WIW: Forest Green Day Dress - YouLookFab Forum

One of the realizations I made by looking at my wardrobe statistics is that I don't wear dresses as much as I would like. I'm drawn to dresses and I love them, but I don't wear them a lot. Why was that?

I think one reason is that I'm drawn to a more minimal, casual style right now, and most of my dresses make me feel too dressed up. Well, yesterday I went shopping and I found a forest green shift dress that I think can become a versatile day dress for me the coming season. I like the color, it has sleeves, the length is good, and it is relaxed, but not totally unstructured. It is in fact quite classic. The width makes layering a bit challenging, but I have a couple of ideas.

My first take on the dress is inspired by a few of the characteristics of 2014 that Angie outlined in March, particularly "irregular outfit juxtaposition" and "just enough structure". I've paired it with Adidas sneakers and a denim jacket. We are enjoying the last few days of warmth, so I'm wearing the dress sans hose - the part of summer I probably miss the most, is the ability to do that. I've added a white bag because the warm season isn't over yet, and I like the crispness white adds to the green.

What do you think? Does the dress work on me? Does it work with dress and sneakers? Any thoughts are appreciated.

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9 years ago

Deborah

Veteran

It's a lovely dress Ingunn. The colour is flattering and I love the shape. I don't live sneakers and dresses but this is actually very pleasing to my eye. What sort of fabric is the dress?

Ingunn

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Thank you Deborah. It's a woven fabric in viscose. A little fluid, but not stretchy.

Thanks Ingunn. It has a slightly "organic" look to it which is really attractive.

rute

Lovely! Love the color!

Jaime

Great color and just the sort of dress that can be dressed up or down. Looks great with the blue jacket!

Alana in Canada

Gorgeous colour on you. Will you tuck the laces?

Oh, yes, Alana! Why didn't I think of that already. Thanks!

Jjsloane

I think this totally works. I have wanted to try the sporty sneaks with dress look and this is more my style than a super boxy shapeless fit dress (which does me no justice) The color is great on you too.

Joy

I think this works. The green is your color. The dress is simple enough to be anything you want it to be, dressed up or down.

Anonymous

Love it! Beautiful colour - and fits you perfectly. My kind of outfit, and would wear it in a heartbeat. You look great

plus - tell me where to find that perfect white t you mentioned - the internet makes worldwide shopping that much easier!

Neel

Gorgeous dress and styling! I am a sneakers and dress girl and this outfit pulls at every string of my heart! And I could have written the first 5 lines of your post! I love dresses and buy a lot of it but I don't wear them enough!

donnat

That color is fabulous on you. The dress is very simplistic as well, it fits right into your current style.

Janet

I can relate so much to your first two paragraphs! I love dresses in theory but they usually make me feel too dressed up.

I'm more of a fan of slip-on sneaker styles with dresses than sneakers with laces, but that is my personal bias. I still think this works well, especially with the denim jacket. The dress is a beautiful color!

lari

Active Member

you look great in this dress ingunn! you can always belt it if you feel it has too much volume. I really like dress - snickers combo - looks fresh and easy going

Suz

The colour is gorgeous on you, Ingunn, and I love this with the white bag and white striped sneakers. A really fun end-of-summer look.

I can truly sympathize with your comment about hose. I finally realized that the main reason I don't wear many dresses and skirts in winter (despite loving them) is the fact that I must wear hose with them. It isn't that I find hose uncomfortable; I don't. It's the fact that hose always make the look darker and heavier. Yes, there are nude sheer stockings -- but those are not warm and they run in a second of at home wear with a curious kitty. Meanwhile, opaques may be warmer but they are typically dark. And this makes outfit cohesion a much greater challenge for me. With my fair colouring, all dark is just too dark.

Thanks, everyone!

Jj, I hear you on shapeless/unstructured. I love the look on others, but on me, it really doesn't work at all. This dress is about as shapeless as I'm willing to go at the moment.

Suz, I've never thought about it that way, but it makes perfect sense. Light tights is really not a good look on most grown-ups. For me, the only way to go is dark hose or tights, which means that some of my shoes/boots won't work well. I find it very difficult to find good dark brown tights.

lisap, I'm sorry to keep secrets from you The tee I bought is from Filippa K, a Swedish brand. It's not available on their website in a v-neck, only scoop. I think that is good neckline, too.
http://www.filippa-k.com/en/wo.....-shirt-f14

I do find some of their clothing available online here and there, but they still don't have a proper international online store themselves. Filippa K is probably where I've bought most of my best wardrobe essentials.

thanks Ingunn! I've heard of the label - but only have ever seen it in UK fashion mags....but I'll check out their website just for fun anyways:)

I'm sorry I couldn't help you more. You'll probably find many tees that are at least as good elsewhere. My daughter got one in a cotton/linen mix from Alexander Wang that is very pretty.

Alassë

A good summer look for your style, Ingunn!

Lyn D.

This is lovely Ingunn!

Ditto about dresses- they are just so 'dressy' : even the most casual still feels 'dressed-up'.
Note to self to try again with long boots to avoid the dark tights issue.

Caro in Oz

Agreeing with Suz - all my winter dresses have gone because I didn't enjoy wearing them. I am loving warmer weather casual dresses tough

Sal

This looks great with the sneakers and white bag. It will look great with your new cognac oxfords too or with tall boots I think.

I love dresses as they always fit me well and skim over my hips. I think this one could be dressed up or down successfully so will be so useful. And forest green is magical with your hair!

jackiec

Gorgeous colour! This looks great casual-ized like this, and I especially love the crisp white tote paired with it all. Well done

Laura

Your dress with sneakers look is a fun casual look that is very popular in the far east and Oceania right now. You pull off that look well.

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