This Dress on My Body?

Will It Stay Up?

"Glamour has always been my personality," says Glori Illames, 37, a modeling agency administrator. "Even as a girl, I loved to dress up." She's usually drawn to sophisticated black, but this cream strapless (St. John) really scores: Stretchy knit cradles what she calls Spanish hips, while all that lovely exposed skin—and a band of pearl and jewel detail at the waist—diverts attention from the lower body.

Earrings, Nine West. Shoes, Aldo.

Can you go strapless?