I've got a £20 gift card for Dotty Perkins. What should I buy? I woefully need something cool to wear

[MamaG]

5 3
brown hair(!)
size 16 but working on it
v large of nork
good legs

[MamaG]

....and I detest cropped trousers with a passion!

[MamaG]

did think about something like this but I 'm not convinced about those darts around teh groin!

[MamaG]

do you think that would be unflattering in a "big fat arse" way? I don't have a big bum

[mejon]

Cool as in 'hip and trendy' or cool as in something for this weather. If the latter, I would have thought a denim penicl skirt would be the last thing to wear. I was in there yesterday and I bought this . I'm 5'1 and a size 18 and I'm still not convinced it doesn't look like a maternity dress but it is thin cotton and the sleeves are ok. I was going to wear it with cropped jeans (sorry ). They had some nice long-ish linen shorts if you're after shorts.

[flier]

i bought that yesterday too mejon. I, like you, am not convinced about it though. Was thinking of wearing it with either cropped jeans or black leggings.

[flier]

this looks nice didn't see it in store

[brokenspacebar]

this is fitted on the norks but has gentle skimming over the middle, which is nice... bit dairymaid, but I have to say it is cool, easy to wear and doesn't cling... available in red or black and white I think, I got the red to wear with linen trousers.

[MamaG]

cool as in temperature, not "down wiv da kids"

I'm not good with dresses, as a rule. Find they hang from my norks and make me look fatter than I am, or the waist is in the wrong place as I have a short body and long legs