I've had a different experience with cocktail dresses. As a DD to E cup, I've found that a lot of dresses (and shirts) have these dinky cups (or a shelf) built into the dress where my breasts are meant to go. So usually, unless the dress is form fitting or not tailored at all, the dress looks terrible on me. I usually get to choose between baggy clothes, or squished boobs. So I'm able to understand the whole "oh, it HAS to be tight/spandexy, damn my boobs!" attitude. Though I am currently on a 'no money, hope I can pay my rent!' budget, and she's on a no limits expense account, so this is all moot. Get a tailor, girl! Considering the amount of political functions that rest on "OMG, you need to be the prettiest woman" it stupid for her not to have a collection of dressmakers at the Circus and a series of dresses already made for emergencies.
Usually the term 'cocktail dress' refers to the length of the dress, not the event you pair it with, so you can have a whole range of, uh, 'styles' that can fall under the same category. Usually cocktail dresses are meant for semi-formal events which can range from people drinking champagne and laughing about how rich they are, to fancy orgies.
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Date: 2013-07-06 12:43 am (UTC)As a DD to E cup, I've found that a lot of dresses (and shirts) have these dinky cups (or a shelf) built into the dress where my breasts are meant to go. So usually, unless the dress is form fitting or not tailored at all, the dress looks terrible on me. I usually get to choose between baggy clothes, or squished boobs.
So I'm able to understand the whole "oh, it HAS to be tight/spandexy, damn my boobs!" attitude.
Though I am currently on a 'no money, hope I can pay my rent!' budget, and she's on a no limits expense account, so this is all moot. Get a tailor, girl! Considering the amount of political functions that rest on "OMG, you need to be the prettiest woman" it stupid for her not to have a collection of dressmakers at the Circus and a series of dresses already made for emergencies.
Usually the term 'cocktail dress' refers to the length of the dress, not the event you pair it with, so you can have a whole range of, uh, 'styles' that can fall under the same category. Usually cocktail dresses are meant for semi-formal events which can range from people drinking champagne and laughing about how rich they are, to fancy orgies.