17 Brands Like Dressed in Lala for Bold Prints and Playful Style
The loudest thing in most wardrobes is one printed dress that comes out twice a year. Dressed in Lala is built for the opposite habit, and its catalogue shows it, with 62 dresses in stock at $68 to $168 USD alongside checkerboard button-ups, leopard mesh layers and slogan tees. Loving one maximalist label has a catch, which is that you run through it fast.
Here are 17 places to shop next, all selling the womenswear the anchor sells. Sixteen are labels with their own design point of view, and one, REVOLVE, is a shop stocking hundreds of labels rather than making its own. The Type column marks which is which.
Quick comparison: prices are quoted in the currency each store served us, and we haven't converted any of them.
| Brand | Type | Price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bardot | Label | $139 to $299 USD on dresses | Going-out dresses with structure |
| LUUKAA | Label | $64 to $269 USD | Bold-print linen separates |
| MISA Los Angeles | Label | $170 to $575 USD | Resort prints and party sets |
| MINKPINK | Label | $59.95 to $249.95 AUD | Vintage-leaning casual prints |
| For Love & Lemons | Label | $198 to $379 USD on new dresses | Lace and occasion dressing |
| Reformation | Label | $178 to $398 USD on dresses | Print dresses with published sourcing |
| Showpo | Label | Mid-range, no prices returned to our check | Australian event dressing |
| Nasty Gal | Label | Mid-range, store served its AU site | Edgier going-out pieces |
| Lulus | Label | Dresses from $49 USD | Weddings and semi-formal |
| Petals Design Studio | Label | $20 to $88 USD | Graphic tees and hoodies |
| House of CB | Label | USD pricing, jeans at $179 | Corsetry and occasion wear |
| PrettyLittleThing | Label | Dresses from £10 GBP | Testing a trend cheaply |
| REVOLVE | Shop | Varies by label | Browsing many playful labels at once |
| Missguided | Label | Budget, promotional pricing throughout | Y2K-leaning going-out pieces |
| Saylor | Label | $231 to $440 USD on dresses | Romantic party dresses |
| Princess Polly | Label | $14 to $130 AUD | Trend-led minis and sets |
| Cider | Label | $32.90 to $72.90 USD on dresses | Prints at low prices |
Bardot
Bardot is an Australian label whose US store sells dresses at $139 to $299 USD, and it's the pick here if you like a print but want the garment underneath it to hold a shape. Where Dressed in Lala leans soft and slouchy, Bardot builds in boning, seaming and lining, so a floral midi reads as an occasion rather than a weekend. The colour is still there in ruffled organza and bright satin, applied to a cut that stands up on its own.
The US site takes Klarna and PayPal Pay in 4, which matters at this price when you're buying a dress for one wedding. Sizing runs through the standard US range, and the label keeps a separate children's line at Bardot Junior if you're shopping for a flower girl at the same time.
Best for: a printed dress you want to look tailored in.
LUUKAA
LUUKAA sells bold-print linen and cotton separates at $64 to $269 USD, and its "Pattern PLAY" collection is the closest thing on this list to Dressed in Lala's appetite for a busy print. The brand describes light fabrics meeting bold design, and its own words on materials are that it uses "materials from responsible sources and traditional techniques" for durable clothing.
The catalogue is weighted toward pieces you wear on repeat instead of once. Of 250 styles on the first page of its shop, 48 are dresses and 46 are blouses, with 45 pairs of trousers behind them, so it's a separates brand first. That's the practical difference from the anchor: Dressed in Lala sells you the whole look, and LUUKAA sells you a printed trouser you'll pair with things you own.
Best for: pattern in a fabric you can wear in heat.
MISA Los Angeles
MISA Los Angeles prices its full-price stock at $170 to $575 USD, with the Lilie Dress at $395 as a fair example of the middle. Dresses dominate the range at 145 of the first 250 styles, and the house look is a loose, floaty cut in a graphic print, cinched with ties or elastic rather than tailored.
It sits a clear step above Dressed in Lala on price, and you're paying for drape. These are the dresses that photograph well moving, which is why the label turns up so often on holiday. The trade-off is that MISA does one thing, so if you want a printed trouser or a hoodie, this isn't the stop.
Best for: a print dress for warm weather that doesn't cling.
MINKPINK
MINKPINK is an Australian label pricing in Australian dollars, running $59.95 to $249.95 AUD on full-price stock, and it's the cheapest way on this list into a vintage-flavoured print. Its shop serves AUD by default, so budget with that in mind before you check out. Casual dresses make up 110 of the first 250 styles, with knitwear, skirts and swim filling in behind.
The overlap with Dressed in Lala is the refusal to do a plain black dress. The difference is era: MINKPINK reaches for seventies florals and nineties slips where the anchor reaches for checkerboard and leopard. We've written up its closest neighbours in brands like MINKPINK if you want more in this direction.
Best for: bias-cut prints under $150 AUD.
For Love & Lemons
For Love & Lemons is the occasion-wear end of this list, with new-season dresses at $198 for the Marigold Mini, $229 for the Willow Linen Mini and $369 for the Primrose Posey Midi, all in USD. Lace, corsetry and ruffles do the work that print does elsewhere.
You'd shop here for the party where a slogan tee won't cut it. The playfulness is in the detailing instead of the colour, so a cream lace mini reads as romantic rather than loud, and the label has built a following on exactly that. Prices are roughly double the anchor's, and the pieces are correspondingly less casual. Our fuller list sits at brands like For Love & Lemons.
Best for: lace and corsetry for a wedding or a birthday.
Reformation
Reformation lists dresses at $178 to $398 USD, and it earns a place here because it does print without doing chaos. A Reformation floral is usually two or three colours on a slim silhouette, which is the tidy cousin of the anchor's maximalism.
The reason to pick it over the others in this price band is the sourcing detail the brand publishes on its own product pages, covering fibre and factory in a way most labels on this list don't attempt. Read those claims as the brand's own account rather than a third-party audit, and check what's stated on the page in front of you. If you want more names in this bracket, we keep a list at brands like Reformation.
Best for: a restrained print at an occasion price.
Showpo
Showpo is an Australian retailer with a US storefront built around event dressing, and its dress pages are organised by price bands starting under $30 and climbing past $100. The site wouldn't return individual product prices to our check, so treat that banding as the guide rather than a quoted range.
What Showpo shares with Dressed in Lala is volume and speed. New prints land constantly, and the styling is aimed at a specific night out instead of a wardrobe. It's the natural stop for a hen weekend or a festival where you want three outfits and don't want to think hard about any of them. We look at how the brand makes its clothes in is Showpo fast fashion.
Best for: an outfit for a specific event this month.
Nasty Gal
Nasty Gal is the sharper-edged option here, trading the anchor's sweetness for cut-outs, mesh and faux leather. Its store geo-routed our check to its Australian site and its US dress path returned a 404, so we haven't quoted a price. Expect the mid-range, and read the currency at the top of the page before you add anything to a bag.
The reason it belongs on the list is attitude rather than aesthetic overlap. Where Dressed in Lala does playful, Nasty Gal does provocative, and the two work together in a wardrobe more often than they compete. If you want to know how the clothes are made before you buy, we cover it in is Nasty Gal fast fashion.
Best for: a going-out look with an edge on it.
Lulus
Lulus prices in USD and its dresses page showed list prices from $49, sitting alongside marked-down styles at 20% off, so check which of the two you're looking at before you decide something is a bargain. The site refuses scripted requests, and these figures came from its own rendered pages.
Lulus is the wedding-guest answer on this list. The range covers cocktail, formal and homecoming as separate categories, which tells you where the business is, and the prints skew romantic rather than graphic. It overlaps with Dressed in Lala on colour and diverges on formality, so it's the place to go when the invitation says something you can't wear a slogan tee to.
Best for: a wedding guest dress under $100 USD.
Petals Design Studio
Petals Design Studio is the label formerly called Petals and Peacocks, and the old address now redirects to the new one. It's a Filipino-American streetwear brand pricing at $20 to $88 USD, with the Attitude Full Zip Hoodie at the top of that range and sunglasses at the bottom.
This is the graphic corner of the list. Where the anchor puts a slogan on a fitted tee, Petals Design Studio puts a leopard-spot print on a boxy women's crop tee or a script logo on a nylon hat. Stock is healthy, with 1,011 of 1,060 variants available when we checked, so the sizes you want are likely there. It's also the cheapest entry point on this page.
Best for: statement graphics under $50 USD.
House of CB
House of CB is a London label that prices its US customers in USD, with jeans at $179 as a marker for where the range sits. Its reputation rests on corsetry, and the internal structure in its bodices is the thing customers come back for.
Put next to Dressed in Lala, it's the same instinct for a head-turning piece expressed through fit instead of print. A House of CB dress is usually one colour and one dramatic silhouette. That makes it the wrong shop for a printed weekend outfit and the right one for a birthday or a party where you want the cut to do the talking. We compare it directly with a close rival in Babyboo vs House of CB.
Best for: a corseted occasion dress.
PrettyLittleThing
PrettyLittleThing served our check in pounds, with dresses starting around £10 GBP, so US readers should expect a different currency and different figures on their own storefront. It's the highest-volume, fastest-turnover brand on this list.
The appeal against Dressed in Lala is arithmetic. A single anchor dress at $154 costs what a handful of PLT pieces do, which makes PLT the place to test a print or a silhouette you're unsure about before committing at a higher price. The construction reflects the price, and it's worth reading a size guide and a returns policy before a large order. We examine how the brand operates in is PrettyLittleThing fast fashion.
Best for: trying a trend for the price of lunch.
REVOLVE
REVOLVE is a shop rather than a label, and it's the one entry on this list that doesn't design its own clothes. It stocks hundreds of brands, including several on this page, which makes it the efficient way to compare playful labels side by side without opening seventeen tabs.
Prices run from contemporary to designer depending on which label you land on, so there's no single range to quote. Its advantage over any single brand on this page comes down to filtering, since you can sort by price, size and occasion across the whole field at once. What it costs you is the discovery, since the labels it doesn't carry stay invisible. Our list of alternatives sits at brands like REVOLVE.
Best for: comparing several playful labels in one basket.
Missguided
Missguided trades today under different ownership from the brand people remember. SHEIN acquired the Missguided brand and its trademarks from Frasers Group in October 2023, licensing the intellectual property to Sumwon Studios, a joint venture between SHEIN and Missguided founder Nitin Passi.
The storefront reflects that. Prices sit at the budget end and the site ran a stacked promotion during our check, with figures moving as items went into a basket, so we haven't quoted a range that would be wrong by the time you read it. The clothes themselves keep the Y2K-leaning going-out identity, which is the overlap with Dressed in Lala. Read the price on the product page rather than the banner.
Best for: budget going-out pieces with a Y2K slant.
Saylor
Saylor sells dresses at $231 to $440 USD, with the Jora Dress at $297 in the middle of that band. The brand's shop is at saylor.nyc, while the shorter saylor.nyc belongs to an unrelated construction-cost publisher, so check the address before you enter a card.
Saylor does romantic where the anchor does irreverent. Ruffles, tiered skirts and delicate prints on 143 dresses in the first 250 styles, plus 50 matching sets and 21 rompers. It's the grown-up version of the same impulse, and the sets in particular are the pieces to look at if you like Dressed in Lala's co-ord habit but want it in a fabric that hangs.
Best for: a romantic party dress around $300 USD.
Princess Polly
Princess Polly is an Australian fast-fashion label, meaning it turns trend-led styles out at speed and low prices. Its Australian storefront answered our check in Australian dollars, with full-price stock from $14 for a hair clip to $130 for a faux-suede bomber, and 1,500 of 1,572 variants in stock across the first 250 styles.
The similarity to Dressed in Lala is the styling: minis, co-ords and going-out tops shot for social media. The difference is construction and price, and the two follow each other. Anchor pieces cost several times as much and are built accordingly. We look at how Princess Polly makes its clothes, and what its own published claims do and don't cover, in is Princess Polly fast fashion.
Best for: a trend-led mini or co-ord at speed.
Cider
Cider lists dresses at $32.90 to $72.90 USD on its dresses page, and it's the print-heavy budget option on this list. The brand's own line is that fashion starts with a feeling, and its shop is organised around moods rather than garment categories, so expect to browse by vibe instead of filtering by dress length.
Note the correct address. Cider trades at shopcider.com, while shopcider.com is a parked 114-byte stub that redirects into a lander, so don't follow an old link there. The clothes overlap with Dressed in Lala on busy prints and playful cuts at roughly a third of the price. For a values-led take on the same aesthetic, we've written brands like Cider that are ethical.
Best for: printed dresses under $70 USD.
Choosing Between Print, Price and Structure
Start with what you want the money to buy. If it's the print itself, Petals Design Studio, Cider and Princess Polly all sit under $90 in their own currencies, and you can order two things for the price of one elsewhere on this page.
If it's construction, the budget goes into the garment at Bardot, House of CB and Saylor, where a print sits on a lined, boned or bias-cut base rather than a jersey one. Shopping for a single occasion instead of a wardrobe puts For Love & Lemons and Lulus ahead of both groups.
Two addresses are worth writing down before you shop, because the near-miss domains are live sites belonging to other businesses. Saylor trades at saylor.nyc and not saylor.nyc, and Cider trades at shopcider.com and not shopcider.com.
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Written by
Spencer Lanoue
