The dress that won

I'm flattered so many people responded in such short amount of time, and all I have to thank you with are these crappy photos of me in the dress that eventually won out - sorry, I took pics of everyone but myself so had to crop existing photos.

Thanks to every one who weighed in on the New vs Thrift dress decision! It was an agonizing process marked by flip-flop manic dressing in front of my mirror one hour before the event, but I ended up going with dress number one. At the time of my getting ready the two dresses were technically tied, though two offline votes put the black thrifted dress in the lead and made my decision all the more difficult.

The tie breaker? Simply put, the first dress was elegant chic and I felt more comfortable in it. The ruching and all the strategic folds around the tummy would hide dinner tummy, I figured. The back dress will be better for cocktail parties where people just stand, drink and look beautiful.

After checking my blog comments this morning two more comments were added in favour of this dress, dress number one, so it was the winner afterall!

I wore it with nude fishnets, Spanx (!), a necklace thrifted for a buck and wound twice around my throat, pewter BCBG pumps found for $20 in the clearance aisle, and my silver John Hort retro purse, shown in a previous post below.

Thanks again for helping me out. The black thrifted dress will have its day in the sun soon...