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Please help me find a couple of winter warm dresses.

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meltedchocolate · 15/09/2011 11:13

Hi, I don't want to be stuck in jeans and jumpers this winter. I want to be feminine but warm.

Can you help me find some warm dresses? Either wooly warm long sleeved or dresses that can easily go with cardis (and help me find some cardis). I am Top Heavy (shoulders, not boobs) so need something that kicks out around the hip to balance me out. I don't want to spend more than £40 on each dress but would stretch to more for something fabulous that I could wear again and again! Don't mind colours but not used to wearing anything bright and in your face.

Thanks in advance for any help :)

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meltedchocolate · 16/09/2011 21:14

*given Blush

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 16/09/2011 21:26

Don't forget to come back and tell us all about it when it arrives.

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meltedchocolate · 16/09/2011 21:29

I will remember. 3-4 days!

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meltedchocolate · 16/09/2011 21:41

Sorry can I ask a new question? What types of shoes/boots would you wear with this dress? Could you link me to some styles please?

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tethersend · 16/09/2011 21:42

Don't worry, meltedchocolate, you wear what you want; I don't have to like it Grin

DuelingFanjo · 16/09/2011 21:53

I want want want that la redoute dress in red that Tethersend linked to. WANT! WANT! WANT!

tethersend · 16/09/2011 22:01

You see? At least somebody respects me Grin

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 16/09/2011 22:52

:)

Did you order the navy or the grey? I would wear the grey with a white or grey cami underneath, grey marl tights and tan knee high boots. Or with black cami, black opaques and black wedges. Or black opaques and biker boots if it's not too long (and my as yet unowned grey leather jacket!).

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meltedchocolate · 16/09/2011 23:04

I ordered the navy :) So excited!

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KristinaM · 17/09/2011 12:14

And meltedchocolate, stop sookimg up to old tethers. She will get ideas above her station Wink

Cointreau, m&s dreses lool promising but worried about all these horizontal stripes on my...ahem...womanly figure

vanillagorilla · 17/09/2011 18:08

Going back to TWC dress, (obsessed, moi?) I found this...... Whatcha think? Plus they have 25% off at moment....

www.dorothyperkins.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=12552&catalogId=33053&productId=2659181&categoryId=232582&parent_category_rn=228107

Hoping for a lottery win...

vanillagorilla · 17/09/2011 18:09

Obviously no cashmere or wool at that price either.....

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 17/09/2011 18:37

I've got a couple of the Autograph striped dresses, though mine are jersey not wool. They are surprisingly flattering.

Don't like that DP one, Vanilla - sorry. It's a strange shape (a bit Morticia) and it's mostly acryllic, which means it would be sweaty and horrible to wear, I think.

I'm going to try one of the M&S ones on tomorrow, as well as the WC one - but prob won't buy anything until next weekend, after I've been paid!

motherinferior · 17/09/2011 18:44

This is a most fab dress; I have it in brown and purple. Would get the blue but blue makes me look like a corpse.

motherinferior · 17/09/2011 18:48

This is also surprisngly nice on but is slightly outside your budget.

vanillagorilla · 18/09/2011 09:16

Remus, you're right, think will have to go down the Autograph route, they do have loads of dresses don't they? Although have ordered so much stuff for collection at local M&S they don't ask my name any more at the collection desk .....

Soups · 18/09/2011 10:01

Vanilla, that looks like the dress I bought yesterday. I'm taking it back as the material was ever so slightly scratchy and not that comfy. It's cut so low and the front that you need a vest underneath, not a problem but it's quite a warm dress already. Shame as I loved the colour.

I'm keeping this one
www.dorothyperkins.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId=33053&storeId=12552&productId=3208142&langId=-1&sort_field=Relevance&categoryId=208783&parent_categoryId=226988&pageSize=20&refinements=Colour{1}~[multi]&noOfRefinements=1
It needs a vest underneath but the material hangs much nicer, and it'd the kind of material you can layer.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 18/09/2011 10:08

MotherInferior - I like both of the ones you linked to. I tried the blue one on (but in purple) last year and it looked awful on me though: it was too long for me, so looked frumpy, and the draping just made my norks look huge.

I like the grey one a lot - but suspect that it and norks would be a bad combination, non?

motherinferior · 18/09/2011 11:55

No, I have enormous shapely norks and it looks fine on me!

cornsillx · 18/09/2011 12:00

all the dresses on here are very short - I need knee length.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 18/09/2011 12:22

Mine are enormous but far from shapely! :)

How tall are you, Cornsilk? The blue one that MotherInferior linked to was quite a bit below the knee on me (though I am only 5' 2).

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 18/09/2011 12:23

And the WC one is deffo at least knee length on me.

cornsillx · 18/09/2011 12:24

I'm 5'6'' so pretty average but wouldn't wear above the knee for work. I'm far too prim and proper.

cornsillx · 18/09/2011 12:25

WC one has buttons so no can do. Although I love WC stuff.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 18/09/2011 12:27

What's wrong with buttons?

I am clearly a tart and frequently wear above the knee skirts to work - but with opaques.