Over 40 Style

Last year, one of the most popular posts on this site was one about a $20 dress from Wal-Mart. After a week of designer wear (minus the Target bags, of course) I thought it was time to cover the other end of the spectrum and what better way to do that than to go back, so to speak, to Wal-Mart.

I remember one of the reasons I wrote about the dress last year was that I saw it at a local store, tried it on, and was really impressed with the value. Really, this dress can go everywhere, and that's literally what I did with mine last year. I would pack all the things I wanted to wear for my trips, and then ball up this dress and put it in my carry-on. I didn't always wear it, but it allowed me to have a dress with me when we decided to go out to a nice dinner. I steamed it in the shower to get the wrinkles out, and that was it.

This dress is made of jersey material which I was hesitant to wear.  But what I learned was that jersey will only show every lump and bulge, if you're wearing too small a size. Otherwise the fact that it's a lightweight material actually makes you look slimmer---especially if you wear Spanx underneath!

So here it is, the 2011 version of the Norma Kamali $20 dress:

Norma Kamali - Women's Jersey Short-Sleeve Side-Draped Dress