Holiday Dresses: Look Better Than Your Entire Family

Holiday Dresses by elbonner featuring french connection

The holidays are upon us in the Western world and for the good ole' US of A, Thanksgiving is next Thursday. The next few weeks will probably see a lot of mandatory office holiday parties, seeing all those relatives you choose not to see for the rest of the year, and drinking yourself into lots of embarrassing holiday stories to be told until everyone who witnessed it is dead. Even if you accidentally make out with an intern, with these dresses no one can fault you for looking bad doing it. Holiday time is a time to go all out with sparkles, embroidery,  and jewel tones so I have collected a bunch of holiday dresses that will look good on lots of different people.

1. Dolce & Gabbana- go baroque in this awesome velvet embroidered dress and make everyone feel poor!
2. Candy Apple Dress from Modcloth- it's retro, it's red, it has a bow, it just screams Christmas dress.
3. Warehouse Lace Bodice Dress- Swingy and sophisticated; the full skirt helps hide your extra butt circumference from all those midnight gingerbread cookie raids.
4. Coast Emmy Crepe Dress- great color and great for a fancy holiday party. The pleating at the waist helps hide any lumps and bumps from too many peppermint lattes.
5. French Connection Fast Iris Dress- stretch lace always looks nice. It's a little edgy with the black lining underneath and is a little praise Satan and hail the birth of Christ.
6. Tory Birch Kathy Dress- This shift dress has a tie-waist to give it more shape, but can be let out in the event of too much ham.

Breakfast At Tiffany's

Breakfast At Tiffany's by elbonner featuring gold diamond earrings

When I think about my Nana, I can't help but think of Holly Golightly. She was always wild, fun, and after all the finer things in life. Even if it made her come off as flighty and maybe even shallow, she always made up for her sometimes overwhelming free-spiritedness by being quirky and more fun than anything on the planet. Like Holly Golightly, she had her faults, but always had a good time and always looked good doing it.

Tonight I found myself in a similar position to Holly, gazing at the window displays at Tiffany & Co. while I was looking at pictures of my Nana and me together. We were both longing for something that we can never have. I really hate to talk about all this sad stuff, but it's all I can think about. Watching Breakfast At Tiffany's makes me think of her as the cute, quirky party girl who used to jitterbug every weekend and blow her paychecks on alligator handbags. I made the above outfit as a sort of tribute to Holly and Nana, both totally fun and timeless. I love her so much and this blog is a direct result of her and her love of looking fabulous!