Is it me or is this really ugly?

I just saw this dress in the NM sale catalog and it jumped out at me as

Userb3...

It looks to me like something you'd see at the second hand shop, and not
the nice one.

being really ugly. I'm wondering if I'm missing something big.

kpr54...

Well, I would feel out of place wearing it, but my my grandmother had
something so similar about 30 years ago that I had a massive dejaview
when the photo popped up. It was lovely on her. Then. At her age.
Longer, maybe, be she was short. kpr54

Nathalie Chiva...

That's what I would label as an "old lady's dress". Floral, wan
colors, frilly... Nothing I would wear, that's for sure (and I wear
lots of dresses).

Nathalie in Switzerland

ahmward...

I may have worn something like it decades ago but definitely not now.

ami kio...

I don't care for the print (moved on from tan/beige ones in the mid '90s),
but I think that the model/dress aren't a good match which makes it look
even worse.

Trianna...

I agree. I think it might have looked better on a darker-skinned, more
hourglassy model. Halle Berry, for instance, might look good in that
dress. But I agree with the "what's the point"? It seems retro for
the sake of retro--that style wasn't all that interesting 30 years ago,
so why bring it back unless you're going to do something fun with
either color or cut?

Lutachris...

It is not just you...and not just that dress. Lately I have seen some
faux wrap dresses that I do not like. First, polyester came back from
fashion oblivion because it was "new, different, more textured,
easy-care" etc. Then wrap dresses came back because D. VonFurstenberg
created them and they are "classic, feminine yet serious, etc. etc." So
now we have polyester faux wrap dresses that look fuglier than CROCS
(and they are not functional). They have all the detrimental aspects of
house dresses and they are neither "new" nor "classic."