Cheap formal wear (1 Viewer)

[sly fly]

Hello,
A good friend of mine is having her wedding in about a months time and I'm probably giving a speech at the wedding so I need to look really nice. I was wondering if anyone knows of any nice places in Sydney that sell beautiful yet cheap formal dresses. I wanna spend MAX $150 (and that's only if it's reallyyyy nice) coz I really need to save up to go overseas. I hear there are some stores in redfern where you can get really nice dresses for less than $100 but I was told this by my mum so I suspect that the dresses are probably tacky/old fashioned....anyone been to these redfern stores? I also hear that fairfield has cheap dresses....anyone know anything bout that? There's a shop called New look in Auburn which was having a massive everything-half-price sale the other day and I found a gorgeoussss dress for $120 but the only thing was they didn't do layby and i didn't have all the money with me at the time . Anywayz, does anyone know where I can get a really nice non-tacky dress or has anyone been to the redfern/fairfield stores and can tell me more about them? Thanks!

 

[Lizakith]

http://www.madaboochoo.com.au/
This is an Australian site, and they have some really nice dresses on there.

 

[sly fly]

^Thanks for the site.......it had some nice cocktail/party dresses, but I'm looking for something more formal. Like for example the one I saw at New Look was a backless halter-neck full length dress with like this tail thing at the back that would drape across a little bit of the floor....it was stunning

 

[Lizakith]

http://www.madaboochoo.com.au/boutique/clothing_black-tie-dresses.htm
black tie wear

 

[sly fly]

^Thank's Liza, some of them were quite pretty but not really what I'm after

 

[Born Dancer]

http://www.allegrofashion.com.au/

 

[-coffee-addict-]

allegro fashion has some reali nice things.. does anyone know if they r reliable tho?

 

[sly fly]

^Thanks born dancer.....they're not really what I'm looking for though

 

[sly fly]

anyone???

 

[^CoSMic DoRiS^^]

Well you don't want to outshine the bride. I'd go for something simple (maybe even a cocktail dress if the invitation doesn't specify black tie dressing). I would say to go back to that New Look place and bring your moneys and buy something.

 

[MfemmeS]

Well I ordered a cocktail dress from this website, and it was under hundred bucks. They have homecoming, cocktail, bridesmaid, prom, formal evening wear dresses. All for real cheap. Heres there link

http://www.camdendrive.com/

and heres the other for cocktail dresses.
Formal Cocktail Dresses

 

[Calculators]

Anybody know some cheap place for male formal wear? I've got my formal coming up soon and I don't wanna spend a fortune.

 

[Born Dancer]

Well I ordered a cocktail dress from this website, and it was under hundred bucks. They have homecoming, cocktail, bridesmaid, prom, formal evening wear dresses. All for real cheap. Heres there link

http://www.camdendrive.com/

and heres the other for cocktail dresses.
Formal Cocktail Dresses

except that's an american site.. not the most awesome time to be buying american stuff given our exchange rate

 

[HalcyonSky]

a mate wore a $10 suit from the salvo's to the formal, you could probably get like a brides dress from there and wear it

 

[Scissors]

a mate wore a $10 suit from the salvo's to the formal, you could probably get like a brides dress from there and wear it

 

[settle*precious]

Portmans nice dresses for like $130