Are floral midi dresses OVER?

[CointreauVersial]

Just bought this dress in the Hush sale. Good price, perfect length, fits great.....I just have this feeling that maybe floral midi dresses are over, and I won't wear it. Thoughts??

I don't think they're going anywhere, they're everywhere and I think they've been promoted to a staple to be honest. If you're really keen to keep up with trends personally I'd still buy clothes you love but just update how you style them. I think maxi dresses and trainers is moving on, ballet flats moving in though.

The poor editor, out of a job because the entire magazine is just 100 pages of "wear whatever you like" on repeat. Four words, 30 seconds, job done, print! And a P45 on Friday 😆

I'm <gasp> 56 years old, and still like to dress fashionably. It's not a thing reserved for teenagers, you know.

Nooooo! OP that is not allowed. You're breaking the sacred code of the sisterhood. You have to be menopausal, overweight, DGAF about what you wear and stomp around scowling at young people muttering "just you wait" darkly, as you wander around charity shops deliberately searching out unfashionable clothes. It's the law 😂

@Jamtartforme I can certainly do menopausal and overweight....😆

Sorry, that was aimed at @IndianSummer78

Lovely dress, if you like it that's what matters most of all. I love a print but I wish that everything was a few inches shorter! Knee length definitely suits me more so I end up with so much stuff that I take to get hemmed!

I've just started to like them and consider getting one, so that probably means they're on the way out. That's usually how it works for me.

I'm going to agree with pp and say they've become a kind of staple. The styling seems to have changed, though. No denim jacket, white trainers and cross body bag, but a baggy varsity jacket or blazer, loafers with socks or coloured trainers, also with socks. Small underarm bag.
I think it's a really nice dress, OP.. looks good. How will you style it?

This year will be my third of midi/maxis and chunky boots. They are comfy. I feel good. We’ve had years where we couldn’t buy green. Love green. Go for it.

Oh, yes. I love green, too. Not enough crimson for me at the moment.

Who decides things are fashionable anyway? The magazines/ fashion houses? If we listened to them on every little thing, we would need to be ahead of what everyone on the street was wearing and be buying new clothes every 2mins… if they are “out of fashion” Maybe someone will see you in yours and think oh floral dresses are fashionable again and you will have brought them back! It’s all bizarre lol. Wear what you want and feel comfortable in. I keep clothes for years and wear them over and over. Couldn’t care less if they are “in fashion” or not

It's fine if fashion isn't for you, @Mama1209 . It's a choice. Many of us are interested in style and fashion, not least the OP, who wants advice.
It's entirely possible to have a wardrobe without changing it every two minutes. I've had clothes for years as well. They're classics and wardrobe staples. Sometimes people just want to jig up their look, which is fine.

Style and beauty does bring out a lot of people who truly hate fashion and spending money on clothes and accessories. The bag threads always attract posters who feel the need to say they own a single bag that cost less than a tenner and they take it with them to all occasions, never using a different bag for different events or varying amounts of stuff to be carried.

someone should start a separate thread they can all go complain about fashion and frivolous spending on it.

The handbag threads are particularly bonkers, @LimeCheesecake . It's a brave woman who wants to discuss handbags on here costing more than £10.

OP - for autumn, the midis I’ve seen that don’t look as dated are more shirt dress style, not floral (lots of spots and splodges) and a bit closer to the knee than last year.

I actually now click on any bag thread to see if someone has suggested just spending the money on a mini break instead - because somehow a weekend away is not a waste of money but spending the same (or less) on an item you’ll use repeatedly is a waste of money.

Oh the best one was some woman saving up for a Chanel bag and being told that she should spend the money on providing a bench for the local park 🙄

Over...to who?

Fashionable...to who?

Floral midi dresses are nice but totally unremarkable. No one in the street is going to keel over in horror at you. Have you seen what the majority of the public LOOK LIKE?

What exactly is the height of fashion at this precise moment in time?

I think that floral dresses are a bit like striped or gingham ones, they come out every year in one form or another.

I couldn’t bear the floral tent/blancmange trend and so I’m interested to see that quite a few brands are now making floral dress with more structure, which feels fresher (and to me, far more appealing). Eg the Cabbages & Roses dresses posted by Natasha. I’ve also seen a dress in Toast with a drawstring like the OP’s Hush sale but and it does make all the difference.

The PPs who said it depends how you style it are spot on. I liked very much seeing people wearing the floral dress/denim jacket/white trainer combination, but it reached saturation point last summer just too much of the same thing became incredibly boring and suddenly it felt “over”. So three cheers for a bit more structure. The flowery dress is dead, long live the new flowery dress!

Meant to say OP your new cardigan sounds great, as does the suggestion of wearing the dress with a woollen tank top and clumpy boots.

I think you can be stylish (the board title is after all, Style and Beauty, not Fashion and Beauty!) without slavishly following trends. I was never a 'dress person' but I discovered the floral/patterned midi dress style about 3 years ago, and I love it! I lost quite a bit of weight and maybe that's why they do suit me now.

I wasn't particularly keen on the 'white trainers' idea, but wore matching coloured trainers. I also like biker style boots with dresses.

Surely in any discussion, you are going to get negative and positive points of view? That is what makes it a discussion n'est-ce pas? Being stylish and being fashionable are not always the same thing. Being stylish is wearing what suits you, what flatters you.

I don't think the dress is going anywhere soon, so I'd order another one @CointreauVersial and enjoy wearing it.

Lots of dresses are selling out at half price now - to make room for the Autumn/Winter stock. I don't think there's a subliminal message 🙄!

Haven't read all the other posts but:

I wouldn't wear it because I have never worn that type of dress - it doesn't appeal to me, and I never wore skinny jeans for the same reason - I just didn't like that kind of silhouette. However, if you do, that is a very classic kind of floral dress. I do hate the word 'ditsy' intensely.

And anything I am in doubt about, I don't buy. As an avid clothes buyer (now always high end pre-owned) I have learned that anything I have to persuade myself about in anyway, for me is a mistake.

I do follow fashion but I tend towards classic looks. That dress is not a shapeless sack on the model and if it looks good on you then I don't think you will look dated, it is quite understated.

Just saw that this thread is very old: presumably the op will have decided by now!

Based on what I see around (before the temperature dropped this week anyway) I think the black and white gingham midi might be the new floral, for the denim jacket and vejas people.