Help! Need a jacket/coat to go with this dress (for a wedding)

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Boondoggle · 15/08/2012 12:28

I have to go to a wedding in Scotland this weekend. I want to wear this cherry-red dress, which I already own. But it needs a jacket of some kind and I don't have anything suitable. I'm not even sure what colour would go nicely with it. Not black because I think it would be too work-y. White? Help! I have to be able to buy the jacket today or tomorrow as am going on Friday.

I could, alternatively, wear, [[http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/Pied+a+Terre+Slinky+knot+jersey+dress/D299759,default,pd.html this blue dress], which I also already have. I slightly prefer this one but it's difficult to put a jacket over as the shoulders of the dress are slightly off the shoulder and stand out quite a lot so give you a weird Honey Monster-type silhouette when you put a jacket over them.

If the jacket is something I could incorporate into my work wardrobe afterwards, I'd pay up to £180.

I suppose maybe a pashmina would do but worried I might be too cold.

For the avid shoppers among you, I also need a clutch bag as have nothing that goes with either dress. Don't want to spend too much on that as hardly ever use them.

Ideas?

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Boondoggle · 15/08/2012 12:29

Whoops, reposting with both links:

I could, alternatively, wear, this blue dress, which I also already have. I slightly prefer this one but it's difficult to put a jacket over as the shoulders of the dress are slightly off the shoulder and stand out quite a lot so give you a weird Honey Monster-type silhouette when you put a jacket over them.

If the jacket is something I could incorporate into my work wardrobe afterwards, I'd pay up to £180.

I suppose maybe a pashmina would do but worried I might be too cold.

For the avid shoppers among you, I also need a clutch bag as have nothing that goes with either dress. Don't want to spend too much on that as hardly ever use them.

Ideas?

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minipie · 15/08/2012 12:29

No help on the coat but just wanted to say good dress!

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Boondoggle · 15/08/2012 12:37

Thanks Minipie. Do you prefer the red or the blue dress?

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minipie · 15/08/2012 12:47

I meant the red one (hadn't looked at the blue one) but I like both. I agree with you that the red one would be easier to put with a jacket.

White or off white would be good for the jacked. Something cropped/bolero style and/or without buttons like this maybe or this would look good with the dress, but is harder to use for work afterwards. this might work for both?

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Boondoggle · 15/08/2012 12:56

Oh I like that Hobbs one - but didn't see it in my (large) Hobbs when I popped in yesterday. Will go and ask them if they have it.

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