what if I wore it the first time.......: Getting Shirty

I'm a serial repeat buyer of shirt dresses. Over the years I have owned a few and they are most definitely the hardest working item in my wardrobe.

They don't date
You can dress them down. With flats and a tan belt - oversized and twisted.
You can dress them up and get your pins out but not too much leg and wear with chunky heels and wedges.

In my head I am heading for the door in my shirt dress looking like this.

......and of course I'll be needing a nice blonde wig, a face lift and a stone off to come close but you get the picture.

As I've been writing the last few lines I have been totting up the number of shirt dresses I have and I knew I had a shirt dress habit but I didn't realise how bad it had got. I obviously have a shirt dress

problem. Some of my shirt dresses are super old. See, I told you that they don't date.

To fess up. There is the navy cotton from Barbour, the silky safari style from Karen Millen, the
burgundy and paisley print bib one from Sandro, the denim one from Whistles and my current favourite from Rag and Bone that I picked up in the sale in Saks 5th Avenue (if you please) last
summer. Hats off to my eldest who swooped on it with strategic precision on the basis that she knew I would let her off tidying her room as I would be so pleased with her for finding it for me. I've owned about three others that I stupidly have consigned to the jumble sale ( do those still happen

or am I still living in the seventies) on the basis that they had been worn to death. A black one and a
khaki one from Karen MIllen. Although it might have been on account of my going off all the silver
hardware that Karen MIllen used to nail on everything.

So I have been stalking this one from Atea. I haven't bought from them before but I think the minimalist take on things is right up my street.

It is shirt dress perfection but I fainted at the price. Could I justify it on the basis it's going to last me

through the next decade. Probably. But then I can just about justify anything if I put my mind to it.

I have seen this lovely shirt dress from Mango and it's in budget.

Mango cotton shirt dress in red £29.99

And a bit like My navy one

It also is in A really safari esque sand colour

This one is also a super soft and super wearable from Baujken. Dressed up with some wedges like my cork black patents from R and B or flats or even..... Drum roll ... My new Birkenstock Arizonas.

I'm also all over the current MyWardrobe SALE. Yes it's that time already. And I'd be lying if I hadn't been tempted to increase my shirt dress repertoire with this one because this one is a bit silky so it's

posh daywear, lunch or BBQ or evening dinner with friends combinations. Also it's the exact same one that is the styled photo I shared at the start of my ramblings on shirt dresses.

I'm not super sold on the gold buttons - just sayin' .

Back down to earth

How about this one from Pepe found at Asos. It's more mid range but might take my repeat habit to new heights

Pepe shirt dress Asos £85

Whilst looking at Asos I found this one that I really like, "fond but not in love" as Radiohead once said, though as I'm not sure that the floral collar is for me. Quirky I can do , but not pretty, geeky kind of quirky. That's definitely best pulled off by someone with a 1, 2 or 3 in front of their age.

Paul by Paul Smith shirt dress at Asos

This denim shirt dress is so simple and I would wear it as it is shown with some flat tan sandals.

Zara Denim shirt dress £39.99

So to finish. My Boilersuit outing last night turned out to be a thumbs up We were meeting friends, having curry and spending the rest of the evening at the local live music venue. You do get comments when you wear something a little different in a small coastal town though.