The retailer that sells this BCBG Open Back Cocktail Dress ($298) describes it as sexy, and that certainly isn't a lie. Observe — it has an open back, open sides, and a keyhole in the middle. The color is gorgeous and the draping lavish, but I would have liked it more if the sides were covered. Am I being too modest?
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I could probably pull it off, but I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be in it. Though, it's pretty!
1I think it's really pretty and unique!
2This style has been done before. I can't remember who.
3That dress looks awful on the model.
I can't even imagine where I would wear this dress - I can't think of one function it would be appropriate to wear to! Plus, at least in the NorthEast, it's COLD in the winter!
4This would be just gorgeous if it was floor length. I'm not sure how I feel about it as it stands. :/
5The model looks really great in it but I'm sure most people wouldn't. It has to be worn to a very particular sort of occasion but were the right person to wear it to the right sort of place, she would look fabulous. I could never wear it!
6I like the back, but the way it is on the boobs is unflattering, I think.
7And I HATE that fabric. The fabric makes me ill. It looks cheap, no matter how it's constructed.
if this was over lace or something and a different fabric it would be beautiful. otherwise it seems kind of trashy.
8Doesn't leave much to the imagination...
9with some nude-colored mesh over the skin, and some rhinestones here and there, this could make a decent figure skating outfit. otherwise, thumbs down.
10ha ha msjean! It totally looks like a figure skating outfit! Or something that a hooker would wear. It's a bit slutty, not classy or even all that sexy!
11This would be nice on someone with a small chest. It'd look too slutty on someone with C-D cups.
I can see this being worn to a college party or NYE, but not to a real cocktail party.
12There's too many cutouts! Even one can make a nice dress look trampy.
13On the right girl this will not look trampy, and the girl who's gonna buy this dress probably won't be worried about the cutouts. It's sexy I like it a lot, but not that color.
14I'd like it better without the keyhole. Cut outs on the sides can be very sexy if the rest of the dress isn't too revealing.
15I normally adore BCBG, but this dress is just a little too Carmen Electra for my taste.
16ick...not flattering at all. Theres too much going on, my eyes dont know where too look. That and the bottom doesnt match the rest of the dress. Its supposed to be sexy, so why does the bottom remind me of my grandmas sunday dresses?
17It looks like a pageant dress...or a bunch of red bandages wrapped around her torso.
18No!
19this makes me think of project runway this season when Michael Kors said- slutty, slutty, slutty!
20i can just see someone wearing this in vegas...w/nice fake b**bs...ick.
21Where would you want to wear this dress? I would be escorted out of my dinner events.
22I think this is a perfect example of a dress that JUST crosses the line from sexy to a little bit slutty. A few tweaks could make it classier (like covering up the sides as fabsugar mentioned or having it over lace as someone else mentioned.
23sorry I feel like slutty was a poor choice of word...because it isn't even that bad, I just couldn't think of a better one...
24This shows way too much skin to pass for a cocktail dress.
25pass...it looks too trashy, regardless of the brand.
26Looks a bit trashy on the model.
27I like BCBG but this does look slutty. Swimsuit + Dress = Figure skating outfit. Undo either the keyhole, or the side cutouts, and it'd actually be a hot dress that doesn't scream, "Look at me I need attention!"
28i loooove it. might be cuter in black.
29It makes me think trashy prom dress.
30Hideous.
31nice idea- but I have always hated the "wrapped fabric:" look. Plus about 10% of people could actually pull it off and about 95% of people that think they can are wrong.
32definitely too trashtastic for me.
33I dont like this dress its not unique and doesnt look as though it hangs well (bit frumpy) the colours nice but it looks a bit short or maybe the style wrong
On the model it looks a bit cheap; it doesnt complement her figure much
34I think it would look cute on the right person. Maybe if it were black it wouldn't seem so grossly skanky?
35I have boobs, therefore I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
36Trashy.
37no, you're not being too modest, Fab! I hate that people think modesty is a bad thing - just because our society has no more social guidelines as to what is acceptable doesn't mean that people shouldn't be allowed to show their body respect by not showing it to the world - on the other hand, though, there is certainly a way to look amazing even in an immodest outfit, but this is not it - this dress is just awful...
38Sorry, needs the sides. Otherwise its just skank wear
39So many open cuts are distracting and kind of classless
40For me, it sucks, but it's not so much revealing the skin as the way it was done. Plus, I don't like the way the bottom half looks with the top.
41I'm not sure where you could wear that too. It's too slutty for my tastes.
42ugh the lady at the bcbg store tried to convince me that the dress was very flattering on, I had to roll my eyes.
43I hate it. Wouldn't be caught dead in it even if I were a figure skater.
44Irt's more of a dance dress & her legs are too stickly, but it's a good dress.
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