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Mumsnet Discussions: Style and beauty : tea dresses (+/- leggings) - when do you wear them? (13 messages)
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Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Buckets on Thu 15-May-08 14:21:51
I'm wearing cropped black leggings under a dress right now! The leggings go just under the knee and were £4 in New Look and the dress is a strappy bias-cut above-the-knee former-cocktail-turned-sun-dress with a black cardi. Best shoes with it are wedgy-heeled mule sandals but flat sandals work too. I'm 31 and 6m pg (dress has some elastane content) and trying v hard to convince DH that Morrissey is a good middle name.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By twinkletoesbellyrolls on Wed 14-May-08 16:49:25
oh queenrollo - my teenage years as a Smiths fan wearing second hand tea dresses and Dr Marten boots came flooding back!

Sadly all these years on and I am sitting here at my desk in a tea dress (jigsaw rather than oxfam now) but with silver birkies instead!

I love wearing footless tights and a friend who is a model (oh la lay) says that all the models just cut the feet out of 70 denier tights so that the footless tight ends on the slim part of the leg...
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By queenrollo on Wed 14-May-08 09:51:37
i don't like the leggings poking out.....so i've reverted to what i used to do in my youth. I've been to American Apparel and got a pair of cycling shorts. I can now dress how i want and still look after my active 3 year old without flashing my comfy knickers at all and sundry.

This time round i'm not wearing my floaty dresses with Dr Marten boots though grin

(well maybe, i'm getting all nostalgic now)
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By twinsetandpearls on Tue 13-May-08 19:34:50
lol Cristina, an image that really needs google images
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By DrNortherner on Tue 13-May-08 19:33:32
I got some leggings from M&S of all places.

I have a few tea dresses but they are v short so I wear them over skinny jeans with hels.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By CristinaTheAstonishing on Tue 13-May-08 19:32:02
Trying to imagine how magic knickers go with twinset and pearls. Yeah, actually they would
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By twinsetandpearls on Mon 12-May-08 22:46:48
To me she looks like she has on my massive long magic knickers and she does not realise that they are showing under her dress.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By CristinaTheAstonishing on Mon 12-May-08 22:41:19
something like this

Topshop did some short leggings.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By LynetteScavo on Mon 12-May-08 20:44:37
And where do you buy leggins. I never see them in shops. (I think I could do the tea dress with leggins thing hmm)sound good, but I need a link,I've never seen this look.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By CristinaTheAstonishing on Mon 12-May-08 20:42:12
The women I saw were not 17! That's what puzzled me so much, I think. (I'm 42, so I'd be in the housewife/housecoat category rather than the 1980s Madonna look.)
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By fishie on Mon 12-May-08 20:38:11
don't like them with leggings, looks a bit too much like support hose. actually i don't like them at all, too floaty unless one is 17, in which case wouldn't be wearing a pretty frock.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By CristinaTheAstonishing on Mon 12-May-08 20:35:54
bumping as puzzling me
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By CristinaTheAstonishing on Mon 12-May-08 20:17:45
1. I've seen lots of tea dresses in shops and online. When do you wear them? They seem nice out of context but 50s housewife housecoat when it comes to wearing them.

2. Said tea dresses when v short seem to be worn with knee-length leggings. Is this new or some fashion that passed me by and already on its way out?


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