What Matters in Your Choice of Formal Dress?
There are a lot of things that can be best at the formal: the best dress, the best looking, the best style, the best dance, and most importantly, the best yourself. If we look back at the history of formal, we can easily find out that the original basic requirement on girls’ dressing at the event was actually to be “your Sunday best”. Included in the three plain words is a code simple enough to follow: dress up to make it one of the best Sundays you will have in a lifetime. That is to say, the formal dress could either be modest or novel, as long as it will remind you of your big time in life in a pleasant way even years after the formal.
When the formal day is coming nearer, many girls are not far away from panicking because they have not found their ideal formal dresses yet. While most of them wish to be as lucky as Cinderella so that they would be given a formal dress to beat all other girls at the formal as the most fashionable and the most attractive one, it is actually a single one word that they wish to receive as praise to their dresses during the ball—best.
Such sweet memories surely should not be stained by unhappy things such as controversies. Some people may take “controversial” as “attention-attracting”, but most girls would not like to hear people have controversies about them and their formal dresses, especially words from the disapproving side, which may include parents as well as intimate friends. As a matter of fact, to be absolutely unique is as difficult as to be liked by everyone, so it is very important to know what opinions people around you have about your choice of formal dress. Smooth communication with those caring about you will help you figure out how you will look the best in others’ eyes and therefore obtain confidence in yourself, which is the first half of being “your Sunday best”.
The other essential part of being “your Sunday best” is to be in tune with the fashion. Who would like to look like a 1970s’ movie character at a 21st century formal? Even the most conservative parents would still like their girls to look just as other modern girls, so being fashionable is a must-have quality of your formal dress. Being fashionable is not to follow blindly what all others are doing, but to take a new prevalent way to reveal the best of you. When bright color is in fashion, it does not mean that your formal dress has to be in bright yellow or hot pink to be fashionable but could be that the dress decorated with bright-color parts can brighten your whole figure. The same principle can also explain why body-fitting design and simple smooth clipping have been dominating the fashion for so many years—wearers should feel comfortable and unrestrained in their formal dresses while they are talking, dancing or doing any formal things with their companions in the best manner they can be, and that is just what “your Sunday best” or “the best of yourself” means.
The essence of attending a formal to is to learn socializing as a grown-up, and the key in choosing a formal dress is just a part of that learning because how and what you choose reflect how much you have known about the norms of socializing, which always means impressing other people of the same society with the best image you can have. And the “best image” does not only refer to how good you look but also how pleasantly you talk and behave.
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