15 Super Chic Maxi Dresses You Need For Spring

15 Super Chic Maxi Dresses You Need For Spring - E! NEWS

15 Super Chic Maxi Dresses You Need For Spring - E! NEWS
Dressing up in Lindsay: It's a large selection of prom dresses - Porterville Recorder
Coronavirus outbreak in China delays shipment of bridal, prom dresses - KMBC Kansas City
Judge Rules Businesswoman Must Remove Dresses From Her Home - Reason
YWCA providing high school students with prom dresses - Grand Island Independent

15 Super Chic Maxi Dresses You Need For Spring - E! NEWS

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:00 AM PST

by Carly Milne | Mon., Feb. 24, 2020 3:00 AM

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As the winter frost subsides and the sun comes out to pull us out of our puffer jackets and scarves, you know what that means: time to get your wardrobe ready with dresses that are ready for that warmer weather!

But these aren't just any dresses. We've curated a list of on-trend maxi dresses that are ready for nearly anything you have to throw at it. There's dressy ones and cozy ones, romantic ones and bold ones, ones you can pull on and run out the door in, and ones you can dress up or down from work to a night on the town.

There's so many to choose from! But we recommend you start by shopping our list below, and then dust off your sandals! The sun's coming, and it's time to get ready...

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Ruffle-Sleeve Button-Front Dress

Tone on tone floral gets its moment int this beautiful longline dress, with romantic and feminine sheer ruffled sleeves for a little added softness. There's even a little hardware, with gold vintage-like buttons. Wear it with heels, or belt it and pair it with boots.

Sheer Plaid Full-Sleeve Ruffle Dress

With little at the chest, a little at the wrist and a little at the knee, there's a lot of style happening in this ruffled dress. But while the ruffles may draw you in, it's the chic plaid print that make it worth the investment as a solid transition piece for your wardrobe.

Plus Black Floral Twist Front Maxi Dress

Chic? Yes. Stylish? You betcha. Jaw-droppingly bold? Undeniably so! While a split front shows off your legs and a bold floral print on a black backdrop highlights the rest of your body, a twist-front detail accents your waist, and brings the whole thing together.

Helena Maxi Dress

Talk about drama! With a long, full sleeve that caps in a high-fashion cuff, a tiered voluminous body that adds to its allure, and the addition of a chain and faux leather belt to choose how you want to accent your waist, you'll definitely make an entrance in this dress.

Graphic Heart Maxi Dress

There's so much going on with this dress, and we love it all: the deep V neck, the robe collar, the loose front pleats, the mega eye-catching print... we dare you to put on this dress and attempt to be a wallflower. It's just not possible.

Graphic Cashew Maxi Dress

Imagine taking this dress on vacation, where you could wear it barefoot on the beach, or dress it up with a cute pair of heeled sandals. Or maybe you wear it at home, with chic boots until the weather warms up. Our point is, it's versatile, and stunning, and your wardrobe will thank you for adding it to your repertoire.

Eco-Jersey Side Slit Maxi Tank Dress

This is one of those kinds of dresses that could work as a lounge-around-the-house dress, or a comfy-running-errands dress. But be forewarned: you won't want to take it off, because it's so sumptuously soft thanks to fabric made from organic and recycled materials.

Alisha Tiered Maxi Dress

We don't know if it's the bold red color, the tiered silhouette, the puffed sleeves or the contrasting white buttons, but everything about this dress makes us love it... particularly its easygoing style that could fits in from brunches to banquets.

V-Neck Jersey Maxi Dress

Dressy, but make it comfy... and vice versa! Get it all in this dress, with a low V neck and empire waist made of soft, supple jersey fabric. Whether you wear it out on the town, or just around the house, you'll look stylish but cozy everywhere you go.

Rochelle Eyelet Maxi Dress

Available in standard, petite and plus sizes, this adorable eyelet dress is delightfully romantic while being breezy. It's cotton with a little spandex for a smidge of give, and there's some embroidery to add to its sweet visual style.

INC Leopard-Print Faux-Wrap Maxi Dress

The ultimate grab-and-go dress is an amazing find, so if you're on the hunt for one, grab this one. It's a pull-on style, but its faux-wrap feel with a waist tie, hint of a bottom ruffle, and fantastically fab leopard print elevate what would otherwise be a basic dress.

Elysees Geometric Wrap Maxi Dress

Grab this stunningly eye-catching dress in plus and petite sizes, and watch the compliments roll in for its unique color combination, effortless style, and stunning geometric print. Grab a clutch and heels, and you're ready for a night on the town.

Santa Fe Maxi Dress

It's always nice to have some comfy staples in your wardrobe, and this dress definitely fits the bill. We have it in Milk Blossom and dress it down with a pair of Chucks, or dress it up with a chic sandal or open-toed heel. It's button-front, breathable, and fits in anywhere.

Plus Slinky Plunge Split Maxi Dress

Okay, so you wanna dress it up. We hear you! This is the way to do it, in a satiny plunge maxi dress with two side slits to show off your gams. With a wrap-front v-neck top and a tie at the waist, you'll accent all your best assets, so get ready for jaws to drop when you slip this on.

Jaden Dress

With a slim-fitting bodice, spaghetti straps leading to a stunning neckline, and center front buttons that trail down its length, this dress is destined for the spotlight... and your wearing it will take both of you there. Isn't it begging to be accented by a cute little purse and high-heeled mules?

Looking for more fab fashion finds? We recommend some affordable finds from Amazon with five-star reviews, like this $24 blazer, this $27 bell-sleeve dress, and these $25 Levi's skinny jeans!

Dressing up in Lindsay: It's a large selection of prom dresses - Porterville Recorder

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 08:09 AM PST

Saturday was an exciting day for hundreds of young ladies who arrived at John J. Cairns Continuation High School in search of the perfect prom dress, and luckily for them they had more than 1,000 dresses to choose from.

The Vida de Oro Foundation, in partnership with the Lindsay Chamber of Commerce, drove all the way down from Sacramento to bring the dresses to the community of Lindsay.

"What we do is promote the arts to enhance our communities," said Mina Perez, CEO and President of The Vida de Oro Foundation. "That's a really important thing. We have classes for the arts in Sacramento. We not only show you how to paint, how to make jewelry, how to crotchet, but you get to take home those tools you were working with in the class. Otherwise, how can you keep going? Our foundation raises money throughout the year so that we can purchase those supplies and replenish them for the classes. No one is doing that, no non-profits are doing that, so that's why we do it."

But the dress giveaway on Saturday was free to the public, and it wasn't strictly limited to young ladies in high school. The dress giveaway was open to all ladies searching for a new dress.

"Virginia (Loya) reached out to me and found out that we were doing this in Sacramento," said Perez. "She asked how they could get us to come out here to Lindsay. I told her all she had to do was have a place, and I would bring all of the dresses to her and we can set it up."

In a class room at John J. Cairns Continuation High School, makeshift racks had been put together by Doug DeLeo, of Doug DeLeo Welding, Inc., and Isidro Gutierrez. Hundreds of dresses in every shade of color imaginable hung neatly from the racks, and as the ladies began to browse through them, the metallic sound of plastic sliding against metal echoed through the room.

"The Lindsay Chamber of Commerce would like to thank Doug DeLeo from DeLeo Welding and Isidro Gutierrez for making and setting up the dress racks," said Virginia Loya, President of the Lindsay Chamber of Commerce. "They really helped us make this happen."

Perez graciously thanked Lulu's.com for donating all of the beautiful gowns at the giveaway. She also said the web-based company has even donated shoes. The company donated so many dresses Perez still has more than 1,500 dresses stored at her house in Sacramento.

When asked why she started doing these dress giveaways, Perez shared she never had the opportunity to get a brand new dress for special occasions while she was in high school, and that sometimes a brand new dress just works magic for one's self confidence.

"Prom is an American tradition and we want to make sure that everyone is included in this process and program," said Perez. "It's a celebration of where you at in your life, in school, in your community, and we want you to keep going. Sometimes a brand new dress will give you that feeling of going somewhere and being someone special. Everyone should feel special.

"I want everyone to have what I didn't have. I didn't have the motivation, I didn't have that nice dress, it was always hand-me-downs. My mother cleaned houses for a living and I remember wanting to go to prom with all of the rest of my classmates. I was a 3.8 GPA average in school, but I couldn't go to school activities because my clothes were old and tattered, so I was not included. I missed out on opportunities to go further. I understand that it holds us all back, so if we are given the opportunity to help other human beings then we just do it. We are given the opportunity and we need to take that and say 'I can do this.' That's my mission. I want others to keep going."

Coronavirus outbreak in China delays shipment of bridal, prom dresses - KMBC Kansas City

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 04:53 PM PST

Even without confirmed cases of the virus in the metro, the outbreak in China is already having an impact at some bridal shops here.It's estimated that 80% of bridal gowns come from China. With factories shut down in China, if the dress you want is not already in the country, you might have to come up with another plan.For decades, Natalie M. bridal shop in Overland Park has been helping women find that perfect dress. While it has a lot of inventory, things have changed drastically since factories in China closed to stop the spread of the coronavirus."In the past, we'd say go ahead and order it, they'll manufacture it. It'll be here in time. I can't do that today. Today I have to say, 'You know what sweetheart? We need to find you a different dress," said Lisa Carson, a stylist at Natalie M.The shop has been tracking all orders coming out of China. While most customers who placed earlier orders are safe. From here on out, shipments could be delayed indefinitely."It could be the stones. It could be the thread that's utilized," Carson said.It is not just the dresses; it's everything that it takes to make the dress that is now on hold."What people need to understand is even if the factory where the goods are manufactured is up and running, maybe it's the factory where the fabric is made or the notions are made, so there's all those different pieces of the supply chain and they need to all be back on line," Carson said.Whether it's your wedding, prom or any special event, shop early. If your dream dress isn't in the store or in the warehouse, you may have to rethink your choice."If you have tracking number, if you know your merchandise is in this country, you're probably pretty safe, but if you don't have that information, I would go ahead and get a plan B going," Carson said.Natalie M. had already beefed up inventory in anticipation of the new tariffs on Chinese goods. But more recent orders are all being delayed.The stylists are already helping out some brides who ordered things on their own and who are now without a dress.Natalie M. is working with other retailers to try to find them a similar dress.

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Even without confirmed cases of the virus in the metro, the outbreak in China is already having an impact at some bridal shops here.

It's estimated that 80% of bridal gowns come from China.

With factories shut down in China, if the dress you want is not already in the country, you might have to come up with another plan.

For decades, Natalie M. bridal shop in Overland Park has been helping women find that perfect dress. While it has a lot of inventory, things have changed drastically since factories in China closed to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

"In the past, we'd say go ahead and order it, they'll manufacture it. It'll be here in time. I can't do that today. Today I have to say, 'You know what sweetheart? We need to find you a different dress," said Lisa Carson, a stylist at Natalie M.

The shop has been tracking all orders coming out of China. While most customers who placed earlier orders are safe. From here on out, shipments could be delayed indefinitely.

"It could be the stones. It could be the thread that's utilized," Carson said.

It is not just the dresses; it's everything that it takes to make the dress that is now on hold.

"What people need to understand is even if the factory where the goods are manufactured is up and running, maybe it's the factory where the fabric is made or the notions are made, so there's all those different pieces of the supply chain and they need to all be back on line," Carson said.

Whether it's your wedding, prom or any special event, shop early. If your dream dress isn't in the store or in the warehouse, you may have to rethink your choice.

"If you have tracking number, if you know your merchandise is in this country, you're probably pretty safe, but if you don't have that information, I would go ahead and get a plan B going," Carson said.

Natalie M. had already beefed up inventory in anticipation of the new tariffs on Chinese goods. But more recent orders are all being delayed.

The stylists are already helping out some brides who ordered things on their own and who are now without a dress.

Natalie M. is working with other retailers to try to find them a similar dress.

Judge Rules Businesswoman Must Remove Dresses From Her Home - Reason

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 12:30 PM PST

E-commerce has allowed people to operate businesses from their own homes, provided local zoning ordinances don't get in the way.

In Virginia this past Friday, the Fairfax County Circuit Court ruled that Marietta Grundlehner had to stop selling dresses online from her Springfield townhouse and get rid of any remaining inventory at her home.

The decision, which comes after two years of wrangling with code enforcers, is financially devastating for Grundlehner, who says her dress business earned her $30,000 a year she now might have to go without.

"It's terrifying to think, 'How am I going to make my car payment. Am I going to lose things like car insurance because I can't pay them?' There are so many things I pay for with that money that I don't know what I'm going to do," Grundlehner told local ABC affiliate WJLA.

Grundlehner, according to a petition she started on Change.org, started selling clothing from LulaRoe, a multi-level marketing business, out of her home several years ago to supplement her income from her day job as a teacher. Wanting to spend more time with her young son, she decided to make it a full-time gig.

This, apparently, was illegal. Fairfax County's zoning code allows home businesses, but it forbids storing, displaying, or selling inventory from a residence unless those wares are also manufactured on-site. And Grundlehner purchased finished products from LulaRoe before reselling them via the internet.

Grundlehner was able to operate her business in peace for several years. But in January 2018, someone dimed her out to county code enforcers. Like many local governments, Fairfax County doesn't actively seek out code violations to stop, instead responding to complaints made by residents.

"We don't go out looking for people who are in violation. Someone in her community, someone in any community that has an issue, calls our code compliance department," Fairfax County Supervisor Dan Storck told WJLA. The county receives fewer than 200 such complaints each year; most, he said, turn out either to be resolvable quickly or not to be violations at all.

That wasn't the case with Grundlehner. She told WJLA that she first got a home occupation permit in April 2018, after consulting with zoning inspectors. But since the underlying nature of her home business was still illegal, this offered her little protection and she continued to receive notices of violation.

At a hearing Friday, Grundlehner was told she had to cease selling clothes from her home and get rid of her inventory within five business days.

For now, Grundlehner is hoping the county will change its zoning code to let her business continue.

Grundlehner's situation is similar to the case of Lij Shaw, a Nashville musician whose home studio business was targeted by code enforcers after an anonymous tipster informed them that Shaw was having musicians over to record, in violation of the city's prohibition on client visits to home businesses.

Shaw has been fighting for his right to continue operating his home recording studio ever since. In 2017, he sued the city, arguing that its ban on client prohibitions violated Tennessee's state constitution.

Shaw is being represented by the Insitute for Justice and by Tennessee's Beacon Center. A lower court dismissed his lawsuit in October, and he is currently appealing it.

Home businesses are rarely flat-out banned in the U.S. Instead, home business owners find themselves tripped up by antiquated restrictions on what commercial activities they can and cannot do from their homes. Changing these laws is often an uphill battle against entrenched neighborhood groups who see the strict separation of residential and commercial spaces as essential to preserving their quality of life.

As the internet allows people to do more and more business from their homes, these kinds of home business restrictions will kneecap entrepreneurs trying to make a living through the creative use of their property.

YWCA providing high school students with prom dresses - Grand Island Independent

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 05:40 PM PST

YWCA of Grand Island is launching its inaugural "mYnight boutique" to bridge the equity gap of prom.

High school students in Hall, Hamilton, Howard and Merrick counties who have difficulty affording a prom dress can walk away with their own dress at no cost.

Students are requested to sign up at www.ywca-gi.org for an appointment with a personal shopper who will assist in finding their dress. Appointments are scheduled on March 21 or 22, starting at 8:30 a.m. and running every 45 minutes, with the last appointment at 6 p.m.

The YWCA will receive a donation of approximately 1,000 dresses from Bella Boutique, a similar program in Denver. They are also accepting donations of gently used dress shoes and accessories as well.

The YWCA is also in need of dress racks and full-length mirrors to borrow for the event. And volunteers are needed to set up the boutique and to serve as personal shoppers.

To donate to or volunteer for the event, contact Amy Bennett at abennett@ywca-gi.org or call the YWCA at (308) 384-9922.