Opinions on this dress please

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

either buy or avoid

hey what is the occasion for the dress not being rude

avoid

Going to a "Gala Dinner" in Miami.
No idea what to wear! Ideally want something that if I wear it and everybody else is in jeans and a t-shirt, I don't look too dressy, likewise, if everybody is in suits, I dont look too underdressed
Got some ideas from Mumsnet yesterday but have seen this.

I don't like the bow.

It is nice but there are many nicer ones out there at the moment. The colours could be more summery. So I say avoid.

oo very nice my opinion would be avoid sorry but truth

Back to the drawing board then!

No, I want the truth!
Am v nervous re the evening, I won this holiday and am basically going to be sitting on a table with the CEO of the company i work for. So, no drinking, no talking (for fear of making a fool of myself!).

what size are you?
this
this

have you seen the black and white 1 on there?

I like it (although would sadly not look good on me due to not enough norkage)

I like the bow! but agree that the colours could be a bit more summery.

I looked at this but my friend put me off (quite rightly) by pointing out "that fabric will crease like a bitch if you're sat down for more than five minutes).

It is lovely though

Ah, well, I am planning to sit down most of the night. falling over in front of the whole of the senior people is not the rememberance I'm going for!

I'm a size 18/20, so options tend to be limited in terms of lovely dresses.

I do like the colour in that first link though.

www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10001_10001_008010330153_-1?breadcrumb=Home~Women~D resses
have no idea if i have done this link right but what about that

this

That was one I looked at when searching through Debs, I like that one but wasn't sure I could pull it off.
I hate clothes shopping.

lol i like it too and i hate shoppin too, im not 1 for dresses really she pulls it off lovely in the pic tho lol

cornsilk - I tend to go for something slightly less fitted than the orange one.
Plus; there is a chance that on the night, no matter how careful I have been, that I'll be slightly sunburnt (given the sun only has to say hello and my factor 50 is beaten!), so not too sure on the colour.

It's nice, though personally I'd be more likely to go for this

www.simplybe.co.uk/shop/product/details/show.action?pdLpUid=AV755&pdBoUid=9533&lpgUid=11148585#colou r:232,size: maybe too classy

Unseen - I did like that one when I saw it.

The colour is good too for those of us who burn all too easily (just watch for the strap marks!).

Have just had a horrible flash back to when I was a kid, no matter what my mum dressed me in, I was either over dressed or under dressed for an ocassion! Turned up at a friends house for a party in a party dress, and they were all in jeans. Rebelled and went to a dance in trousers and everybody was in their party dresses. Gah.
I need to casually as somebody who may be going what they're wearing, without sounding like an idiot!

There is a horrible chance that there may be photographs which are put in some work documents, so need to get it right!