Demetrios Evening style A116 is a floor-length Demetrios Evening gown cut in allover corded guipure floral lace, shown here in a soft light blue and also offered in Blue, Purple and Dark Purple. The lace is worked in raised open flowers rather than printed on mesh, and fine sequins and seed beads are scattered through the motifs so the fabric reads quietly luminous in photographs instead of glittery. A sleeveless illusion jewel neckline carries scalloped lace flowers across sheer tulle at the chest and again in a matching panel across the upper back, giving full shoulder and decolletage coverage while keeping the line light. A narrow beaded band marks the natural waist, and the skirt traces the hip before releasing below the knee into a soft fit-and-flare sweep with a scalloped lace hem and a brush train. The back is high and completely closed over a concealed center zipper, with no slit and no open back, which makes A116 a practical choice for house-of-worship ceremonies and conservative black-tie dress codes where most light blue lace gowns on the market arrive with a slit or a low back. It runs sizes 0 through 28 and works for the mother of the bride or groom, a wedding guest or guest-of occasion, a bar or bat mitzvah mom, a grandmother of the bride, a charity gala or any long evening event. See it alongside the rest of the best-selling evening and cocktail styles and the evening plus sizes collection.
Lace like this is decided in a fitting room, not on a screen. The illusion yoke has to sit flat at the collarbone, the beaded waistband has to land at your narrowest point, and the flare has to break at the right place on your leg for your height and heel, all of which move person to person. Jan's Boutique keeps more than 15,000 dresses in a 13,000 square foot store with 50 dressing rooms at 406 Marlton Pike E, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034, so you can try A116 in light blue next to the purple and blue colorways and compare it with other lace gowns the same afternoon. Clothing is not taxed at Jan's Boutique, and our in-house alterations department hems, takes in and adjusts corded lace on site, which matters on a scalloped hem that has to be rebuilt rather than simply cut. We are about 20 minutes from Center City Philadelphia, 15 minutes from the Ben Franklin and Walt Whitman bridges, and an easy drive from Delaware County, Montgomery County, Bucks County, Wilmington, Newark DE, Princeton, Toms River, Atlantic City, Staten Island and central New Jersey. Call 856-428-8181 or book an appointment and ask for style A116 by name so it is waiting in your size when you arrive.
