What do you think of these dress options?

[stereeotype]

I have an evening event to attend where the dress code is 'smart'.

What do you think off these options?

Option 1 or 2 (2 I already own so is the easier option just worried it's about much skin)

Of* not off!

I prefer the black dress.

Neither of them look "evening"-y to me. More daytime.

I suppose some opaque tights and awesome jewellry would jazz up the black one - maybe a colourful wrap for the shoulders.

For smart I think number 1.

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz definitely no wraps! I'm 30s, I think a wrap feels a bit old fashioned

I really dislike the black one I think it's cheap and dated, sorry.

I don’t think either of them are smart. Sorry. They look like party dresses. They both show too much skin to be smart. But I am 46 and a lawyer so I may be coming at it from a very different angle!

@NigellaSeedofChucky thank you I appreciate the honesty. What about 1 or is it just the best of a bad bunch?!

Oh dear. I'm really stuck now! I'm clearly way off the mark with these options 😬😂

Yeah I don’t think either one of them is quite right either OP, what’s the event?

And no one should ever “jazz up” anything with a colourful wrap! It’s not 2006 anymore!

They're both hideous even on the model. There must be better out there?!

Oh dear thanks all 😂 what a terrible fashion blunder I was about to make !!!!!

What about this (with some higher heeled shoes)

It's another one I already own and I don't want to buy new if I can help it.

But also feel this is a bit work-y?!

www.hobbs.com/product/joan-shift-dress/0220-5429-9045L00-POPPY-RED.html

‘Smart’ isn’t always a very helpful dress code - depends so much on event, time of day, demographic of attendees etc.
I don’t like the first, quite like the second, but impossible to speak with any authority without knowing more about the event!

@stereeotype

Oh dear thanks all 😂 what a terrible fashion blunder I was about to make !!!!!

I don’t think it’s a blunder, in reality if you turned up in either of them no one would really bat an eyelid!

The Hobbs dress is the only one of the three I would call smart.
It does depend on the occasion though.

They are all more daytime dresses IMO

A white blouse, the kind that goes up to neck with a little broderie or lace, and three quarter length cigarette trousers, heals of loaders.

@Onthetrain75

I don’t think either of them are smart. Sorry. They look like party dresses. They both show too much skin to be smart. But I am 46 and a lawyer so I may be coming at it from a very different angle!

This* ^^

*I am not a lawyer. But the dresses are bad, sorry. Simultaneously too much flesh to be smart, and not interesting enough to work for evening. Boring colours, boring fabrics, boring shapes.

Oh my…I must be getting very old.

What’s the event and maybe we can help?

@Chewbecca

The Hobbs dress is the only one of the three I would call smart. It does depend on the occasion though.

Evening dinner at a restaurant in a major city. It's a networking event.

Or a dress with three quarter sleeves, knew length ish with tights and some smart earnings (diamond studs would be my choice).

😂😂😂😂 this thread is making me laugh how way off the mark I am with my choices. Thanks so much genuinely. I clearly don't know how to dress anymore 🤦‍♀️

The red one is smart but a bit boring maybe? Conservative?

The best one is the red. That's a nice dress. Depends what you plan to wear with the black. I think on the model it looks a bit like an apron, and she looks a bit bare. What we're you thinking of wearing with it? The first one is just odd.