for the girls: which is your best ever dress?

[*Bob*]

Which one, and why, what made it your favourite?

[Cassius]

Er - why? Are you thinking of buying a special dress for a special lady?

[georgia]

Me thinks he is taking the p**s >:D

[AllforNun]

ooh nice.......... can you ask about shoes as well ! and maybe get some pictures included.

[*Bob*]

Ok, it doesn't have to be a dress.

It could be a recipe. Or perfume.

C'mon, girls! Don't let the guys have all the fun!

[AllforNun]

recipe...oh right you mean bake beans circa RAZZLE ?

[????]

Like any red-blooded, hetero male...I love getting dolled up in make up and a slinky dress once in a while and pretending that "it's just for a fancy dress party"......or is that just me

[Cassius]

Exactly ???? which is why I wanted to know whether it was for a special lady or for *Bob* himself - different styles come to mind....................

[*Bob*]

I would describe myself as "white, no suitcase".. What kind of dress do you think I should go for?

[Brendan]

One that compliments your boots.

[giggirl]

Why are all you boys posting on the frock thread? Are you not taking this seriously?

And, *Bob*, you need to know that frocks are WAY too important to only have one favourite. Here's a selection off the top of my head and I've not even begun to think about it. If I was at home and opened my wardrobe doors then the memories would come flooding out.

In no particular order:

A dark blue Tom Ford dress with a long train that I wore to my friends' civil partnership ceremony in Brighton. The sleeves and the d?collet? are made from tulle. I got to go to a wedding in a dress with a train and I was like a little girl at the candy store. Except the train was nearly destroyed by Brighton pier when I was too happy to notice.

My First Holy Communion dress (obviously white with a white veil in case anyone doesn?t know what a Communion dress looks like). I wasn?t blessed with the happiest childhood so that dress is a happy memory in a sea of not so happy memories.

A Versace couture dress that was part of the same collection as the infamous Hurley dress. It?s a very simple design. Long, black, strapless, with one zip up the front (for the full length of the dress) and a similar one up the back. It?s very simple and completely stunning. It?s so well made that it holds you in everywhere and makes you stand upright, a bit like a wedding dress.

My very first evening gown which was green and gold cotton and came with its own wrap. I wore it to death and was heartbroken when it fell past repair.

A dress I coveted for years which belonged to a schoolfriend. It was yellow and purple (this was the 70s). Years later I figured out that it was a high street copy of an Ossie Clark. I would love to own an Ossie Clark dress.

Thinking about dresses I have coveted, top of the list must be Audrey Hepburn?s Breakfast at Tiffany?s gown. Swoon.

I have a few Alice Temperley dresses and I love wearing them - they always put me in a good mood because they?re mostly bright. My favourite is the ?Orchid? dress from about four years ago. It?s basically a bright pink dress with a big black orchid on it. I just can?t be miserable when I?m wearing that dress.

The pink flowery tea dress I bought for my Godchild last year from Soup Dragon. She literally danced when she saw it. We were in Blue Mountain and she put it on there and then and had to be coaxed out of it at bedtime. There?s a girl after my own heart.

And to think, all you boys have is your boring old cars. My heart breaks for you, it really does.

[Mick Mac]

I'll answer this on behalf of the girls:

Your best dress is always your shortest one >:D<

[Jeremy]

Why the pity, giggirl? Quids and Bob have demonstrated that they have the best of both worlds.

[????]

You obviously haven't seen my pins MM

[giggirl]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Why the pity, giggirl? Quids and Bob have

> demonstrated that they have the best of both

> worlds.

Youre absolutely right Jeremy. I withdraw the comment.

[giggirl]

???? Wrote:

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> You obviously haven't seen my pins MM

Or mine!

[*Bob*]

There's nothing wrong with a spot of cross dressing from time to time.

Disappearing into a girl's bedroom at a party and emerging wearing poorly-matched selection of their clothes is surely a Great British Tradition? It helps if you know the girl reasonably well, obviously.

Though I think you're only allowed to do it so many times within a certain period of time. Otherwise it becomes 'a thing'.

[Cassius]

Just make sure you've had a nice close shave - I always think that a five o'clock shadow distracts from the neckline (ditto chest hair).

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Thank Heavens I'm not the only red-bloodied Male who has a penchant for wearing Womens Clothes!

I admit I was beginning to think that I was a shade, well, unusual, shall we say, but obviously not!(tu)

My own particular preference is for a fox fur(fake) over Hot Pants but I refuse to wear Make-up which seems a little "girly"

for a strapping six-footer like me...

[giggirl]

OMG - back in your box TLS, you've overshared.

[KalamityKel]

Tony my dear maybe I should introduce you to my neighbours... I'm sure he's the one with clonking stilettos and the "control" vest thingy!

Personally I find a suit and tie very attractive on a gal especially if time has been taken to apply decent make up and straighteners have tamed the wild hair :))

[indiepanda]

giggirl Wrote:

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> And to think, all you boys have is your boring old

> cars. My heart breaks for you, it really does.

After reading that amazing list of dresses I feel like by comparision I only have my boring cars too. And given I drive a Ford Focus that is saying something.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

giggirl Wrote:

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> OMG - back in your box TLS, you've overshared.

Er, not weally, not weally and truly:))...

I WAS only Joe King, 'onest!

Phew!B)

[annaj]

In solidarity with giggirl, and because dresses are important, and because I fit most female sterotypes and don't care at all about cars or football, and can't read maps without getting into them, and can't park, and can't throw or catch at all, and can't reliably tell my left from my right, I'm going to take the question seriously and respond.

My favourite ever dress is my wedding dress, for obvious reasons.

But my favourite normal dress is a trusted LBD that always looks fabulous and never lets me down. It's a very clever layered empire line that floats over the dodgy upper arm area, shows off the clevage and then subtly emphasises the waist. It's perfectly demure, but totally sexy. When I tried it on, just before Christmas a few years ago, three other women were also trying on party dresses while their husbands waited patiently (it was in the lovely Hobbs on South Molton street that has the sports sections laid out on sofas for the men outside the changing rooms. Three of us all came out of the changing rooms at the same time in this dress. We were all completely different shapes and sizes, yet all looked fantastic in it. There was a moment of stunned silence then the husband who's wife had a different dress on said "I want to see my wife in that dress!"

It's a great dress.

[georgia]

''I would describe myself as "white, no suitcase".. What kind of dress do you think I should go for?''

Sorry but this made me laugh