Raiding My Sister’s Closet: Dressing Up and Down a Holiday Dress

To be honest, we’re not attending any fancy holiday parties this year, so wearing this dress in my neighborhood was about the extent of my holiday dress up.

(Duke’s MBA program has a prom in December, but. . . I already went to prom, more than a decade ago. I don’t need to go again).

My mom bought me this dress in Europe a couple of years ago, and I LOVE it. Any time I have some fancy event to go to (which, is not often), this is my go-to.

For this post, we decided we’d take a stab at dressing up a holiday outfit and also wearing it more casually.

So here’s casual, where I styled it to look like a skirt:

Crew necklines are the most casual, so this sweater is a nice contrast with the fanciness of the skirt. And I love the pop of the red from both the belt and the shirt.

Plus, the belt gives the dress some shape under the sweater, so it’s not just one blob. Not that I don’t enjoy looking like one big blob (“blob” is starting to not look like a word to me anymore).

And then, dressing up, so my neighbors could  amuse themselves wondering why I’m snapping photos of myself. My little Christmas gift to them. I expect a large stack of thank-you cards.