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(Tulle spot prom dress, £75, Topshop: Click here to buy it)
This dress is from Topshop’s ‘Dress Up Topshop’ collection, which, as the name suggests, is a collection of dresses. Do you see what they did there?
According to Topshop, there are two different ways to wear this dress. Well, we mean, we’re sure there are more than just two ways, but there are just two which they’ve chosen to illustrate: the traditional, pretty-prom-dress way shown above (i.e. add shoes, a bag, and maybe some jewellery and you’re good to go), and this, more casual way:
(Aside: this model really looks like she means BUSINESS, no? No one’s going to be accusing HER of looking all girlie in her tulle prom dress, no siree.)
(We also like her shoes. OK, we’ll stop with the parentheses now.)
Ah, the old prom dress “toughened up” with t-shirt n’ tights trick! Fashion magazines are very fond of showing us how to “toughen up” very traditional style dresses, but does it work, we ask you? Because we always die a little on the inside when we see this happen.* It’s like the person wanted to wear the dress, but then, once she put it on, she got all sel-conscious about it and tried to downplay it, like, “Who, me? No, I’m not wearing a prom dress. *Whistles*) And we say OWN IT, sister. If you want to wear the pouffy dress, wear it. Save the thick tights for something else.
Then again, if we were feeling generous, we could just choose to see this as an easy way to make an evening dress look a little more casual. Because, after all, it’s not like you can realistically just walk around the supermarket, or whatever, in a strapless prom dress, can you?
What do YOU think? Which way do you prefer this dress?
*Note: not really. It IS just a dress, after all.
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TNFC button front dress, £45, ASOS: click here to buy it
You’ve probably noticed that yellow and orange are everywhere right now. Sometimes even together, in the same outfit or item. They can both be difficult colours to wear, but what do you think of them on this TNFC dress?
This has an offset, button-front, short sleeves and a flared, mini-length skirt which we wish was just a tad longer, but then, we WOULD say that, wouldn’t we?
What do you think?
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(Knife pleat dress, £70, Oasis: click here to buy it)
Brown – sorry, “latte” – isn’t generally the first colour we think of when we go looking for a party dress, but we’d be willing to make an exception for this knife pleat dress from Oasis, which combines a gorgeous design with an unusual colour, which would work perfectly with gold accessories/shoes, and with a host of other colours, too. (We’re quite partial to brown with pale blue, ourselves…)
Is it Innocent or Guilty of committing crimes of fashion, though?
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We’re big on the colour green here at The Fashion Police. You may well have noticed this.
As soon as we spotted this Oscar de la Renta dress at Net-a-Porter, then, there was just no way it wasn’t going to become a Dress of the Day. It’s the colour that has the most impact, of course, but the petal collar is also very sweet, and the belted waist and pencil skirt give it a bit of a Joan Holloway feel, which is always fine by us, and makes it perfect for the office, or as formal(ish) daywear in general.
What’s not so fine by us? The price. This is £1,140 (you can click here to buy it if that doesn’t phase you) so, fo us at least, it will remain a dream dress in the truest sense of that phrase.
What do you think: Innocent or Guilty of committing crimes of fashion?
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Betty Draper would be ALL OVER this dress, wouldn’t she? And we would too, to be perfectly honest with you. In fact, we’re kind of kicking ourselves for breaking one of our golden rules – Thou Shalt Not Visit The Dollydagger Website Unless Thou Art Prepared to Spend A Lot of Money – and allowing About Your Dress to seduce us into clicking the link to this, because even although we have nowhere to wear it, and are about £100 short of the £130 we’d need to buy it, it’s going to haunt us forever now.
This is from Dollydagger’s own Boutique Collection, and is in that classic 50s style which is currently very much in fashion, but which never really goes out of it. It’ll be much too flowery and feminine for some tastes, but if you like your dresses big, beautiful, and with a bit of retro flair to them, you’re probably drooling on your screen right now. We’ll give you a moment to clean yourselves up before we continue.
As we mentioned, this is £130, and if you’re stuck for places to wear it, we’d suggest tucking it away until the next time you’re invited to a summer wedding – or are even asked to be a bridesmaid at one.
What do you think? Innocent or Guilty?
(Click here to buy it)
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