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Oct 19, 2015

Trashy Diva Dress Review: The Peacock Maria

By Holly in 1940's, 1950's, dress review, outfit post, plus size, red lipstick, repro, trashy diva with 4 comments
Peacock Maria Dress by Trashy Diva
Peacock Maria Dress by Trashy Diva

When I went down to the Trashy Diva boutique on Saturday, I was on a mission to pick up one of the new pieces from the Forget Me Not Floral collection. On my way to the dressing room, I ran across a mannequin with this dress on it and fell in love hard. While I’ve been on a “fancy” dress ban, this sequined dress stole my heart and I had to have it. I’ll review the floral one I bought next week, but I wanted to get to this one first since it’s limited edition and likely to be gone from stores incredibly soon.

The Peacock Maria Dress by Trashy Diva
The Peacock Maria Dress by Trashy Diva

This is actually a variation on the Peacock Lillian, which was released several years ago and has become a collector’s item for lots of Trashy Diva fanatics. This dress is made out of thicker rayon, with a gorgeously full skirt and the same intricate beading that was featured on the Lillian. Forgive the wrinkly skirt here – I took these on a windy day and my skirt was blowing around constantly!

Close up of beading on dress
Close up of beading on dress – for some reason this came out looking all lint covered, but I swear it’s not in real life. 

The beading on this is just lovely and really makes the simple cut of the dress work. I tried several different hair flowers and head bands with it, but eventually decided to let the beading be the star.

Trashy Diva Peacock Maria Dress
Trashy Diva Peacock Maria Dress

As you can see, there is a lot of skirt here! While I normally don’t go for dresses with really full skirts, I think it works well here to balance out all the beading on top.

As for sizing, I took a 16 in this. I tried a 14, 16 and 18 in store for comparison. The waist on the 14 was perfect but the chest was too small, the chest was perfect on the 16 and the waist was a tiny bit big and everything was too big on the 18. If you have a large bust/waist differential, I’d go up a size in this.

Peacock Maria Dress by Trashy Diva
Peacock Maria Dress by Trashy Diva

This also has pockets, which I love! It’s so hard to find fancier dresses with pockets and these are deep enough to hold your id, lipstick and cards on a night out.

If you do want to get your hands on this, it’s listed on the website here. I suspect it will sell out insanely quickly, as I saw every woman in the store pick one up this weekend. My sense was that it was a fairly limited edition release, so if you love it I would grab it as soon as your funds allow.

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Holly

Living the vintage lifestyle in an antique house in New Orleans. In love with the 1940’s, red lipstick and pincurls. For collaborations, please contact [email protected]

4 comments on “Trashy Diva Dress Review: The Peacock Maria”

  • Jasmine
    October 19, 2015 at 11:31 pm

    I was only just lusting after this dress… it is so pretty. Thanks for the review 🙂 one quick question, how tall are you? I am just wondering how long it will be on me.

    Thanks for sharing 🙂

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    • Holly (author)
      October 20, 2015 at 12:24 am

      5’4″!

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  • Jessica Cangiano
    October 22, 2015 at 2:35 am

    What a breathtakingly pretty dress! It looks like a million bucks and then some on you, dear Holly.

    ♥ Jessica

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  • Silver Cat Tea Party
    October 24, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    Looks absolutely lovely on you Holly! I’m so glad you picked this one up! <3

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Living the vintage lifestyle in an antique house in New Orleans. In love with the 1940’s, red lipstick and pincurls.

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