https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:14:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956998 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:41:15 +0000 Jeanie 1956998@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like some interpretations of this trend.&nbsp; But the full on Little House on the Prairie version I've seen doesn't even look good on the models IMO. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956909 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 05:08:13 +0000 Sal 1956909@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like your dress too Janet and also Alice - I guess these are the "real" versions rather than the runway versions.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956889 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 02:41:15 +0000 Jaime 1956889@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think the trend has some traction - I can't wear high frilly necks but Janet's dress might work. It also has some splendid PR going on apparently. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956887 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 02:32:31 +0000 Alicewonderland 1956887@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Janet that dress is WOW, especially with the metallic sneakers. I agree the longer dress lengths are very refreshing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956881 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 01:57:30 +0000 Jules 1956881@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is a beautiful dress! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956880 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 01:27:02 +0000 Janet 1956880@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Alicewonderland, I like those dresses on you, especially styled with the boots. I think that’s a great example of this look done well. The ones in the article seem way more costumey to me, plus the editorial styling (which admittedly catches the eye) is pretty OTT. :-)</p> <p>On my 50-something self, with my particular style, those dresses would fall flat. But there is some common ground with the flowered dress I bought recently — it’s not prairie but it is long and floral. I’m having it shortened slightly to more of a midi length. </p> <p>I welcome the trend of more length in dresses! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956878 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:48:40 +0000 Jules 1956878@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don’t see myself in full-blown prairie looks, but I do love the idea of more coverage and less body-aware dressing. For example I’m hoping the ‘new’ high waisted pants silhouette will also mean more structured, tailored pants in thick fabrics that skim over the body (vs all stretch all the time). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956854 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:51:21 +0000 Becky 1956854@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I remember being the very proud owner of a blue and pink calico tiered prairie skirt and a pouf-sleeve, lacy white blouse that went with it during my childhood in the early 80's. I will not be participating this time around, though. The aesthetic does not appeal to me at all. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses/page/2#post-1956844 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:18:18 +0000 Alicewonderland 1956844@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yikes. I’m normally a more minimalist/classic dresser, but this week I inexplicably had to get TWO prairie-ish dresses. I was pretty sure I had gone insane, but now that I know I might be cutting edge I’m going to wear them and pretend I’m running through the fields with the wind in my hair,haha. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956825 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 20:27:00 +0000 Jules 1956825@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well right after reading this thread I went out for the evening in a an area that newly has a lot of condos, young people and nightlife, but isn’t what I’d call hipster or high fashion. Yet I did see one beautiful young woman with model-like carriage wearing a full length, long sleeved and high necked floral dress. Somehow more high fashion than prairie though. I would have been a bit puzzled if I hadn’t just seen this! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956811 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 19:14:45 +0000 Anonymous 1956811@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pass- definitely pass! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956758 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 16:55:47 +0000 Janet 1956758@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lisa, exactly! As much as I loved Chloe Sevigny in Big Love, I don’t think I need to take fashion cues from her character. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956754 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 16:43:22 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 1956754@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like the Doen dresses La Pedestrienne mentioned as well. But I see a lot of the super-covered up ones as looking more sister wife than prairie chic. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956730 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:00:30 +0000 kkards 1956730@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>i have learned to never say never....but this is a Jr High fashion flashback, that i think needs to stay in Jr High </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956718 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 14:44:51 +0000 Angie 1956718@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>WOOHOOO. Fun. Why the heck not! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956673 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 11:57:52 +0000 Helena 1956673@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This looks is not for me personally, but I am fully on board with any reaction against the over-revealing clothes that look like bras and undies that I still see at the mall. I'm all for more modest options being mainstream, and it might take some fringe to push that. I also feel like there is a way to style these IRL that would look cool on someone younger and edgier than me ... I just don't know what it is </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956645 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 09:50:42 +0000 Mainelady 1956645@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had my turn with Laura, Jessica and Gunne. I loved and rocked the look. Then. I can leave this trend in my fashion history book. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956642 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 09:32:28 +0000 Jenni NZ 1956642@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Me too Andrea! One of my fave memories is of both fashion happiness and then disappointment. I think I was 15 almost 16, late 1976. I had my first summer job and spent money on cork platform sandals and then very long flared jeans that came down over the top of them hiding the shoes and making me look so much taller with legs that went on for ever. And possibly some kind of knit top. I was going to a play with my best friend and her parents. I thought I was just so fashion. Then I saw her. Some kind of a dress that looked sort of gypsy? And I felt all wrong beside her. Think my love for boho started right there, right then, and has continued until the present day nearly 42 years later </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956636 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 09:01:07 +0000 Style Fan 1956636@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had some Laura Ashley clothes that I bought in London in the 1970s.&nbsp; Every so often this look resurfaces.&nbsp; I will pass this time around.<br />Andrea, I have clear and fond memories of clothes I wore almost 60 years ago!&nbsp; I had a pair of jeans (passed down from my brother) that I loved.&nbsp; I wore them when I was about 3 or 4 years old. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956633 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 08:32:22 +0000 Andrea H 1956633@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aww, the late 70s/early 80s were my high school/early college years so I have a deeply ingrained fondness for this stuff.&nbsp; I have a distinct memory of waiting for a bus on the way to my job on a snowy day in winter 1982, wearing a high-necked ruffly white blouse, a tiered denim prairie skirt, a wide bronze metallic belt, and white cowboy-style rainboots. With a fake fur coat. I remember feeling like I was *so fashion*.&nbsp; (Side note: other people do have clear, fond memories of clothes they wore 30 or 40 years ago right? RIGHT?)</p> <p>Anyway, while I probably can't pull off a full-on prairie look now (unless it suddenly goes full mainstream again) it saddens me a little to see so much hate for it.&nbsp; I do think a lot of it (ditsy florals, swishy midi skirts, ruffled blouses) is pretty and feminine, and I find a switch to more covered up ("modest" if you will) styles as high fashion again is interesting and refreshing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956615 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 05:36:04 +0000 Kate 1956615@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just no.<br />Though I have to admit, cringing, that I wore a similar look when I was a teenager in the 70s. I remember my father asking my mother in some bemusement: 'What are all these young girls doing running around looking like they just came in off the prairie?' There may even be pictures. I hope not. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956607 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 04:20:47 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 1956607@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>Oh, yes, JAileen, the look with the curlers jumped out at me, too. Gotta have the curlers. <br /></div><div>These dresses remind me of the costume I wore to sing in the chorus of Oklahoma! (or was it Annie Get Your Gun?) in high school summer theater. My prairie dress was a pale green, made of a moire that could have been drapery or upholstery fabric. <br /></div><div><br /></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956605 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 04:06:16 +0000 Sal 1956605@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>There was an article in The Guardian too...</p> <p>I don't mind the look - I think it is quite fun - but I don't actually see myself doing so.&nbsp; I also think it could easily go quite wrong on me- whereas a 20 year old model can carry it off.... That feeling is not confined to prairie dresses though.</p> <p>I think some of the associations might be over my head though.&nbsp; I had to google Gunne Sax but I do remember having dresses like this in the 1970s and dressing my barbie doll in this type of look too.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956599 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 02:38:23 +0000 Kathie 1956599@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just read a similar article in the New Yorker, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/10/batsheva-hay-rethinks-the-traditions-of-feminine-dress" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/maga.....nine-dress</a></p> <p>Not a trend I see myself adopting though. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956596 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 02:04:15 +0000 SarahD8 1956596@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wouldn’t wear the full-on prairie dress, but I could see going for a calico in a more streamlined/modern cut. And, I’m rather taken with high necked Victorian blouses these days — sort of like the top half of a prairie dress. I’d wear something like that with jeans — see the last photo at this link:<br /> <a href="http://dresslikeaparisian.com/how-to-wear-the-victorian-collar-2/" rel="nofollow">http://dresslikeaparisian.com/.....-collar-2/</a><br /> I CANNOT do any kind of puffed sleeves though so like I said it would have to be a less maximal cut.<br /> I like the West world/badass idea! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956593 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 01:52:46 +0000 Bijou 1956593@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like elements of these dresses, but think that they are too over the top even for maximal me! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956591 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 01:42:18 +0000 annagybe 1956591@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A couple of years ago I remember some look with ditzy floral prairie dresses with OTK boots, I really liked it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956587 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 01:26:37 +0000 Gigi 1956587@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think this is really fun. It's not something I'd wear out on the street, but I think it would be super cute as a party theme. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956584 Sat, 15 Sep 2018 01:20:19 +0000 Windchime 1956584@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>NO, for so many reasons! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/prairie-dresses#post-1956552 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:57:39 +0000 LaPed 1956552@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jenni, I think Laura Ashley did it better! If I did was going to partake of this trend, I'd be scouring thrift stores for Gunne Sax and Laura Ashley. :)</p> <p>Gretchen -- agree that this trend is GREAT Halloween inspo.&nbsp; </p>