Prairie Underground Review and Giveaway

Oh my friends, words cannot express my excitement about this giveaway. At this point, I'm sure you're all aware of my borderline unhealthy obsession with Prairie Underground's Long Cloak Hoodies. I purchased the red one pictured above while visiting New York in February, and it quickly became my absolute favorite garment. I am not kidding when I say I'm tempted to wear it constantly, and despite the hefty price tag I've ponied up for an additional two. Yes, really. And I have absolutely no regrets.

Prairie Underground is a company that creates clothing in small batches from materials that include organic cotton farmed sustainably and remnant/salvaged fabrics. Their garments are designed and ethically made in Seattle. So THAT'S a big boatload of awesome. And, of course, their designs are fun, flattering, comfortable, versatile, unique, and utterly gorgeous. I am perfectly comfortable with my raving fangirl status, thankyouverymuch.

I got in touch with the amazing designers behind Prairie Underground - Davora Lindner and Camilla Eckersley - and they generously offered to send me a couple more designs to try out.*

Wise as they are, the ladies sent me a pair of their Denim Girdle Leggings. These are basically the only pair I've ever tried that successfully straddle the line between jeggings and jeans. They are stretchy and flexible and fabulously comfortable, and work beautifully as denim leggings.

But they also have enough detail - including cargo-like decorative seaming - and structure to work as skinny jeans, too. They launder beautifully, have a marvelously high rise, and you can see exactly how happy they make me in the three above photos.

I was also sent this Sateen Mothette dress in coral:

As you can see, this dress is utterly lovely ... but I don't feel it quite works with my figure. The dress waistline falls several inches below my own waist, and the asymmetric flap at hip-level juts out a bit more than I'd like. Looking at the website photos, however, I believe that this dress would be stunning on a gal with slightly different proportions.

So, my loss is your gain: I'm giving this dress away to a lucky Already Pretty reader! A couple of IMPORTANT things to note:

• It is this exact dress that I'm giving away. I opened it from the package and tried it on twice. Never had it on for more than 15 minutes total, including the time it took to take this photo. But the dress is not 100% new. You've been warned.

• This dress is a size medium. I wear a size 8 in most mall dresses and it fit me in the waist, bust, and hips. You can find a size chart for this dress here and I would guess that the dress will fit a U.S. size 6, 8, or a smallish 10. Flat measurements are 16" bust, 14" waist, 19" at widest part of hips.

• If you have questions, you can e-mail me and I'll respond as best I can. DO NOT LEAVE QUESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST. I will not respond to them.

If you enter this giveaway, you are agreeing to receive a dress that has been tried on by me and fits the above specifications. If you don't like it, it doesn't fit, or you didn't carefully read these detailed disclaimers, that's on you, kitten. No returns, exchanges, or complaints. Got it? Great! Here's what you've got to do to enter:

1. Leave a comment on this post telling us how you'd style this amazing dress, and A VALID E-MAIL. Comments without a valid e-mail in the comment will be disqualified.
   
   
2. This contest is open to international readers. I'll be mailing the dress myself, so it might come slowly ... but it'll come!
   
   
3. Cross your fingers!
   

Enter by midnight CST on Sunday, May 15, 2011. I'll draw a winner at random the following day. This giveaway is open to everyone, including international readers. Good luck

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