If you want some structured-looking dresses, go to the Boden's catalog online. (They have a US site now.) They have some very nice structured dresses this season.

Preach!
~Also pear-shaped

Why can't they just sell jeans in all types so that women in all body types can find jeans that'll make them happy? Why periodically torture different body types?
WHY CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG?

What are thin, slippery undershorts you can wear under skirts? What are these marvels? Who makes them? Where do you get them?

^^^^^THIS. Yes! Turkey drumsticks. That's exactly what skinny jeans do to my legs. And I have nice legs!

Balancing out slim jeans with flowy, longer top...Where have I seen that look before...
Oh yes! The '80s!

Dear '80s:
Please have your fashions back.

Will the fashions of the '90s ever return? I want to be first in line to buy some Doc Martin's.

I'm with you. Bootcut jeans make me and my booty (baby got back!) look fabulous, but skinny jeans make my legs look like sausages. Gigantic sausages. And they make my ass look gigantic in a bad way. Everything I want flattered is detracted from, and everything I want minimized is emphasized. No thank you!
Skinny jeans…

Too soon, man! Too soon!

Corruption in Russia! Unheard of! <—-sarcasm
Corruption in FIFA? Well, I never. <——also sarcasm

Lord, I hope not!

Yeah, Jordan did try. I was so heartbroken when I learned he had amyloidosis, a terminal disease.
I'm not sure what GRRM's excuse is...I suspect this project has ballooned well beyond what he originally planned. But enough with the prequels already! Finish the series first! (Jordan also had prequelitis.)

You are correct on all points.

It's Robert Jordan all over again.

OMG, that's so horrible. I'm so sorry that happened to you. Starred to upvote, not to "like." :*(

I would buy a new car.
I have never owned a new car.
I would buy the new car of my dreams, in just the color I want, and then drive that sucker into the ground. I'd see if I can rack up 200K on that sucker.

+10

You say 'hamster dance,' I think of this:

+1
I love pedantic trivia like this! :)

It's not Winklevoss, it's the Wrinkle-Boss! ;) That kind of smug bastardy doesn't come cheap, ya know.

Fun factoid: Orthodox take their communion from the chalice with the (leavened) bread mixed with the wine. You get a little piece of bread and some wine on a spoon. Nothing like matzoh.

It's called "the Eucharist," and what the Orthodox Church believes isn't called transubstatiation. During the Mystery of the Eucharist, the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ. No Aristotelian/Thomas Aquinas-based philosophical explanation. Just Mystery.