Taking a Celtic day-dress to dance the night away…

For those who have cleverly signed up to our emails, this is one of the subject’s planned to hit your inbox from tomorrow (Friday), so to treat our dedicated Celtic-Sheepskin-blog-reading-fans I’ve put this post up earlier, and I’m including more outfits, so you can see what potential our knitted dresses really have.

I doubt there’s not one person who’s not heard that our future king has proposed to Kate Middleton? It is wonderful news after all. So the subject of dressing-up very quickly filled our heads at Celtic Sheepskin. Now for the majority of us we’re more likely to be dressing up for a Christmas party or after dinner drinks than a royal engagement bash, but we can at least play with the idea of the latter, in turn preparing for the former. This theme instantly reminds me of the infamous Boots adverts –walking out straight from work to your event. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to wear the same dress, exchanging only a few accessories, and voila! Cinderella can go to the ball without being late. Phew.

To show you just how easy this idea can be, I put the outfits on myself, so you can really see what a transformation can be made from an otherwise simple day dress. With your feet relaxed in a pair of sheepskin boots all day long, I can’t see that a few hours in heels that evening will seem so much of a chore. But the great news is that these dresses look great in flat or heeled shoes, so wear whatever you wish!

To kick start this wonderful collection, we begin with the image above of our Scoop Neck Cashmere Dress. Here I’m wearing it dressed-down in the day time with a pair of our new sheepskin Button Boots, Fine Merino Wristwarmers and long stripy Cashmere Socks. For evening, the waistline is nipped in with an Obi Belt, shoulders are kept warm with a sumptuous Sheepskin Scarf, and hands are adorned with a simple pair of short black cashmere gloves. Quite an elegant transformation wouldn’t you say?

Just click on each of these pictures as I take you through them, and you’ll be directed to the products on our website.

Of course, we didn’t stop there…

There’s the Fine Merino Dress. One of only a handful of long-sleeve dresses on our website, and as just as you’d expect from Celtic it’s been designed in the most flattering shape…

…ooo doesn’t that Handmuff pull the whole evening outfit together! And who’d know that your ultra-fashionable, chunky woolly tights are in fact over the knee socks? You could scrunch them down in the daytime, then pull them above your knees at night!

And what about our Sheer Knit Cowl Dress…

…you can have really great fun with it’s neck line. I once wore the cowl neck as a hood, and I love it when it’s pulled down just over my shoulders for an evening. Wearing a cropped cardigan like our Crop Tie Wrap means that your tummy isn’t the focus and of course it allows you to layer by still adding shape to your figure. For the evening I’ve stuck to a theme of nipping it in at the waist, but you could so easily choose a belt to wear on your hips, or a delicate scarf that you’ve stored carefully in your handbag.

Which brings me to my fourth, final and favourite transformation of this little mini-series. The Slouchy Jumper Dress…

It’s one of those brilliant pieces you can have in your wardrobe, that’s perfectly flattering and can be styled with possibly almost all the accessories you own to make it never, ever, look the same twice! Now that’s great value for money, wouldn’t you say? The daytime look here is all about the chunky knitwear trend, adding a Cable Knit Waistcoat and nude Wristwarmers with a pair of fluffy sheepskin boots. For the evening, we’ve whipped off the waistcoat and given the top more shape with a gorgeous belt to bring out the fabulous Ankle Warmers (or in our case Boot Warmers that can as easily be worn over a pair of sheepskin boots as your favourite heels). We then jazzed the whole thing up with a gorgeous Tassle Tote, and there you have it. An outfit worthy of only the best styled celeb. Brilliant!

So go on, spoil yourself a little this Christmas. And who knows, maybe you will receive an invite to their engagement party after all!