Christmas party dresses

What about this M&S one? They've also got a whole category called 'dresses with long sleeves'!

Also found this dress on the Daxon's website from the Gransnet's discount partners page.

I got this one from Toast earlier this year.
I got the dark green colour which is a much richer colour than it looks on the website. I wear it with some peridot earrings and a pendant that I bought for DS's wedding 7 years ago.

And jade jeni.

I haven't any green jewellery! Does this mean I've got to go and buy emeralds?

It has been suggested that emerald green is the colour for 2013. Get ahead of the trend muddyboots and wow them.

I've a lovely phase eight one that's black lace over nude coloured fabric. It's in their new special collection.

Thanks for the suggestions! Can anyone suggest a dress that isn't black or red? They seem to be few and far between. And links please!

jo5 I am thirty almost 50 I do like Zara, my daughter shops there a lot.

Oh and there is black and there is black! The dress Ana mentioned looks washed out.

I did too Jeni until it made me look thin and haggard and I am not thin nor haggard normally. But I love dark navy blue and luckily there are clothes in navy everywhere for the first time in my whole life. Manufacturers finally got it, lots of women like navy.

I like black!

The shoes and bag are unnatractive and I agree just don't go Ana and the black in the dress is a very drab black. It is a shame as it is a style that would suit many women. There are some really attractive dresses amongst the ones shown on here but so much black. Recently I decided I would not wear black again unless they are trousers. I have realised it is very draining on me now I am older.

Yes! But look at the shoes/sandals the model's wearing - they just don't seem right, to me...

It's a dress.

I did think that the shoes/sandals featured here seemed a very odd choice...
second Debenhams dress

It looks like the secret is to hit the websites of various clothes shops, sort through their "evening wear" (some of which seems to be pictured with boots?), discard anything with short skirts (I know how you feel – I am 5 foot 9 inches), and check anything with long or three-quarter sleeves. I would also avoid flounces and sequins, but you may differ. I found a few things that I thought that fitted those criteria and were okay, all reasonably priced below about £150.

I like the one you bought getme. And the other black lace one. Think it was M & Co.

mincepie are you a very young granny? Like thirty?

getme I like the one you bought, and the other, well, I think you might get fed up with that quite quickly. (Just my opinion of course )

I've bought this one from Phase Eight
www.phase-eight.co.uk/fcp/product/phase-eight/Dresses-with-sleeves/Lolita-Lace-Panel-Dress/201842078

And I am thinking about this one!
www.phase-eight.co.uk/fcp/product/phase-eight/Dresses/Helen-Hearts-Print-Dress/201980920

Just looked at my Home Page and an advert for Monsoon showing that dress has popped up! Is there no escape from these cookies?

I love the one you bought rosie it's very elegant.

A lot of the dresses in the links were too short for me, I'm 5'7" and don't want to display my knees! I like the first one from Debenhams, rosiemus - but the colour wouldn't suit me either.

There were some gorgeous tops in the Telegraph magazine on Saturday, would look really good with either smart black trousers or skirt, not silly money either.

muddy, I don't have links for any of my party gear - I've had most of it for ages and just mix and match. I can never remember from one year to the next what anyone else has worn, so why should they remember what I have worn? Different shoes, bags and jewellery also help to refresh a time-expired outfit.