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?

OK, now I have photographed them I accept that the shoes don't go (see profile). Have a look - I can take it.

The general consensus is that I need silver/grey things, right? Norks, you may well be right about red, grey and the '90s. Although, there was a suggestion upthread for red, grey and black, which would surely take the whole thing back to the '80s! I swear this would be easier if I was shopping for a whole new outfit, but the dress fits so I'm wearing it, dammit!

whoneeds I'm not sure any of those bags are big enough... I know it's a wedding, but I'm arriving at it by public transport (it's in central London and I'm an hour outside) so I need to carry things like flat shoes with me. I'm really not good in heels.

Mandy you need to make your profile public otherwise we can't see the dress.

Have I managed it now...?

Nope, doesn't look like it. Will try again.

Oh FFS. I can't even get MN right. Does this work? Photo on profile here.

You S&Bers may well think this skanky but what about carrying your nice little clutch bag and dumping all the necessary other things - shoes etc in a carrier bag then stashing the bag somewhere for later access?

Might not be for everyone but I have no shame due to years of commuting in trainers and carrying heels and gym gear in a day pack.

I did exactly that when I had to go straight from Uni to a wedding. I had all my books and notes in a rucksack as well as wedding shoes, jewellery, shawl, hat and a present. No problem changing at the venue and dumping the rucksack until I left. People got too pissed to remember, assuming they'd noticed in the first place.

Oooh, clever idea...two bags!

OK... I can see that. Once the damn thing is stashed under a table, no-one need ever know. And if I really cared (which I don't) I could get my husband to carry it in!

This still leaves the shoes problem.

These are about as high as I can go. And they are grey. And yet I can't see them going, somehow. So maybe it has to be actually silver...

Get your plus one to wear a red and silver striped tie if male or scarf if female and get him/her to carry the red bag.
You wear lovely silver sandals and take a silver floaty scarf or the cream one
and clutch.

Adore the dress
Love the bag
Together = hideous/Athena

hth

Nice dress agree about toning the accessories with the dress rather than competing with it.

You can get fab shoes and accessories on ebay.

Aww... Thanks for being nice about the dress.

Will re-think bag, then. And shoes. Maybe. Arse...

Those shoes are gorgeous, MissBeehiving.

I'm afraid I can't stand the shoes . The bows... The height...

I really am turning into my mother. Trouble is, everyone else seems fine with proper heels, so 2 inchers for someone like me are hard to come by.

Why don't you just wear some pretty ballet flats? In a pewter colour perhaps . . .

Oh and why do you want a wrap? Is the wedding outside because if not I wouldn't bother.

I wore a leather biker jacket over a silk dress at the last wedding I went to - granted it was only the evening do though . . .

And definitely 2 bags - small clutch and capacious one for other stuff although if I were you I'd just wear one comfortable pair all day.

I agree with MCB, these would do the job beautifully and they're in the sale.

Those shoes are nice too, and work really well with the dress (which I also love). Am v jealous you can wear such a thing, Mandyville