The Art of Wearing a Dress

Some Tips on Choosing and Wearing a Short or a Long Dress

© Alla Kondrat

Feb 18, 2009
Formal Dress, GeeJo
Wearing a dress is an art. Maybe that is why many beautiful women often prefer wrapping themselves in shapeless jeans and blouses.

It’s easy, it’s simple and comfortable, and doesn't require much effort.

But how about being womanly, attractive, and appealing? Why is everybody forgetting about being romantic and gentle, bright and inspiring, or outstanding and memorable? Beauty and attractiveness are always in fashion! That is the law.

So, straighten the shoulders, raise the chin, smile, and proudly head towards the wardrobe or a store to choose a dress for today.

Choosing a Dress

Choosing a dress is choosing an image. Each dress creates a different impression, carries different feelings, and shapes different images. That is why, before choosing a dress, decide what impression it should create: that of a strict business woman or of a gentle friend. Decide what story the dress should tell the surrounding people today: about a good or a bad mood, about an intrigue or a challenge, about self-confidence or modesty. Choose.

And the most important: whatever image is chosen for today, make sure the choice is sincere. Wearing something that does not correspond to or does not reflect the personality will not make the needed impression. Such a dress, instead of creating and reinforcing the image, will only look like another piece of clothing.

Wearing a Dress

Having chosen the look for today, it’s time to put it on. But remember: each dress requires different treatment and some additional details in the overall behavior. It won’t be appropriate to rush along the streets in a long dress. The same relates to wearing a very short dress in an office, for example.

  • For work the optimal variant would be a middle-length dress accompanied with minimum makeup and jewelry, plus a jacket if the dress has short sleeves.
  • A day out of work is better to spend in a short- or middle-length dress. Choose something light and simple.
  • An evening requires a dress to be either long or short, but always fancier than a day dress. A dress for an evening may demand more jewelry, a brighter makeup, and luxurious accessories.
  • For all occasions a dress asks for high heels and a purse to match the shoes.

Wearing a Short Dress

A short dress can be casual and informal for the day, as well as fancy and couture for the evening or specific occasions. The peculiarity of a short dress is that it may get inappropriately short as a hand is raised, for example. So, control gestures and movements.

Getting out of the car, keep the knees together, slightly raise them up, and in this position turn towards the door to put both feet on the ground together. Getting in should be done in the opposite order: sit down keeping the feet on the ground, and only then move both feet together into the car.

Wearing a Long Dress

Sitting down and standing up, make sure the hem of the dress won’t be stepped on. The skirt of a long or a puffy dress should be taken by hands and slightly raised up while sitting down or standing up. It should be straightened afterwards.

For the same reason don’t forget to raise the skirt of a long dress on the stairway.

So now, being ready for presenting a new image to the world, bravely put on the dress for today. Let it stream along the body, feel the inner light streaming through the cloth, and inspire the world with beauty, individuality, and originality!


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