Our 21 Favorite Slimming Spring and Summer Dresses on Amazon — Under $40 - Us Weekly

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• Our 21 Favorite Slimming Spring and Summer Dresses on Amazon — Under $40 - Us Weekly
• Taylor Swift's 2021 GRAMMYs Look and Other Dresses That Say 'Spring' - Entertainment Tonight
• The 5 Dress Trends That Work for Every Age - Who What Wear
• Jessica McClintock, dressmaker who outfitted generations of prom-goers and brides, dies at 90 - The Washington Post
• "Say YES to the Prom Dress" helps young ladies find a prom dress - Alice Echo News-Journal

Our 21 Favorite Slimming Spring and Summer Dresses on Amazon — Under $40 - Us Weekly Posted: 15 Mar 2021 12:09 PM PDT Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. Are your closets ready for spring and summer? Now that we have an extra hour of sunlight on our hands, the warmer months of the year are truly within reach! We plan on wearing dresses as often as possible once the weather permits, but our options are due for an update. We're looking for fabulous frocks that are designed to flatter the body. There are a variety of styles we focus on for their slimming powers, and we broke down each of our top categories below! If you're shopping on a budget, we have good news: All of these dresses are under $40 on Amazon. Seriously! This is your chance to pick up a few options and spare your wallet in the process. 'Tis the season! 21 Best Slimming Dresses on Amazon Wrap Dresses Wrap dresses create one of the most flattering shapes. This style accentuates the waist without going for the full bodycon look, so you can feel comfy and classy! 1. Our Absolute Favorite: This simple mini dress from Relipop is one of Amazon's all-time bestsellers! It's one of our top picks in the category because it actually wraps all the way around and has a layered hem. This is ideal if you get nervous about showing too much leg! 2. We Also Love: For a maxi moment, this wrap dress from BerryGo is absolutely gorgeous. It has a bit of a high-low hemline, which works well with the wrap style — and we adore its flirty, feminine vibes! 3. We Also Love: This wrap dress from Amazon Essentials is a classic everyday wrap dress. It's available in a variety of colors and prints, and it's made from a jersey material that's super comfortable to wear! 4. We Also Love: Another maxi wrap dress that we're loving is this option from PRETTYGARDEN! It has a boho-chic vibe that suits the spring and summer seasons perfectly.  5. We Also Love: This dress from MEROKEETY offers a different take on the wrap dress look, but it's still equally slimming. Ruched Dresses Ruching can do wonders for the body. The extra texture can actually smooth you out and help disguise the tummy area for a slimmer appearance! 6. Our Absolute Favorite: This simple tank dress from BTFBM has ruching details that are ultra-trendy right now! The sides of the dress are adjustable, which guarantees you'll find the proper fit. 7. We Also Love: This dress from Gmeitoey has similar ruching to the above option, but it's made from a silky material. Obsessed! 8. We Also Love: BTFBM knows what they're when it comes to ruched pieces, and this T-shirt version is a dream for casual days.  9. We Also Love: This ruched dress from LaClef has a looser, tank-like vibe on top that gets tighter around the waist. Shoppers say the fit is a serious style win! A-Line Flare Dresses This category covers a lot of ground, but we're focused on a flare silhouette that's still complementary! 10. Our Absolute Favorite: The flared-out skirt and ruffle details on this adorable dress from Dokotoo are so whimsical, and the volume looks great on nearly every type of figure! 11. We Also Love: The style of this dress from ROMWE is swoon-worthy! It has an off-the-shoulder top that's shirred and stretchy, and the skirt is floaty and ethereal. 12. We Also Love: For a casual everyday look, this swing dress from MITILLY is a solid choice. The skirt is tiered and ruffled, and there are cute buttons that run down the front! 13. We Also Love: Ruffles are always flattering. This dress from ECOWISH is one of our favorites! 14. We Also Love: We can't sleep on a timeless swing dress like this one from POPYOUNG! It's laid-back and loose, and incredibly easy to style.  Black Dresses This category is pretty much self-explanatory. Black is forever a fan-favorite thanks to its slimming capabilities! 15. Our Absolute Favorite: We're in love with this little black dress from Verdusa! It's form-fitting, but has soft ruching that's flattering on the body.  16. We Also Love: This black dress from ROMWE is fitted up top and flares out into a full skirt. Glam! 17. We Also Love: For an evening look, we adore this full-length maxi dress from SheIn! The sumptuous silky material is heavenly, and the high slit lets you show off ample leg. 18. We Also Love: This tiered ruffle dress from ECOWISH has a beautiful lace top and an adjustable tie in the back. Practical!  Empire Waist Dresses Empire waists cinch you right below the bust and then flare out below, which is a sleek cut that flatters every body type. Plus, these dresses are always on the comfier side! 19. Our Absolute Favorite: Shoppers are absolutely loving this day dress from ECOWISH! The bust area is tight, and the skirt flares out right underneath the tie. It looks beyond elegant! 20. We Also Love: Empire waists look great on maxi dresses, and this embroidered dress from BerryGo is the ultimate example! 21. We Also Love: This dress from Star Vixen is a reliable everyday look with a healthy dose of Grecian goddess vibes! Check out more of our picks and deals here! This post is brought to you by Us Weekly's Shop With Us team. The Shop With Us team aims to highlight products and services our readers might find interesting and useful, such as face masks, self tanners, Lululemon-style leggings and all the best gifts for everyone in your life. Product and service selection, however, is in no way intended to constitute an endorsement by either Us Weekly or of any celebrity mentioned in the post. 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Taylor Swift's 2021 GRAMMYs Look and Other Dresses That Say 'Spring' - Entertainment Tonight Posted: 15 Mar 2021 10:49 AM PDT Skip to main content

The 5 Dress Trends That Work for Every Age - Who What Wear Posted: 15 Mar 2021 09:09 PM PDT Susan Feldman is the co-founder of One Kings Lane and In the Groove, a style destination where she shares her age-defying outfits and shopping tips. Feldman is also our resident style expert here at Who What Wear, and she's shared everything from her top spring shopping picks to the style mistakes she won't repeat. Today, we've tapped her to discuss dresses—specifically, the dress trends that work for every age, according to both her and me.  I love this time of year. Everything is starting to bloom, the days are getting longer, and the chill is slowly going away. Spring always comes along just when we need some cheering up. And this year we need more cheering up than usual after a long pandemic-filled twelve months. Well, the hibernation's almost over, and just like spring, I'm taking this opportunity to blossom sartorially. It's time to shed your sweats and throw on some gorgeous dresses.  One pandemic style tip I'm taking with me in the future? I want to be comfortable. Easy dresses are a perfect way to transition out of athleisure and loungewear. The other great thing is how versatile they are—you can dress them up, down, and wear them all around town. And we will be going out in the near future.  All of the styles below will look great on any woman, at any age.

Jessica McClintock, dressmaker who outfitted generations of prom-goers and brides, dies at 90 - The Washington Post Posted: 15 Mar 2021 03:31 PM PDT For more than half a century, ever since she struck out in California as a divorced mother with an untrained but keen eye for fashion, Ms. McClintock was one of the most popular designers of affordable formal wear for young women. If a red carpet blazed the way to an average high school dance, and celebrity reporters craned over the velvet rope to pepper arrivals with that time-honored query — "Who are you wearing?" — the name "Jessica McClintock" would surely become a familiar reply. For brides who did not wish to bankrupt themselves or burden their bridesmaids with the purchase of dresses in the four-digit price range, Ms. McClintock became a go-to label for attractive options. Perhaps the most famous bride to don a Jessica McClintock frock was Hillary Rodham when she married a Yale Law School classmate, Bill Clinton, in 1975. The dress was long-sleeved and lacy, with a ribbon in front — purchased, according to Brides magazine, for $53 at the Fayetteville, Ark., mall. "Poufy-sleeved, pastel, and pretty dresses were purchased for sweet sixteens, quinceañeras and other [once-in-a-lifetime] occasions," read an obituary for Ms. McClintock published in Women's Wear Daily, which in 1997 ranked her seventh on its list of most recognized labels. "That emotional connection helped to make the brand a favorite throughout the country, especially among middle America." Ms. McClintock's aesthetic changed over the years, from the flowing calico prairie dresses of the 1970s to the taffeta minis favored by later generations. She was perhaps best known for a lacy look that evoked all manner of historical associations. A reporter for the Wall Street Journal described her party dresses as "steeped in the imagery of Victorian romance and virginal sex." People magazine in 1984 described one of her lines as "Gatsbyesque." A paid death notice published in the San Francisco Chronicle depicted an early collection as aspiring to an "Edwardian and Renaissance look." "I have a romantic feeling about life," Ms. McClintock, who boasted that she used more lace than any other designer in America, once told an interviewer. "I like Merchant-Ivory movies and candlelight and beautiful rooms. I like the patina of age." Her San Francisco-based company expanded over the years to include boutiques across the country and products including handbags, jewelry, eyeglasses, fragrances, bedding and furniture. By the 1990s, her annual sales reportedly surpassed $140 million. She was not selling merchandise, she told People magazine, but rather "romance and fantasy." "I imagine myself lying here reading Emily Brontë," she told the reporter, reclining on a chaise. "I live in a dream world." Jesse Earl Gagnon — she never used her given name — was born on June 19, 1930, near the Canadian border in Frenchville, Maine, and grew up in nearby Presque Isle. Her father, a shoe salesman, and her mother, a beautician, divorced when she was 2. She cited her mother, who supported her children by playing the piano in silent movie theaters, working in a hotel and running a beauty salon, as a chief role model as an independent woman. Ms. McClintock learned to sew from her maternal grandmother but had no formal training in fashion design. She dropped out of Boston University to marry her first husband, Alston Frank "Al" Staples, with whom she had a son, Scott. They settled in California, where Ms. McClintock became an elementary school teacher after receiving a bachelor's degree in education from San Jose State University in 1963. Around that time, her husband was killed in a car accident. Ms. McClintock entered the fashion industry in 1969 or 1970, when, referred by a friend, she made a $5,000 investment in a San Francisco dress store called Gunne Sax. She soon bought out her co-investors to become sole owner of the company, which became popular among the hippie set. "Hippies didn't talk about the clothes they wore; they were beyond that," she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2011. "That's why Gunne Sax was so important in those days. It was a stamp for them. They used to wear them in the parks, getting married, the long calico dresses, barefoot and all." According to an obituary published in the Chronicle, Ms. McClintock opened her first eponymous store in San Francisco in 1981. In the 1990s, she found herself at the center of a controversy centering on the unpaid wages owed to 12 Chinese garment workers employees by a Jessica McClintock contractor that went bankrupt. Although Ms. McClintock's company was not legally liable for the wages, activists organized demonstrations outside her boutiques as well as a boycott of her brand, charging that she was morally obligated to pay the dressmakers for their work. Her critics took out an advertisement in the New York Times, enumerating their charges under the heading "Let Them Eat Lace." In 1993, Ms. McClintock agreed to make a charitable donation to the Northern California Chinese Garment Contractors Association, to be distributed to the unpaid workers. In 1996, she reached an agreement with the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, promising to work with the group to promote fair labor practices, that ended the boycott. Ms. McClintock lived in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood in a Queen Anne Victorian home that she had purchased from film director Francis Ford Coppola. Her second marriage, to Fred McClintock, ended in divorce. Besides her half sister and her son, Scott McClintock of Las Vegas, survivors include two half-brothers. "Every woman wants to be romantic at some point," Ms. McClintock told the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1990, reflecting on the appeal of her fashion line. "The hard edges will always be there because, let's face it, women are living in a world where they have to keep up with men. So I design for memories, for dreams, the softness of life."

"Say YES to the Prom Dress" helps young ladies find a prom dress - Alice Echo News-Journal Posted: 15 Mar 2021 04:58 PM PDT ORANGE GROVE - More than 100 prom dresses hang in a room at The Grove Baptist Church in Orange Grove as they wait for young ladies to select them for that special formal event called Prom. Prom is a formal high school party that juniors and seniors attend. It is a tradition that many students participate in as their high school years began to wrap up. It's a night of music, dancing and photos as they hang out with friends making memories. Memories that will last a lifetime. That special dress for a young lady can be hard to find and can be very expensive. "The community donated the dresses and some even have tags on them. These dress, when worn, are only used for a couple of hours," said Jennifer Eulenfield.  Eulenfield and Jennifer Bridges decided to hold a "Say YES to the Prom Dress" event for girls who need that special dress. "Prom dresses can be very expensive. This last year has hit people's finances and they may not have the money to spend on one dress especially after 2020," Eulenfield said. "This has been done before and we felt that families could use the help this year...Everything (here) is free. We have dresses, some shoes and some jewelry the girls can choose from." There are dresses, sizes 0 to 22W, in different styles, lengths and colors.  Young ladies who go in to find a dress can even try them on before they leave. "We just want people to take advantage of the dresses available," Eulenfield said.  The Grove Baptist Church is located at 610 South Reynolds in Orange Grove. The event is held from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. until Thursday, March 18. For more information or to donate to the free event call Eulenfield at 361-944-6966 or Bridges at 361-215-6892.

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