by JASMINE GARNSWORTHY, Mamamia Shopping Editor.
Fasten your seatbelts. I’m about to simplify your summer wardrobe.
If your budget means you can only treat yourself to one dress this season, people, make it THIS one.
Mia had to go to a shoot for Perth’s Sunday Times this week and I convinced her to wear it.
“I can’t” she said. “I don’t do fitted.”
But it’s stretchy, I told her. Comfy even. And it sucks you in a bit.
“I can’t,” she said. “Horizontal stripes aren’t flattering. I read that once.”
That’s bollocks, I told her. Ignore that old-school fashion advice. Horizontal stripes can be VERY flattering.
“I can’t,” she said. “Bodycon dresses are for 22 year olds.”
No they’re not, I insisted. Kate Winslett and countless other celebrities over 25 and even over 35 wear bodycon.
So she tried it on and before I’d even finished zipping it up, she had her credit card out and was trying to buy it.
It’s formal name is the Miami Bodycon Dress. But I prefer to call it the Hugh Jackman of the dress world. This dress is a TRIPLE-THREAT!
Cleverly combining three of the season’s most flattering (and fun) trends; colour-blocking, neon AND horizontal stripes, being ‘on-trend’ has actually never been this easy.
Even better, it can be worn three ways: as a dress, a top and a skirt (take a look at the gallery below).
At $150, it doesn’t break the bank and makes this frock pretty damn appealing.
So if you’re at all nervous about trying any (or all!) of these spring fashion trends, this dress will do all the leg work for you. And it looks terrific with opaque tights too.
You can buy this Gosh Celebrity Honey & Beau dress from Mamamia Shopping here.
This week, we had it on high rotation at the Mamamia office. Here’s what we learned:
Ankle boots are all you need to wear this piece during the day.
Comments
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Hmm, I’m thinking this is not for me. As a size 16, 5’9″ girl this would cling to all my lumps and bumps and would be too short, exposing my dimpled thighs.
Looks good on Mia, but then again, she’s not a fatty like me.
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I was getting ready to pull my credit card out when I noticed the dress is properly fitted.
At 6’1 and a size 10-12 anything slightly fitted ends up with the wider hip area at my waist and the narrower thigh area at my hips. It’s not a good look. Appears my body/torso is too long for my width.
Also, the length would possibly be illegal as a dress on me
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Feeling like I’m not in the MM demographic again….
This body ain’t wearing neon colours.
Or horizontal stripes.
Or a skirt that short.
Or paying 150 bucks for it.
Can we PLEASE have some fashion for real women, normal women, boring women, tightarse women…whatever you want to call us?
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There is no normal lol
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This dress looks lovely on these models because they’d look great in anything………..
I, however, would look a disaster in it – a short, lumpy, red headed disaster of whom people would say “Who’s she kidding?”
All the “bad fashion advice” of past decades would converge if I wore that dress and I’m sure the designer would be horrified that I let anyone (like a mature-aged aunt) talk me into it.
My fashion world is full of cool, flowing cheese-cloth in Autumn colours and if it wasn’t so stinking hot where I live I’d wear my huge dark green velvet Medieval hooded cape over the lot……lol.
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I like this dress, but I must admit the first thing I thought was ‘for $145 I could buy 3 dresses that I like’. Am I alone in my cheapness?
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I had the same thought. I went dress shopping yesterday determined to buy something at a proper shop, rather than an op shop. Everything seemed to start at $150! Sigh. Think I’ll lash out at Target and buy a couple of $60 dresses.
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I bought a navy shirt dress from Target for $40 recently. It has a red belt. Can’t wait for it to warm enough to wear.
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Is there a slightly longer version? My days of mid-thigh dresses are behind me, I’m afraid of the bulk if I put a longer skirt over the top (plus it kinda defeats the purpose of buying it as a dress in the first place).
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love this dress, had my credit card out by the 2nd photo but when i got to the website there was no sign of it? is it sold out? Help!
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Mia’s wearing a gorman dress in the third photo??
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LOVE IT. I do ALL my clothes shopping online and am watching Mama Mia shopping with interest…this might be my first purchase!
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Fab frock. But I keep trying to figure out the triple threat.
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TREAT perhaps.
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Hugh Jackman- triple threat = sing, dance and act
Dress triple threat = colour-blocking, neon AND horizontal stripes
Dress looks great on you Mia. (except where you threw the loose top over it) You should wear fitted much more often.
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WANT!
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Love this. I’m 58 and could buy it now. Could have bought it when I was 16 and any time inbetween. In fact, had a lot of this sort of thing in the 60′s and 70′s. But I’d love a pair of orange leggings as well. Mia looks 100% in it.
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Where is it from? The second dress Mia is wearing is from Gorman, they’re not the same.
Looks great btw!
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Hey Tessy! It’s at http://www.mamamia.com.au/shop!
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It wasn’t there last night when I went to buy it?
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Jasmine –
I WANT YOUR JOB!!!!!
Love the dress by the way…
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fun article but slightly odd title. The dresses that “live in my wardrobe” are the ones I never wear…
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