To think people don't seem to recognise the difference between evening wear and wedding clothes any more ?

[BetsyBidwell]

(Disclaimer yes it doesn't matter compared to Syria , I do get out a lot, yes the bride and groom were lovely , etc etc)

Day wedding yesterday. Just too much tit. Too much bare top halves. Shiny cocktail dresses in a country church.

Just too much.

I think it's very hard to get a 1950s style tea dress and cardi wrong and it's suits most shapes.
Team it with peep toe heels, clutch and a lovely hat and job done.

SP I was looking for a dress this morning for a night out in November. Debenhams have some nice, simple skater dresses with no random cutouts and 25% off their designers range today as well.

DH has just said to point out, it wasn't just tracksuits, it was velour tracksuits.

I once went to a friends wedding in a lovely little country church. The groom's brother wore jeans, t shirt and trainers. Brother's wife and kids were all dressed for the occasion. What was going through his head? It was so disrespectful.

Kathryn Blair looks quite decorous compared to some of the guests I have seen recently

Ugh. Did they lose some sort of dare?

We used to live in a rough Scottish town. The way women dressed for baptisms and funerals was shocking. They dressed like for a nightclub, if the goal is to not pay for any drinks.

And more than once I saw skirts shorter than the control top part of the tights.

I think this depends where you are.
My friend in rural Wales had all the ladies in dresses I'd have thought of as short evening/prom dresses. Really nice dresses, knee length satin with sparkes ie. Far more short black tie outfits than wedding guest.

I felt stupidly underdressed in a very nice cotton dress which had been exactly right for a far posher hotel wedding the previous year.

I think lots of the "younger generation" (can we have an old wrinklie emoticon?) think dress code for events like us oldies do. I think it is more what I like wearing.
Not sure how I feel about that. I like feeling I'm wearing the right outfit that matches the occasion. But also feel people have a right to wear what they feel good in.

Oh no now I'm scared, I have just bought a dress for my friends wedding and now I'm worried its not going to be right! I've not been to many all day weddings that weren't my own or as a bridesmaid.

ASOS have some skater dresses SP.

I remember my mum saying to me that my sister's wedding was going to be "so posh" because her friends were all dressing up! Dressing up was the right turn of phrase, I spent most of the day wondering what they had come as!

My sister's dress didn't fit properly, she spent all day dragging it back up so her boobs didn't fall out. I said to DH half way through I wish I had bought my dress in Primark I'd have fitted in better!

Do people wear evening dress to weddings in Spain?

One guest at a Spanish wedding that I attended was wearing something that you'd expect of Avril Lavigne - including a pink baseball cap.

I'm from the younger generation and I am very self conscious about sticking out and looking too over dressed and too underdressed.

Twice its happened where I have felt overdressed after been told what to wear.

Also it might be a chance to pull

I dont know newname, I went to my exes older sisters wedding when I was 19, in something I would wear now not that it would fit now
Other guests, older than me, were in the type of dresses on this thread.

Some people, regardless of age, just have no class

My sister and her friends are older than me they are just in denial!

SP Dorothy Perkins have 20% off their dresses online till tomorrow.

Bloody hell - you've all confirmed what I was already suspecting - I have a wedding to go to and the dress I bought IS completely inappropriate. It is both shiny and short. here.

So please, if anyone is bored and has time to kill - find me a HoF dress (because that's where the first one came from and it will be easier to swap). I'm size 10, dark hair, 5.2, no tits, belly that needs hiding, good legs. I have no idea what's nice anymore.

I'm not old either, though not quite so much of a whippersnapper as SP

I think there are still plenty of opportunities to look individual and stylish at a wedding. The dresses can be pretty and strappy (cover shoulders for the church) and fashionable.
All I ask is that people wear clothes that fit and that they're not hanging out of.

Too much to ask?

Hassled- that dress is knee length. Should be perfectly fine.

That is not short and only a little shiny :)
I'd wear it

Nice dress Hassled. Would you wear it again to a different event (also my criteria when I'm splashing out on outfits to wear to weddings, interviews, etc.)? If yes, maybe you could add a jacket to make it more formal wedding style?

THIS is a short and shiny dress

Hassled - that doesn't look too short and it does look stylish. There are also no boobs hanging out in that picture.

Looks lovely to me.

That dress is lovely Hassled! Definitely wear it