How to Find Cocktail Dresses for Juniors

When it's time for a special invent in your junior's life, you want to find the perfect dress. Cocktail dresses are available in your local dress shops and right at your fingertips online. The only downfall to buying cocktail dresses for juniors online is that they cannot try them on.

Local Dress Shops

• "Let your fingers do the walking" by checking the Yellow Pages listings for dress shops near you. Look under the heading "Formal Wear." Call them first to see if they carry a line for junior cocktail dresses.


• Talk with family and friends. Those with older girls have probably had to purchase cocktail dresses for past events and may have some great suggestions and advice.


• Head off to the mall. Nearly every large mall with big box retailers has stores that carry dresses for special events. Stores like Sears and JC Penney carry cocktail dresses.


• Read the classifieds of your local newspaper if a once-worn cocktail dress will do. Usually they are worn only once for that special occasion, then stored away.

Online

• Check places like eBay -- you'll need an account -- if a used one is acceptable, but there are also many listings for brand new cocktail dresses. You are likely to get a bargain price there because those retailers and sellers don't have the overhead that national retailers do.


• Google it. Just go to www.google.com and type "cocktail dresses for juniors" (without the quotation marks). Promgirl.com and Dress2sale.com both have great selections.


• Look on Craigslist.com for used cocktail dresses. Some people don't have an eBay account or don't want to pay the fees to sell their items there. It's totally free for everyone.