Is an off-shoulder dress appropriate for a religious wedding ceremony
Find the fabric and color that suit the bridal party and your style better
The long flirty fringe hem adds movement and a touch of playfulness, ensuring all eyes are on you
Figure Out What Other Guests Are Wearing If you can, find out what at least one other guest (whose fashion opinion you trust) is wearing
In Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway our titular character moves through her much-anticipated party elegantly in a silver-green mermaids dress with the perfect ease and air of a creature floating in its element. In Atonement , too, McEwan writes of Cecilia discarding a pink frock for being too innocently pale, instead appraising her emerald-clad appearance: It was a mermaid who rose to meet her in her own full-length mirror. AdvertisementADVERTISEMENT Perhaps we too want to be in thrall to green at the moment coolly submerged and transformed into something mythic, hungering after its suggestion of unapproachability (think of Gatsbys green light across the water, or the distant call of Ozs Emerald City)
Formal attire A formal dress code is still buttoned up and calls for a suit, but no need to scramble and rush to get your first-ever tux
