I want to dress to impress - dinner at country house hotel

[MascaraOHara]

so should I go evening dress or cocktail dress? or even smart trousers & top.

I have long and knee length black dresses or a cream Karen Millen crochet number (with matching accessories)

Inspirtion from all you fashion gurus required please.. Group do but lovely man there I might quite like to impress on a serious note though, would like to do something to help myself feel really good..

Defintely a dress but short rather than long I'd say. The cream crochet dress sounds like a good bet - describe in more detail!

Smart straight trousers and long top, very slimming and very stylish.

Actually depends on your figure really.
I haven't got legs for a short skirt.

Dinner dance? Country hotel? I take it it's formal then?!!! Got to be evening dress, I'd say long and classy.

Just dinner not dance..

Cream dress.. Is like a champagne coloured heavy crochet with a duck-egg blue slip and a big satin duck-egg blue ribbor round the waist (it's nicer than it sounds). The shoes and the same blue as the slip and trim.

I have a black evening dress that is long and just skims over you.. I'm a fairly tidy size 12 with flat stomach at min so the long black dress wouls be OK. The knee length black dress is more of a stretchy material with a deep v back and front and a diagonal rouched seam..

or should I go shopping?

They all sound lovely. You will be belle of the ball in any of them - but I vote for ditching the boring black and going for the cream and duck egg - sounds wonderful.

Oh sorry, saw dinner and country house and assumed.... never mind...wear what you're most comfortable in, it'll show.

Lol lol.. would feel comfortable in all of them to be honest.. might have a quite browse round t'internet now.

Will see if I can find a picture of cream dress whilst I'm at it...

do you like this thought it might be a happy medium between full length and coctail