hello just taking a seat here to chat for a second a couple weeks ago i mentioned that i
will be on a quest to find new summer dresses because i like wearing summer dresses all year
round especially in my videos while i'm diying and stuff like that so i have like a vision for
myself that in the spring and in the summer i'm gonna try and find summer dresses it's very hard
to find them at other times of the year now i have a few criteria in terms of what i look for
in dresses a certain type of fit i usually like a certain length i will usually go for although i do
like some variety you know mini midi maxi all of them and then in terms of price like i usually do
like places that are a little bit more affordable no surprise i guess that should come to you guys
and this week i thought i would kick off what is the beginning of my search for the year
um for some new summer dresses i usually am pretty particular about what i buy my friends would say
so sometimes i place an order and i don't like anything sometimes i like one thing sometimes
i like a couple things but usually i'm not loving everything but we'll see so i placed an order that
has arrived from old navy old navy is one of my favorite shops for summer dresses but it's pretty
hit or miss like some years there will be a couple things i love some years there won't be anything
last year i got this dress i really like it i think it's cute and multifunctional so i wanted to
open that up and i also got an order from amazon so there's a couple dresses there that i will be
showing you as well so i'm gonna head into the bedroom with the dresses open them up and then
we'll see ready should be fun should be fun i love summer dresses who doesn't
okay so i have my bags i to be honest don't even remember what i ordered exactly
so it should be interesting
what is this gonna be honestly this isn't even jogging a memory for me
and then in the other bag
okay
it's so funny i have literally no recollection of what i ordered but i probably ordered it a
week ago my memory is just bad so i have some sort of like what looks like a mustardy orange
floral printed dress this is a more this is a printed dress as well but i remember this one
because it was longer a yellow printed dress okay some color here and then a green dress
let's see how these go and then of course that initial pink one
and then from amazon i'm looking at them because i already opened them
i have a couple dresses that are all more neutral which should i try on first
maybe we'll do old navy fur nope let's do amazon first how about that let's do this
okay so this one actually might look familiar to you because i actually opened this one first when
it arrived and i couldn't resist wearing it the day that i got it when i was filming so this is
one dress that i really actually do like it's kind of like the cottage core vibes the puffy
sleeves the ruching here the nice little frills the length which is like a mini length i think
this is really cute no i remember when i was editing back the footage of this on i didn't love
the way that this looked on camera but i like how it looks in real life i think it's really feminine
and just very cottagy and i could see myself wearing this to dinner in the summer i feel
like that kind of thing would be really nice but i'll probably also just wear it to film and stuff
around the house it's very flowy it's very nice i really like it so yeah i think this is really cute
it has a nice dot pattern which is like a little textured dot pattern and i remember
it was relatively affordable i think like thirty dollars or something like that maybe
even a better price if you're in the u.s but yeah i like this one a lot i'm going to rate this one
9 out of 10. i like this one and now you can see it and a size larger
in the color black okay so i took a little sneak peek here and excuse me but this is gorgeous so i
got this one it's the same dress actually but in a size larger they're pretty much the same except
the sleeves are a little looser i just put this on and it went off the shoulder which i think is like
a really stunning look especially if you're like going out for dinner or something like that
i wasn't sure about the color because i don't have that many black dresses but it's nice
now i actually think i like it more off shoulder than on shoulder but it does stay up really well
on shoulder and it does look really cute it's really that like cottagey look it's the exact same
design with the frill here there's like a little bow a little bow going on here and then the back
has a frill as well which i think is super cute but you tell me you like it more like this or
like this because personally this is like vacation vibes to me that is the look that i'm getting with
this on the shoulders i would rate this maybe a seven out of ten but i think off the shoulders
it becomes a ten out of ten for vacation pods it's like you know the dancing emoji
i feel like it gives me that but black you know italy dinner 9 30 p.m warm summer vibes
makes me think i should try the other one also off the shoulder shall i well what do you think
i actually really like it off the shoulder well actually this one gives me less vacation vibes off
the shoulder it gives me a little bit more maid vibes but i think it's nice cute off the shoulder
cuter on the shoulders and then i think the black one is cuter off the shoulders i don't know why
it makes no sense okay another dress similar style it's different though because it's shorter
and there's like an under slip the color is also different this is almost like a very very
very pale yellow these tiny tiny flowers which are pretty cute this is also probably the most
stereotypical pretty but that's not necessarily my style this again i believe you can wear off
shoulder like so but you can also wear on the shoulder maybe but i don't love this dress what do
you think i think i don't know i feel like i could give me a picnic basket and i could just be like
with my picnic basket you get you get what i'm saying it's just not 100 my style i think off
shoulder i would rate it maybe a 7 out of 10 an on shoulder six five and a half i just don't
i just don't love it no you tell me maybe i'm wrong okay okay now on to
the old navy dresses maybe i should try on this pink one one of the awesome things about old navy
the price tag is ripped off but one of the awesome things in my opinion is that
they always have discount codes always always always you can always get quite a good deal
even if a dress is original price like forty dollars or forty five dollars they'll have
like thirty percent off and then you can get a nice dress for like such an affordable price now
will this be a nice dress oh no oh no also i will mention i believe this dress
actually i have no idea there's no tag on this i think i got this in a small i think i got the
first one in a small and the black one was in a medium i actually like the medium fit the most so
bear with that in mind i'm usually a small in old navy sizes and a medium in most other stores so
you remember how with the last one i said imagine me with a picnic basket this is that but 2.0
i don't think so this dress is an okay length recently i've been wearing longer dresses but
like i think historically this was the length i really liked i would like the fit if it just
wasn't tight like right at the top up in here to the point that the fit feels nice and snug
but like it just doesn't look flattering if that makes sense but now i'm looking at it and i can't
envision a situation in which this would look flattering the sleeves look really funny you know
but i think if you were like very very feminine and that's how you like to dress then maybe that
would work maybe if like the sleeves just weren't like this yeah i don't know i just don't think
that this is it i even tried off shoulder and that didn't fix it did it no i think part of it
is how high it goes as well it's not meant to go any lower but like maybe if it sat more like that
it would be more flattering like a little lower but instead it actually sits like this if this
is your style then maybe i would rate it like a 9 out of 10 but this is not my style so a 4. or less
and we have another one this is also not doing it for me the length is totally fine could have been
a cute print couldn't have in theory i just feel like i like the frill this is it from the back
i just think that it looks really boxy this comes like bigger up in here which like really
emphasizes this middle section in an unflattering way it just isn't flattering versus you want it
to go more like this and out a little more at the bottom and also it would be nicer if
the fabric had a little bit more weight to it to like weigh it down i've noticed that will
often look a little bit more flattering but part of it might just be the construction of
the dress but it was worth a shot i think i felt like it looks really like in the middle section
especially because like it comes in tighter here so it's almost like if it's that wider at the
bottom then maybe it would look right i don't know you tell me but i'm gonna rate this one
four out of ten i mean maybe it could be like a beach cover-up kind of thing that's all i can
think of i did it again with this design i ordered two dresses in this design this
just isn't it and it's not that because of the print the print is super cute and super pretty
if you look here such a pretty dainty design i really like this i think that the number one
issue now seeing it in this is just the cut of the top i just feel like it's just not good i probably
could have done a bigger size than this as well i would have ordered this probably in a medium
but i just feel like it goes weirdly high in the back like it should come down to maybe
here in the back and then in the front it needs to be like here you know and then i
can't even make it look like that but you feel me it needs to be like much lower and then it would
look nice but off shoulder i could see this i could wear this the pink one i could not wear
this one i could wear if this was off shoulder i'd be able to move my arm more which i cannot
so off shoulder i'm going to rate this just based on how it looks and the style that i like
off shoulder which is not how you're meant to wear it i would actually rate this probably a 9 out of
10 but based on the fact that i like comfort and this would annoy me the little restriction that i
have here i'm not going to keep this one i would rate this on the shoulder maybe a 5 out of 10.
i'm praying that if this is not the same design as
one of the other ones that we tried on here oh my god i think it is i think it's the same
why did i do this to myself i told you i like to buy things in the same color i at least get
a different size very something up here i did this was a small sometimes these types of likes
what do you call them sling dresses the ones that just kind of hang down swing dresses sometimes a
bigger size is better because the material will weigh it down to make it look a little bit more
flattering maybe that's what i was thinking but green could be nice it's a nice neutral
okay so i like the fit of the medium actually from the front this could work couldn't it it's nice
it's flowy it's a nice textured fabric it's cute enough but the back does not go down low enough
exhibit a for my liking and as such from the side it creates like a really weird shape
to me at least it's very like you know not my favorite what i would prefer
is if this dropped down lower and now you're really getting like the behind the scenes of how
indecisive i am and how particular i am and this is why like my best friend will always say like
she'll go into a store and find like five things and i'll go in and not find anything for like the
next three stores this would be why actually but if i were to just show you how i would like it to
fit would be like the same spot in the front but in the back it kind of like could hang down in a
cute way see how that creates like a nicer angle and then a little less material and this is why i
need to make my own clothes but yeah like this i mean it's fine if it's a hot summer and you need
something to wear i guess this would be fine but from the side i'm not digging it what do you think
this is the last one to try on you guys to be honest i don't know i've not been having good
luck at old navy that's okay though it's early on in the season and they will come out with more
dresses and there's more stores for me to shop at so let me know if you have recommendations but in
the meantime let me put this on and we shall see how this looks this is a maxi dress could be cute
this isn't it this is like just no just no i'll tell you about the pros the pros are the pattern's
pretty i like that it fits well like in terms of like from here well does that fit well i feel like
it could be a little more fitted and then kind of poof out a little more like that it is flowy
i feel like it has that going for it however this upper portion i don't know it's actually giving
me an in-between of what my grandmother might wear and like high fashion is that weird i feel
like that top area a dead in between oh there's buttons okay wait maybe if this can go lower no
it had potential you know even if the v was a big a wider v maybe yes i tucked in the edges this
is like a nice five this is like oh this is nice oh okay i like this now hmm what do you think
i could just the fact that this is just staying like this i probably could tack it to be in this
v formation do you think like this i should keep it for reference this is what it should look like
please vote below you guys have a full view let me move you back
this is the full view of it this is what i literally do in changing rooms
and why my friends need to wait for me for a really long time i feel like if this was like
a deep deep v you know my white dress with like the black dots on it how it has that really deep v
if this had that i feel like it would be perfection actually i think it's the similarity
in the two designs that make me like this dress and makes me feel like it should be like tighter
yeah this isn't i don't know please let me know your opinions here please also let me know if you
have other stores you would recommend for buying summer dresses i'm probably going to be continuing
every once in a while doing little videos like this that just are hauls of the dresses that
i've picked up and ordered i live in a small town there's not a lot of stores where i am
there's not a lot of selection so i i do typically order online but yeah i do want some dresses that
are for like summer trips and i also want some dresses that are just all year summer dresses
that i can casually wear when it's snowing outside but in my warm home because the sun shines in and
makes it super warm but very appreciative of your suggestions and your opinions but either way that
is the end of this dress haul it was actually a little bit successful because i did get two
dresses that i like statistically speaking that is high for me but yeah thank you so much for tuning
in i hope you enjoyed i will see you next week and um that is all i have to say love you so much bye