Today has put me off floral dresses 😩

[madeinmanc]

I live on the south coast and had a day in the nearest big town today. I had been feeling pretty pleased with the floral dresses I'd bought ready for summer, but after wandering around today I've just totally gone off them. I just feel saturated with seeing floral dresses all day. I love a floral dress as much as the next person but they all started to blend into one, a uniform of floral dresses often paired with the same kind of shoe, it was all a bit much in the end. Anyone else feeling the same?

I think the difference is 'I would like to wear something other than a floral dress this summer, what alternatives can anyone suggest?' versus 'floral dresses look like shit, they are frumpy and ageing, they are unimaginative, everyone who wears one looks ridiculous, etc etc'

The latter isn't going to get a good response because people don't generally like being slagged off... I'm not saying it was you OP but some of the responses are very sneery in tone so obviously people are going to respond with a fuck you vibe.

^The Coldplay of the dress world.” 😄😁😆😃

That is hilarious OP and sums it up exactly - fresh and greatly admired at the start but now middle of the road and try too hard.

Wear the dresses this summer, relegate them to garden dresses next year and look for a new trend.

Me and a workmate noticed this other day, some people were going outside of work to a formal(ish) lunch. Every woman had on a floral dress.
And every single one looked lovely.

I have suddenly started to notice (sorry) that a lot of women actually look crap in them- they don’t cut it as a short cut to looking fresh and pretty any more. I’m not getting rid of mine, but will probably wear them for wfh and chilling out this summer, rather than when I’m making an effort to look nice. I agree with others that block colours feel fresher now.

A midi dress plus denim jacket and trainers is phenomenally practical for the British summer with it's variable weather. In hotter countries it's just dress plus sandals. And we've been wearing floral dresses in the UK since the industrial revolution when cheap printed cotton became available, they are hardly a passing trend.

I don't think it's necessarily the floral dress so much as the white trainers that are at their peak. They no longer feel fresh and are ubiquitous. They are beginning to be replaced by more colourful trainers. Sure there will still be white trainers around for a while yet though. I have a couple of pairs of white trainers, I will probably buy a different colour next time I buy trainers. Flat shoes are here to stay though, my Mum is in her 70s and very much of the view that you need heels to be dressed up (that includes for a trip into town to do shopping), whereas I in my 50s and my teenage daughters only have flats.

Why? So small minded people don't look at me and think omg! Company! What IS she wearing?

I even have a leopard print midi which is probably unbelievably frumpy by MN standards as its 4 years old. I wore it out to lunch with a mate in portobello a week ago and felt absolutely fine in it!

I think people have an odd negative relationship with the idea of something being in fashion nowadays. In the 80s and 90s people wanted to look similar to others, you went on a night out and most of the girls in 1997 were dressed like a version of a spice girl with huge suede platforms and the smallest, stappiest mini dress and their hair in little twisty bun bunches. That was the “uniform” (and I say girls rather than women because I’m talking about when I was 17ish) but nowadays no one wants to be the same as anyone else. And yet we do. We just all want to pretend that we don’t. So when we have the floral dress thing we do now people are very quick to moan about it and have a pop but it’s just another form of being in fashion. It’s why these threads attract people saying they don’t care about fashion etc - when irony is that they’re choosing to post on a thread about it!

It’s a bit like that moment in Devil Wears Prada where Andie is saying she doesn’t get it, it’s just a sweater (in her words) and she gets told …!

Disturbing? Because people don't like flowery dresses 😒

I don't have an opinion either way. Some look good with better quality material , some look bland. A hat with nice shoes really spices it up

I find it odd that you’ll only wear your dresses based on what other people are wearing.

Surely if everyone’s wearing them that means its the ‘in’ thing and if you are so concerned with fashion then you’d want to wear the ‘in’ thing.

If you like it, wear it.
If you don’t, then wear something different.

@Thepleasureofyourcompany - I'm wearing my leopard print midi with white trainers for dinner tonight!

I'll be shunned by the stylistas!
But I'll look & feel fantastic.

Well if you look at the men you'll find they're all wearing jeans and t-shirts or whatever. And in another season all the women are wearing jeans, what's the difference? Its more noticeable because floral dresses all come out in the very rare warm weather and they are brightly coloured and cover the whole body.

If you don't like them, wear something else that is equally comfortable and practical. Noone else will really care tbh.

I do know what you mean tho.

You see “sneering and judging” the same as “I’m not a fan of floral dresses myself”?

😐

I meant that Coldplay are try too hard these days.

“Try too hard”

not heard that since I was in year 9!

It’s an easy pretty look - I get why it’s so ubiquitous. I’m glad women have embraced something that works for them and not the male gaze.

But the trainers? Can someone explain that? Of all the things to wear on your feet on a hot summer day… sweaty clumpy trainers?

Asexual? Wh………….?

I think you are misreading what people are saying. People aren't saying appearances don't matter to them (or at least I haven't seen comments like that). People are saying they base their style and beauty on what feels good to them, not to others. Yes, I did start wearing floral dresses and white runners after seeing it on other women but I continue to wear them for me, not for anyone else.

And the irony of telling us to leave this forum when style and beauty is such an individual thing. In my friend group, none of us have the same sense of style or same beauty regime. It's a discussion forum. We are discussing.....

*You see “sneering and judging” the same as “I’m not a fan of floral dresses myself”?

😐*

It's a dress.. who gives a fudge? We all have opinions.

And I was tagging my opinion on the end, I know the others may feel stronger. And that's totally fine!

That's very true. A swishy dress is great for confidence - there's little that's more stylish than being confident.

That must be an early winner in today's MN daftest post of the day competition.

But everyone does look the same in their floral dresses, denim jacket, cross body bag and white trainers!

No I love a floral dress and love that other people also love them

It's the same in winter though isn't it? Jeans and trainers or boots and a usually black puffer coat?

I only ever wear dark colours, usually black and find it so hard to find summer clothes 🙁

How on earth is a dress asexual??

Huh?

different hair cuts, hair colour, faces, heights, body shapes, accessories… I could go on

God another S&B thread that’s sneering and negative. It’s so tired.

as for criticising women for dressing “asexual”…we really can’t win can we?