There aren’t abounding occasions in the year, unless you’re a socialite or celebrity, to abrasion a adorned affair dress. (Unless you’re the abiding bridesmaid, in which case you’d apparently rather accept a hot poker in your eye than abrasion addition biscuit glassy frock.)
For best of us, the holidays beggarly a attenuate break to, in Drake’s acceptable words, get your “nails done, beard done, aggregate did.” To top it off, we get to blooper into a abundant anniversary affair dress.
In our apprehensive opinion, anniversary parties accreditation added than aloof a simple LBD but that’s not to say they won’t do. For a Christmas party, the added sparkle, beam and adornment in an outfit, the added credibility you get with the anniversary gods this season.
We absolutely get it. Your apperception is a bit down-covered from arcade for anniversary appointment affair dresses. If you don’t apperceive area to start, we’re actuality to advice with some celebrity inspiration.
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Embellished
If you’re the blazon who brand to stop bodies in their tracks, the Paula Ko LBD that added Lily Collins afresh wore will not aloof stop people, it will absolutely cruise them and say, “look at me!!!” A show-stopping adornment like a huge white glassy bow is absolute for a anniversary bright area atramentous tie is the dress code.
Sequins
The best time to abrasion sequins is on New Year's Eve and back you’re hosting a anniversary party. (The hostess consistently gets to angle out added than her guests, right?) Added Jessica Chastain wore a blithe Chanel applique dress that would accomplish any anniversary affair hostess shine. Not alone does her couture apron animation but the askew stripes booty it a footfall aloft any old sequined dress. So if you're attractive to acquisition that razzle amaze after the boredom, accessory for a dress that has uses the sequins in abrupt patterns.
White
If you’re accessory a wedding, cutting white can be capricious but for the holidays it's added than appropriate.
Try activity absolutely snow white with a dress like this one beat by above “Gossip Girl” actress, Leighton Meester. Meester’s white Calvin Klein cardinal would accessory admirable with a blithe brace of blooming nylons or boots to accumulate your legs warm.
If you do adjudge to abrasion white, be accurate not to booze it up so abundant that you’re sloshing your eggnog all over your aboriginal dress. Hello, dry charwoman bill!
Traditional English Fabrics
Houndstooth and tweed accept a absolutely blithe affection because they aloof accomplish you accessory adorned and dressed-up. “One Tree Hill” added Sofia Bush wore a abundant houndstooth sheath that would accomplish for the absolute anniversary affair dress. We advance abacus a little adornment like a brooch for some added melancholia animation or a red apparent clamp for a pop of colour.
Feathers
Trust us, you appetite to abrasion a dress with calamus embellishments like this fleet beauty, beat by “Glee” added Lea Michelle. An affected alias could potentially accumulate your tush balmy and added importantly, how august do accoutrement look? We animate you to classy them about while dancing to your favourite anniversary remix of "Jingle Bells."
Lace
The art of cutting applique is as aerial as the bolt itself. If beat incorrectly, you could accidentally accord the amiss consequence to adolescent partygoers. Due to the boudoir-ish attributes of lace, the accomplished bolt tends to accessory classier back beneath break is arresting and leg slits are kept to a minimum.
Michelle Williams looked chichi and admirable in this red Erdem A-line applique dress, which is awful recommended for any anniversary gathering.
Faux Fur-Trimmed
While fur is about best for algid winter nights outside, a beautiful faux fur-trimmed dress à la Mrs. Claus can be beat as a antic to a fun anniversary affair area annihilation goes with the dress code.
Former “The Hills” brilliant Audrina Patridge wore the absolute fur-trimmed Santa dress for an break such as this! (Or, save this adult accouterments one for a clandestine anniversary affair with your cogent other.)
Tartan
You can’t go amiss with a checkerboard dress during the holidays, abnormally if it looks annihilation like the one beat by assorted celebrities like Chloe Grace Moretz, Emma Watson and Rihanna. The Alexander McQueen checkerboard apron with a affecting abounding brim is absolute if you appetite an accouterments with a bit added edge. Brace it with a covering anorak as Watson does or brindled heels for a Mrs. Claus-gone-wild look.
Sweater Dress
Sometimes you don’t appetite to blot in your belly all night or anguish about busting the seams on your dress back sitting down. In that case, you appetite to opt for a sweater dress like the ones beat by Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz. Note how they don’t accessory the atomic bit frumpy. It’s all in the administration and a abundant brace of heels goes a continued way to creating a able look.
Brocade
Brocade is addition one of those fabrics that are fabricated for anniversary affair dresses because it has no use for added embellishments or blatant accessories.
Actress Demi Moore wore a adapted gold-and-black adornment dress that alone appropriate a simple atramentous clamp and atramentous pumps to complete the look.
