I’m 5’6" and 117 lbs and wear “skinny” (not ultra or leggings style) jeans from Banana Republic. I’m also 56…they fit! I have skinny legs so what am I supposed to wear? He said they’re too tight and my daughter agrees. She’s 15 and rolls her eyes whatever I wear so I rarely listen to her. I saw on the Gap website that they have some that are called super straight or something so maybe I’ll check them out. Any suggestions? I used to wear the boot cut from Old Navy but prefer the straight…maybe because they remind me of college but maybe that’s the problem!!</p>
<p>dke – try the matchstick jeans/cords from j. crew. They are pretty snug in the leg without being ridiculously so. </p>
<p>Lucky you to be so tall and thin.</p>
<p>And I wear the bootleg cords from J. Crew and I love them. Fit tight on the hipbones but leave room for midlife midriff:).</p>
<p>dke, BR keeps changing the cut of their skinny jeans. How old are yours? I know that two years (?) or so ago they switched to a cut that was way too narrow for most grown women, but I thought they had so many complaints they went back to a more relaxed skinny ( which I have). I do notice that they tend to shrink, however, so you may want to try line drying to see if that makes a difference. I wear mine mostly tucked into boots.</p>