Do you like this dress, and if you do, have you seen one like it on the high street?

[workatemylife]

My spring wardrobe is non-existent. I want to try branching out into tunic / dress and leggings combinations, but would prefer not to have anything too figure hugging (trying to shift some surplus winter pounds ).

I saw these on Ebay: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Velvet-Lace-Embroidered-Gypsy-Hippy-BabyDoll-Mini-Dress-/281088695721?pt=UK_Women_s_Dresses&var=&hash=item4172311da9

What do you lovely stylish ladies think? I'm worried about buying online and from overseas, although the ratings for the shop seem okay. But there's the issue of fit - I tend to prefer to try things on in a shop before buying, but I've not seen anything similar. Any ideas? Or is the dress a hideously bad idea all round?!

Proviso: I'm not stylish, and I don't think much of it. That may mean it is perfectly lovely...

Anyway, saw this on Tesco website and thought that while I love the idea of being a floaty hippy, I'd look absolutely awful in it, as I do in anything of that ilk. However, it may be the kind of thing you're looking for. £22

darker print

blue. If you read the review for that colour, you might see the issue some people can have with that sort of flowy style

I think the ones SirToffee has linked to are much nicer esp for spring/summer

Thanks ladies. You might have done enough to save me from myself ! I liked the first 'Tesco' one, but take on board the review comments for the other one. Which I why I'll probably not buy online. Like Toffee, I have a niggling suspicion that I might look either pregnant, muttony, or just plain weird in this kind of thing, however much I like the idea

I agree Horace - one to wear with tights or leggings rather than bare flesh on the legs (my knees stay resolutely indoors all year!). I've not deleted it from my watch list yet......