Emergency sparkly top and jeans type outfit - HELP!!

[spicemonster]

Oh crap

It's our work xmas do on Thursday evening and I had my pretty floaty xmas party dress all lined up and then spoke to a colleague and it seems everyone is wearing jeans, heels and pretty tops!

I gave my sparkly tops away to charity when I was having a clear out when I was off on maternity leave and the only jeans I have are from Marks and the zip keeps falling down.

I can probably nip up to uniqlo tomorrow to get some jeans but where is good for a sparkly top that doesn't look really cheap? I am going to have to get something in my lunch hour tomorrow so have no time at all. I'm in my 40s and have associated bingo wings to make things even trickier

Aargh

Wear the dress anyway!

Can you wear the dress over jeans?

I don't think the dress on its own is suitable really. We're going to a pub, then to a cheap restaurant then to a club (eek) and it is very dressy. It's bad enough being years older than most of them, I want to blend in. Over jeans hmm? That might work

I feel stupidly depressed and don't want to go now.

Have you got a Debenhams near you?

Saw LOADS of sparkly tops in there last week, loads of them

Ha - genuis notnowbernard! I can run across the road from uniqlo to debenhams in a flash (will be in oxford st).

Got into such a flap, forgot about debenhams

Honestly, you will find something!

Look in the John Rocha, Julien Macdonald or Jasper Conran bit

I saw them last week when I was looking for accessories!

Asda has some really nice ones too for about £15

High street , department store have loads that would fit the bil, it after all the season of sparkly tops, try Zara, Mango aswell as they are not far from Uniqlo.

I struggle with zara and mango samsonara as have large norks but I will have a look if I can't find anything in debenhams. Have to return a top to uniqlo anyway so this is a good opportunity.

Now there's just the fact that my hair desperately needs cutting to worry about

www.next.co.uk/shot.asp?extra=sch&b=G90&p=1028&s=1&n=Women&pid=445-296&exclude=00A00
this is nice

www.newlook.co.uk/1601506/160150659/ProductDetails.aspx
this is nicer in the shop than it looks here

www.newlook.co.uk/1576628/157662801/ProductDetails.aspx

very nice too

www.newlook.co.uk/1581261/158126101/ProductDetails.aspx
or this

www.dorothyperkins.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=&catalogId= 20552&storeId=12552&categoryId=116944&parentcategoryrn=88619&productId=994329&langId=-1

there is loads of strappy tops about, and this would go nic for going out
look atwww.dorothyperkins.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=false&catal ogId=20552&storeId=12552&categoryId=116944&parentcategoryrn=88619&productId=932790&langId=-1

dpepnds on what shops you have around you