Is this dress ok for a March Christening and May wedding

[PregnantPumpkin]

Just that really, do you think this dress is ok for a Christening in a few weeks and a wedding at the end of May?
I'm not quite 3 months post partum yet so like that it's a bit flowy and got some extra material around the stomach area.
Opinions please 😊

Next also have some nice dresses in their clearance sale on the website if you haven't looked there?

I went to a summer christening a few years ago and everyone was dressed up, like a wedding!

I agree with this, I understand you really like next, but have a browse through the sites this poster links, you will get an idea of what’s current, for some reason you’ve a very limited idea of what’s current , for any demographic, never mind your own, which is quite unusual for women of 30. Do you not go out much with female friends?

the dresses you link are very dated and aimed at women much older than you, who don’t nod to current at all. Current doesn’t need to mean fashionable.

of course it doesn’t mean you need to dress in a way you don’t wish, and not in the dresses you linked which are the other extreme,

my daughter is 28, there is no way she’d wear the stuff you posted, for her for a wedding or christening, she’d go for a pair of pale wide leg tailored trousers, a fitted waist coat to match, or a wide leg jumpsuit with a fitted body, she seldom wears dresses, I wear them a lot, but I’d also not wear what you posted, which are dated styles and colours in cheap fabrics. You can do so much better for the money and feel fabulous,

My daughter is around the OP’s age. For the last few weddings she’s been to she’s worn dresses from Zara, Reiss and rented from Vampire’s Wife and somewhere else that I’ve forgotten. She wouldn’t ever wear a jumpsuit.

OP - I enjoyed the dreadful dresses you found on the sites recommended to you. They are hilarious. But I don’t like the Next dress either - it’s another that I think looks very old fashioned.

Absolutely fine.

This is in the sale and the sort of shape you want. I can see it working for a christening and wedding but not sure about graduation. It’s over £50 but most things are these days.
www.reiss.com/style/su782262/h65992

OP has said she has £50 to spend. Not £118 on something which is nice enough, but a casual holiday dress. Plus that model has no breasts at all so the dress will look entirely different on the OP. Loads of other people on here would shriek about it being far too white for a wedding and yes, not a graduation dress at all.

I totally understand why she wants to limit her budget and stick to a shop like Next where returns are easy if it doesn't fit.

I quite like this one
https://www.next.co.uk/style/su270890/n27977

orhttps://www.next.co.uk/style/su542753/w97965 which comes in lots of fabrics or

https://www.next.co.uk/style/su870624/v12046 which is similar to the colour she originally chose.

All under £50.

The model has breasts good grief,

I love this dress and I think it will be perfect for both.

You say my link is a casual holiday dress and link to that awful floral thing that I wouldn’t even wear to go to Sainsbury’s!

I acknowledged that my link wasn’t £50 but was just using it as an example of something that looks a wee bit more contemporary whilst still being a similar sort of shape to those the OP likes.

That blue Milkmaid dress @TheGoddessAthenahas linked is really cute! But it’s exactly the sort of dress I see young women wearing to while away an afternoon smoking and playing pool with their friends in a local pub garden on a Saturday afternoon - I don’t know that it’s special enough for any but the most laid back wedding. And I’d feel sad for anyone who honestly had nothing ‘grander’ for their graduation. (While acknowledging that it wouldn’t matter.)

And if anybody really thinks that such a vibrantly printed dress is too white for a wedding, they need their fucking head examining.

The JJ's House dress wouldn't have been fashionable in 1979 either. That site exists in its own universe outside of time.

The people of Mumsnet would think it's too white I'm sure 😂
I like the blue milkmaid dress, too casual for a wedding but could be nice for the Christening.
Tbh with a young family and working springer, if it's not got mud, milk or spit up on it then I'm doing well.
I wonder if the people suggesting things I think are disgusting are based in cities? I'm rural and people round here certainly don't dress like that, you'd be laughed into the nearest field if you did 😉 but I appreciate fashion is subjective and definitely more out there in bigger places

Had a quick look at our wedding photos from last summer and our guests were mostly in what I'd class as nice semi formal floral dresses and I think I'm going to follow that

I'm not sure it's an urban thing @PregnantPumpkin as I live in Glasgow and don't see anyone dressing like that. I am older than you but my DD is 20 so exactly of the age to be wearing "fashionable" and doesn't wear sacks, she shops mostly in Zara, Bershka, Stradivarious and lots on Vinted.

I do think sometimes on these threads it's about posters trying to prove their fashion/style knowledge by posting links to things they would never wear in a thousand years but which some magazine editor has deemed fashionable. The last wedding I was at there were women wearing dresses like the milkmaid one, you could dress it up with accessories - it's very normal to want a single dress to wear for 2 or 3 occasions rather than spend £200 plus on a dress to wear once.

Your comment about the Reiss model is really weird. The dress clearly has room to accommodate breasts. The Reiss dress would cover all 3 events.

The Next Milkmaid dress is a very casual going to the supermarket, sitting in the garden at home dress. The off the shoulder one is an odd choice for the christening and the graduation. It is likely to look very cheap in real life.

The middle one is nice, particularly if it comes in a cotton option.

What's the value in looking "current" when majority of the "current" suggestions here are just awful and really bad fit for bigger boobs?

Better to go with something nice and look "dated" than something current and feel like a mad auntie.

And now the hopefully helpful point of view.
What would you consider timeless?
The OP is looking for something she can wear three times in three months, and to me it means more neutral, less fashion statement approach.

I’m in a city and not at all fashionable tbh. But I wouldn’t be seen dead in that milkmaid dress. I’d personally want a sleeve of some sort so wouldn’t wear the Reiss one without something over it, but I think it would be fine for boobs. I just thought it looked a nice shape and inoffensive print.

I agree with the magazine Vs real life sentiment.

People may be horrified to know I'm going to the races on Thursday and am planning to wear a faux camel hair long coat, black jeans and brown riding boots 😂 vaguely smart and warm enough to be stood around all day I think, but maybe I'm wrong 😂

Well, I don’t think anyone could deny that the UK population is heavily weighted towards cities, rather than rural locations.

I’ve lived all over the place, and living on an Oxfordshire farm, or in a Somerset village, or in the middle of a field in County Kerry, didn’t dent my enthusiasm for style and fashion. In fact some of my greatest outfit adventures happened in those locations. (My life will never be better than the years I’ve spent in farmhouses a mile from the nearest road, when I was always getting into a truculent, battered 2CV and racing to the theatre (often in Bath or Tralee) dressed in a hand me down Harris tweed jacket, farm shop t shirt, floor length Droopy & Brown grey flannel skirt and muddy wellies …) Why on earth would it matter if people who aren’t interested in fashion laugh when a young woman with her whole life ahead of her shows an interest in wearing something she hasn’t worn before???

...wanders through...style and beauty still a mad bunfight then, yes...leaves rapidly...😂

Yes - as I said before, a plain classic would be best - but that was ignored.

@Brightlittlecanary That green one is lovely, do you have any other suggestions like that because I also need a dress for a May wedding :)

it's very normal to want a single dress to wear for 2 or 3 occasions rather than spend £200 plus on a dress to wear once.

Who has said anything about only wearing a dress once? What an odd comment. Although not on this thread, if anything on S+B it's more likely posters say they want something cheap because they'll only wear it once.