The ultimate party outfit

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My birthday is coming up and to celebrate my husband and I are going away for a dancing weekend at a swish resort, so I need a party outfit for this special event. It’s been my dream to be able to dance all my life and this year I’ve finally started taking lessons and have learnt that I don’t have two left feet, even though they’re not necessarily two right feet yet either!

I have however, enjoyed every minute of learning to dance swing, lindy hop, foxtrot and balboa and I can’t get enough of it. Which is why my birthday treat is a holiday away to learn more dance styles during the day and to have a big Christmas party knees-up in the evening, and I seriously can’t wait!

For the event I will need something that is suitably glitzy for a 5* resort but that I can still dance the night away in. There’s also a 5-course meal involved, so I will need a dress that allows room for expansion if I eat too much, haha! Of course, my go-to website for all things glitzy and festive is John Lewis so I’ve been browsing online and I’ve come up with this ultimate party outfit:

I’ve recently been learning the Charleston and it’s fast becoming my husband’s favourite dance too (just for the facial expressions alone!) so I wanted to choose a dress that would allow me to dance the crazy-fast double-time Charleston without tripping over my dress and I wanted to pay homage to the Charleston era with my dress. The 20s was such a glamorous era, and I love all the beading, sequins and sparkles so this Phase Eight dress will be ideal to wear for a glitzy meal and will look equally fabulous on the dancefloor later in the evening.

I’ve been watching a lot of Strictly Come Dancing this year, and I’ve been admiring the fringing on the dancers’ gorgeous dresses for a while now so I wanted to include a few layers of fringing in my ultimate party outfit. I think it makes a real impact while you’re moving around the dancefloor, really enhancing the look of spins and wiggles, plus it serves to disguise any bits of the body that you don’t like so much! I also like the fact that it’s a navy blue dress rather than black, which I think is a little more glam for this special occasion.

To complement the dress, I would like to wear a classy tuxedo jacket to stay warm in the cold night air while walking to and from the venue. And of course, who can resist a pair of sparkly shoes? The heel is not too high on these glittery metallic shoes so I will definitely be able to dance the night away in them, and can have my Cinderella moment on the dance floor. Finally, I would like to add a piece of jewellery but I don’t want to get in a tangle when I’m dancing so I will stick with some compact stud earrings, a ring and a delicate necklace.

I’m sure that this outfit will see me through the whole Christmas period as well as my birthday celebration, and it’s sparkly enough to work well as a New Year’s Eve outfit too! Let me know what you think of my ultimate party outfit and leave me a comment to let me know what you’ll be wearing to special parties this Christmas. 🙂

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