Dress with sleeves HELP!

[julybutterfly]

DH has a posh Christmas work do coming up soon and I need a dress! I'm a bit of a pain to buy for because of my shape. I'm just over 5ft, size 12 (but not toned so want to cover up my bingo wings and flabby belly!), boobs are 34GG so a lot of things tend to hang on my boobs making me look bigger than I am.

Everything I've found with sleeves has scoop necks or similar on them and I want to show a bit of cleavage!

HELP!

A wrap dress?

Would black be too dull? You could dress it up with jewels and fab shoes.

There's a blue one here by Nougat or a red one here from Kookai.

I LOVE this French Connection dress but it's too short on me. As you're 5ft it should be about knee length on you. Very very low neckline but you could pin it together if you need to wear a bra.

Do you really want a dress with sleeves? You could find a dress you like and then add a faux fur bolero or little cardie for a bit of arm coverage.

I always start with Monsoon if I need a posh frock. How about these ...

Black dress

Print dress

Cutwork dress

Lace tunic dress

Colourblock dress

purple dress

I like Amanderrr's suggestion of a bolero / cardi too.
It massively opens up the dresses you can wear.

rry a sleevless dress with a bolero jacket. That way you can get it to fit a bit better but still cover up comfortably

Debenhams are good too, here's a few:

Scarlett dress

Bright print dress

Purple poppy print dress

ribbed black baby doll

Black, chiffon sleeves

HTH

I completely disagree with the cover-up idea, sorry- to me, it looks like a compromise.

Searching for a dress with sleeves is a thankless task- I speak from experience What's your budget?

What do you think of...

this?

this or this?

this?

eye watering