The Pretty Pear

Three years!

The three year anniversary of this blog came and went on July 17th but I still wanted to acknowledge it. You can read the very first post here. Thanks for all the kind comments, email, and links from your own blogs and websites. If I didn't know that people were out there reading this, I probably would've given up a long time ago. So thanks for your encouragement and here's to another three years of fabulous!

I bought a dress

This is a completely unexpected turn of events. I visited the new Torrid near my parents' house on Wednesday intending to buy summery stuff, just whatever I liked and looked good.

I've seen the dress online and the salesgirl mentioned that it looks good on everyone who tries it on. I gave it a shot out of curiosity, mostly. I'm definitely pear shaped (hence.. the name... of the blog) so I don't even bother with dresses. If something fits my top half, it's unlikely to fit my bottom half and vice versa. I can't even find jeans that fit my waist, hips, and butt simultaneously let alone all of those plus my sort of small chest and big arms.

I haven't bought a dress in years so I figured I'd try it on, hate it, and put it back. I don't usually like prints much either, so I didn't have high hopes.

Oh, but this dress. I tried it in a 4 first (don't you love Torrid's sizing?) and the top half was too big. However, the material is stretchy so I tried a 3.

*cue angels singing, clouds parting, sun showing through*

PERFECTION in dress form, people. It's just a touch too long but not enough to really make a difference. It's the first item of clothing I've put on in a long time that just makes me feel fantastic. Believe me when I say that I'm picky and cautious of skirts and dresses and I still love this dress.

I really have no reason to own this dress other than it looks really good and I like it. Do I need a real reason? I don't think so. It's a good dress to have in my wardrobe, though, in case someone gets married or I have to go somewhere semi-fancy-ish. Ok, I just wanted the damn dress.

The problem now is shoes. I have shoe issues in general because I have wide, flat feet and hate wearing heels. Flats make me look stumpy so maybe a wedge? Eh.

Anyway, the moral here is that I tried something new that I didn't think would look good and it does. I stepped out of my comfort zone a lot on this and it paid off.

Let's also look at why this dress works. It draws the attention up to the upper half of my body, accentuates the chest without being all out cleavage, is fitted around the narrowest part of my body and flows down in an A-line from there. It's a nice, slinky material and the dress itself is pretty season-less, depending on the shoes.

Can you tell I'm a "What Not to Wear" fan? ;)