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i wanted a slip dress so bad when I was 11, 12 years old. The most close I ever got was some sewn together white t-shirt + green floral slip dress WalMart was selling in the Summer of 1995 right as the trend was dying.
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Yeah, it was similar to the one the lady in the cigarette ad from the same magazine is wearing.
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Yes, Catherine, the doll look was big at this time, and into the Spring of 1995. With the thigh high stockings and the shiny Mary Jane shoes. I wanted those thigh highs too, back then, but you know, I was 12, and fat.
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Lace (white!) bike shorts you guys. Lace.bike.shorts.
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This is how I associate the black slip dress, with a white top of some sort underneath it.
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So many white socks. Like the bagged sock aisle at walmart in present day.
Pair your black slip dress with:
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I just realized, I accidentally put that yellow arrow there. Ignore that.
black eyeliner. Molton Brown doesn’t make makeup anymore.
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White shoes.
I could’ve sworn I posted an article earlier this year about white shoes coming back in style in 1995, but now I can’t find it. I can’t get the archive to pull up right now. Here it is.
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The darkest lipstick you can find with your boob almost hanging out.
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a cat eye that looks like it would fit right in in 2017.
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