When would you wear this dress?

[cutlery]

When would you wear This? Is it office wear? Casual wear? Could I get away with it at a winter wedding?

I would only wear this at a Victorian funeral.

IMO, it's absolutely hideous.

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Step in time!

I’d wear it probably in the coffin! Or at funeral, it’s vile. Corduroy makes it even worse.

£300?! 😱 My DM who can sew could probably knock this out on her machine.

Ignore the last few posts OP. It's a nice dress. It's a dress I'd get a lot of wear out of (although not to a wedding) and I'm sure you will too

Have you seen this Nobody's Child dress?

Nobody's Child cord dress

It's a similar style.

Office,yes
winter wedding, yes
MN thinks weddings one must wear florals, a shrug or a bolero and a jaunty hat

My mistake it's been reduced to just under £200.

That’s a proper lady dress and there are no circumstances that I would be wearing it - I’ve no idea where anyone would wear it actually in a navy cord. I think in another fabric it could be very “Mrs Danvers” and I can imagine a Dita Von Teese fan going for it.

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@cutlery - Well colour me sideways but I would wear that dress to a winter wedding with nice shoes and a couple of accessories .

When you dress up as Kate Middleton.

I bought a fabulous dress once to wear to a big event, I felt amazing in it and got some lovely compliments.

The following week I had to pop into a local government office to drop off a document, and one of the admin staff in the background was wearing my dress. I was like WTF but obviously one person's knock out showstopper is another person's daywear.

I was like WTF but obviously one person's knock out showstopper is another person's daywear

That's very true. I think also the relaxation on what can be worn as office wear also works both ways- clothes that might have been too dressed up/ out there for the office now don't get a second look.

This is nice though. The person you saw wearing it could well have worn it first to a big event and decided that they loved it so much they’d incorporate it into everyday wear!

I love it in the red.

This. Wouldn’t wear to a wedding.

Red wedding. Very GoT.

Thank you 😊

It's Mary Poppins on her day orf.

Nonsense. Corduroy would be a ridiculous fabric for a dominatrix. Far to difficult to clean.

Beware when even the model looks awful in the dress. And look at the ugly cuffs. A 'formal' corduroy dress is a terrible idea, hard to imagine anything dowdier than this.

It's reduced

I love it so I don't really care if anyone else finds it vile. Just wondering when I should wear it!

I'm going with when I'm in a Kate Middleton dominatrix mood and off to the library.

I don't think it's dowdy.

As for imagining something that is dowdy, have a look at wedding guest and MoB/MoG threads. This isn't dressy enough/ stand out enough for me for a wedding but if the choice was this dress or the , to my eyes, insipid and fussy floral polyesters which are suggested on most of those threads I'd wear this.

When would you wear it? Well, like another poster, I think it’d be a nice warm dress to wear for walking the dog. Or a quiet day in the office. I like dresses and I actually like corduroy (for trousers or skirts) but this dress is just incoherent- formal but made of a fabric that’s better suited to casual wear; a potentially unflattering cut and the fussiness of the details make it look just a bit dowdy.

OTOH I was walking behind a man in the street the other day wearing the most gorgeous corduroy suit in a lovely string yellow brown. It was cut beautifully - no fussy bits so that the body and “hand” of the fabric could be used as part of the tailoring. I wish I’d asked him where he’d had it made.