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Help me find a dress for my 50th birthday party!

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HelloTreacle9 · 01/06/2023 17:05

I can't quite believe it but my 50th is coming up. Having a party at a roof terrace-type venue in London. Most people will be cool and casual (lots of media types) but I like wearing short dresses and want to feel special AND comfortable and confident. I have a LOT of Zara dresses (am size 12-14, have boobs, bum and tummy) which I feel great in, but want something a bit more special. I like bright colours and prints. Please help me find something, have been trawling online for days and can't find anything quite right. Budget up to a couple of hundred quid although much cheaper would be good! Really like this one from Zara but it's sold out in my size. https://www.zara.com/uk/en/short-poplin-print-dress-p03462271.html?v1=258933263&v2=2184234 Thanks so much!

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Matilda1981 · 02/06/2023 09:23

Ahh when I look this morning they had all but XL!

CountryCousin · 02/06/2023 09:37

Ha! It’s clearly set to be the dress of the season - so they’ll probably keep re-stocking it now.

You may be lucky, @HelloTreacle9 - although every single one of your guests will be wearing the same dress!

DwightShrutesgirlfriend · 02/06/2023 11:01

HolidayWax · 01/06/2023 22:25

Nothing to add OP except I need a reason to buy that first green one ! Thanks @CountryCousin

Likewise @HolidayWax , the most gorgeous dress I've seen in a long time.

HolidayWax · 02/06/2023 11:42

DwightShrutesgirlfriend · 02/06/2023 11:01

Likewise @HolidayWax , the most gorgeous dress I've seen in a long time.

I know it's gorgeous! Sadly my life only consists in working from home and running after small DC with dirty hands and snotty noses.

So I hope this beautiful dress has a nice life with someone else!

mids2019 · 02/06/2023 13:27

I asked this on a previous thread but what are your views on singing the national anthem and displaying the union flag? Both have references to Christianity (lyrics and sympolism).

GettingMarriedAgain · 02/06/2023 14:31

@HelloTreacle9 Your original Zara dress is showing as available in a large at the moment

KatyS36 · 02/06/2023 14:47

Hello, if you love that initial dress (I think it's gorgeous) with you budget I would buy it in a bigger size and have it taken in so it's absolutly perfect foe you xx

Mirabai · 02/06/2023 17:35

KatyS36 · 02/06/2023 14:47

Hello, if you love that initial dress (I think it's gorgeous) with you budget I would buy it in a bigger size and have it taken in so it's absolutly perfect foe you xx

You’d have to have it remade. It would be too big all over.

OneFrenchEgg · 02/06/2023 17:44

Try All Saints? I have several short dresses along those lines and my 50th dress is from there

OneFrenchEgg · 02/06/2023 17:47

Any of these?

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OldieButBaddie · 02/06/2023 18:45

Love the one you posted first, I just looked at it and it seems to be available in all sizes..check again!

GrinAndVomit · 02/06/2023 19:08

HelloTreacle9 · 01/06/2023 17:05

I can't quite believe it but my 50th is coming up. Having a party at a roof terrace-type venue in London. Most people will be cool and casual (lots of media types) but I like wearing short dresses and want to feel special AND comfortable and confident. I have a LOT of Zara dresses (am size 12-14, have boobs, bum and tummy) which I feel great in, but want something a bit more special. I like bright colours and prints. Please help me find something, have been trawling online for days and can't find anything quite right. Budget up to a couple of hundred quid although much cheaper would be good! Really like this one from Zara but it's sold out in my size. https://www.zara.com/uk/en/short-poplin-print-dress-p03462271.html?v1=258933263&v2=2184234 Thanks so much!

This is back in stock in size L if that’s what you’re hoping for, OP

CountryCousin · 03/06/2023 19:18

Also, at the risk of seeming over-invested (mainly it’s because I’ve been doing a lot of clothes browsing on my own behalf lately and often remember things I’ve seen) something sent me to the Sezane site and it’s full of short dresses at around the £150 mark. All a sort of frenchified Zara upgrade. Very nice (even if very much not my kind of thing).

Landlubber2019 · 03/06/2023 19:22

Have you checked out silk Fred?

Lots of lovely playsuits

Mirabai · 03/06/2023 21:09

This doesn’t fit the brief but I love it.

Another Rixo.

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