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 😊

No, my daughter had a look to and she’s close to the ops age, she had a worse reaction than me, those are by no manner of means “modern clothes” if by modern you mean current or remotely fashionable.

I was going to post the top dress, the floral one. It's hardly avant garde but more modern and fresher than the one the OP picked, plus it's cotton. You could wear it with ballet pumps, or a gold Esska style platform or espadrille wedge, you could add a jacket, change the belt etc etc.

I agree and what you've said applies to all the Zara dresses. Three are cotton and one is cotton and viscose.

I queried why OP was looking at sites like JJ'S House and Next. At the budget set by the OP I'm puzzled why anyone would ignore a brand universally acknowledged for producing stylish, wearable, budget clothes but make nylon and polyester dresses on JJ'S House and Next their go to. Even the cotton Milkmaid dress from Next compares badly with the Zara dresses.

"Dated" is the wrong word for the JJ's House dress. I can't imagine a decade when it would ever have been stylish and/or fashionable.

The OP said it reminded her of the 60s (it isn't 60s style) and someone else said 70s. I was a teenager and a young adult in the 70s. It bears no relation to anything I wore in that decade or any following.

Their stuff isn't dated so much as inhabiting its own universe outside time (but not in a good way)

I adore Zara’s styling, but from experience am inclined to distrust any dress from them at that price. (And unfortunately we don’t get the best of the brand in England. I have a glorious dress from them, bought in a sale in Aix en Provence a few years ago; it wasn’t available until the following year here - and then slightly changed.) They’re almost invariably impossibly narrow, or very poorly finished. That trench dress looks beautifully structured, but who knows?

This also is wonderfully cunningly cut, and the small addition of polyamide might make the fabric less casual looking. If it lived up to expectation in the flesh I’d be buying it a size up so it would hang as elegantly as possible:

https://www.zara.com/uk/en/zw-collection-poplin-pleated-dress-p08605251.html?v1=495670109&v2=2420896

But I have a suspicion it might be disappointingly thin …

(And not what the OP wants, anyway!)

(Fully acknowledge post above may seem … wanky. But I don’t have the patience for a load of handwringing on an anonymous forum. And no - I’m really not trying to ‘prove my fashion knowledge’, or whatever that comment was above, by mentioning cheap High St brands! 🙄

It really was an incredibly ungracious and random thing to say. How are we supposed to talk about clothes, without talking about clothes?

Madness …)

I think the JJ thing is maybe trying to look back to pre-1950s Hollywood and the sort of frothy confections that I suspect hardly anybody wore in real life. I’m thinking Elizabeth Taylor on a chaise longue, looking beautiful and fragile but waiting to bite somebody’s head off.

I really like the shape of that pink Zara dress, but not the colour.

Don't hold back will you.

Absolutely no desire to suggest it doesn’t happen, it just seemed oddly specific for this thread (reminded me of when people used to talk about “ladettes” tbh). I live in Edinburgh so plenty of pubs and vintage shops! 😊

Love the shape of this. It looks much more expensive than it is.

Oops, wrong thread, not sure how I managed that.