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annaJ - you can't beat a LBD and I'm loving that dressing room story.


I have LBD that I bought from Bravissimo in Covent Garden. It's an every-day dress that you throw in the washing machine and I wear it so much that I bought another one as back-up before they discontinue it. It's just a plain jersey dress but it fits properly, which is nothing short of a miracle. Bravissimo is briliant for bigger than average lady-bumps because you get to pick different sizes for your bottom half and top half so that clothes actually fit.

OMG giggirl, I have two fantastic Bravissimo LBDs.

One wrap around and this one, but in black (although i love it so much I'm thinking of getting the purple and the red...


http://www.bravissimo.com/images/products/medium/bp13plb_mp.jpg


(worn at SeanMac's birthday party and recieved many compliments - admittedly mostly from a somewhat tipsy Jah Lush, but still...)


Bravissimo is life changing, isn't it?

Bravissimo is fabulous. It's nice to have dresses actually fit without spending a fortune on getting them made/altered. I've seen that purple dress in the catalogue but I haven't tried it on. It has a 1940s feel to it, don't you think? It's very unusual to wear a Bravissimo dress and NOT get complimented because they are specially designed for women with curves.

giggirl Wrote:

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> Bravissimo is fabulous. It's nice to have dresses

> actually fit without spending a fortune on getting

> them made/altered. I've seen that purple dress in

> the catalogue but I haven't tried it on. It has a

> 1940s feel to it, don't you think? It's very

> unusual to wear a Bravissimo dress and NOT get

> complimented because they are specially designed

> for women with curves.


I didn't even know they did dresses, thought of them as a bra place. Am definately going to have to investigate because I am definitely more than a bit curvy!


My favourite dress ever was one my mum made me when I was a student. I still have it tucked away in a suitcase though I never expect to be slim enough to wear it again, and it would probably look rather dated now.


It was a shot taffeta ballgown, but instead of being shot with black it was blue and green so it was this shimmery peacock blue colour which was quite unusual among all the black dresses most others were wearing. (I can't wear black anyway, it makes me look ill) And it was a perfect fit - mum did a great job with the boned bodice. I used to get loads of complements on it, was a real pleasure to wear.

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