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Dress for a wedding to suite 10 year old girl

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startail · 04/04/2011 12:36

DD2 is a very fashion concious 10 year old, she needs a dress for two weddings,
One very informal spring and one proper hotel do in the Summer.
DH, DD1 and I don't do fashion, He'll wear a suite, DD1 has a simple black slightly shaped shift dress with lots of bright abstract flowers on it, I've treated myself to a new white 50's style dress with big black and green flowers but DD2 has grown out of everything.
So far the only two things she likes are these pink next dress and purple next dress
The pink one may be ok, but it's not in stock yet and the second is a very cheap beach dress, the style is perfect for DD2, but T shirt material and raw edges are a non starter for a wedding Sad
any help would be really welcome

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Earlybird · 04/04/2011 12:43

Have you looked at Monsoon?

That would be where I'd start - though perhaps they are best for girls younger than 10....

startail · 04/04/2011 13:46

Thanks I'd forgotten them. She'd look stunning in this blue Monsoon dressshe has a top the same pale turquoise that really suites her. Bet she'll think it's too flowery, but you never know. There are a couple of pink halternecks she might like too. (The more formal prom type dresses are lovely, but she told me she doesn't want it to look like her lovely turquoise and brown Sainsburys dress which was exactly that style, absolutely perfect (went to a weeding a couple of summers ago), but out grown and gone to the charity shop)

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GraceK · 04/04/2011 13:51

Try Ebay for Monsoon stuff as it's often been barely worn. Zara & sometimes M&S can be good too

startail · 06/04/2011 23:59

Thank you for your help, I ordered the blue dress (she decide that the flowers "worked" )and she does look lovely in it.
Thank you EarlyBird

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Earlybird · 08/04/2011 16:14

startail - I'm so glad Monsoon was the answer. And thanks for coming back to tell us you resolved this successfully.

Hope you all have fun at the weddings.

pavv · 22/04/2011 12:31

i recently went to a wedding with my family, i got my daughters' dresses off of a website

www.kidsclothingonline.org

really nice quality

startail · 22/04/2011 23:31

Yes, we had fun, even if DD moaned that the bride was wearing very nice ordinary clothes (I had warned her that it was a quiet registry office do for a couple who've lived together for 20 years and not the kind of showy wedding she bridesmaided for).
However, being able to play with her rarely seen cousins while Mummy and Daddy went to the restaurant evening meal made up for everything else.
(Total coincidence that DSISIL and old flat mate come from the far end of Cornwall and a real hardship to have to go down there in this horrible weather[bugrin]

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