Real Dress Up Games

Hi folks! I'm a runner in Minnesota who seems to do well dressing in anything over 50 and anything under 25, but the mid-range temps I struggle with. I either underdress and literally freeze my butt and quads off (I do shorts over pants when it's under 30 now) or I overdress and take off a bunch of stuff I'm wearing.

Today, for example, I'm going on a longer easy run of 7 miles. It's 42 degrees but "feels like" 38, likely because it's really windy, which can be a big difference. I know dressing for runs is absolutely about personal preference, but I'm wondering what yours are.

Real Dress Up Games

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On the way to my first fitting I had a mild freak out moment very much like those crazy feelings I just noted. It felt like forever since I had even worried about this white dress and the dressing room snap I took ages ago was no longer pacifying my decision making fears. Not to get all tomboy on you, but it was now game time and I was about to come front and center with a decision made what felt like almost decades ago! Once I saw the dress my fears were greatly reduced and by the time I was firmly pinned into it, I had already forgotten all that worry that I conjured up on my way over! As I trotted happily out of the salon, I was really thankful that I had listened to my heart some 9 months prior and knew I was well on my way.

Now understand, in no way am I faulting the bridal shop. I truly believe this is simply how dresses get to be after a time of being man handled, tried on and so forth. Understand the amount of times that these sample dresses are pulled from the racks and then placed firmly back in place between the other dresses. The weight of these combined dresses, over time, ultimately can cause fabric to slowly alter by sheer force. Typically sample dresses are taken out for dry cleaning every so often, not just to clean them but to also fluff them, bringing them back fully into life. However, one can never count on when in the life cycle of a sample dress, they may get to try it on, as was such in my case.

I knew when I was in the sample that the firmly pressed creases were not my thing and really wanted to understand if that was the design intent of the gown, or if something different could be expected. I needed to understand if the free flowing fabric on the back of the dress was going to indeed cascade down or be a clump of material similar to the sample, and so on. Design aesthetic is everything and it is extremely important when choosing your gown that you understand what the final product will be.

So, really, the point of these blog posts is mainly to expose the insane amount of work that I put into this dress and to provide a thorough analysis of the dress itself. I also want to share some of the lessons that I learned throughout this process.

I just really appreciate the overall design of this dress! The movement of the cape sleeves is just so fun to watch, the open skirt with leggings is believable for action, and the neckline and bodice shape are flattering but not objectifying. I wear dresses with leggings almost every day in my casual wardrobe, so it feels very natural and comfortable to me to wear a dress designed like this. And overall it maintains a sense of elegance and femininity, and the intricate details are mind blowing.

I had no problems with my dress but believe it or not I forgot my cathedral veil. I tried my best not to forget anything but as soon as we got to the resort I realized it was still hanging in my closet in California. Trust me, even if you think you will remember it, put it on your list!

The dress was a 2015 online viral phenomenon centred on a photograph of a dress. Viewers disagreed on whether the dress was blue and black, or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human colour perception and became the subject of scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science.

The phenomenon originated in a photograph of a dress posted on the social networking service Facebook. The dress was black and blue, but the conditions of the photograph caused many to perceive it as white and gold, creating debate. Within a week, more than ten million tweets had mentioned the dress. The retailer of the dress, Roman Originals, reported a surge in sales and produced a one-off version in white and gold sold for charity.

In February 2015, about a week before the wedding of Grace and Keir Johnston, of Colonsay, Scotland, the bride's mother, Cecilia Bleasdale, took a photograph of a dress at Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet north of Chester, England. Bleasdale intended to wear the dress at the wedding and sent the photograph to Grace. The dress was coloured blue with black lace. However, Grace told her mother she perceived it in the photograph as white with gold lace.[1]

On the day of the wedding, Caitlin McNeill, a friend of the bride and groom, performed with her band at the wedding. Even after seeing that the dress was "obviously blue and black" in reality,[3] the musicians remained preoccupied by the photograph. They said they almost failed to make it on stage because they were caught up discussing the dress. A few days later, on 26 February, McNeill reposted the image to her blog on Tumblr, creating further public discussion surrounding the image.[2][3]

Cates Holderness, who ran the Tumblr page for BuzzFeed at the site's New York offices, received a message from McNeill asking for help resolving the colour dispute of the dress. She dismissed it, but checked the page near the end of her workday and saw that it had received around 5,000 notes, a large amount for Tumblr. Tom Christ, Tumblr's director of data, said at its peak the page was receiving 14,000 views a second (or 840,000 views per minute), well over the normal rates. Later that night, the number of notes increased tenfold.[5]

Holderness showed the picture to other members of the BuzzFeed social media team, who immediately began arguing about the dress colours. She created a simple poll for Tumblr users, then left work and took the subway home. When she got off the train and checked her phone, it was overwhelmed by messages. That evening, the page set a new record at BuzzFeed for concurrent visitors, and eventually peaked at 673,000.[5][6]

The image became a worldwide Internet meme across social media. On Twitter, users created the hashtags "#whiteandgold", "#blueandblack", and "#dressgate" to discuss their opinions on what the colour of the dress was, and theories surrounding their arguments.[7] The number of tweets about the dress increased throughout the night; at 11:36 pm GMT, when the first increase in the number of tweets about the dress occurred, there were five thousand tweets per minute using the hashtag "#TheDress", increasing to 11,000 tweets per minute with the hashtag by 1:31 am GMT.[5] The photo also attracted discussion relating to the triviality of the matter as a whole; The Washington Post described the dispute as "[the] drama that divided a planet".[2][8][9] Some articles humorously suggested that the dress could prompt an existential crisis over the nature of sight and reality, or that the debate could harm interpersonal relationships.[2][10] Others examined why people were making such a big argument over a seemingly trivial matter.[11]

The dress was designed and manufactured by Roman Originals.[19] In the UK, where the phenomenon had begun, Ian Johnson, creative manager for Roman Originals, learned of the controversy from his Facebook news feed that morning. "I was pretty gobsmacked. I just laughed and told the wife that I'd better get to work," he said.[5] TV presenter Alex Jones wore the dress on that night's edition of The One Show.[20]

Businesses that had nothing to do with the dress, or even the clothing industry, devoted social media attention to the phenomenon. Adobe retweeted another Twitter user who had used some of the company's apps to isolate the dress's colours. "We jumped in the conversation and thought, Let's see what happens," recalled Karen Do, the company's senior manager for social media. Jenna Bromberg, a digital brand manager for Pizza Hut, saw the dress as white and gold and quickly sent out a tweet with a picture of pizza noting that it, too, was the same colours. Do called it "literally a tweet heard around the world".[5]

Ben Fischer of the New York Business Journal reported that interest in the first BuzzFeed article about the dress exhibited vertical growth instead of the typical bell curve of a viral phenomenon, leading BuzzFeed to assign two editorial teams to generate additional articles about the dress to drive ad revenue,[21] and, by 1 March, the original BuzzFeed article had received over 37 million views.[22] The dress was cited by CNN commentator Mel Robbins as a viral phenomenon having the requisite qualities of positivity bias incorporating "awe, laughter and amusement" and was compared to and contrasted with a story about escaped llamas in an Arizona retirement community earlier that day, as well as to tributes paid to actor Leonard Nimoy after his death the following day.[23]

The dress was confirmed as a royal blue "Lace Bodycon Dress" from the retailer, Roman Originals.[24] The dress is black and blue;[25][26] although it was available in three other colours (red, pink, and ivory, each with black lace), a white and gold version was not available at the time. The day after McNeill's post, Roman Originals' website experienced a major surge in traffic and sold out of the dress within 30 minutes.[27] On 28 February, Roman Originals announced that they would make a single white and gold dress for a Comic Relief charity auction.[28]

On 3 March, the Johnstons, Bleasdale, and MacNeill appeared as guests on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in the United States. The presenter, Ellen DeGeneres, presented each of them with gifts of underwear patterned after the dress and combining both colour schemes. The show sponsors also gave the Johnstons a gift of $10,000 and a honeymoon trip to Grenada, as they had left their honeymoon early to participate in the show.[4] 006ab0faaa