ballgown

"With a big dress or ballgown, you cannot have a big bag, so go with a smaller, minaudière style," she says.

Summer's Clutch Play: Grab a Handbag Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2011

The white-feather, silver-beaded ballgown or the sheer illusion gown strategically covered with red lace would make for a grand awards-show entrance.

PHOTOS: Which Marchesa Looks Are Oscars-Worthy? Hilary Moss 2011

Appropriately, given the occasion and the wearer, the pattern was destroyed, allowing Edith Roosevelt a one-of-a-kind ballgown. 1909 saw Mrs. Helen Taft in “one of the handsomest models ever seen in Washington.”

The Presidential Inauguration | Edwardian Promenade 2009

Her ballgown had once been beautiful but was now dirty, with beads hanging off of it in strings.

Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011

If you want to grow a beard and wear a ballgown; you should be able to do it!

2009 February « I’m Not Broken 2009

By fashion standards, Alberta Ferretti's eyelash pleat dress on TV personality Cat Deeley and Monique Lhuillier's rose-covered ballgown, modeled by Garcelle Beauvais, were standouts.

Dita Von Teese Struts At Heart Truth Fall 2011 Fashion Show (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2011

By fashion standards, Alberta Ferretti's eyelash pleat dress on TV personality Cat Deeley and Monique Lhuillier's rose-covered ballgown, modeled by Garcelle Beauvais, were standouts.

Dita Von Teese Struts At Heart Truth Fall 2011 Fashion Show (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2011

She wore the green of her House, deep bottle-green ballgown, grand and beautiful.

Tew's Day! yuki_onna 2009

By fashion standards, Alberta Ferretti's eyelash pleat dress on TV personality Cat Deeley and Monique Lhuillier's rose-covered ballgown, modeled by Garcelle Beauvais, were standouts.

Dita Von Teese Struts At Heart Truth Fall 2011 Fashion Show (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2011

If you want to grow a beard and wear a ballgown; you should be able to do it!

Lets Talk Labels « I’m Not Broken 2009