10 year old girl hates dresses and pink but needs to dress formally, please help!

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My daughter and I are going to a formal dinner. She flat out refuses to wear dresses of any kind and is often dressed inappropriately casually at events on sneakers and jeans. At her age, alternative options are so limited. She has said she’d love to wear a suit to her school formal dinner, but that doesn’t seem to exist in her size. I’m thinking Kirsten Stewart’s red carpet looks for inspiration. But the reality is little boy’s boxy suits.
She was premature so is absolutely tiny too, so dressing her in boys clothes means they swim on her and she looks terrible.
can anyone please help with suggestions? I don’t want to cramp her style, and want to support her to look how she’d like to. Thank you!

I think a jumpsuit would be good or maybe try to get tuxedo trousers from a dance chop and wear with any nice shirt?

Look at French brands, and petit bateau etc

This is cute: www.rococlothing.co.uk/girls-black-tuxedo-suit-lennox-2/

Very dark dye black jeans and a waistcoat would look fab.

I just looked on Jacadi, it's French and the cut tends to smaller, the quality is a is great and there are some gorgeous velvet in the trousers and black and white tops and plus they have a sale on. It's a bit perfect for what you want

Cute blazer to dress pup trousers and a blouse?
www.vinted.co.uk/kids/girls-clothing/coats-and-jackets/blazers/2094073030-candy-couture-matalan

These are all fabulous ideas, thank you so much!

The dress code says formal, but based on photos from previous years it’s probably what I describe as cocktail, but they obviously can’t say that for kids! I think it’s mainly meant to convey: not jeans. It’s a school event. But we also have a wedding later in the year, so this will need to do both.

thank you all, it’s very appreciated. She’s oked a jumpsuit in theory, which is huge progress. A gorgeous little blazer would be fab.

When my dress hating dd with sensory issues was that age, I found her a really nice jumpsuit made of a soft knit. It looked gorgeous and dressy and yet she looked so comfortable and so happy. She looked like her.

she has outgrown that phase now so I’m not familiar with specific sources anymore. She is still very particular, just in different ways.

My daughter went to her school dance in a 'trouser suit' - exterior we couldn't find such a thing. What we did was spent quite a bit of time finding separate trousers and jacket that were a very similar black. She looked great.

Good luck op!