Illusions by Alyce: Unique dresses for Prom & Parties.

    This season we have seen illusion gowns short, long, glittery, smokey and everything in between! It is no doubt that this sophisticated style has been a HOT choice for the fashion forward lady looking to be noticed. It certainly is a style that is a step beyond the demure Grecian a-lines that come to mind when you think of prom.

    Heading the vanguard of this style trend is the formal wear designer Alyce. Alyce offers such a wide range of personality in their garments that if your looking to step out in this provocative style you will want to familiarize yourself with their options.

Getting the look of hauteur dark romance styles woven by designers such as Gucci, Emilio Pucci & Prada during their Fall/Winter 2013-2014 line is a breeze with these Alyce Designs dresses. Each of these 2013 evening gown styles feature the option to purchase in black and boast a flowing semi-sheer floor length skirt.

The Alyce-6919 was featured in SEVENTEEN Magazine's Prom issue under the tag line

 "Look Great for Less". Certainly a fine pick for a fashionista looking to make the dance floor her own personal runway. *note* The bow is easily removed for a more chic styling.

True to trend, this sexy homecoming style takes the form fitting bodycon trend to new heights! 

Unlike the other styles featured here, it is a short cocktail length that is perfect for a range of occasions  A smokey net top is drizzled with swirling floral appliques and just a hint of sequins to give it that extra twinkle in photos! Pair this dress with a cropped bolero jacket to give it a lil more of your own personality!

As if torn from the pages of a Jason Wu lookbook, this fierce Alyce design is made from whisper thin gauze fabric that wraps around your form like smoke! The somewhat see through lace covers all the areas modesty demands while giving the illusion of skin just beneath twinkling sequins. Worth noting is it's open cameo style back!

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Stay Tuned for PART TWO: Colorful Crystals & "The Nudist".

Vegas, Baby! D&G Inspired Prom / Homcoming Fashion

85088B from Mac Duggal.

Honey what screams GLAMOUR and SEX APPEAL quite like VEGAS?! Well many

designers have drawn their inspirations from the golden city of lights and vice including

Dolce & Gabbana and prom designer Mac Duggal.

In Mac Duggal's "EDGE" line of dresses we see a strong focus on a modern girl who is up with the most cutting trends. Cutting. Edge. See what we did there? har har.

Jokes aside these fitted bodycon styles are worth the penny you drop on them. The styles work for a range of occasions from Homecoming to a night out in the city! Its because you can keep wearing these quality garments over and over youll find they pay for themselves within the year.

Today's style focus is on the  "Wild Beauty".

Pair this MacDuggal cocktail dress with smokey bedroom eyes and a stained plum ( or be brave- do the classic red! ) lip to maximize the "va-va-voom" effect.

Maaza Miss India New York 2012-13.

As apart of our grand crusade to connect with the community, our shop Merrily Couture sponsored it's very first Pageant girl!  We have sold dresses to plenty of girls in pageants ( mostly the NY circuits ) but this was the first time as a sponcor. So let us introduce you to our girl, Noopoor Akruwala!She is a multi-year runner in the Maaza Miss India New York pageants who in years past won best in talent, and many runner up ribbons. Wearing our sequin dress she was CROWNED and sashed with the title, maaza Miss India New York 2012-13! ! How exciting ?!

In 2011 Noopoor was just short of the crown, taking home the title of the first runner-up.

At age 20 she came back to the circuit to claim FIRST PLACE. Second to no one we are so proud to have sponsored a dress she wore the year of her Victory!

With all this mention of her pageant dress we should show you a picture huh?

 Well here it is in action at 1:16:

We are eager to get her into our long island dress shop so we can take our own photos of her with her beautiful crown! So expect to see those photos posted to our FB Fan page soon over at: https://www.facebook.com/MerrilyCoutureFashions 

In the mean time here is a photo of her captured at the pageant itself, working that runway!

Just look at how the subtle hi-low style gives her some serious height and length in the legs. The sequin ombre is also a great way to have glitz while still getting the light weight flutter of the chiffon fabric at the base.

Under the Spotlight: 2013 Prom Fashion Shows.

One of our goals as a new prom shop on long island, NY is to reach out and connect to the community around us. There is such a lack of focus on the community these days that it seems pretty odd to us. After all, without you girls we wouldnt be much of a store!haha So with this in mind Merrily Couture has been hosting tons of fashion shows at local Highschools to raise awareness to these epic designs!

Two of our most recent shows have been with New Field Highschool & Comsewogue Highschool. Each had their own flare to the show itself, one focusing purely on the decadence of evening wear styles and the other offering a range of styles from mother of the bride/groom and even casual street fashion.

The New Field Highschool fashion show had this lovely runway set up for both students & teachers to strut it out on. The platform had a backdrop of their art student's finest work tiled behind and strips of glowing multi-colored lights trimming either side. Their theater crew had large spotlights trained on them that just showed how lovely these sequins & crystals look under light. In many of the photos you can even see how the light refracts onto the skin creating a rainbow prism effect that is just... mega dazzling!

On the left we have MacDuggal 50116M & the right is Primavera 9707.

Both dresses feature a silver touched champagne color and flirty aqua fabric, which as it ends up - are two of our most popular selling colors for this 2013 prom season. Champagne is flying off the shelves as it tends to be the color some of our most unique prom dresses that would easily outshine half the Oscars! 

Check our more photos of the New Field Prom Fashion show 2013 at our FB Fan page:

Girls were lined up in tiers across the Comsewogue Highschool auditorium's stage in every shade you could imagine! It really gives you an idea of the true range of styles we carry in the store when you see 50 some odd girls glittering before ya! Again, the most popular shade was that of Champagne , ivory gold & mochas.

In terms of the silhouette our mermaid fit & flare gowns really made waves. When you think of a mermaid dress a lot of people have such an outdated, 80s mental image associated with it that they tend to veer away from the style all together. These days the trumpet shapes are much more sophisticated and a fine way to chisel out a bombshell hourglass figure!

( Seen above on left are 2 of our most popular MacDuggal designs.)

These gowns feature semi sheer netted bottoms that are somewhat like the sheer illusion skirts we are seeing off the runway. Its a great way to show a little leg while keeping the mystery and extravaganza of a full length red carpet gown.

You can see all of our photos on FB! Or scroll down to watch a small video of them in action!