Is this dress boring or nice?

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I like it.

Hmm. Am worried about the 'wear with a sexy tan' thing - maybe it's not a winter dress

Wondering wondering needs to show me the bangles.

Although the mannequin is wearing opaques...

I just went off to stir my dinner, not abandoning the thread . I do like it.

And you can wear brown for evening, much more elegant than black for a low key drinks/dinner... black better for disco/young thing evenings. Depends what you have in mind.

I am not a young thing. I am thinking low key really. Is it summery though?

After due thought I reckon it DOES look better on the mannequin.

BUT look how creased it is in the main picture! Imagine arriving at a party, all crumpled like a weary Brown Owl.

They often put mannequin in opaques on Matches. You'd need sheer or flesh-coloured fishnets. And the 'wear witha tan' thing is a staple descriptor on there too, meant to get you thinking about stepping off a yacht in St Tropez. But tights and a warm coat would do. It is quite a wintery dress, I think.

Will stir dinner again and be back.

We need to see the bangles wondering wondering Show us your bangle thoughts. Agree re brown (though still can't quite lose love of black)

Anyway - what can she wear with it?

Also are you going to wear it as is cs- will you be cold? I don't think you can wear with anything on top.

I don't think brown is always boring, and if it really suited you, (the colour not the dress) then it would be worth looking at other stuff in brown..... but you would have to wear bright colours with it, like red or purple or bright green! It isn't really a party dress colour, deep velvety blue, purples, greens, reds and black are all good party dress colours.

What is your colouring - hair, eyes, etc. ?

Yes it is creased. I don't care after a few G& Ts.

What is it with velvet and parties? I don't understand that, why does everyone suddenly start to wear velvet - or alternatively tops with beading - at winter parties? I might need to do a thread.

Seemingly tans are very Jordan, and to be avoided now.... if you believe the fashionistas.

That gold hoop is a little on the summery side, everything else fine. IMO.

I was thinking black opaques and shoes which I will need to buy I think. I don't think it will go with a shrug 'cos of the sleeves. I suit brown/bronzey colours in summer - am fair/blue eyes. Not sure about my current washed out state though.

I like it

Yeah I wasn't sure about the hoop...

Hmm, brown dress black opaques? What is the official Mumsnet Ruling on that?

It's the sort of dress a woman of a certain age wears when she's missed the works Christmas dinner but gone for drinks on an empty stomach afterwards anyway, starts on the gin- which turns out to be a bit of a mascara thinner- and makes an ill-advised pass at the boss who happens to be wearing a horrid shiny suit and the two nasty fabrics create a horrible crackle as the sound effect to their social suicide. She is then sick on a pot plant.

HTH.

Another fan!

..because velvet is supposedly in fashion, and it is wintery, would be too warm to wear in summer.

Do you know me showofhands?

I wear velvet hot pants in the summer.

Doesn't everyone?

And sounds like SoH is a fan too!

Hmm. I'm not happy about black opaques tbh. I don't think that'll work.

I'm worried now. Talk of tans, the gold hoop, the effortlessly cool summer dress schtick.

lol Cybill.

Yes but but but but, they don't wear velvet in the spring do they? Why not. Like early spring, when it's cold, people don't reach for their red velvet shirts etc. It's weird. I think it's something to do with the Victorians. They have a lot to account for imo

Yes black opaques won't work. What was I thinking?