Dresses dresses dresses everywhere!!!!

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So I was shopping at the weekend. For one thing, OMG I had forgotten how exhausting it is traipsing from shop to shop with teenage daughter, and trying on things, and sweating, and and and....
Anyway, SO many dresses lol!!!! Have you embraced the dress??? Being fat and fifty I think I have to be so careful not to look like I'm wearing my grandmother's nightdress... I ended up getting the usual 'black trousers' but did try on loads of dresses. I just think they are not as flattering as trousers but maybe I'm just not used to seeing myself in a dress. I definitely steered away from things I wore as a child in the 1980's - like big round collars and stuff like that. So are you all wearing dresses - talking to the more "mature" ladies - my dd looked incredible in most of them, she couldn't choose in the end!

im very nearly 43 and love dresses. On the knee/midi or maxi. I think they suit my pear shape better to be honest.

Im not a tiny teen size … 12. With hips and bum ( thanks spinning!) I wear dresses with tights in winter and longer in summer.

Thank mirrorball, you're smaller than me, Im 16-18. I think I have this fear of looking like my mother - she would only wear a dress or skirt for many many years - still does actually because my father "prefers" it - don't go there...
I think a dress shows my lumps and bumps more and I'm afraid I look frumpy. I guess it all depends on the dress and how you wear it doesn't it.

I am a size 18 and wear virtually nothing but dresses. I hate wearing trousers.

I'm 42

I Iove dresses. No waistband. And loads more have pockets now.

do your legs sweat @Shakeitshakeitbaby
I suppose nobody in my office wears a dress I feel self conscious if I did

You can get thin long shorts to wear underneath to stop the chubb chaff.

I’m not shapely and I find playsuits look
better. I always feel odd in a dress!

I feel like a middle aged frump in them. Like I have given up having a waistline. So I stick to jeans for now - a long skirt at a push as that has a defined waistline which is much more flattering than a sack-like dress!

Legs don't sweat, I just find trousers uncomfortable and unflattering. I am small of bum and fat of tummy so they tend to fall down too!

Midi dresses are great. Really easy to dress up or down as required.

I only really wear dresses, I don't like trousers. I'm size 20 and 41.

Tbf I mostly wear dungarees though. Best invention ever.

42 and a (short) size 16 here. I've literally just started wearing dresses in the last few weeks! I've been a jeans and T-shirt/jumper kind of woman for the last 15 years or so but I'm embracing my new found love of dresses slowly

I find tea dresses and milk maid type dresses are better if your rounded in the middle - like me!

I'm 5"7 and size @6 and the tiered and shired dresses have been a godsend this year. Also fat tops of arms which the puff sleeves hide a multitude of sins with!

I think a big reason for all the dresses is the jubilee. They knew there would be a huge want for garden style dresses and then it became fashionable to wear them with pumps so they became more everyday.

Loads if dresses, many of them either horrible patterns or material or both. Like a lot of clothes right now. But found a few I like, mostly maxi dresses.

I'm a size 14 and get chub rub every time I wear a dress unless I liberally use a roll on deodorant on my inner thighs.

And I wear cheap cotton cycle shorts underneath!

@Shakeitshakeitbaby I must be weird cos my groin and top of my legs get v sweaty and stick together and make it hard to walk, and a rash might come! I've seen those cycling shorts but don't they make you very hot.

Those of you who wear dresses must be in heaven right now!!!! I was looking for a simple blazer, and could not find a single one, I did find a couple of these oversized things, but they make me look massive, and totally out of proportion with this massive jacket and my little fat legs. Then there's either crop tops, or oversized 'bag' tops. I bought some 'bag' tops, I thought thye looked ok, but when I got them home there is literally zero shape to them - just squares of material sewn up the sized. Weird fashion atm

I’ve got a body like a sackful of porridge but pin legs, so my uniform is Voluminous Smock Dress + Opaque Tights + Ankle Boots (in winter) or + Bare Legs + Statement Sandals to Distract (in summer). Fools everyone.

Trousers make me look and feel like a shortarse dumpling, the pockets are less capacious than those on dresses, and the waistband prevents lasagne-based lunches. All hail the dress! I’m 41.

You just have to find a style that suits you. Lots of the dresses around at the moment aren't very flattering, unless you are young, tall and slim.

I love dresses. I don't own a single pair of trousers.

But I am 29. I don't think i would stop wearing dresses though.

I feel I dresses hide my pear shape better, as long as they aren’t clingy. Not so much the modern wedding cake dresses though.

They are much cooler and more comfortable in summer. I stick to trousers in the winter.

I think there is much less flattering and out of fashion than a pair of black trousers

i think dresses look fab on everyone, midi dresses look really good on women in their 50s who are shorter / larger. Try again, I promise there are some flattering ones!

We are our own worst enemy. You wear what you feel most comfortable in. I like new look and asos.for dresses

I hate the Laura Ashley/prairie-core look. HATE it. So fug on tall slim 20 year olds so I imagine on short plump 40-odd year old me, they'd going to look hideously old-fashioned. I really like linen shift dresses but I feel so dated in mine now too!

You have a brilliant turn of verse!