emerald green dress bridesmaid Azazie Brooke this convertible bridesmaid dress offers a ruffled skirt and removable spaghetti straps. Emerald Green Bridesmaid Gowns |

To explore this issue more deeply, I talked with Coshandra Dillard, a writer for Teaching Tolerance who covers equity issues in education, among other things, and wrote about dress codes last year

The pieces are fitted and tailored

All of these colors make up a perfect fall outfit and the black boots take a pretty casual look and dress it up a little

(I've just ordered a 1940s style coat from them that is making me heart sing with anticipation.) Though the stretchy fabric is modern, this dress would have looked just right in the late 1930s, through to the mid 1940s

Then, extend the tape measure down to the hem of the dresss skirt