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THERAPIST: How did you feel when you first realized you had a Gloria Gaynor obsession?

ME: First I was afraid. I was petrified.

So, yeah, bad dress, costume-y, clown-like, and generally lacking in taste and refinement. Learn fashion history so you can be a snob and a hater just like me.

The eye is drawn in rather then overwhelmed, and the beauty of the embroidery stands out rather than gets washed out.

As you can see, it has much of the same sprawling, intricate design work. It tells a story and keeps the eye roaming over the dress, but the subtle use of color lets the viewer, and the wearer, breathe.

For more contemporary stuff, let's look at the fairy tale works of Paolo Sebastian, who is prone to the same sticky sweet Disney princess sentimentality, he just does it much more elegantly. In particular, let's look at this dress from his f/w "East of the Moon and West of the Sun" collection:

One of my absolute favorite fashion spreads of the era (it's up on Trove.com), showing how versatile and flattering this supremely hip dress was to everyone who wore it.

More than anything, it was a triumph of fit, keeping the rectangular shape of a painting but laying it over the body in a way that flattered the figure.

The Mondrian Dress did a LOT. It took art off the wall and put it directly on the body. It took the bold, graphic design of mod and applied it do an impeccably crafted haute couture dress.

(yeah, one of the books I read flat out said that the Mondrian dress wasn't a miniskirt, and I had to go and look. The Mandela effect had struck again)

He was already known for making youthful designs, and mod had come in like a wrecking ball for youth fashion. At the same time, he was bound by the tradition of haute couture and the fact that most haute couture customers were ladies of a certain age who wouldn't be caught dead in a miniskirt.

Obviously, the golden embroidered sun rays are the focal point of the dress. But there's room for the eye to wander,
Yves Saint Laurent was in kind of a bind when it came to making fashion for the 60s.

The lobster on the front subverts the expectations of a garden dress, bringing wit and humor and a sense of surprise. It's the fact that the dress is otherwise functional that brings the delight of the outrageous lobster.

With Elsa Schiaparelli's iconic lobster dress, you see form and function taking precedent over the lobster, which was painted by Salvador Dalí. It's a flirty garden party sun dress, with all the lightness and elegance that it needs.

The wearer isn't swallowed up in the explosion of the sun, rather, the sun brings light to the dress, and it feels like an actual dress with a stunning piece of art on it.

Obviously, the golden embroidered sun rays are the focal point of the dress. But there's room for the eye to wander, and eventually the eye does make it back to the person (or in this case, mannequin) wearing it.

Let's go back to the very first time you see art applied directly onto high fashion, the House of Worth sun dress of 1898:

Great fashion is more than just having impressive technical skill, it's about fit, and elegance, and subtlety, and more than anything, making the person wearing the dress look absolutely goddamn amazing, not the other way around.

There's no room for personality or that little individual touch that makes a look memorable, it's all just the DRESS.

This dress wears the absolute fuck out of the model. For real, any actual person who wears this is gonna get swallowed up in all that incredibly cumbersome beading and embroidery and rainbow vomit.

It looks like the mural in the kid's section of a public library in the wrong way. It's like F.A.O. Schwartz exploded all over the model. But since Tumblr tends to think anything with childlike whimsy is great and unimpeachable, I need to do some explaining.

I've been seeing this dress by Almee Couture at NYFW 2025 reblogged all the fuck over on Tumblr and..... oof. Ugh. Yeah, since I've kind of been on the subject of art in fashion, it's time to get my fashion analyst hat out.

This is the second time in as many months that I've dealt with a shitty Ebay seller who never ships. I've never had this problem on Etsy. Is Ebay just weird?

Couldn't be assed to ship the nail polish bottle I ordered for over 3 weeks but they responded to my negative review lickety split and said their incredibly poor customer service was my fault for not reading the fine print on their page.

oh my goood I just wrangled a refund from the worst Ebay seller EVER.

“We’re grateful to RFK Jr.—otherwise we might put something unnatural into our bodies, like vaccines.”

Is she trying to hide a botched facelift?

Both the consumer and the seller are fucked over and out of luck, and America gets nothing but frustration out of it.

Fuck Trump, fuck tariffs.

From what I've heard, it's likely that shipping will come back at an even higher price, likely $80, again putting both me the consumer and the international sellers at a tremendous disadvantage because that's more money than I have.

So, because of the levying of tariffs, most of Europe bans shipping to the US. So now those small online businesses that have samples of Eau Libre for sale cannot sell and make money from the American who wants to buy what they have, leaving both of us utterly fucked.