Asymmetrical hemlines?

[la_bride_2004]

I saw this in another thread- are they really out? Say it isn't so!

I just bought a dress at Bloomingdale's with one (Laundry by Shelli Segal, in a gorgeous ombre silk). I am taller and get so many compliments when I wear this hemline- I think it's flattering on longer legs.

I also saw a bunch at a formal dinner I was at in Paris. (last month!).

[mili04]

I'm with you on this one! I always get compliments when I wear a dress with an asymmetrical hemline. I guess if they are out, I'll just have to be a fashion don't.

[silvergrey]

I thought they were b/c of another thread (http://www.constantchatter.com/showthread.php?t=15670&highlight=hemline), but I'm like the last person who should be giving fashion advice! :)

[PeanutButter]

Really?! Ack.

I just bought this (except in black) and am wearing it to a rawther fancy black-tie wedding tomorrow. Will I be hopelessly OUT??

http://content.neimanmarcus.com/products/mn/NMT0KKQ_mn.jpg


la_bride I am short - I actually liked it because it was long, but I felt like it didn't pull me down as much as a traditional floor length dress. So maybe it works for tall people and shorties! :D

[greenbunny]

I have several dresses where the front is shorter and it lengthens towards the sides and back. I think that is more of a "classic" hem than the side-to-side asymmetry, where the dress lengthens from hip to hip. The side-to-side does seem to be going out of style, I rarely see it in stores. Not that I'm a good judge of what's acceptable--I just noticed from window shopping.

[amew]

I want to know, too. I have a dress with an asymmetrial hemline that I have only worn once or twice, and I would love to get another wear out of it. But when I was thinking of wearing it to a wedding a couple months ago, my mother informed me that it was hopelessly out of style and talked me out of wearing it (and while my 60 year old mother seems like kind of an odd source for fashion advice, she always seems to know these things as a result of reading an obscene number of fashion mags and spending way to much time evaluating other people's clothese at social funcitons).

I do agree with greenbunny though that the shorter in front style posted above seems to be less "out" than the style where one side is longer.

ETA -- Is this the Laundry ombre silk dress you are talking about la bride? If so I don't think it is out of style at all--it's not like those severe asymmetrical styles where one side is a foot longer than the other. Cute dress!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000A1L9TK.01-A3BHU1UEUYDJ19._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[la_bride_2004]

amew-

I saw that dress. The color and fabric are very similar, but the hemline is shorter on one side and longer on the other, not shorter in the front and longer in the back like that dress.

Sigh, I suppose I will have to take it to the tailor....