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The look for summer season is effortless style and nothing says effortless than a gorgeous maxi dress or patio dress. These long frocks are a must-have for summer weather, when all you want to do is relax by waterfront with friends while sipping on margaritas.

The secret to look fab in patio dresses is to pick a silhouette that perfectly flatters your figure. Don’t hesitate in showing your back, arms or your tiny waist in different cuts and styles. Remember to have fun with these dresses.

Patio dresses provide a little bit casual yet elegant look. They are simply cool, comfy and easy to wear summer dresses for women. Patio dresses can be found in various prints and patterns, but every season brings some hot fashion trends with it. For summer 2010, we have found some hot fashion trends in patio dresses. These are:

1. Plain patio dresses
2. Floral print patio dresses
3. Animal print patio dresses

OK, lets start it with Plain patio dresses.

Plain patio dresses or maxi dresses, as their name suggests, do not have any print or pattern printed on them. But that doesn’t mean that these dresses are not playful. They may have some embellishments or embroidery on them, which give an elegant look to the dress. A plain patio dresses with any color can be a perfect for casual wear as well as party wear. The only thing you have to do is, just accessorize it with right accessories.

Now coming to Floral print maxi dresses. Floral prints truly reflect the accent of spring and summer season. A floral print knot-front maxi dress with a ruched Empire waist (as shown below), creates a long, fluid silhouette and a flattering look. The combination of cheerful floral prints and easy-to-carry features of a floral print maxi dress won’t let you down even on the hottest day of summer season.

Last but not least, the Animal print patio dresses. Animal prints are not going to leave this fashion world soon. From leopard prints to tiger prints, zebra prints to giraffe and even snake prints, it seems that whole jungle is now going to rule the fashion world. Animal print dresses beautifully enhance the look of long-height ladies. Animal print maxi dresses make a good party-wear for ladies who want to look hot and sexy.

Bold prints, patterns, and vibrant colors are simply chic for summers. For a toned down look, simply pair a single strand necklace, earrings and flat sandals or kitten heels. A stylish sun hat can add a beach flavor to your summer look. If you want to vamp it up for night, then simply put on heels, and accessorize with bold jewelry like multi-strand necklace or cocktail rings.

You can pick your style from online stores like Banana Republic and Nordstrom. They have such a broad assortment of beautiful and gorgeous summer dresses, that you can’t stop yourself to buy just one. Take advantage of Banana Republic promotion codes and Nordstrom promotion code to order products from respective stores at discounted prices. Go get your summer style now!

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One of the most versatile dresses that were ever designed for wear on special occasions is the cocktail dress.  While the events for which cocktail dresses are worn are usually late afternoon or early evening affairs that are too casual to be called black-tie events, many cocktail dresses can now be worn elsewhere, depending on the cut and the material of the dress and the accessories worn with it.

To wear a cocktail dress to a more formal event, all you need to do is to accessorize accordingly, perhaps wear more flashy pieces of jewelry and heavier makeup.  If you need to wear something dressy to the office for any reason other than the usual skirt or pantsuit, you can wear a cocktail dress that is not too flashy and just throw on a blazer and slip into sensible office shoes.  Many current styles of cocktail dresses are no longer limited to being party wear anymore.

Choosing what style of cocktail dress to wear, however, can be very tricky for most women.  After all, only a few women could claim to have truly perfect bodies, and most women who do not fall into the supermodel category prefer to hide the flaws of their figures.  Wearing a one-piece dress such as a cocktail dress can easily reveal those flaws if the dress does not fit the wearer’s body type.

In picking out the right cocktail dress to wear, a woman should always consider her body type – whether she is top-heavy or bottom-heavy – and find something that will balance out her figure.  If she is bottom-heavy, her aim should be to draw attention to the upper part of her body and to her face.  If she is top-heavy, she has the option either to emphasize her cleavage or to wear something that will pull the eyes to her legs.

What kind of cocktail dress would suit a woman with a bottom-heavy figure?   As said above, a woman with a bottom-heavy figure would want to hide the thickness around her hips and thighs.  A good cocktail dress for her to wear would be a dress that fits closely around the waist but without the seams pushed out by extra padding around the abdomen and has a skirt that flares out around the hips and thighs.  A cocktail dress with a full skirt would be perfect for a woman with a bottom-heavy figure because it will definitely hide whatever flabbiness and bulges that she wishes not to be seen around her lower body.

Another option available for a woman with a bottom-heavy figure is a cocktail dress that sports an empire-style waistline.  A cocktail dress with an empire-style waistline has the waist placed higher, thereby pulling the eyes towards the shoulders, the neck and the face.  It also drapes and skims over the lower body.  The only risk with wearing an empire-style cocktail dress, however, is that the empire-style cut is often used on maternity dresses, and so a woman wearing such a dress may be mistaken to be pregnant.

And yet another choice open for a woman with a bottom-heavy figure is a cocktail dress that is either sleeveless or strapless, also with a flaring skirt.  Again, baring the arms and the shoulders is effective in drawing attention away from the hips.

As for women with top-heavy figures, she could either emphasize her cleavage or her legs, as mentioned above.  If she wants to put focus on her legs rather than her cleavage, she can wear a cocktail dress with a solid-colored top paired with a patterned skirt.  She can hike the hem of her skirt up to make it shorter and really draw the eyes to her legs.

If she wants to attract attention to her ample cleavage rather than her legs, she can cover up her legs in a long-skirted cocktail dress but reveal a little skin on her upper body with a low V-neck or plunging neckline.  In fact, she can draw the eyes to both her top and her legs by wearing a short cocktail dress with a low neckline if she wants to.  What she should not do is to wear a cocktail dress with an overly busy top because it will make her upper body appear larger and skew the balance of her figure.

Accessories also help to keep the illusion of balance on a woman’s figure aside from wearing the right kind of cocktail dress.  Bottom-heavy women can wear flashy earrings, necklaces or chokers, while top-heavy women can forego the necklace and opt for a bracelet instead.  However, she should buy her cocktail dress first before figuring out what accessories, bag and shoes to wear.

Cocktail dresses are versatile dresses that can be worn on any occasion that requires some degree of formality without being a full black-tie event.  A woman should be able to choose the right cocktail dress that can really flatter her body type.

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