Inspired by Mom With Style: Giving Shape to a Shapeless Dress

June 21, 2018 / 22 Comments

I love when outfit inspiration hits me while browsing my favorite blogs over my morning coffee. Just last week, I found inspiration that I really needed from Mel of Mom with Style in her post, How to Become a Hat Person + WW Linkup. She showcased this gorgeous dark green maxi dress with a denim shirt and summer hat.

Mel of Mom with Style
How to Become a Hat Person + WW Linkup

While I do not have a maxi dress exactly like Mel’s, I have had this black and white leaf print long shift dress hanging in my closet unworn since last summer. I snagged it on clearance from Target at the end of the season last year for around $10. It was super comfortable and the price was right and in typical Shelbee fashion I paid no mind to how exactly I was going to style this very shapeless dress. I figured the worst case scenario was that I would just wear it as loungewear. And yet, it remained unworn. Until I saw Mel with her denim shirt tied around the waist of her maxi dress.

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For a moment, I was thinking I needed to get a dress just like Mel’s gorgeous green maxi and replicate her outfit exactly. But then I checked myself knowing full well that I have an over abundance of dresses hanging in my closet already. Right then, I had an A-HA moment and remembered this dress. Tying a denim shirt around the waist was exactly the styling trick it needed to give it a bit of shape as well as a bit of edge.

I added my Shoe Dazzle black gladiator sandals instead of cute wedges like Mel’s…but I can certainly change up the shoes the next time around. And of course, Mel’s post was all about the hat. So I grabbed my favorite summer hat (also from Target last year) and it was the perfect accessory. Plus summer hats is the theme for July’s Good Buy/Good-Bye Book. Be sure to get your hat submissions in by July 10 to be featured in that fun series!

Thanks so much, Mel, for inspiring me and providing a simple styling solution for this shapeless dress!

Who has inspired you lately? I would love to hear all about it!

Keeping it on the edge,

Shelbee

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I am a midlife woman, wife, and stay-at-home mother of 2 boys and 2 cats. I have a passion for helping other women feel fabulous in the midst of this crazy, beautiful life.

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