What Dress To Wear?
 

I need your help ladies! I am going to the wedding of a friend that I met through my hubby. I want to look great but I have an issue. I had surgery shortly after my car accident on my right shoulder. Now, the three areas where the incisions were made have scarred over BUT those scars have formed keloids. They look disgusting & disfiguring. Since then, I have refused to wear sleeveless and strapless b/c people tend to stare at these large scars on my right shoulder. I hate wearing any type of shawls so that option is out. I have been scouring for sexy & pretty dresses with actual sleeves that hide my scars.
So far, I have found these three:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dom/dress3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dom/dress1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...dom/dress2.jpg

It is an evening wedding so black should be fine. I'm stuck here. I was hoping for some sort of color like red, blue, green, etc. but so far, I'm only finding black with sleeves.
What dress out of these three do you think is the best? Or do you have suggestions as to where I can go find some more. The wedding is on the 17th. of this month.

I vote for number 2. If number two is velvet (it kinda looks velvety in the picture) the runner up is #3. I think all these dresses are really awesome looking!

It also depends on how they fit you. I'm petite, so those dresses would probably be too lowcut for me. (eek that's a major problem when buying clubbing clothes. I like low cut, but the V ends up below my bra in the front! ugh)

BTW doesn't the model for #1 looks like she's giving me the evil eye! :confused:

Sorry to intrude, but I like number 3. I love wrap dresses

#2 is definitely velvet.

I also love wrap dresses. My wedding dress was a wrap dress. Decisions decisions...

I'm with ufdale - I like #2 best. I was always taught not to wear black to weddings, but if you're stuck with black, I think the velvet makes it softer and more wedding-y.

I think the same. Black at weddings wouldn't cut it in KY. :p Although, I recently went to MN for a wedding & lots of people were wearing black. So, just go with the dress that is the most comfortable. Personally, I like #2, but I would die of heat in that thing, and I think #1 is a good choice too. #3 seems kind of low cut?

I'm with the people who said #2.

I don't see anything wrong with wearing black to a wedding. If ALL the guests wore black, I would wonder a little, but if it's just a person here and there, I don't think it's a big deal.

I'm guessing you're not from the South. :p

Born and Raised Peoria, IL. Now residing outside of Charlotte, NC (I know, still not the "South").

Hey-Kentucky is no more "South" as Charlotte, NC! I think its all about how you were raised & who you were raised around. KY's technical location is Central East, and some people don't consider us Southern at all. But I was raised Southern Baptist-so I have a little bit of a Southern belle in me! ;)

Thought so. :D My grandmother is a true Southern woman, and she would just die if one of us grandkids wore a black dress to a wedding. Or red shoes. (Red shoes are for whores and children.)

Who on God's green earth doesn't consider Kentucky to be Southern?!?!

Yeah, but it's not really about physical location, as most "true southerners" don't consider Florida part of "The South", and you can't get much more physically south then FL!

Lots of people from KY don't consider themselves Southern, and lots of people from the South consider KY Northern. I like to stick to actual location of Central East & claim that we're neither. ;)

Your grandmother sounds like mine! Don't you just want to reply "Well, its true. Whores & children have so much in common." :) (J/K)

Thats pretty much what I was getting at-the physical location really has nothing to do with it. :p

I'm amazed at GC's ability to turn any thread into a North/South debate.:p

More options from Nordstrom.com:
http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...2/_5302822.jpg
Diane Von Furstenburg, $325

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Diane Von Furstenburg, $345

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Diane Von Furstenburg, $345

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Diane Von Furstenburg, $385

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BCBG, $180

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Three Dots, $148

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Rachel Pally, $242

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BCBGirls, $158

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WD.NY, $148

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London Times, $78

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Maggy London, $118

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Chetta B., $338

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Diane Von Furstenburg, $325

http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...4/_5103174.jpg
David Meister, $298

http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...1/_5278341.jpg
BCBG, $258

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Elie Tahari, $328

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Laundry by Shelli Segal, $205

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Diane Von Furstenburg, $298

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Rebecca Taylor, $394

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Rachel Pally, $229

http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...8/_5234528.jpg
Ruby Rox, $68

http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...8/_5270648.jpg
Velvet Torch, $52

http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...7/_5210287.jpg
Eliza J, $78 ($98 if you're petite, don't ask why)

http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...4/_5297124.jpg
ABS by Allen Schwartz, $158

I vote for #3, otherwise I really like the black Diane Von Furstenburg with the keyhole neckline (1st set, 4th down) that KLPDaisy posted. I'd love to have that one for myself.

KLPDaisy, GC's personal shopper :p

I LOVE that Eliza J. dress...very elegant.

#3, the wrap dress w/ the belt. The other two look like they would fit too tight.

Oh and by the way I love me some red shoes, so I guess that makes me a child, a whore, or a childish whore. :p

I am a born & bred California girl. Over here, you wear red to funerals and black to weddings WHILE showing off your red shoes. ;)

Thanks for the help! Shopping for this dress is turning out to be much harder than shopping for my wedding dress.

Forget my grandmother - I would just die!

Oh Bebe, try not to put too much thought into it! Just make sure you feel comfortable in whatever you wear.

Whatever, I totally called that dress! I love it the most of all of them.

More from Nordstrom
 

Maggy London Short Sleeve Knit Dress
http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...0/_5210200.jpg

House of Dereon Silk Dress
http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...9/_5247129.jpg

Carilyn Vaile Off Shoulder Dress
http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...7/_5189057.jpg

Carilyn Vaile Knot Front Dress
http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...7/_5292057.jpg

Both are gorgeous...if only i had the cash to spend :(

I don't even like black dresses and I think that Diane Von Furstenburg one is gorgeous.

More dress options:
http://www.ardenb.com/style/37157494601.jpg
Arden B, $148

Bloomingdales.com:
http://images.bloomingdales.com/is/i...0.5,0&fmt=jpeg
Diane Von Furstenburg, $285

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French Connection, $168

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Bloomingdale's Exclusive brand, $199