Thank you, Tessa, for blogging a picture of the skirt in question. Admittedly I was having a hard time picturing it. (Question and answer here.)
And thank you, Wendy, for offering more specific top options:
… black or white tuxedo style shirt, a black (ideally cashmere) twin set, or black on black beaded sweater. And I’d wear black pumps.
The good news for Tessa is that she has dark, almost black, hair. Makes life easy!
Allie over at Wardrobe Oxygen just gave a resounding thumbs-down to floral, bias-cut dresses (she calls the Laura Ashley dresses) in her post for thirty-somethings, “Closet Clean-Out.”
Most of her post doesn’t apply to my wardrobe–or hasn’t for fifteen years, anyhow, as I just turned forty–but I found the bit about these flattering longer dresses pretty depressing. My favorite dress is a simple, short-sleeved, princess-seamed long dress (flared, but not bias-cut, I think) in a dark paisley. It’s in my favorite colors and works with everything in my closet year-round, so I’m not likely to get rid of it soon: but is it (and am I) hopelessly dated?
What do you say, Rebecca?