Although you won’t see ball gowns in every clothing store where you shop, you may see them in some of the higher end stores. I have never had a need for one, and I think that is just a shame. Though I don’t like wearing dresses so much, there is just something about a ball gown that takes me back to my childhood when it was ok to wear whatever you wanted as long as you felt beautiful. There aren’t many balls these days, and even an event like a prom seems to feature regular dresses more than anything else.

I don’t know why I love ball gowns, but I just do. There is something wonderful about putting on a dress that is meant to dazzle and quite honestly, make you look like you are floating across the room. These ball gowns were something that were a fact of life over a hundred years ago, and women wore them far more often than anything else they may have own. This varied according to class though, and the wealthy women were the ones who had a lot of them. Some they only wore once and then threw out. Read the rest of this entry »