Can I ask for kind and stylish people's help, please, in what to wear with this denim dress?

[JessiCake]

uk.monsoon.co.uk/view/product/uk_catalog/mon_6.59/2409974508

I am not usually a dress person but I have this and wore it loads this summer. It really suits me and I feel great in it, it's the first dress I've bought in years since I sloooooooowly dropped from a size 14 to a 10/12 and I LOVE IT.

I would love to be able to continue wearing it as the weather gets chillier into autumn and winter but I have zero skill with knowing what to wear with dresses. This one was easy in summer as I just wore it with metallic slip-on trainers or raffia-type wedges for evenings out.

I was wondering how it might work in autumn/winter with a slouchy fine-knit long-line boyfriend-type cardi - ideally almost as long as the dress itself - thick black (?) tights and black biker boots?

Does that sound awful or quite nice?

This is just for working from home and school runs, by the way. But I do (or did, pre-DD!) like to look as if I've made an effort. And I just love having a dress I like and that flatters me for a change, I'm a bit sick of my usual skinny jeans and Gap bi-stretches!!

Any other ideas...?

Thanks all.

Oh, and if it helps understand my usual style, I normally avoid Monsoon like the plague... haven't bought anything from there in about 20 years (am 40) but I spotted this dress in the window one day and diverted into the store later to buy it. Embroidered/ruffled stuff isn't me at all. Was quite amazed to find such a perfect dress in there!

Yes it sounds good.
You could also wear a long sleeved t underneath.

Before I got to that part of your post, I thought: tights, slouchy cardi, biker boots. Possibly a scarf.

So it's a yes from me! I'm 40 too.

Oh yes, MasterNot, I like that idea too. Thank you. I have a very lightweight white one I haven't worn since I bought it las autumn as it's too flimsy on its own butu might well work layered under a dress.

Brilliant, thank you!

It is a really, really lovely dress. I think I'd wear with a scarf choker style and coordinated colour of tights that tones with the scarf, and ankle boots. but I'm fat and getting divorced so wait til someone trendy comes along.

I would wear it with either grey or black thick tights, and a grey or black cardigan but I would have a more fitted cardi rather than slouchy.
Boots could be either ankle or knee length.
It's a lovely dress, I love denim dresses!

NC4, thank you! Yep, will def scarf it up, scarves were always my 'thing' before DD so I have a treasure trove of lovely ones I haven't worn for 4 years! As a baby she used to grab them so I put them all away and then as a toddler I was too terrified of sticky fingers to get lovely wool/cashmere ones back out again!! She's starting school and (mostly) less sticky now so I am going to have a fab time digging my snuggly scarves out and wearing one EVERY SINGLE DAY FROM SEPTEMBER UNTIL APRIL...

Grey tights!!! Genius!! See, this is why I posted on here. Thanks missy! I have some cable-knit grey ones I love but never know what to wear them with!!

I was thinking of buying an actual man's cardi actually, I'm tall and broad-shouldered so men's knits often fit me quite well... will have a look at uniqlo men's ones cos I'm a bit obsessed by Uniqlo in general.

Thanks ferriswheel, bet you're not fat

Hugely apprecaited eveyrone thank you, I have the confidence to try this now!!

Oooooh, clogs... I can see how that would work but I fear I'm not devil-may-care enough for that look! Who knows, though, the sky may be my limit now...

bet I am How did you lose your weight?

ferris - gave up sugar - well, cut DOWN... by my standards it was 'giving up' but I do still have a little bit here and there and I still eat carbs etc. And walked. About 1 hour a day. And slightly smaller portions.

Took 5 months doing it that way. But no gym and no 'diet'. I had to re-think my (appalling) diet because I had a health problem and cutting down/out sugar was the best way to solve that. Side effect - muffin top and spare tyre disappeared! But I did eat a bit less and walk a bit more.

Officer I'm going to go and have a little peek at that website... just remembering now that I had a pair of red clogs that I ADORED when I was about 17... hmmm... I could get back into clogs, methinks... happy to be enabled...

I've got a similar denim dress bit lighter denim, which I also wear in summer and winter. I wear with a long chunky cardigan, thick black wooly tights I got in white stuff, and brown ankle boots or I've got black calf length biker style boots.

I so need to lose weight. This year I've gone from a 12/14 to 14/16. Can't get motivated.

Oh God, officer, I've had one look at that site and I think I'm clogconverted... would you go for trad backless ones or ones with a back...?
(whispers) I love them all...

I have skinny skinny legs and scrawny ankles, though, will I look like I have bricks on my feet?

I would wear it with a navy and white striped long sleeved top underneath, navy tights, and tan loafers. (I am not a cardigan person, though.) You could also layer a polo neck underneath.

Officer I'm sort of loving these
What have you done??!

www.lottafromstockholm.co.uk/clogs/soft-sole-clogs/ten-points-frida-tbar-black-7355.html

Oh judy I love the idea of stripy top underneath. I have about a million... good way to update them a bit. Thank you

Sorry to hijack thread but this might be a stupid question, but how do you wear a scarf? The only ones I've got are fleecy winter ones. I'd like to look elegant but am afraid I'd just look stupid. And which scarfs do you wear?

Love that dress btw

ilovechocolates - not a stupid question at all! I'm the one who started a thread asking how to wear a dress

I have a LOT of scarves but rarely wear a traditional fleecy or knitted one. Most of mine are either massive square shapes or wide long oblongs if that makes sense - maybe 50cm wide and 150cm long?

Almost all of them are very very light/fine cashmere mix but they're NOT pashminas, not as solid a weave as that if that makes sense? Gazuy, maybe that's the word! But not silky...

I love print so a lot of mine are printed, I have two amazing leopard-print ones which are just amazing as the gauziness detracts a little bit from the leopardy-ness, if you know what I mean, so they're fairly understated. I wear them literally just draped round my neck a lot of the time - not even looped back up again just hanging evenly round my neck on either side - but I'm tall so I like that effect as it breaks up my upper body a bit. Safety-wise you have to be careful as they dangle more that way - I was always forever clutching the ends of my scarves as I went down escalators as they dangled down so far sometimes they were hard to keep track of!

I would def try a gauzy one in either a print or a nice colour and with as much cashmere in the mix as you can afford.

I used to wear cotton scarves a lot too as the weather gets warmer. Again, printed. Quite a lot of grey tones cos I'm obsessed with grey.

I do sometimes loop them back around my neck too, so that the ends still dangle down over my chest but less far down.

Will try to post pics of some later, I love my scarves, I do, and am so thrilled to be trying to get back into wearing them! I have a small fortune's worth of them sitting in my cupboard!

Haha yh forgot about that- I know how to wear a dress as I wear them all the time

5ft long!! I'm only 5ft high so always worry about them being too long on me and looking silly.

Photos would be good tho pls n examples of scarfs- if u don't mind. I've got plain dresses and wondering how to liven them up so looking for ideas.

I have a similar dress that I actually only wear in the winter, as it's a bit shorter than yours and my legs need tights under it! I wear it with a long sleeved top underneath (either stripy or cream lace - I have a thing about lace sleeves!), thick tights (black, brown or navy) and knee length boots. I like it with a leather biker-style jacket over it too.