Dresses with sleeves required. Surely I'm not the only flabby-armed person around who bloody hates shrugs and cropped cardigans...right?

[FanOfSlippers]

Spring is here and summer will soon follow... I'm bored of ruining perfectly lovely dresses by wearing cardigans or, god forbid, shrugs and cropped cardigans, just because 99.98% of them are sleeveless.

My upper arms have always been rubbish, even when v.young and slim. Now I'm slightly less young (28) and less slim (14-16) I definitely need sleeves. I like all sleeve lengths apart from cap sleeves, which just emphasise the flab.

Not remotely fussy about style/colour - I'd just love to see any nice dresses with sleeves which are currently on sale.

Thanks in advance!

www.gap.eu/browse/product.do?pid=799468&locale=en_GB&kwid=1&sem=false&sdReferer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegap.co.uk%2Fproducts%2Fdresses.jsp%3Ftid%3Dgups001786%26kwid%3D1%26ap%3D7%26sem%3Dtrue%26mkwid%3DoY1OHDko%26adid%3Dtnc%2Bqerff%26creative%3D15289705186%26adpos%3D1t1

Sorry! That link's ridiculous. Dress is lovely though.

That dress is absolutely perfect - just bought it. Great price too. Thanks for the tip-off!

I had this problem too, kettle bells help ha ha!

please could someone do the link as this one won't open for me

Me neither :( And I have the same problem, well my arms are gross due to weightloss. I'd love to find a nice frock I could wear! And am on an eternal hunt for tops with elbow length or three quater length sleeves.

Oh is this the one from the above link?

Just a thought anyone tried Armoury by mary portas.

FCUK usually do a long sleeved silk dress or two in their collection.

I usually find what I like and buy it off ebay cheaper.

Prima magazine has been on at this for a year or two now. Unfortunately without making much headway.

I'd love to see more dresses with sleeves, and also T-shirts etc with adequate length sleeves (not the much shorter, and even puffy ones of late).

More choice would be great - I haven't bought a summer dress for several years now. Which of course means that I stop looking at any clothes shops after several months of "oh dear, nothing there for me".

I've looked at a link for the Armoury, but in summer when it's too hot for tights, why would I want to start wearing them on my arms? Also, they look far to "solid" and vampish IYSWIM for a day dress.

The Gap dress arrived. It's lovely. Unfortunately my legs are still visible. How I hate summer.

can't get those links to work but Gap have loads of £25 dresses at moment and they almost all seem to have sleeves

also in Boden clearance, lots of wrap dresses and jersey dresses with sleeves

zara
zara
and zara

I really like them (off to the shops)