Day dresses - a step up from Fatface, Seasalt and White Stuff

[AllBranEater]

I'm mid-forties, 5'2", size 14-16. I want to treat myself to a couple of day dresses, and I'm wondering if anyone knew of companies that were similar to the above, but one step up cost-wise?

Me & Em
Ba&sH
Rixo

It's also always worth having a look on the Outnet. You can put in your size and price range and see what pops up.

Cos Excellent dresses, .

Several brands stocked on

Gather and See

Plümo especially in the sale.

A bit quirky but

Wolf and Badger. Some great dresses.

Is Boden too much of the same for you?

Whistles? Hobbs?

Roman Originals Petite range has some lovely dresses.

Mostly not every day but my goodness, these are fab

Poetry
and

Wrap
similar to Poetry

I like Albaray https://www.albaray.co.uk/collections/dresses

Not a huge range but I do like Poetry

https://www.poetryfashion.co.uk/category-POEDS/dresses-skirts/index.htm

Is Cos not just for really tall people?

No.

(Obviously I wouldn’t have recommended them to the OP if they were!)

No. I'm 5' 2". I have Cos dresses.

Ha - you got there before me

Looked for the link and then got sidetracked by the reductions and ended up buying two dresses I had had my eye on. Expensive thread this one!

They aren't really a step up from Seasalt, fat face and white stuff though.

Roman do have some nice things of a similar quality if you are selective (I have a couple of really lovely summer dresses) but there is an awful lot of tat to wade through that is much lower quality than the brands mentioned.

OP I am in a similar place and there seems to be a bit of a gap. It is quite a big jump to Hobbs, Whistles etc. Have you tried Boden or M&S Autograph? They might be too close to the brands you want to step up from but they are at least a bit "smarter" in their look.

My nicer day dresses are from:
Rixo
Ganni
Whistles
Reiss
Hush
Mint Velvet

online only now but Mistral has lovely dresses and some are in organic cotton

Aspiga - their cord dresses have quite a bit of stretch which akes themm really comfortable to wear.

Justine Tabac - small company clothes made in the UK and uses some beautiful fabrics. She's in her 50s and a normal sze and the dresses are modelled both by her and by her 20 something daughter so you get a good feel for how the dresses fall on a normal person rather than just a tall super slim model.

I pretty much live in dresses! I like Toast and Brora, also Wyse.

This is so true! Not a step up but very useful and cheap. You just have to avoid the horrendous garish prints etc. I buy a few work dresses from Roman like this one every year:
https://www.roman.co.uk/petite-swirl-print-stretch-midi-dress-14661351

Baukjen is worth a look too.

I keep eyeing up me+em … my treat for post weights maybe.

I just bought this in green for Xmas and it is actually really nice and flattering but it's long and I'm 5'7"
https://www.roman.co.uk/glitter-velvet-maxi-dress-14302728

I have also bought two dresses in the sale thanks to this thread! Whoops!