i need some advice from you s&b laydeeez, if anyone has got a few minutes to spare. i started a wee thread about my impending evening of doom, and was advised conservative but gorgeous was the way ahead...
am personally of the ketchup and old jeans persuasion, however, i need to make an effort to brush up in attempt to persuade dh's ceo that he doesn't want to get rid of him. 
not in a hooker sort of way 
but more in a 'your wife is so lovely and so charming and seems to rate you a lot, dh. maybe you aren't so bad after all despite that pesky mind of your own thing you've got going on'... (there have been Words)
the staff party is a dinner party at the ceo's house. he's a muslim and i know it will be dry, and i can't get my legs or boobs out... and it won't be terribly christmassy either?
i'm also short and a size 14. on a good day. so probably planning with a 16 in mind might work out better...
as i can't actually fit into any of my 'going out' clothes i'm going to need to buy in any case... i normally tend towards boring long and black, but suspect i might need something a little less funereal (one of the director's wives died a month ago...) but i have an abject horror of looking like my grandmother. or anyone's grandmother, really. i'm 40 with a pixie-ish hair cut, so am verging on the age where it's either mutton dressed as lamb, or sit down and i'll get you a blanket...
soooooo, what would you suggest i wear to convince a middle aged egyptian with a superiority complex that dh must be an asset else i wouldn't have married him?...
heeeeeelp! (am also in canada, so won't be able to return for a few hours to peruse, but all suggestions gratefully accepted!)