Tuesday, June 5, 2012

What's a Maxi?

Gracia Maxi Dress(shop similar)/ Chanel Bag/ Kate Spade Sunglasses/ BaubleBar Necklace/ Michael Kors Watch/ NY&Co Watch/ Forever 21 & Nordstrom Bracelets
For a long time now I've been walking around in Maxi Dresses wondering why the heck we call them Maxi Dresses. Yes, I do in fact have [some] common sense and realize that it's maximum length but the term Maxi isn't used for much else besides Maxi Pads right? Well I finally I decided to Yahoo it [because I hate Google] and found out that I was not alone in my 'Why Maxi?' quest:
4 Years ago Liana K. was wondering the same thing and got some Yahoo! Answers

I'm thinking that the most reasonable explanation is that a Maxi Dress is opposite of a Mini Dress, but I think I like Ken E.'s response better:

'The Aztec women averaged 8 feet tall, when they put on the regular dresses, they were way to short. Metacolumba (the chief) said to the dressmakers "make them much longer." The dressmakers responded with "how long?". Metacolumba said "MAXI".'

Any other good explanations out there?



10 comments:

  1. LADY! You look stunning in this amazing dress. I love it.

    xo.

    Angie

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    1. Thank you Angie! The second I saw this dress on ideeli I knew it HAD to be mine LOL

      XO!

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  2. Looking lovely, as usual. So jealous of your vintage Chanel! WANT! *pout* Sadly, even the discounted ones are still a little too rich for my blood.

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    1. Thanks Amber! I hear you girl, it was probably too rich for my blood too, but I bought it anyways LOL. It was an investment in my wardrobe future...:-)

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  3. Great point about calling them maxi! But you hate Google? :(

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    1. Whoops! Foot in mouth...I just looove my yahoo homepage! LOL

      And did I forget to mention that people who work at Google are AWESOME? :-)

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  4. You look amazing dear!
    Gorgeous blog! Following! Hope you'll follow me back! <3

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