<p><span style="color: #0000ee"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="color: #000000">         <br /></span></span></span></p>  <div><span style="font-weight: normal"></span></div>  <p><img title="IMG_0128" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="751" alt="IMG_0128" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG_0128_thumb1.jpg" width="563" border="0" /></p>  <p><img title="IMG_0131" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="422" alt="IMG_0131" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG_01311.jpg" width="563" border="0" /></p>  <p><img title="IMG_0129" style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="422" alt="IMG_0129" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/IMG_01291.jpg" width="563" border="0" /></p>  <p>&quot;I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.&quot;   <br />Coco Chanel, April 29, 1939</p>  <p>Hi everyone!&#160; My name is Mehnaz and yes, I only wear dresses.&#160; Maybe it was all those years in prep school or wearing sorority chic at Lehigh University, but I woke up one day with the sudden realization – I love dresses and I want to wear them all the time.&#160; Vintage.&#160; Nouveau.&#160; Couture.&#160; Off-the-rack.&#160; Short.&#160; Long.&#160; Ethnic. Conservative.&#160; Professional.&#160; Every dress imaginable.&#160; </p>  <p>I live and love with the John of my dreams in Chicago and this blog is a digital scrapbook and style log of my passions: wearing lovely dresses, American legal history, reading, anything by Apple, opera, old movies, fashion law, and most important, traveling.</p>  <p>This lovely lace dress is from the first birthday (mine!) that the Boy and I shared together.&#160; It was the first time we dined at The Green Zebra which has become one of our favorite Chicago restaurants. <a href="http://www.greenzebrachicago.com/">The Green Zebra</a>is almost 98% vegetarian (featuring a fish dish or two for the carnivores) and shares a head chef and owner with <a href="http://www.springrestaurant.net/">Spring</a>.&#160; My favorite memory of this night was when a man stopped us on the street to tell us “we looked beautiful.”</p>  <p>When I am not enjoying our charmed lives or thinking of dresses, I am (academically) obsessed with American legal history – more specifically, President Richard Nixon, East Asian foreign policy, the history of American foreign policy, and the history of the American conservative movement.</p>  <p><span style="font-weight: normal"></span><span style="font-weight: normal">Welcome to my shiny-bubbly-sparkly life.</span></p>  <p><span style="font-weight: normal">*********************************************************************************************</span></p>  <p><span style="font-weight: normal">If you share the same passions or have questions, just e-mail me at ionlyweardresses@gmail.com.</span></p>  <p><span style="font-weight: normal">Please don't steal photos or content.&#160; It's not very nice.&#160; If you'd like to use anything (even on facebook or twitter), please source back.&#160; If I'm stepping on your toes, please let me know as I always attempt to source everything back to its owner.</span></p>