The Girl Meets Glam Dress

Happy Monday Sweet Souls- how was your day? Hopefully it was not too Monday-ish! I am toying around with my new blog design tonight and tomorrow in preparation for the grand reveal on 8/8/18. Stay tuned for that! Today I am sharing this beautiful line from one of the original gangster fashion bloggers, Julia Hengel, of Girlmeetsglam.com.

GAL MEETS GLAM

Her line includes beautiful, modest designs with high quality fabrics. The price is between $150-$300, but the quality is worthy of wear for years to come. The fabric has a half polyester, half silky feel (although I am unsure of the exact fabric specifications). The puffy sleeves do wonders in creating a very proportional look to my pear-shaped body. I was so in love with this dress. Much of Julia’s line is very modest and is great for work, church, and family functions.

I prefer printed variations as the solid colors are too modest for my taste. I will hemm  it dresses to fall right under or just above the knee. The length of this dress is perfect with these Marc Fisher wedges I got last year.

SIZING

This particular dress is named Lauren Botanical. I fell in love with the watercolor blues and greens. I took a chance and ordered a size smaller than my usual 4 since I am more of a 2 top and 4 bottoms since the dress is an A-line style and flares at the hips. Next, sizing runs larger and I could have easily worn a 00. If you are unsure about your sizing, go ahead and size down. I am sizes 30 bust, 26 waist, and 37 hips; the 00 will fit spot on. Nordstrom’s website says to size up, but I disagree and recommend to size down.

Each collection Julia releases is heavily watched as sizing goes quickly. If you have your heart set on a style, buy a couple sizes and send what does not fit back. In addition to being available via Nordstrom.com, the same dresses are stocked on Girlmeetsglam.com. You may be able to find a size on her personal website if it is sold out at Nordstrom.

I pair this look with Marc Fisher wedges as well as these Free People cat eye sunnies are only $20. Shop my favorite options as well as this look, below. Have a wonderful Monday. I am going to head to the gym to try to treadmill my way to 10K steps. Finally, I’m going to call it a night early.

SHOP THIS LOOK

With Joy,

Audrey