Empire Waist Misuse

EDIT: Apparently the almighty Maddox beat me to this. I'm humbled.

We all knew last years summer fashion blunder was the tube top. Fortunately for my eyes and your look, I have seen significantly less tube game today, in the summer of 2008 (although some gals are still rockin em, and rockin em wrong). Unfortunately, it seems the nohemian/pregnant-and-bloated-chic look has taken over. You already know. The fake-maternity tops/dresses (also known as the empire waistline) are huge right now. I don't know why but I can quickly assume that its congruent with the pregnancies of popular hollyweird actresses. Thinking over the last few days about how to attack this poignantly, I did a little research and realized that this cut can be rocked quite nicely with the combination of the right body and the right piece. Unfortunately still, you're all doing it wrong. I don't really wanna get into it.

This should do the trick:

YES



I understand this woman is un-humanly thin, and not really a very accurate representation of the way y'all should be rolling, but that dress looks ace on her and you know it (bonus points on the headband, thats the right hair game here).

NO



To be fair, the mannequin featured in the NO picture,has a similarly unhealthy shape as the model above, and as you can see the cut of that dress is not flattering. Notice the difference? That little pull-up-between-the-mams stitching combined with the basement-rec-room-curtain-esque frills/pleat takes you from ravishing (see fig. 1) to REFRIGERATOR. Unfortunately, so so many of you otherwise classy and respectable women are choosing to rock the latter style of dress (likely due to its affordable availability in shopping malls).

Tragic looks FTL.

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