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Team Dresses or Pants?

Bijou

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I like to wear dresses, to work and also casually. A dress is such an easy thing to wear, one piece and an instant outfit. I do like using dresses as laying pieces too, and will often wear a blouse under the dress. However, I am pretty sure that I am in the minority with this preference. At my work, pants reign supreme as the preferred dress style (and not just the men)!

So, are you team dresses or pants?

Here are some dresses that I have worn in the last week, we have been fortunate to have some cooler temps (just in the 20 degrees C).
1. To work, Karen Miller scuba dress
2. Same dress with a white jacket
3. Black Cue dress - very fit and flare style
4. Casual knit dress, worn on the weekend (purchased when inspired by Brooklyn's chevron prints)
5. Black leather dress layered over a printed pussy bow shirt.

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Suz

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You look so polished and feminine in your dresses! The Karen Millen is gorgeous!

I am Team Pants (well, jeans, actually) -- but if I lived in a warmer climate and had a different job I would very possibly be Team Dress (or skirt). I wear a lot more dresses and skirts in summer and adore wearing them. Interesting to think how weather affects one's style.

Anonymous

I love dresses but my office is so casual that if I wear them I get a lot of passive-aggressive comments about how "fancy" I am. So I have been drafted onto Team Pants but I'm looking forward to spring weather so I can wear my skirts and dresses outside of work.

I love your choice of prints and how you sharpen up the florals with the white booties.

Sisi

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You look fabulous in your dresses! I especially like the first floral one with the "dancing" hem.

I would happily be Team Dresses if I could find the right ones (it's a never ending search ...).

Staysfit

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In the summer I'm team dress. In the winter I'm team jeans! I guess I'm on both teams! I love your dresses by the way!

JAileen

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You look wonderful in your dresses.

When I worked I wore dresses or skirts every day, even in winter. Now I wear jeans every day, in my casual life.

Joy

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I'm going to say Team Dress because, if I have a choice, I wear a dress. My trousers get little wear and even that is for everyday casual.
You look fabulous in these dresses and have styled them to be fun and modern.

Ginger

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Team Dress all the way! I own one/two pair of wearable skinnies and a selection of leggings that can be worn with minis. I wear skirts and dresses in all weather, from 15F to 105F, and they always bring me joy.

Marilyn

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You have a lovely dress collection.

During the cold months I'm team pants. I used to wear skirt/dresses with tights and boots but I'd just as soon be comfortable in warm pants at this point.

During the warm months it's team skirts and dresses all the way.

Style Fan

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Your dresses are gorgeous. You look beautiful in all of them and I like how you styled them.
I am Team Pants and when I was working I always wore Pants. Once in awhile I wear a dress or skirt but that is rare.

Anonymous

I really love dresses, but on a day-to-day basis, I am more likely to be wearing pants. I think in part because dresses are harder to fit. Since shift styles are more readily available right now, I have been buying and wearing more lately.
Meanwhile, YOU wear your dresses brilliantly. The Karen Millen is gorgeous, especially with the leather jacket. I love the colors in the floral shirtdress, which is also a great shape on you. The blouse under leather dress is a good look, too - is that office-appropriate in your environment?
And the shift dress is something I would wear in a heartbeat.
Thanks for posting this today. It reminded me that I have a very casual winter dress I haven't worn yet. It is a loose fitting sweater dress and we have had such a warm winter that I haven't had a chance to wear it. Today is the day!

Anonymous

Beautiful dress collection, Bijou! I like them all.

I only own one dress, and only a couple of skirts. I used to wear dresses on occasion, but I'll have to go with Team Pants. I just feel more comfortable in pants, and have recently bought a couple of pairs of Eileen Fisher crepe pants that are dressy enough for almost any occasion.

Now, if someone offered me a free Armani Prive evening gown like Viola Davis's at the Oscars, I might have to change my mind!

Angie

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Bijou, you look Killer Gorgeous in your frocks. Love all your looks - especially the first floral with the white accents.

If I lived in warmer weather - like Southern California - I would be Team Dress. But in colder Seattle, I'm Team Pants. I DO bat for both teams by liking to wear my dresses over cropped pants. In fact, I will do that today to work with a client.

RobinF

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Beautiful dresses! I am definitely on team pants. I like dresses but only wear them to work once or twice a month. They seem dressier than I like to be, even when I know they really aren't that dressy. When I do wear them, I am much more likely to wear a skirt. I do like dresses for dressy occasions (although no panty hose! Uck!)

anchie

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You definitely belong to Team Dress, lookin great in them.
I used to be Team Dress but I switched to Team Pants few years ago. Funny thing is that people still consider me as Team Dress, they often make comments like 'this dress is so you' or 'when I saw this dress I thought of you'. Sometimes is difficult to change people's perception. Or maybe I am now in the wrong team

Sara L.

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I wear both. I like dresses because they're easy and comfortable. However, pants are warmer and can be less fussy.

Anonymous

Team Dress for me, when I have the right one You have a really lovely collection yourself!

Barbara Diane

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That is a fabulous collection of dresses.

Not necessarily by choice, but by practicality, I'm on team pants.

For fall/winter I'm team pants, at least for now. Although I did try to change it.

I tried to wear fall dresses this year. I bought some at NAS. I found the few times I wore dresses this fall I was too cold. The leggings I purchased to wear with them were too thin, and I gained some weight and the knee high boots don't zip up, so my legs were just too cold. The dresses were elbow sleeve length, so not really winter wear. I can not wear sweater dresses.

Spring/Summer-crops, old long dresses, and would like to wear dresses almost exclusively if I could find the right ones.

I haven't been able to find the type of dresses I like for spring/summer in a very long time. I'd like some knee length print cotton, linen, or something breathable in a style that isn't fit and flare and has some extra fabric to glide over the stomach and hips, even while seated. It has to camouflage lumps and bumps. With elbow length sleeves, or longer. Right now the only breathable ones I have are old sleeveless floral maxi-dresses that I wear primarily when I am so hot I just don't care.

I do have some dresses I really like that work for not too hot not too cold weather.

Mostly I see women my age in pants. Everywhere I go.

Lisa

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I can't agree more about the versatility of a dress, they are fast dressing at it's best. But my always cold self is on team pants, because I need the warmth.

Sal

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I am a little like Stayfit, Team Dress in summer, Team pants/jeans in winter. But I am looking to add in a new winter dress this year.

You suit dresses brilliantly Bijou - keep wearing them!

rachylou

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I am so on the lookout for something with a hemline like your first dress!

I'm really Team Dress, but I need the weather to be warm enough. That's my problem.

Summer

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You look lovely in your dresses, Bijou.

For many years I have been on Team Pants, simply because they seem more practical for my lifestyle, but I do love to wear a dress now and then.

Anonymous

I'm on Team Pants most of the time, but love to wear dresses for special occasions.

Brooklyn

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Team dress all the way! Or, more accurately for me, team skirt. I love a good dress but I like the mix and match potential of a skirt.
You look gorgeous in all your dresses. I love your floral dresses! I would really like a dark floral shift dress this year. With the white booties you look like a model for the Cue campaign. Where did you get them? They are on my radar but I am not seeing a lot of them.
And of course I love the chevron dress

Diana

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Dresses in the summer, pants in the winter. So I guess I'm sitting on the bench?

Irina

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Beautiful dresses.
I'm on the team Pants all the way. I don't really like myself in dresses. Even if I would consider to purchase a dress, it is so difficult to find ones that I like, that made out of natural fabrics, fit for a petite size, not too short, not too tight, in my price range.... oh, forget it!
But I really like Angie outfit with a shirt dress over pants. I got one already and want one for summer and one for winter months. This is my wardrobe refreshing plan.

Penny

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Lovely dresses! And team dress all the way - about seven years ago, I realized wearing pants just didn't make me happy, and I never looked back - other than a pair of jeans tucked in a box under my bed "just in case" (last worn maybe three years ago), all the core items of my wardrobe are dresses and they make me very happy!

Jennib12

I play for both teams! Actually, I might be a bit more Team Skirt as I find it easier to create many looks with one skirt vs. one dress. But I do wear dresses, skirts and pants equally, I think.

I see many of you commenting about preferring the warmth of pants in cooler weather, and I do agree. However, on a particularly sloppy winter day (like today in Toronto), I prefer a dress or a skirt so I don't need to worry about splashes or salt stains on my pant legs :).

Bijou, your dressed are lovely! You look gorgeous in all of them!

Desmo April

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100% pants.

I HATE wearing dresses. I find them limiting, like there are too many things I can't do while wearing one. I don't like needing to worry about watching the skirt or being ladylike.

Bijou

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Really interesting to hear the feedback. Team dress got more support than I expected.

I do understand cold weather makes dresses prohibitive. I live in a mediterranean climate, so it is an easy option for me. Also, I have a figure that makes dresses easy to fit and not so easy with pants.

Ginger - High five, I knew you were a dress girl too!

Thank you for all the lovely feedback on my dresses. I was putting together a WIW and did notice the trend that I mainly wore dresses this week.

Brooklyn, my boots are from a small shoe boutique in Perth called Dimario shoes, which dangerously is near where I work. The brand is XSA - but I have not seen the brand in other stores or on the internet. It is such a shame, because they make great shoes, especially boots.

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