Nov 15, 2010
The Little Black Dress Giveaway
You are looking at Bossy’s new Little Black Dress — although teetering at nearly six feet tall without the heels, Bossy has never considered anything in her wardrobe little.
Here’s the deal: Bossy’s friends at Yummie Tummie asked Bossy to test drive one of their new Little Black Dresses from their ready to wear collection, and to style that dress in two uniquely different ways for two different occasions — which Bossy did, except she only styled the dress for one occasion, because apparently Bossy wears the same accessories whether she’s scaling boulders or out to dinner with the senior executives of Coca Cola. Shall we?
The dress Bossy chose was the Ella Rae with it’s subtle bodice stitching and slightly Morticia sleeves.
Bossy fell in love with her new dress the minute it arrived, swimming in the bottom of a mailing bag — and yet it wasn’t the worse for wear due to its forgiving rayon jersey material.
And so Bossy promptly threw the dress on for a 50th birthday party! And then Bossy went to that 50th birthday party except she had the wrong night! So there Bossy stood, just her and her Little Black Dress and the hosts’ dining room table covered with unpaid bills because they weren’t expecting company until next weekend! But still, the Little Black Dress was ready to party into the night!
Here are the ways Bossy would accessorize her dress in order to attend a 50th birthday party which is actually one week away — or if Bossy were wearing this dress while walking waist-deep through thistle. Oh, believe Bossy, it’ll happen.
First she’d put on a flashy bracelet:
Next Bossy would put on a dangling necklace. In fact she did!
Bossy would keep it very simple when it comes to her earring selection, which is a lucky thing since Bossy only has two pairs of earrings anyway: a pair of simple hoops and a pair of simple studs.
In terms of the hair, Bossy would probably clip it to the top of her head:
Unless of course Bossy decided to allow her unruly hair to climb down out of its clip. Even the insane deserve a weekend pass every once in a while:
As far as the shoes, Bossy would wear these heels because there aren’t too many days remaining this season which are temperate enough for strappy feet:
Bossy is also looking forward to wearing this dress into the winter by pairing it with leggings and her boots.
But before Bossy leaves the subject of the heels and the bracelet and the hair and the dress, Bossy would like to thank her personal photographer:
Even if Bossy’s personal photographer delighted in proving that real models don’t pick their nose:
So, back to the deal: Bossy’s friends at Yummie Tummie would like to give a Little Black Dress to one lucky Bossy reader! You can pick between the Ella Rae Long Sleeve Dress or the more revealing Shelley Tank Dress.
Simply leave a comment below and Bossy will select a winner utilizing her friend the Random Number Generator. Good luck!
This post is part of a series sponsored by Yummie Tummie and Clever Girls Collective. All of the opinions are Bossy’s.
I. Need. This.
You look amazing! I think I NEED the dress.
Can you believe I don’t have a little black dress? Or heels for that matter. lol!
That dress is awesome. And I think your hair loose and down looks awesome. Wish I had some curl!!!
I don’t know if I’m brave enough to wear that tank dress, but I would like to dress up as twins with Bossy one night in the Ella Rae even though we are not built like twins so maybe no one will even notice that we are wearing the same dress because I’m shorter and not so skinny as Bossy and she is super tall and willowy.
Holy Crap you are tall and thin!
Jealous!
Spinning the wheel for my sistah!
This would be the perfect dress for my daughter’s rehearsal dinner. Pick me, please!
You look amazing in that dress! So tall & thin. Lucky!
Dress me, Bossy. I’m easily as tall as you are.
…You look simply stunning Miss Bossy! The shot with your hair down? Va Va Va Voom baybee! ;o)
…Please enter me for the Shelley Tank Dress. I like the fact that that one can go in the dreaded heat of Summer or dress it up with a sweet lil’ cardigan for Winter. Sweet!
…And okay, we all knew you pick your nose Bossy. Seriously, who doesn’t? Saying one doesn’t pick their nose from time to time is like saying, “Me poop? I don’t poop!” *giggle*snort*
…Thanks for the giveaway and blessin’s too…
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Bossy looks absolutely fabulous in her little black dress!
If I win the dress, I hope it comes with a guarantee that I will look as awesome in it as Bossy!
Um…I don’t think I’d look nearly as good as Bossy in that dress, but WTH…I’m going for it.
If you look that good in the dress, I can imagine how great you look out of it.
That looks like just the thing to wear after you just had a baby! But seriously. I want it anyway.
You are beyond beautiful.
You look fabulous! Count me in!
Oooh, Ella Rae! Throwing my metaphorical hat in the ring.
You look fab. I love the Ella Rae dress.
If that dress can make me look even half as good as you do in it, I need one.
(You look AMAZING, Georgia!)
You look fantastic. I suspect I’m going to be going to a rash of 50th birthday parties before too much longer….
You look mah-velous! I’m loving the Ella Rae long-sleeved dress, and would kill it with tights and boots.
Wowsers, that looks beautiful on you. But hey, you don’t need really need that built-in yummie tummie technology – unlike me. Hm, does it work for hips and thighs as well? I bet it does, just doesn’t rhyme, right?
Love the dress!
New Dress. Yum.
Love this dress…looks especially good on you!
Lovely! I want one!
I have to say the dress scares me a little (curves, my God, I have curves) but I’m in! Thanks Bossy!
I would need the yummie tummie part of that fab dress because my tummy doesn’t look ANYTHING even remotely close to Bossy’s tummy in that dress or anything else. You look amazing, as always!!
Oh Bossy – I hope my belly looks as tiny as yours in that dress!
I doubt that the dress would look anywhere near as good on me as it does on Bossy but I would love to win it anyway!
Oooh! Pick me, pretty please. My post baby tummy needs a little bit of a Yummy Tummie Shelley Tank.
Will the dress make me tall and blonde? If so, count me in!
count me in! I need a little black dress!
I believe that ELLA RAE number will look fab paired with black leggings and boots, and that it should be my Thanksgiving day outfit up in the small small BORING ASS town I am visiting…
Thanks Bossy and Yummie Tummie!
I would LOVE to have the tank dress to wear during the holiday season here in SoCal! Would look awesome.
Oo! Oo! Me! ME! Pick me!
Because I’m tall, too?
I could use some sprucin up. Pick me…….
wish I was tall!
I’d love either dress, thanks!!
I’m sold on the dress if I get to look as fabulous as you.
Yes, please!
Yes please! Except my way of rocking either of those dresses will be: Below The Knee because my legs are exactly half the length of Bossy’s.
Wow, gorgeous dress. It might even make me look good.
Even though I’m not as tall and thin as Bossy, I think I could pull this off. Maybe. With Spanx. Then I’d say Ella Rae made this dress for Bossy. And Bossy thoght I should have one too! Bossy so nice!
You look amazing, that’s a great dress on you. Your photographer did a great job too.
Bossy looks fabulous!
If I wore that dress I would look like someone poured balck paint on the Pillsbury Doughboy. But I have a 22 year old daughter that would look Bossy Fabulous in that dress.
Cool! I hear that black is the new black this season.
You look lovely in that dress…it must be the photographer!
I want the ella rae!!!
That dress looks fantastic on you! And wow, I’d like one too!
I’d wear it with my red polka dotted shoes.
A pretty black dress! Yes, please! Just in time for all of the holiday parties I’m hoping to avoid.
Would love the Ella Rae
The layering I could do with that tank dress!
No where to wear one, but I would take one anyway!
I don’t even own a dress, what is wrong with me!? My wardrobe will be almost complete with a little black dress.
I’m the same height as Bossy, so nothing in my wardrobe is really little either, but I’d still love to try the dress out!
I love the tank dress but already have a summery black dress so I guess i should go for the one with sleeves!
I just have to say that Bossy is stunning and beautiful as always.
I look at this and think “I am so fat.”
Then I think – “No, I’m not fat, I just am still carrying some postpartum stretchy baby skin-weight.”
And then I think – “Maybe I can infer from the name of this place that they suck in tummies?”
And finally I think – “Ah, the hell with it, I’ll enter anyway and if I win it, I’ll buy a girdle.”
I need a new black dress that doesn’t have cat hair deeply and permanently embedded in the very fibers of its being.
I don’t want the dress, I want more pictures of Bossy in the dress. It looks like it belongs there.
What kind of accessories would you recommend for it when scaling boulders?
I am in desperate need of a new “little black dress”. Pick me, pick me!
–>I hope they have bigger sizes for those of us who are “Bossier” than others. Ahem.
Oh sweet dress! At not even close to 6ft tall Monique would love to wear this dress!
If I can look as good in the dress as you do, then I would like one, too! I am about a foot shorter than Bossy, but I can work the heels.
Ooh, ooh, pick me (instead of your nose)!
Fabulous dress! I live the long sleeved one !!
Random generate me, Bossy!
Count me in, please. The tank dress needs me.
I don’t actually want this dress, as I am QUITE POSITIVE I will not work that as well as Bossy, what with the pooch here and the butt there and why hello there Italian/German/Scottish hips and boobs and complete absence of waist. Nice to meet you. Some other worthy and slender person should win it.
It is going to look great with boots
Woo hoo! LOVE this dress!
I just want Bossy’s long legs. Any chance those will come with the dress?
Signed,
Wishing I was taller in Wisconsin.
P.S. No snow yet where I am.
Ooohh…I neeeeed a little black dress! Love it!
You are rockin’ it, Boss Woman!
Awesome dress!
Giving this a whirl, cause you never know! But I can’t decide between the long sleeve or the tanktop dress.
You look awesome in the dress Bossy!
a girl can ALWAYS use a little black dress…
Yummie indeed!
Bossy looks awesome in her LBD.
You look great!
Adorable dress, but of course Bossy would look fabulous in a potato sack.
I have a (big) yummie tummie that would be thankful for the slimming effects of either of these dresses!
My tummy is decidedly NOT yummy! Maybe this dress willhelp out in that area? Looks great on you, Bossy!
If I get the dress can I have your body, too?
Pretty! This is a nice giveaway, Bossy. Thanks!
It will never look that way on me, but what the hell!
I like the dress much better on Bossy than I do on the model. They should hire you! I’d take the tank dress if I won.
I am short, squat and the exact opposite of Bossy. That’s why I think I should win this dress!
Bossy, you are TINY! I’d love the morticia style sleeve dress.
Bossy, the little black dress screams “I dare you to disobey!” Go get ‘em, girl!
Do they make Bossy’s dress in dark brown? I love the long sleeved dress and the Rayony goodness.
Ooo! Pretty! Thanks for a chance to win! I sure won’t make it as model stunning as you, but I think I could rock that tank dress. (Although I do so love the Morticia sleeves…)
Not that I NEED another black dress but I do WANT another black dress. Cute!
The Ella Rae belongs in my LBD collection!
Pick me, pick me!!!
Ella Rae for EJ, please!
I will wait until I win to make the decision of which one I would prefer.
My Tummie could use some Yummie. Put me down for an Ella Rae.
Thanks for the fun website. You look wonderful in that dress!
You look wonderful! LOVE the shoes and dress and um, Ella Rae would be great. Thanks!
I need a new LBD!
Ack! I’m in!!! (squee!) Did you ever say where you got your heel-camp heels??? Because RRAWR!
it is so difficult to find cute clothes that pass dress code at my school, but Ella Rae could make an appearance with leggings!!
Bossy – you look GREAT in that dress!
Bossy, I really like the Ella Rae, but maybe that’s just because you look so fantastic in it. Wow!
I will never ever ever look as good in ANY dress as you do in the Ella Rae, but what the hey… I’m in! MAHALO, BOSSY!!!
LBD… yes please! oh please!
oooooo…. i’d love a black dress!
Wouldn’t I just cry if I won.
I love the Ella Rae! Is there also a contest to win mile-long legs? If so, I want to enter that one, too!!!
I don’t want the dress. But there is a wonderful song called “Little Black Dress” in SHOCK TREATMENT, the unsung sequel to THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.
No I’m not making this up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e4BCOrLmJ0
I love the Ella Rae dress.
My tummy is no longer yummy (thanks kids!) but maybe with this dress …..?
Ella Rae…with spanx!~
I’ve been looking for a Little Black Dress for quite some time – these ones are adorable.
and you look fantastic by the way!
You look beautiful! Who doesn’t need a little black dress that looks that good!
I’d love a little black dress, and an event at which to wear said dress.
Ella Rae! With my cheetah Charles David’s. RAWR!
Entry, please! What a great dress.
Love the little black dress, I don’t have one :::gasp:::!
Elissa
Heck yeah!
Love the long sleeves!
Looking good Bos! The only way you could guarantee that no one turns up at the 50th birthday party wearing the same dress………. is if you give it to ME x
Considering that I don’t even own and LBD, I am a shoo in.
long slleve would just love it
the dress is fab, but the shoes MAKE it.
Goodness. That Ella Rae is adorable. I have no nice clothes because I have two children. Nothing fits. It’s really quite sad. Pick me, random number generator, pick me!
Damn, GIna! I mean Bossy!
Random Number Generator be a lady tonight!
Oh good lord. Can I get Bossy’s figure when I win this dress?? (You think I am kidding, don’t you?)
And now that I am safely in the running for a giveaway destined for Australia (heh) – did Bossy see the Great Dane update/cheerup at my place?
http://bushbabeofoz.com/2010/11/13/aint-nothin-like-a/
BB
I should win the dress because I used to live in Atlanta and once dated someone in the higher ranks of Coca Cola’s team.
Ok, so that has more in common with your last post, but if you had to sit on possibly the worst date ever you would totally agree the Universe owes me a win.
What a great dress. I think everyone needs a little yum in their LBD.
Your photographer looks so grown-up!
Stunning! Is there a style that would make a 5′ 3″ decidedly overweight woman look 6′ and decidedly NOT overweight? Because I’d be all over that.
I need me a black dress!!!! PLZ & TY!!!!
I say give the “little black dress” to Kelly and Jeff in Richmond, VA and let them fight it out for dibs!!!
Yummy tummy is right. You’re GAW JUS.
Wow I love that dress, and I am jealous knowing I would never look that good in it. But I want it anyway. Thanks
Enter me, please!
simply smashing!
I’m off to work out in case I win. Be back next year sometime.
Ooh! You look amazing in that Ella Rae dress. I’d like to try that one even though I’m so much shorter than you that it may drag on the ground.
Ooooh….need…or at least WANT.
I need that Ella Rae dress so bad, in case I ever get a date again — I mean, it’s been two years, but PROBABLY that dress could GET me a date… Oh yes, yes, please. And thank you.
Oh, I so need that Ella Rae dress for my Holiday parties. Please, pick me random selector! Thank you!
What an amazing dress! I never win anything so this would be a great place to start! I’m digging that tank dress!
Looking hot!
Love the dress and the shoes!
love the dress!
Wait! I love this dress and I just was (really) groaning about the lack of long sleeved dresses available in the market. Hello! It’s cold outside. It is cold inside a lot of places. Long sleeved dresses are a win.
You rock it. I want to rock it too!
I love! your necklace. And little black dresses, too.
Ooh, count me in. 40 years old and have yet to own THE little black dress.
Work it, Bossy! I’d try and do that little black dress proud. But um…how much does it stretch because, well, baby got major back ;P
Please???
Seriously, Bossy, do you own any body fat at all??? But I NEED a hip little black dress b/c I, too, am going through a separation at 43 with a 3 1/2 year old and I NEED something to make me feel like a beautiful woman! (Although I know your random picker doesn’t care about need!)
pick me please… hopefully having a baby next week (if he ever feels like vacating his current comfy digs) and have 3 weddings between jan and march. I’ll need all the yummy tummy help I can get.
What a great dress!
Has anyone told you how gorgeous you are in that dress?
Smashing, Bossy! Love it. Hope I win, and I hope it goea well with babyfood.
I would look like ess atch eye tee in that dress, and yet, I still want it!
Sign me up for the slightly Morticia sleeves!
Oh yes please!
Ok, the heels? No. Think Red. With a red bracelet. Red and silver and black. Killer.
Yes, yes! I desperately need a yummie tummie! That is what the drawing is for, right?
If one is about five feet tall will this dress look as hot as when one is nearly six feet tall? And your photographer did a fab job of capturing all that hotness.
My tummy is faaaar from yummy, but I think the tank dress would be fantastic. Although I hope the yummy part of those dresses works magic so I look like you do in yours!
You do look amazing! Love the dress and would love to win one!
If I’m lucky enough to win, I would do my best to do that adorable dress justice.
I’m in desperate need of a LBD!!!!
I am just LOOKIN for a reason to buy some new strappy black shoes AND a pair of boots! C’mon Random thingy – pick meeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Bossy you look MAH-VELOUS!
Just clicked on link…Bossy looks WAAAY better than the model on the website!
You look amazing! The dress was made for you!
I want one! Too cute.
Ohh, those dresses are pretty awesome.. I would like one please, mister random number generator..
Although I don’t live in the US Bossy, so if that means I can’t play along, then I guess I can’t play along! Fingers crossed for international dress-winning parties though..
The dress looks so cute on you. I would like one too!
I love this dress – i want to look as good as Bossy does!
LL x
You look great. I’ll take this dress please and Bossy’s physique
Love the dress. You look amazing in it! I unfortunately would need a bigger size and probably wouldn’t look nearly as good as you do!! But would love it nonetheless.
You sure are pretty, Ms. Bossy
I’m six feet tall AND have stuff to suck in. The Shelley would be awesome! I could hang it in front of my elliptical machine on the days I wasn’t wearing it as inspiration.
I could rock the scene (are those the right words?) with my hairy legs and boiler if I won the dress
Oh, I would love to win. I need a new little black dress. Actually I don’t have an old one so I just need one.
Bossy, can I be you? You look awesome! I would so love that dress !
Has Bossy tried getting a gig as a model? Tall and thin with wild hair is what they want.
I like the dress you’re wearing, but no way is that knee length. Well, I guess it might be on me because I’m about three feet shorter than you are. Well not really three feet, but close.
I love that Ella Rae dress!! Gorgeousity!
OMG i am in love with this dress…..I need it…..
love it – can you give away your shoes too? I really love those
Wow, if it could make my tummy look yummy it would be worth a million dollars!
Bossy is nearly six feet tall?
Monnik is jealous.
And I love that dress.
I believe I could actually wear that shelly tank dress. Fun!
It seems all I ever wear anymore is (are?) jeans, so I could definitely use an LBD!
One can never have too many LBD’s!
I won’t be sassy and say I have the perfect CFM’s to go with it … or did I just blow it by saying I won’t say it?
*either way, I got CFM and blow in the same sentence*
Accccckkk, grow up Nancy!
This dress looks amazing on you! Hoping it’d look amazing on me?
That dress looks awesome on you… Or maybe you make the dress look awesome.
This dress would look amazing on my daughter as she looks like she belongs on some model-competition show just like BOSSY does. This dress, on me ,would look not- so-good, with not so good = upright sausage casing on legs
That dress looks great on you!
ooh – Ellar Rae for me.
love your hari.
You look stunning regardless of attire or hair. Amazing.
You should model for YummieTummie…the dress looks much better on you than online.
Whoa. I’m jealous >.<
I hope it’s not too late to enter. I need this dress! Although I could never look as fabulous in it as you do!
oh man oh man … i don’t have an LBD, and also nothing in my closet fits any more since i lost 60 lbs., so this would be SUPER. hope i am not too late to enter!
Gorgeous – I love the tank dress
love it
Am I too late? Looooove this look! Want it for myself!
I would like to compliment how amazing the dress looks on you and how handsome the random generator is!!!!!!
I have to win ONE of these times, right? Right? Pick me!!
I like the long sleeved dress. I have enough sun dresses, but nothing for winter.
I, unfortunately, have FOUND the 60 pounds that Rockle lost. Here they are, Rockle! Over here, right on my ass!!
I could use something to make me feel good right about now.
Would love the dress!
Love it and would love to own one of my own!
This dress is TRULY fabulous.
Am I too late, because that is cute?
Wow. That Heather Thomson is Brillant with a capital b. I wish I’d thought of that. Just what we women need….a little sqeeze in all the right places. You look stunning Bossy! Take that soon to be ex-husband. (hope I didn’t go too far there). I’d love either dress.
Cute blog! I’d love to take that dress for a wild ride with MY unruly hair in the passenger seat.
You look stunning. Cept that last photo
I *******NEED******* this.
“WHY?” you ask.
Because my tummy….she’s not so yummie :/.
prettyprettypleasepickmeMr.RandomThingy
The dress looks better on you than it does on the model on the website! Way, way better! And no, I’m not just saying that in hopes to increase my chance to win, since I know its random chance. You just really rock that dress.
you look absolutely MAH-velous in that dress!!
Super hot! What a perfect classic! I would give my left and maybe even my right arm for this….but then the dress would look funny…so maybe not.
This dress is gorgeous! Im in the process of losing almost 50 pounds (10 down so far!) and this dress would be the perfect thing to hang on my door as the outfit i want to wear once im small enough its absolutly stunning!
Geez, if I looked half that good in it, I’ll take 3!
I NEED THIS! I’ve never wanted anything more! haha!
Thank you for hosting such a practical giveaway, now that the holidays are drawing near. If I were the lucky winner, I would also like the Ella Rae long sleeve dress. I could spice it up with a pair of lace tights and wear it at this year’s Christmas party!
You have a great figure for the dress or “in” the dress. I’d wear bigger earrings, though. You need something to make it rock. Don’t love the shoes either. They’re cute, but drab with the dress.
I would love to win the Shelly Tank Dress.
You absolutely look fantastic in the long sleeves but I’m to short for that, IMO.
Wow. Bossy’s got back!
b, that dress is fab. i hope the random generator is kind to me. i totally let people go in front of me today in traffic. i have good karma (or car-ma) coming my way.
I adore the Shelley Tank Dress, it is absolutely stunning.
I would love a new dress for my 50th birthday. And Bossy’s hair! I’m feeling like I could use a bit of luck and someone to tell me that my existing clothes and kids and I will survive our head lice infestation…I had been told that it was an inevitable part of elementary school, and I didn’t believe it!
I would love to win this!!
Gorgeousness! My favorite new dress. I’d love to try the Shelly tank dress, too, albeit under something baggier.
Oh please let it be #239!
i cannot pick which! but ohhhhhhhhhh the wanting!
Do we lowly Canadians get to win? Because if we do, my hat’s in this ring. I love that dress!
Must. Have. Dress.
I’ll take two please!
That dress is beautiful on you!
You look great in that dress.. I say wear it all week to celebrate your birthday. I know I would if I had something I looked that good in.
very nice outfit!!!