Every woman should have a little black dress within their forever expanding wardrobe. It's a key essential, a piece of timeless fashion which never seems to go out of style. It makes you feel confident, womanly and sexy. It completely flatters your body shape adding curves in all the right places. It magically makes you look slim, even though you've secretly just ate a huge portion of chocolate cake. The little black dress is almost like a security blanket, hidden away in your wardrobe for when you need it most. It aims and succeeds to always make you feel gorgeous, even on your bad days when nothing seems to be going right, the dress will rescue you.
My first and only little black dress was purchased for a party in my early teenage years, during my "gothic" phase. Looking back on the photos soon after the party, the dress looked like a complete fashion disaster. I remember thinking "I'll never get a boyfriend!" I'd styled it all wrong, wearing bright purple tights and topping it off with bright purple accessorises. To put it bluntly, I looked like a plum which had gone off. The dress returned to the wardrobe, and was thrown somewhere to the back in embarrassment and despair. I couldn't face wearing the dress again, it had made me look like gone off fruit.
The dress remained unloved for the majority of my teens, before finally making its way out of my wardrobe when I moved to university. During this time, I'd turned into a woman, suddenly producing a curvaceous and voluptuous figure. I had also found some fashion sense, mainly from magazines and the wisdom of my mother. I found the dress lurking in my wardrobe and tried it on, forgetting all about the "off fruit" incident from before. Hang on a minute, the dress made me look good. It flattered my curves and made me look slimmer. "It's some kind of miracle" I thought, and since that moment the dress and myself have never parted. It is a firm staple piece of my wardrobe, and will remain that way for as long as I can fit into it.
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