Yes, as you might have concluded, my fabulous surprise is a Shabby Apple Marseilles Dress, direct from Shabby Apple in any size you like! Valued at $86.
As a mother, I often want my clothes to look feminine but not skimpy. When looking for dresses, that can be a thin line, which is why I fell in love with the designs Shabby Apple offers.
I think you will feel the same when you look at all their flirty yet modest women's dresses. Oh and of course, you must also check out their simply adorable baby line and stylish maternity line.
To my excitement, they agreed to do a guest giveaway with Grosgrain! The winner of this giveaway will receive the Marseilles dress (my favorite) featured above, right and below, in any size of their choice.
For those of you who don't want to wait for your fabulous dress, Shabby Apple is also offering a 15% off coupon to all Grosgrain readers! Use the code grosgrainfabulous15off. With their already reasonable prices it's a little hard not to pass up.
The Marseilles dress is a blue striped faux-wrap dress. It has two pockets on the chest and a large shirt collar. A tie threads through a hole at waist the waist of the dress, cinching the waistline. The dress' skirt has no opening and has five inset panels to make a full swing skirt.
The dress is made from french blue stretch cotton poplin with multi-colored stripes. To care for this dress, machine wash cold, delicate cycle. Lay dress flat to dry. DRESS FITS GENEROUSLY. (about one size larger than our 'Fits True to Size' dresses)
Shabby Apple welcomes you to great dresses that make dressing simple. After years of not being able to find stylish dresses that covered enough skin to make you really feel comfortable (without wearing a tank top, cardigan or long slip), owners Emily and CK decided to do something about it.
They visited trade shows, marketplaces and designer studios only to discover the problem was not that department stores weren't buying the right dresses, but that designers weren't designing them.
We at Shabby Apple Dresses love to help women dress but are also commited to helping women live as well. Thus we are supporting the fight against global poverty by partnering with Unitus-a non-profit organization that accelerates access to life-changing financial services for those at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Shabby Apple donates 5% of its net dress sales to support work in India (where Shabby Apple Dresses sources many of its dresses the textiles used to manufacture its dresses). In addition, each Shabby Apple Dresses customer has the opportunity to donote an extra five dollars to Unitus every time she buys a dress.
Shabby Apple Dresses and Unitus are involved with 10 of India's most promising microfinance organizations that provide financial services to more than 1.6 million hard-working women and their families.
Shabby Apple is proud to offer you fantastic dresses that allow you to look fabulous, without having to compromise anything else. A return to what dresses were always meant to be-- a one-piece outfit. No need to add anything...no tank tops, no cardigans, nothing (except accessories, of course!)
As usual, if you would like a chance to win this dress just link back to this post. If you have any questions see the "questions and answers" link to the right. If you use blogger just use the "create a link" link at the bottom of this post. If you don't use blogger, that's fine too. Just create a link on your page as you normally would and I will see it using Technorati.
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I LOVE IT!!! WOW, what a great dress and a great company. With two little girls of my own dresses that make you feel pretty but still allow you to chase a crazy two year old are hard to find
Amazing dress!!!! I love Shabby Apple! This dress is calling my name! I love it!
i have been admiring dresses at shabby apple for quite sometime, but this one is my absolute favorite so far. i spent loads of time ogling it the other day when you posted it...i love it! our budget doesn't really allow me any personal purchases, but if it did i would have snagged it the other day for certain!
Wow! I would love to win this dress. The styles are unbelievable. Very hip and modest. I love that!!
I'm so glad you featured this company! I had never heard of them but will definitely be investing a dress or two as soon as I find the extra money!
My link is up! My fingers are crossed! Can't wait to see their fall line too.
love it, thanks for the discount code.
I LOVE Shabby Apple.. Pretty please?!
Fantastic company! Love the dress
Love all things Shabby Apple! Their designs rock!
I really like everything that Shabby Apple has. Even if it is not for "my body style" they are all so friggin cute.
crossing my fingers on this one!
I put up the link! The dress is gorgeous!!!
How fabulous! They really have beautiful and comfortable dresses. Thanks for the giveaway and the discount code!
Absoultely love that dress!
I was really hoping this was what the surprise was going to be! I looked at their entire site the first time you mentioned it awhile ago. Yesterday's post just made me love them more. It is impossible to find a cute dress with personality and sleeves. I did a whole post about this dilemma with a link. I would love to win this dress. It was one of my top 3 picks.
Ah!! I just love your giveaways!!!
I just love Shabby Apple!
I would love to be shabby enough to wear that dress! LOVE it!
Love this dress! You find some of the most gorgeous things!!
I put up a blog about this
Tracy
Oneretromama.blogspot.com
Thanks for sharing your time and talents. This is a wonderful giveaway.
SO awesome! I love their dresses!!!
I linked, now I'm crossing my fingers. It's so darn cute!!!
I sew need a new Mommy Dress!
Yipeee!!! I love it! I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Wow. Lovely dresses!
Their dresses are stylish and pretty. I am always looking for dresses whose necklines don't plunge down to the navel or you are afraid to bend down because they are too short. I would like to win this dress.:)
aunteegem@yahoo.com
put up a link... gorgeous dress! :)
SO Cute! This is my first time on this website and I absolutely love all of your dresses and accessories. Beautiful!
Just beautiful! I saw several dresses I would love to own from their collection!
I love your give aways!!!!!!!!!
http://vintage-angelc.blogspot.com/2009/06/marseilles-dress-shabby-apple-guest.html
There's the link.
Ooohh! Their dresses are gorgeous! I LOVE their website! It's so hard to find modest dresses that are cute.
I would cry with happiness if I won. I love the dresses at Shabby Apple. I am private, but I created a link for my friends and family that do look. Email me at chelcram@msn.com
YOU ARE GREAT!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PICK ME! Thank you for so much for the wonderful opportunity to win such a beautiful dress. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world, and for free! You are such an admirable individual!
I'm linked up. I would love to have that dress! I think it would be a flattering style to wear after I have my baby in a few weeks and have some shaping up to do. Shabby Apple always has darling, modest items!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PICK ME! Thank you for so much for the wonderful opportunity to win such a beautiful dress. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world, and for free! You are such an admirable individual!
What an awesome giveaway! Thanks for bringing it to us... Just posted it! =)
Beautiful dress!
so very cute!
what a gorgeous dress and an amazing company!
totally ordering from them! i love their whole business 'way'.
Sweet sweet Sweet!
I linked this to Art Nest! It is hard being a mom and finding the right balance in clothing between too young and too old. I think mothers could wear these clothes and feel awesome!
The prices are great too!
Susannah @ Art Nest
I posted about this on my blog! :) These are AWESOME!
Oooh la, la pick me
linked! This dress looks PERFECT for recently pregnant moms-- flexible fit and nursing access. Oh La!
linked! This dress looks PERFECT for recently pregnant moms-- flexible fit and nursing access. Oh La!
I posted a link on my blog!
http://badonkatonkas.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-want-to-go-to-there.html
Hopefully I did it right cuz I want that dress! Even though I'm prego and will soon be too big, it'll be a nice motivator to lose all the baby weight! I may just have to use the discount on those mama apple dresses!
i have wanted to own one of their dresses for a while now, especially their lois lane dress. if it weren't for high shipping prices plus customs and taxes i would have ordered one already.. so thanks for doing this give-away! *off to create link*
How fabulous - I adore this dress, and the great company mission!
As always - crossin' my fingers...
just posted a link!!! hope i win!!!
Yea for modest dresses!! They are so hard to find!! Thanks for sharing the find!! I put in a post and I am so hoping to win!!!
ah! it's adorable!
What a gorgeous dress I am so excite for this giveaway!
this dress is too damn chic. it's got that old fashioned drop dead gorgeous 50's woman vibe and that contemporary sass that definitely yearns for high heels and a little strut in your stuff. the oomph of fashion. oh i just adore it. clapping my hands right now. bravo shabby apple!
Good Lord. I'm so dazzled that I'm confused. I have two blogs, but can really only justify it on one. So I did two posts, one with your title, one with mine (to keep the look)...eek. What more should I do. I feel an idiot.
I put it on my bricolage blog, but the create a link went to draft on my other blog Giulia Geranium. That's photos & human rights & stuff. Not dresses. Yikes. Please advise...thanks. I love your blogs. Saw thru a writer friend's blog on my site. To quote my own self: worlds collide:)
xo/svs/gg
Linked! Thanks for sharing shabby apple, their dresses are wonderful!
Fantastic giveaway! I'm very new to Shabby Apple, it's being saved as an absolute favorite... nice dresses are HARD to find.
Oh my!! Finally, FINALLY, I have found some cute dresses (and modest). I am in love! I would love to buy several but most are sold out in my size. darn darn darn but I will definitely stay tuned!! amy
I'm not sure if a link via Facebook is OK but I've created my link and I'm hoping for the best! Great dress!
Shabby Apple has so many lovely dresses! I love their purpose!
I blogged. :)
I want this dress so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love a one piece outfit
This dress in gorgeous. I linked to it, but I don't see my name below yet. Ooh I hope I win.
very pretty!
I love this dress!!!
Wow, those are great! I think I'm going to have to splurge here and get one.
OK. I confess to complete stupidity. I've done two posts. Not showing up. So here they are:
http://unebricoleuse.blogspot.com/2009/06/marseilles-dress-shabby-apple-guest.html
and
http://unebricoleuse.blogspot.com/2009/06/marseilles-dress-in-blue-white.html
Sorry. I hope this works...my feed is acting weird, too.
xo Susan/GG
So Jean Seberg! I love it and linked it!
www.ipullprints.blogspot.com
I have linked you and I am on Technoratiam.
What an awesome dress. The prefect dress to want to lose the baby weight after this little guy is born!
I posted a link too! What's not to love about this dress?
I always peruse Shabby Apple's site and wish that I could treat myself to one of any of their fantastic dresses!!
I second the chorus of people exclaiming how awesome this company is! It's so hard to find cute, comfortable dresses for work - glad someone out there is working to fix that!
(Blogged the giveaway)
OH MY GOSH... I need I want I love!!!
this dress is so cute! I would hope it would look as good on me as it does on you and the model. what a perfect dress for summer!
Thanks so much for introducing me to Shabby Apple! This dress - and all of theirs - are fabulous! I've linked to my blog :)
Gorgeous! I've linked!
What an amazing dres - i loves it! I will link you tomorrow (I am also having a givewaway on my blog tomorrow - 3 dresses!!!)
Cheers x
Lusty
That dress is to die for!!!! So cute! I love how modest it is! Perfect for mommas!
Amazing dress! I've linked to it, and my fingers are crossed!! http://wendyjanelle.blogspot.com/2009/06/dressy-inspiration.html
Sorry - I realised that I was supposed to share the link I had created on my Facebook here ... so here it is:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=615550950&k=SWG663QRVZVMXEDIYJZ5Y
I spent a long time on the Shabby Apple site last night - *sigh* how gorgeous are those dresses?!!
Thank you for this. How could I have not heard of Shabby Apple before? These are the dresses I've been looking for all of my life :)
I made a link. This dress is gorgeous!
Hello Gorgeous. You belong in my closet.
I linked: http://grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com/2009/05/shabby-apple-marseilles-dress-guest.html
erica.zimmerman@gmail.com
This dress is so cute! I love all of their stuff!
I totally posted a link! I'd love to win a dress from that awesome line!
I made my link! Crossing fingers and toes because I need a new dress!!!!!! PICK ME!
LOVE IT! I linked to it:
http://devsfavoritegiveaways.blogspot.com/2009/05/giveaways-ending-june-6th-7th.html
THANKS!
I love Shabby Apple, I have two dresses from them already and they are wonderful. I have been loving this dress for a while now. Here's hoping!
Oh, I created a link from my blog: stakerfamilycircus.blogspot.com
Thanks for the giveaway!
What great dresses! They are beautiful and functional. I would love one!
Love the whole premise! I'm so glad to have discovered this company--thanks!
I love this dress! I agree with the too skimpy dresses, it's tough to just find a nice dress!
Finally modest, fashionable dresses. So cute.
I linked this to my blog! Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
http://teamwillie.blogspot.com/2009/06/marseilles-dress-shabby-apple-guest.html
Those dresses are gorgeous! AWESOME!
You always come up with another great find, and another temptation for my closet! blogged @ Annigurumi
Love it!!!
I would love that dress!!
I love this dress. So cute. I posted at http://grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com/2009/05/shabby-apple-marseilles-dress-guest.html
Thanks
Gorgeous!! These dresses are beautiful! Link will go up tomorrow
Luv Shabby Apple!
I love this dress and Shabby Apple!!!!
ooo, i love these! link posted. (:
thanks for featuring shabby apple! i'd never heard of it before.
love it.......
Thanks for the introduction to Shabby Apple.
I am actually going to Marseille this summer-and wouldn't it be fun to wear this there! Its absolutely perfect for a summer garden party. I really like it !!!!
How beautiful! I find it so hard being a woman in my 30s trying to find clothes that aren't for young people or old people or clothes that are classic and pretty but not overtly sexual. This is especially hard living in a small city. Some of us like to look nice but not have all their bits hanging out. I adore this dress (and so many others they have) and would love to win it!
galaxie_bleu(at)yahoo(dot)com
your designs are beautiful! I love them!
love all of their work!
so, i don't have a blog....hanging my head...does that mean i can't enter? too sad! this dress is amazing!! dresses have been out of the ? for me with two little ones in constant tow. i could actually wear one of these beauties!!
wow.
it's perfect.
I'm linking back I'm linking back!
(and crossing my fingers)
THANKS...for this awesome giveaway... I have posted a link of of my blog.... I hope to in...!!! :)
LOVE the dress...I created a link at www.knitsandreads.blogspot.com
Hope to win, this dress would get a lot of wear, looks comfty, cool and just plain awesome!
Crossing my fingers! I love this dress. So sophisticated and feminine!
I cross all my fingers!! :)
As always, I have linked to your giveaway. Love the dress. Thanks for sharing the find with all of us!
Oh my gosh I love it!!! That dress is so cute! I hope I get the chance to win it!
It would be cool if I won. I never win anything!
I LOVE this dress and I LOVE Shabby Apple. I check it out often!
Dear Shabby Apple, I think I just met my perfect match! I just LoVe the dress. Please help us meet in person! K, Thanks!
I posted it on my blog: jcorien.blogspot.com
Thank You Amanda for featuring such an incredible Co. just adore the Marseilles... actually tempts me out of my Jean Zone... Lol !!! Linking.
I love that dress! I linked to it!
Beautiful dress! I linked to my blog and am crossing my finger!
Thank you for this great giveaway and sharing some of the background information on Shabby Apple. I love to support companys that give back in some way!
It's so beautiful! Have posted about you on my site.. thanks for the opportunity to win something so lovely!
yes please!
HOW MUCH FUN IS THIS! I love Shabby Apple's dresses!! All of them! Thanks for the giveaway!!
Gosh I am covetting this sooooo badly! Have linked to you here: http://skippedydoodah.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/simple-pleasures/
LOVE your blog so incredibly much and crossing all the toes and fingers I've got that I win...
Thanks!
Skip.
SO CHIC..has a fun retro feel to it
thnks for the opportunity to wear it!!
I love it! I hope I'm the lucky one!
Lovely! I would feel like Audrey Hepburn in that dress!
Love their designs! Thanks!
Beautiful dress! Thanks for helping me discover them! All of their dresses are gorgeous!
Would love to own this dress! Beautiful!
I would love it!
perfect!
adorable! i love the style--cute, feminine, a little funky, but not prissy or oversexy...well done, shabby apple!!
I love shabby apple! count me in!
These dresses are fabulous! Just what I have been looking for! I am new at blogging and loving it! I added the link...I'd be just giddy if I won this!
I'm in LOVE!
Wow. Perfectly simple. PERFECT.
Love Shabby Apple! I love this dress!! I'd love to win!!!
Way cute!!!
It is a fantastic company that makes amazing dresses. And I look great in them. . . which in itself it a miracle!
Way too cute to pass this one up. Hope I win:)
Haven't won one of these yet, but there is always time for a first, right?
LOVE this dress!
crossing my fingers, and my toes! love the dress, and love their line.
Amazing giveaway! I linked, but it doesn't seem to be showing up. Here it is on my blog: http://brainyandbeautiful.blogspot.com/2009/06/shabby-apple-giveaway.html
so pretty...I'm off to check out their website. Thanks!
I have always wanted one of their dresses
You guys are my favorite! I would LOVE to win a dress!
what darling dress. i would love to have something this cute to fit into after my baby comes.
i just linked to your giveaway at my blog... www.tallysplace.blogspot.com
that is one of the most beautiful dresses i have seen in a while
THANK YOU!! What a wonderful giveaway, Shabby Apple makes such beautiful dresses that really flatter a woman's figure. I put a link on my blog, so hopefully a lot of people will be in the running :)
This is my first taste of Shabby Apple and I am in love!
http://mycreativefling.blogspot.com/2009/06/blueberry-pie-shabby-apple-yumm.html
I linked too, but I don't see it. So here's my link in comments as well:
http://teachingsean.blogspot.com/2009/06/grosgrain-shabby-apple-marseilles-dress.html
This is my first visit to shabby apple and I love this dress!
Thanks for having this giveaway! It's a beautiful dress and it sounds like an amazing company!
I linked! Oh, how I'd LOVE one of these dresses!
Love this! I want it!
these dresses are awesome!
I linked to it!! I love this company---the dresses are fabulous!
hey love the dress. i linked up. i hope i win!
SO CUTE!! I think my hubby would love me in this dress when he come back from his deployment. I love it!!
Can I tell you how much I adore this dress?? Love it!! Thanks for the chance to win it!! :)
Here's my link just in case...
http://lulaboutique.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-want-this-dress-grosgrain-shabby.html
I love it! I actually lived in Marseille, France for a year and a half. I've linked this to my site: www.hugamaar.blogspot.com
ps - I love your creations so much.
Ariel
These dresses are so cute.
what a cool site. i'd love to win a dress!
Too cute! I have such a hard time finding modest dresses. They aren't only modest, but they have personality! I'll have to tell DH to work some overtime, cuz I'm buyin' me some dresses! YES!
This is so adorable!!! Thanks for a great giveaway!
http://saramosfamily.blogspot.com/2009/06/so-cute.html
I love Shabb Apple. I have it as a goal to get a dress or two from them since I have lost 50 pounds so far and only 15 more to go. This would be a great dress to win.
I linked a few days ago, but have never done that before so I am not sure how it all works. So I thought I should leave a comment so that you know.
Anyway, this is such a gorgeous, classic dress. My kinda style. Here's hoping I win ;)
I linked a few days ago, but have never done that before so I am not sure how it all works. So I thought I should leave a comment so that you know.
Anyway, this is such a gorgeous, classic dress. My kinda style. Here's hoping I win ;)
I linked a few days ago, but have never done that before so I am not sure how it all works. So I thought I should leave a comment so that you know.
Anyway, this is such a gorgeous, classic dress. My kinda style. Here's hoping I win ;)
I'm thrilled with the modesty! Yay! I linked and passed their name along. Thanks!
Thanks so much for introducing me to Shabby Apple! I'm quite impressed!
I've posted a link to this contest on my blog, and I'm jazzed to share the info with my readers!
Thanks!
I would love to win this dress!!
Oh my! I have the perfect shoes!
love, love, love shabby stuff!
linked:
lanceandem.blogspot.com
I like them :) blogged http://catchupgiveaway.blogspot.com/2009/06/shabby-apple-giveaway.html
sherrygo at hotmail dot com
I'm linked up. Love, love, love Shabby Apple and love, love, love this dress even more. I swoon over it every time I go to their site.
I've never been to this blog, but it's great! I love those dresses and I linked it to my blog.
Such a pretty dress! I've never done a giveaway so I hope this dress is my first winner! :)
Beautiful dresses! I love it! I wish I had known about y'all when I needed a dress for something a few weeks ago. Their site will be bookmarked! Now, I'm off to link from my blog.
Thanks for the chance to enter!
LINKED. http://regularrumination.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/ohh-this-is-so-beautiful/
I'm so excited about this giveaway. Thank you!
Linked! I love this company and I would be so thrilled to win this dress!
AMAZING!!! I love them and I love love love the dress!
can I win if I don't have a blog?
Oh my goodness... I love Shabby Apple. I'm so going to tell all my friends and family about this awesome site.
Finally, modest and chic dresses.
Thanks for sponsoring this giveaway so I could stumble upon their website.
ohh I love shabby apple dresses
Adorable! Thanks for introducing me to this company.
I Linked! (and I hope I win too ) :)
richandcat.blogspot.com
that is just lovely!! And I'm glad to know about this company! Thanks.
This is awesome! I'd love it!
ooh la la - I could definitely use a little french dress in my wardrobe! Shabby Apple is THE CUTEST line of modest affordable clothes ive ever seen! Im putting a link up on my blog too...I hope I win!
Wow! I would love to own that cute dress.
What a beautiful dress! I hope I win. Thanks for the giveaway!
pitagirl91(at)gmail(dot)com
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