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Please show me lovely dresses for Springtime socialising

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LaChienneDesFromages · 03/03/2024 22:15

Every year I hibernate (well, sulk, feel depressed and get ill) in January and early February. By now, I’m finally emerging from my winter fog and have started to resurrect some sort of social life and remember the invitations I accepted and gave.

Coming up there’s a theatre trip, a couple of London lunches with friends, Mother’s Day lunch, my birthday dinner in a decent restaurant, various family events over Easter and a few days away in Dublin and a country house hotel in Wicklow.

All very nice, but I’ve given not a jot of thought to any of them yet, and have no nice dresses to wear.

Has anyone seen any flattering dresses that would suit a shortish size 12 person with a perimenopausal tum? I think I look good in jewel and bold colours and sometimes like a pattern, although they do sometimes mean, I look a bit like a Playschool presenter.

Any dress recommendations would be much appreciated 🙂

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BlossomBlossomBlossom · 03/03/2024 22:28

Have just come from another thread where someone mentioned Cabbages & Roses, which is a brand I always forget. They might work well for your fairly traditional sounding events. At the moment they’re still in A/W - you may need to wait a week or two for more Summery stock.

(Lots of their dresses are quite long - but also cotton, which could be easily shortened by your local alterations service.

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LaChienneDesFromages · 03/03/2024 22:34

Ooh, thank you. I forgot Cabbages and Roses too but will take a look 🙂

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LaChienneDesFromages · 04/03/2024 06:27

Illpickthatup Thank you, I’ll take a look today.

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DGPP · 04/03/2024 06:31

Reiss have got some lovely dresses at the moment. Also, Love and Roses at Next

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