if you had a silver/grey dress and a red bag...

[Mandyville]

...what colour wrap would you wear?

The dress has a swirly pattern and the bag is plain red leather, if that helps. I am extremely bad at accessorizing, but I suspect that two shades of red is a bad thing.

I have a cream wrap that I usually wear with the dress, but I'm wearing it for a wedding so I'm nervous about the rules on wearing white/anything close to white.

Any advice?

Please help! Even if you just tell me that the cream wrap will be OK!

wine red

Wine red, even with a red bag...?

yup. Only my opinion, but with a swirly patterned dress, you don't want many other colours going on

same shade of red or gray/silver to match the dress.

What colour are your shoes?

Nude shoes. I would consider buying new ones, but I have the fear about coordinating bag and shoes... You can tell I'm no good at this, right?

Red knecklace, black wrap, black shoes.

You think I need red shoes, don't you...? Sigh...

I don't think you need to worry about looking too bride-ish if you are wearing a silver dress and carrying a red bag. You can wear the cream wrap if it goes.

**necklace

Ah-ha! Ex-post. My saviour - black shoes, eh? Should be do-able, even for me. I like the thinking with the red necklace. Hadn't even got to jewellry. It does mean shoe-shopping, of course. Probably a good thing. Someone accused my nude kitten-heels of being 'mummy shoes' on their last outing...

Tbh it doesn't sound like the bag goes with the dress in the first place! Contrasting colour for a plain unpatterned dress, but it's starting to sound a bit fussy with a wrap too.

Link to dress and bag?

Or even better x-post! Thank you TPL. (I promise the cream wrap does go - the dress is odd like that...)

Oh god. Don't want to link. I know the bag is wrong. But I love it. OK - this one. This one.

I want a bag big enough to squeeze my flats into (pg and bad with heels).

Can't find a link to the dress, which would be more helpful...

Lovely bag, but I don't think v weddingy at all I'm afraid! How about an oversized clutch - Topshop and H and M do cheap ones - you'll still be able to fit ballet flats in all honesty, black or silver accessories sound better with your dress. Or maybe cream if it works?

Where's dress from?

Dress is Phase 8 from a couple of years ago. It has a regular pattern of silver grey swirls.

I know it's not weddingy... I was basically clutching at the straw offered by the TKMaxx website saying it's even suitable for formal wear! I really suck at this. (And I really like the bag!)

Rats - got to go. Back this evening. Thanks, all for kind suggestions. Maybe I'll photograph the dress tonight...

Definitely not the bag...sorry.

And are you sure the shoes go? Nude shoes with grey/ silver dress, not convinced.

If I were you I would be taking a silver clutch (are there any possibilities here) and wearing silver shoes I think....

You could then probably get away with almost any colour wrap but the cream one would probably be fine.

Agree, don't like the bag and not sure about a red bag anyway, or nude shoes ...
But NOT black shoes either. Too heavy-looking. I'd go:

• silver/grey shoes (not to match dress: a few shades darker, but same tone)
• electric-blue wrap
• bag ... I'd invest in a nice clutch, oversized to fit your spare shoes. And think you could get away with a pattern, in whatever colours you fancy.

Definitely silver shoes not nude - probably with silver bag. Could then introduce colour with wrap.

Sorry, I agree. The red bag is too heavy for the dress (although v. useful for other occasions, my DM has it)

Silver, grey shoes or at a pinch navy blue sandals.
Wrap silver or grey
Handbag navy blue if it is tiny, otherwise silver or grey.

This will make you feel sleek and groomed. A contrast will make you feel a bit 1990s

Ebay is your friend, you can snaffle up bag, wrap and shoes for peanuts. Don't worry either about how well it will 'wear' or how much use you will get out of it...just bung it back on ebay after the wedding

And whilst you are there...put the nude shoes on ebay :)

If you do invest in silver shoes and bag, you should get masses more use out of them as they go with everything - particularly if you get a subtle, not a sparkly bright type of silver.