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Time to Start Thinking of New Year’s

November 22, 2007 by WendyB

Wouldn’t it be fabulous to wear one of these on New Year’s Eve? These are clearly not for the H&M crowd, but feel free to lick the screen, then shop for budget lookalikes.

Yellow for your black tie event
Dolce & Gabbana, $5995, at Bergdorf Goodman
(It doesn’t ship till Dec. 27! That’s cutting it close.)

Classic black tie
Georges Rech, $525, Frock


Stand out without flashing too much flesh
Boudicca, $2540, Neiman Marcus

Short and sassy
Catherine Malandrino, $595, Shopbop

New Year’s in Miami
Dress doesn’t include strange Barbie-like model.
Blumarine, $1325, Saks

New Year’s in Barbados
1970s
Robert David Morton, $275, Swank Vintage


Unexpected color
Vintage Sarmi, $825, Vintageous


Red-hot vintage
Jean Muir, $2225, Poshvintage.com

Here’s a dress I’m not wearing on New Year’s Eve. I wore it earlier this week. It’s in brown velvet and was made for me by Zang Toi. You can see the original, short version of the dress in light blue here.

Trying to hold up the train so y’all can see it.


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Comments

  1. gilda says

    November 22, 2007 at 11:17 pm

    i like that citrus dolce and gabbana dress! it’s gorgeous!

  2. daddylikeyblog says

    November 23, 2007 at 2:34 am

    Hott. Mega hott.

  3. Chris says

    November 23, 2007 at 7:19 am

    AAAAHHHH! The girl in the seventh photo HAS NO HEAD!

  4. Imelda says

    November 23, 2007 at 7:46 am

    I just love the 1970s Robert David Morton and the pink dress. Both gorgeous!

  5. La Belette Rouge says

    November 23, 2007 at 8:52 am

    The canary yellow Dolce and Gabanna makes me want to sing “Auld Lang Syne.”

  6. Miss Woo says

    November 23, 2007 at 9:20 am

    You’re looking gooood again!

  7. Ashley says

    November 23, 2007 at 11:20 am

    the yellow one is simply smashing.

  8. pistols at dawn says

    November 23, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    Man, am I lucky not to be a lady. I think I’ve been wearing the same pair of jeans for the last month. Maybe for the holidays, I’ll get a second pair. If I feel like splurging.

  9. Lillian says

    November 23, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    That yellow Dolce & Gabbana, goodness.

  10. Blue Floppy Hat says

    November 23, 2007 at 1:02 pm

    Oh my, you look gorgeous…but how does one manage a train that doesn’t involve little kids holding it up in a church, without having it rip?

  11. atelier says

    November 23, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    My favourite is the Malandrino one. You look really cute in that velvet dress.

  12. G.G. says

    November 23, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    Your dress is gorgeous! I’m partial to the D & G of the other pics 🙂

  13. Kian says

    November 23, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    The Dolce and Gabbana is stunning. You’d look great in it! I really love the Catherine Malandrino. Now if I only had somewhere to actually wear it!

    BTW I love the dress you’re wearing. As usual, you are fabulous!

  14. Lady N says

    November 23, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    oh love the first dress & the vintageous one! I have to start thinking about my dress now!

  15. The Clothes Horse says

    November 23, 2007 at 4:16 pm

    Any of those dresses would be such stunners.

  16. Olga says

    November 23, 2007 at 4:59 pm

    OMG, you look fabulous in that pic!!!

  17. WendyB says

    November 23, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    Pistols at Dawn, you could go crazy and get a three-pack of Hanes undershirts too! Floppy, you can bustle a train or you can be convinced by a flamboyant gay man to hold it up all night via a little loop on the end. The (non-gay) guy who was sitting next to me a dinner that night nearly passed out when I told him that should I have to get up at any point, he needed to crawl under the table and pick up my skirt for me (I didn’t make him do it, don’t worry, but it was fun to say). I love that everyone loves the yellow dress!

  18. roller coaster teacher says

    November 23, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    I just saw “Enchanted” – Amy Adams wore some lovely gowns and dresses. And of course Susan Sarandon’s evil witch queen outfit was to-die-for.

  19. Practically Perfect In Every Way says

    November 23, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    love the short and sassy sequins!

    you look beautiful in your gown. Where did you go in it???

  20. riz says

    November 23, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    Ummm, they carry boudicca at NM???! How could this have passed me by!? Anyway, I like the Dolce, and I’ve read such great things about Frock as a store…

  21. Valley Girl says

    November 23, 2007 at 9:33 pm

    YOU HAD A DRESS MADE FOR YOU BY ZANG TOI????!!! You socialite, you!!!! Jealous!

  22. LML says

    November 24, 2007 at 9:06 am

    those dresses are delish! – def looking for some look alikes!

  23. fabulous girl says

    November 24, 2007 at 10:10 am

    Dolce, Dolce, Dolce. Fabulous.

  24. This Lady says

    November 24, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    the dolce and gabanna dress is to die for!

    and the pink vintage dress is absolutely delicious!!

  25. WendyB says

    November 24, 2007 at 5:33 pm

    Riz, I highly recommend check out Frock if you get a chance. Ask for my friend Evan, the owner! Practically Perfect, I went to a fundraising dinner for the Committee to Protect Journalists (check out cpj.org)

  26. Cakespy says

    November 24, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    Damn…some fine frocks you have shown there…one day perhaps…

  27. BottleBlonde says

    November 25, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    Dress schmess. You’re HOT!!!

  28. riz says

    November 25, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    Will do – now i have incentive!

  29. evie says

    November 25, 2007 at 11:59 pm

    i licked the dolce & gabbana dress and also the catherine melandrino one. i might have slobbered a little as well on my keyboard…

  30. WendyB says

    November 26, 2007 at 12:28 am

    Oh, Evie, now I have to clean all this up.

  31. evie says

    November 26, 2007 at 12:38 am

    that’ll teach you to invite others to lick the screen.. lol

  32. dorkas says

    November 26, 2007 at 1:27 am

    oh oh oh, i have a severe crush on that boudicca.

    SEVERE.

  33. Meg says

    November 26, 2007 at 8:06 am

    The Boudicca one looks strangely similar to one of the Jil Sander dresses this season, but I think I preferred the Sander one. Though preference doesn’t really matter when you haven’t got the £££!

  34. In Yr Fshn says

    November 26, 2007 at 10:27 am

    One and short and sassy to go, please. (Not you! The dress.)

  35. WendyB says

    November 26, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    Why, Jenn! I feel so rejected!

  36. The Guv'ner says

    November 26, 2007 at 11:04 pm

    Beautiful yellow dress!!!! I have always longed to wear a GREAT yellow dress. Alas, yellow is never to be my colour. You need a certain something to pull that off (the colour not the dress, perv!) I’m just too pinky-pale and strawberry blonde and well…no. I think a rocking yellow gown would be awesome sadly just not on me. Why can’t I be dark haired and olive skinned like the rest of my damn family who can wear all sorts of fab colours when I’m resigned to boring ones? I particularly love a deep vibrant blue but it overpowers my delicate celticness. Damn.

  37. The Guv'ner says

    November 26, 2007 at 11:04 pm

    Beautiful yellow dress!!!! I have always longed to wear a GREAT yellow dress. Alas, yellow is never to be my colour. You need a certain something to pull that off (the colour not the dress, perv!) I’m just too pinky-pale and strawberry blonde and well…no. I think a rocking yellow gown would be awesome sadly just not on me. Why can’t I be dark haired and olive skinned like the rest of my damn family who can wear all sorts of fab colours when I’m resigned to boring ones? I particularly love a deep vibrant blue but it overpowers my delicate celticness. Damn.

  38. The Guv'ner says

    November 26, 2007 at 11:04 pm

    Beautiful yellow dress!!!! I have always longed to wear a GREAT yellow dress. Alas, yellow is never to be my colour. You need a certain something to pull that off (the colour not the dress, perv!) I’m just too pinky-pale and strawberry blonde and well…no. I think a rocking yellow gown would be awesome sadly just not on me. Why can’t I be dark haired and olive skinned like the rest of my damn family who can wear all sorts of fab colours when I’m resigned to boring ones? I particularly love a deep vibrant blue but it overpowers my delicate celticness. Damn.

  39. em says

    November 27, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    i didn’t think i liked dolce and gabbana until i saw that yellow dress.

  40. glamour girly says

    December 4, 2007 at 8:36 am

    Love the yellow dress!

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