When was the last time you bought a dress that you didn't have to pair with a sweater that costs twice as much as the dress itself, a special bra, or weird looking undershirt?
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that stylish dresses that fit real women's bodies are going the way of the dinosaurs. Around these parts, they're virtually extinct. In their place, the timelessly sexy skirt + sweater set has taken over.
While I'm a girl who appreciates the flexibility of mix n' match clothing, there are occasions when I feel inspired to branch out from the world of adjustable waistbands. In these moments, I turn to Shabby Apple.
The ladies at Shabby Apple were kind enough to send me the Jackie O dress to try on for size.
Here are my thoughts uncensored:
* I'm relatively tall and the vast majority of so-called knee-length dresses sold in the mall hit me mid-thigh at best. Don't get me wrong, like most middle-aged women, I look smokin' hot in skin tight mini-skirts, but I am finding that a growing number of people consider those who dress less than half their age to be socially inappropriate. The Jackie O dress hits, as promised, perfectly at the knee.
* Most of Shabby Apple's dresses, including the Jackie O, "fit generously." Translation: If you fluctuate between clothing sizes depending on what's in your freezer, you'll most likely be okay with the size you order.
* Shabby Apple's summer line offers full coverage, but the cotton/spandex blend makes the dresses breathable and light. In other words, you won't sweat to death when you wear a Shabby Apple dress, even on the East Coast, where the humidity can knock your socks off.
Shabby Apple's BRAND NEW line of dresses is due out any minute and to celebrate, they're giving one lucky reader her very own Jackie O Dress!!!! All you need to do to enter this contest is to leave a comment. Want a second chance to win this dress? Post a link to this giveaway on your blog and leave a second comment!
It's that easy, and that awesome! The contest starts NOW and ends this FRIDAY, July 31 at midnight. The winner will be chosen at random, but comments expressing desperation are always appreciated and make me laugh.
Good Luck!
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«Oldest ‹Older 601 – 800 of 916 Newer› Newest»So I had decided against entering this contest (convincing myself that I'd look terrible in a Shabby Apple dress). But then, I read the bit about "...If you fluctuate between clothing sizes depending on what's in your freezer..." and I thought maybe, just maybe...
I will enter for my wife - because she IM'ed me at work to tell me how cute she thought these dresses are. Maybe I should just tell her to buy one for herself if she doesn't win - after all it is her birthday too.
This dress is super cute!!
Love it!!
Love Shabby apple and I love the blog. Thanks for the laughs!
I have drooled over the Shabby Apple dresses for months! What I wouldn't do for one. After investing all my money in returning my post-baby breasts to their proper position, I've had absolutely no luck finding a dress to adequately flatter them! I'm sure this dress would be just the thing. PLEASE PICK ME!
Please pick me, those dresses are perfect!
i need a dress that doesn't look like a mini!
i'm feeling lucky!
-april
Ummmm....I want. Maybe need, mostly want.
A new dress would be awesome! We don't have money for me to buy new clothes and the husband loves when I wear a dress. Now that nursing is finishing up dresses can be worn again, but I don't have any that fit/look like they are not my grandmother's. Here's to hoping!
Beautiful. Thanks for the chance.
I want it!! I want it I want it and I'm pretty darn sure I deserve it ;)
I need this dress! I love it!
I have been wearing the same skirt to church for about 6 years... i need this!
I just lost the baby weight and am in desperate need of pretty clothes that actually fit!
I have been drooling over these Shabby Apple dresses for a couple months now. Thanks for the chance to win one!
Linked to this giveaway on my blog!
Ya, I need this. The khaki skirt is really not so hot.
Please pick me!
Pretty! I'd like one, please! :)
Wow... a lot of comments. Better to try and fail then to have never tried at all.
I think my husband feels I qualify for the 'shabby' part of the giveaway and could really use a new dress!! :)
You know, I had heard of Shabby Apple before but as wonderful as their stuff is, we've been unemployed basically since I heard of them, and can't spend on clothes. Thanks for the chance to "enter to win"!
So cute! I am always envious of women who look so cute in dresses. I tend to be nervous to wear them since I'm usually covered in spit and food all day (the joys of a toddler), but I'm willing to risk (or just avoid my kid for the day) it for such a cute dress.
I want one! desperately! and your blog always makes me laugh :)
I love this dress, pick me!!!!
I love Shabby Apple. Im about to have our third child and it would be so great to have a dress that would motivate me back down to size!
That would totally flatter my figure!!
Yes, please. My daughter says I wear the same dress to church every week, could it be?
adorable! I need that!
Holy Moses!! Like there is a chance in Hades for me.. but I will try..
I would love this dress, so classy, that might help me out as I am lacking in that particular area. But so would a boob job.. either that or a bra that will stop sliding up over my sad excuse for bosoms...
I love this!
OH! I know how to beg! Please Please PLEASE!! I love dresses, and I'm trying to break away from skirts and shirts
I should at least try...my church would be ever so grateful to see me in something than the two skirt/shirt combos that I currently have in heavy rotation.
speaking as an east coast gal, i would LOVE for a dress not to wilt in the clammy, sweaty humidity of summer :) plus it is incredibly cute!
I’m sure everyone will agree that a closet stocked with dresses from weddings will always represent fashion at it’s best. Most people only experience such fashion disasters while visiting the local thrift store, mind only for donating purposes NEVER to purchase such revisits one can only hope to be ancient but would more accurately be a fashion designers example of ‘what-not-to wear” EVER. Every Sunday, I am blindingly reminded that all my dresses in my closet were sadly purchased by me in a faint attempt to took thin and fashionable for such weddings. The only exception being a very loud printed dress that at first was flattering but is now best know for it’s ease in traveling, meaning crammed into the last available space of a suitcase. Some are too small, some are too long, some represent a cross of prom and funeral fashion. The latest family wedding photo featured the bottom of my slip showing underneath an otherwise somewhat fashionable skirt, however, 10 inches of a straight skirt “peeking” from underneath an A-Line styled skirt rubbed me the wrong way, and others too I’m sure (though you would think any bystander would have volunteered such helpful information, but you would be wrong). Perhaps I would have chosen my last store-bought dress more wisely had I been warned nine years ago that after children, your body will betray you and wage war against you, button down dresses will fail to stay closed while holding a squirming child, especially in public, and that chiffon is a Mommy Fashion DON’T. My only fear in winning would be the glaring need for shoes that don’t have cracked creases, worn toes, and peeling heels with the nail protruding the bottom. Never fear, my three girls always look adorable, people think I’m adopted.
I'd never pass up the opportunity to win a free dress! :)
Winning would be awesome!!
mallorysteele9@gmail.com
posted the link on my blogger blog blog blog :)
PICK ME!! my husband said that I could have a shabby apple dress when i finish sewing my first sewing project. Its supposed to be a dress...but it doesn't look like one! if i WIN one though...that would be a whole lot easier! PICK ME!
Melting in Las Vegas here!!! Please choose me for a small respite of cool and cuteness all in one!
Oh, I so want this dress!! Pretty please!!!! t_martin99(at)hotmail(dot)com
Going back to work after 22 years at home with my children. Desperately need a jumpstart to a new wardrobe! Love the dress, love the give away, love the blog! It brightens my day and takes me back to the years home with my kids!
I really need a new dress. My fourth child is now 7 months, and my closet is full of clothing that has not fit since before my first was born.
so i was reading my sisters blog and i saw a post called the meanest mom so i figured is was about her son saying she was the meanest mom ever... any way i went to read it and clicked on the llink and startd reading the Meanest mom Blog. ANd found i really enjoy it. And I think those dresses are so cute!!! I'm usually not on to wear dresses or skirts short enough to show my knees just cuz i think my knees look weird. But I think i would actually like one of those dresses they are so cute!!
Woot!
I linked to this post on my blog, so give me a second entry.
Vicki
I love, love, love the Jackie O dress!!! I think a free one would be just perfect!
I have been coveting the Shabby Apple dresses for awhile now, and just haven't bought one yet. I would LOVE to win one!!
melsumsion at msn dot com
Pick Me! Oh Please Oh Please! I just returned to work after a 2 year 'vacation' staying home with my girls :)
Wow - this is my first visit to say hello! Love these dresses - and loved your mini-skirt comment!
Oh my goodness I am in great need of this dress. I haven't worn a dress to church for the last 9 months. My baby doesn't take a bottle and that means not cute or totally immodest. I'm getting ready to stop nursing at church and would love to have something so cute to celebrate!
I have been looking for a dress for my daughter that is long enough to come to her knees. I will have to check out their website. They sure look cute.
Totally cute dresses!! How come you didn't post a pic of you in your dress though??
Oh for heaven's sake. I'm 7 months pregnant and on my way to being the size of my first apartment. At least I'd have some motivation stop eating cheese in vast quantities once this baby comes. Or I could just order it in size Elephant. "Fits generously", you say? Let's hope.
I am totally desperate... and if you have read 659 comments and still read mine, then I guess I'm really, REALLY desperate! :)
Desperation? I sweat desperation, which is why i need a breathable, adorable dress! Choose me!!
You had me at "FITS GENEROUSLY!" How ingenious!!
My closet is jam-packed with clothes, but I can only wear 1/5 of them - you see, I have the "fluctuating" problem you mentioned - I have S, M, L, XL, XXL periods in my life! :(
Can you feel the desperation?!?
I would love to win one. But for my non bloated and pregnant sister in Idaho.
Girl, you were talking directly to me when you wrote this post weren't you? If I have to wear another layered-combo that induces boobie sweat from my still mammoth (four months after nursing)lady friends, someone is going to call Stacey and Clinton on me. This dress is perfect, I'd love it!
Cool! I've never heard of the shabby apple, but if it's true what you've described. I will be ordering from them in the future!
That dress is beatiful! Pick me please :) :)
Okay, I've been drooling over Shabby Apple dresses since you featured them awhile ago- I could TOTALLY use one of them, I have a 6 month old and need things that fit "generously"! :)
I need a dress. Bad.
Thanks!
Christine
I always need a new dress. I usually wear my *gasp* denim skirt (shock, horror) to church with a cute litle top. I am very predictable :) And, unlike you , I am of the garden gnome variety - all dresses reach my ankles:(
This would be perfect for right after the baby comes in 3 weeks...
momma needs a brand new dress
Pick Me!!!!
love it! my daughter always wants me to wear more dresses and about the sizes...right now my freezer is full of summer treats, not always the best for me! PICK ME PICK ME!
sophie0792@ymail.com
I am blown away by these dresses! I love them!!! I hope I'll win!!! (please-please-please)
I sooooo need this dress....and my name is Jackie...so it fits (already) lol....
I had to buy 3 bras to find one that fit under my last dressy dress. I would love this:)
I totally want a real outfit that does not include a sweat band and nike tennis shoes!!!!
Oh my goodness, shabby apple dresses are adorable. I totally want this!
I need this dress. The last time I bought clothes was a year and a half ago, when I was pregnant with my twins. I am currently living in capris from 1999 and a ton of $5 OldNavy tanks. Save me Jenna!
Count me in Jana!
If this dress really hits tall people at the knee, it's a miracle... help me and my 36-inch inseam out!
I'm 6 foot tall and the plethora of mini skirts and "shirt" dresses that are currently my wardrobe need to be retired since my daughters are asking to borrow them.
My boyfriend makes fun of the fact that I never where dresses cuz I can never find one that fits me cute... and between the 5 weddings I have left this summer I am in desprate need!
Love it, please pick me I never win your contests!
Not like I have a chance, but I understand the feeling of the "it wasn't supposed to be a miniskirt." The hubby loves it, but it's not quite functional with kiddos.
I would love to win this! I went on vacation & packed the wrong tank top to go under my low cut dress. I kept pulling & tugging & readjusting just to get through church. This would solve that!
Still trying to lose that baby weight from 14 months ago and feeling really self concious! This dress is sexy but age appropriate! :-)
love that dress!
What a gorgeous dress to wear anywhere, year round here in Phoenix. I love love love it!
I hope I am chosen!
XO
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!! What an awesome dress! I never win anything, but hey it is worth a shot...
Oooh I want this!
clarissa at digitaldeacons dot com
I would love the dress!
That dress is gorgeous! I would love to win!!
695 sounds like a lucky number! I would LOVE that dress!
Beautiful!
I am very much in need of a new dress. I have been wearing the same black skirt for over 10 years. Time for some updating!
I need this, I went out for chocolate fondue tonight and wore sweats and a sleevless sweater, why? not because I think it was appropriate, but because I don't own a dress>Barbara dcmeow47@yahoo.com
my husband is always trying to get me to wear dresses and would be thrilled if i won - so would i!
If you weren't so darn popular, I might have a shot at winning this!
Please, pick me--#701. I love their dresses!
I looked at the dress i wore to church the other day and realized I have had it for 17 years. (Am I old enough to have had a dress for 17 years?) Any fashion help much appreciated.
I have a closet full of skirt/sweater combos. I need this dress!
A mother of two
Needs new shoes.
But, I must confess,
I'd LOVE a new dress!
Posted a link - Here's my second comment.
Would love one of the shabby apple dresses!
I would love a new dress to go with the new skinner me I am working on.
I just found your blog and what a good time too! Those are gorgeous, count me in!!
Would be lovely to win, maybe I could give up the stripper attire that our mall has been passing off as designer?
Oh, oh, pick me, pick me!
I have only worn skirt and shirt combos since my first child (almost 6 years ago) I would love a DRESS. something I can not breats feed in.
oh please pick me. i'm and 1st time nusring mom and i don't like having to lift my shirt in public. even with a cover. the buttons down the front would help with that. oh please!
Love that dress! Sick of wearing a shade shirt under everything!!
Please add my entry to the contest!
Fun fun fun!
Pick me! Most of my dress wardrobe consists of hand me downs from my mother (who happens to be very stylish but they're still hand me downs) or items that fit me about ten years ago that I "plan" to fit in to again one day.
I would love a new dress that actually fits, having twins did not do much for my figure...;D
No more camis? No more sweaters? I'm in!
I also put a link to my blog-
twinzmama.blogspot.com!
Have been drooling over Shabby Apple dresses for as long as I have known about them-would LOVE to win one!
718 comments is a little intense. i deserve a dress because i just scrubbed a student condo with a toothbrush and a scotch brite pad for 20 hours and cried my way out of a penalty. give me the dress. i need it.
Oh please just having a baby any day and really need something to feel somewhat cute again. I was just crying last night tomy husband telling him how horrible I feel about my body! It is a beautiful thing to have a baby and be pregnant but by 9 months you don't feel so amazing! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pick me for this fabulous dress!!!!!!!
Thank you Amanda Pregnant and in need of a new beautiful dress!
Looks like everyone wants this dress for the same reason. Well I just want it because it would look fabulous on me and think it's dang cute. So there!
That dress is adorable! I would love to be its new owner! :)
I fluctuate!!! greatly.....
Nice dress!!!
That is such a cute dress! I have such trouble finding cute dresses that cover all of the skin I want covered...
Oh all your give aways, this is one I want to win most!!! Such cute dresses!
I've been wanting this dress since it first came out. Love it & the entire Shabby Apple line!
Blogged http://momcontests.blogspot.com/2009/07/jackie-o-dress.html
Love the dress, I hope I win
I really want a shabby apple dress!!! My size fluctuates depending on what's in the freezer..
Here's my second comment... I never win any of these things!
pick me
pick me
Oooohhh, please I need that dress. So cute and it looks like I could even nurse in it! Just what I'm looking for.
I want it! Pick me, Pick me!
I could use something that makes this frumpy mom look hot and chic. Pair it with some smokin' red boots and a few accessories and I'm off. I'd love to win.
As a fellow tall girl, I am thrilled to hear that I might actually be able to find a dress that hits me where it should! What a cute dress!
I would love to win this great dress. I love Shabby Apple!
Wow! This dress is beautiful! and it looks perfect for covering up a little bit of baby weight!
I could use a new dress! Count me in.
here's to flexible sizing!
I've got three young boys, extra skin, and saggy boobs. Please help me feel feminine again! Pick Me!
I love this dress!
I'd love a new dress and Shabby Apple's are adorable. Too bad they're so expensive.
As for comments of desperation... I just had a baby and I can't fit into any of my clothes! It would be so nice to have a new dress that makes me feel cute!
I would love, love, love to have one of these dresses! I was just looking at them the other day trying to decide which one to get...it would be so much better to get it for free though!
I adore Shabby Apple! I need a new dress!
Beautiful dress! Sign me up!
oh, how i love this dress!
I could really use a new dress...I am STILL shopping at Dress Barn.......
My newly un-pregnant body would LOVE to have a new dress!!
Oh I LOVE Shabby Apple! Please pick me! :)
Please?! :)
I love those dresses. Much cuter than the ones I've seen in the mall.
Momma going back to work... would love a new look!
love, love, love, love this. my husband hates my clothes and i think he would LOVE this. please????
...love, love, love Shabby Apple!
What an awesome giveaway! It been way too long since I've had a new dress!
I really want this dress
I'm going to be honest...I've been looking mighty homely lately. A nice dress will sure help with that.
I would love to be forced to wear a pair of shoes other than my sneakers!
Hi Jana, you are amazing! Shabby Apple is my newest favorite dress shop!
Love Paige
I LOVE shabby apple. I've wanted one of their dresses since I discovered them . . . I would love to be entered in this contest, please!
pick me!
Love the dress, love the comments!
I need this!
Ahhh... to look cool and stylish again! Please choose me:)
OH PRetty PleaSE! I would love it...haven't had a new dress in...I can't remember how long!!!
Cute dress. I should win since I don't own one. (Clarification: I don't own a dress, period. Unless you count the unflattering-to-my-figure champagne bridesmaid dress that I wore in my sister's wedding. Which I don't.)
I LOVE their dresses but have never bought one. Maybe this will be my lucky day. I need it. I just gave birth to twins two months ago. About three articles of clothing that hang in my closet at this moment actually fit me. Thanks for the chance!
By the way, I LOVE your blog!
Please pick me!!! I totally need a new dress!
Yeah, I'm lucky commenter #773!! I win. (It's 1:30 am - I'm allowed to dream, even if it is at the computer).
Pick me, Pick me
I heart Shabby Apple. I lust after Shabby Apple. I would eat Shabby Apple for breakfast if I could. I like to sit at my computer and look at their dresses for hours- but I've NEVER owned one. Please, please, please pick me!!!
Ohh ... how exciting! I'd love to win :)
Ooooh!!! Gorgeous-ness! I would love to win this!! Thanks so much!
bunnybx at gmail . com
I love this dress! I need it! Especially love the "generous fit"!
If you could only see the drool... not literally but lets say figuratively. I have been absolutely in love with the Shabby apple line since it came out. Trying to hide the receipts from my husband has been quite the feat, but with so many beautiful dresses you just have to own them! Jackie O is on my list and since I've been halted on my shopping siore I'd love to get my hands on one. The best part about the dresses, is that you don't have to layer! They are modest and stunning all by themselves, which every modern girls needs! Let me just say, Love, love love love!
boy do I need this. I have been looking for a cute black summer dress for my daughter's garden reception in less than two weeks. So far I have to look like I'm going to prom or to funeral. Please help out
My daughter told the ppl at church when asked on mothers day what could her mommy do to make her happy? She said,"Wear a DRESS!" Help me make her happy. :)
I'm commenting! It's so hard to find modest cute dresses these days. I LOVE shirt dresses - :)
Such a great dress! And I love your blog!
loving this dress! TOOOOO cute! Good luck ME!
I would love this! I need non-maternity clothes!
This is a very popular giveaway AND I am going to throw my hat in the ring as well! Please add me.
Thank you - Miranda
mdwartistry@yahoo.com
OHHHHHHHH I need a new dress!
I've been looking at this dress on their website for months now! This is fate, I HAVE to win.
wow 788 comments!he he he! i quite enjoy reading your blog, it makes me laugh and often gives me a reality check. thanks, a new dress would be much appriciated. my husband would be thrilled!
I would love to win this dress. If I were to be the chosen one, I would do it such honors as wearing it while performing all of my housewifely duties. Like my grandmother before me. And my husband would love you for choosing me because that would mean no more cut off sweat pants and hole-y (not holy) T-shirts. He might even feel impressed to take me to dinner.
OOOOOOOHHHHH!!!! I have been trying to work up the nerve to buy this exact dress! To save me from having to say "What? This old thing? Of course its not new!" to my husband about such a dress please send it my way ASAP!
http://burrellcamp.blogspot.com/2009/07/check-this-out.html
Here's to entry number 2...
I enter! Pick me, pick me!
Would love this dress...it's too cute!
Finally! A brand that produces garments that fully cover my "angel jammies!" I'm so tired of explaining to people why I have on jeans & a white t-shirt under my short, spaghetti strap dress in the beautiful 113 degree Las Vegas weather!
Like many of your other readers, my "have an 18 month old and a new 3 week old baby" body could definitely use a pick me up. Although there is a 1 in 800 chance at the moment, so I won't get too excited. I did, however, change all of my Christ-centered pictures on my desktop to more exciting pictures of me riding unicycles and running through meadows, so my positive computer feng-shui should bring me some luck, right? Here's hoping!
Ooooooo!
Please let me win. I know that once I have a cute dress I'll definitely find somewhere to wear it to, sans children.
I can't get over how cute that dress is! I would love to win it.
-Leah B
I want this dress goodness knows a woman can never go wrong with anything black;)
I want this so so badly!
so cute... I love dresses that fit. *sigh* I just wish I owned one!
heeeee, loovet this!
Oh I *so* need a new dress. Would this one be good on a pear-shaped figure, I wonder? Or do I even care? Nope...I just wanna win!
oh, how I long to break free of my skirt and tshirt rut!
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