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Old 29-05-2010, 22:06
Loobs72
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I am trying to find summer dresses that are shorts but look like a dress if you know what I mean.

I have tried googling dress shorts but that just brings up dressy shorts.

Does anyone know if there is a name for this style of dress and where sells them?

Hopefully you can understand what I'm talking about as it is hard to describe in words what I mean.

Thanks in advance
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Old 29-05-2010, 22:43
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never seen a dress like this, closest ive seen is culottes
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Old 29-05-2010, 22:50
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To look at it, it would look like a dress but is in fact shorts
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Old 29-05-2010, 23:22
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Yeah, cullottes... or try searching for 'skorts', I've seen them called that lately too!
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Old 29-05-2010, 23:41
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I know what you're talking about. I'm sure they were about in the 80s. Fitted top half, nipped in at the waist and flared bottom half, concealing the fact that the bottom half is actually shorts. I've no idea what they could be called though.
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Old 30-05-2010, 00:16
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blue-Yellow-sh...item6672346724

playsuits?

yeah next and top shop do them, search for playsuits
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Old 30-05-2010, 01:13
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Blue-Yellow-sh...item6672346724

playsuits?

yeah next and top shop do them, search for playsuits
They look nothing like a dress or skirt hiding shorts. They are exactly what they say they are, dungarees.
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Old 30-05-2010, 18:08
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They look nothing like a dress or skirt hiding shorts. They are exactly what they say they are, dungarees.
I think playsuit is right but maybe this is a better example of what is being described by the OP, it looks like a dress but it isn't. There are differents types of playsuits though, some look like jumpsuits, others look like dungarees, some look like dresses. I bought one from Primark because I thought it was a dress, luckily I managed to make it into one.

http://www.asos.com/Asos/Asos-Cross-...product_search
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Old 30-05-2010, 19:41
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Thanks everyone
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Old 30-05-2010, 21:12
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I think playsuit is right but maybe this is a better example of what is being described by the OP, it looks like a dress but it isn't. There are differents types of playsuits though, some look like jumpsuits, others look like dungarees, some look like dresses. I bought one from Primark because I thought it was a dress, luckily I managed to make it into one.

http://www.asos.com/Asos/Asos-Cross-...product_search
Thats pretty. Exactly how I remember a similar 80s version, although covered at back and a little longer.
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Old 31-05-2010, 10:26
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Thats pretty. Exactly how I remember a similar 80s version, although covered at back and a little longer.
The one I bought was longer than the one in that pic, thankfully, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to unstitch and change it. My hips are big, and my legs are quite muscular so I don't think I could carry off a playsuit. When I got home and tried it (realised at this point it was not a dress haha) on it just made my bottom half look way way bigger
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