Celebrities have been sporting all-sequin tank dresses to spring parties for a few months now, and high-end stores are filled with the look. It’s neat and all, but those dresses, even the short ones, weigh thirty pounds and are not appropriate for the office, the grocery, day weddings, baby showers, two-year-olds within 100 feet, or even all but the nicest five percent of places to go out on the weekend and raise a glass.
Pare the allover look down to just one super-bold, kind-of-risky piece and the whole game changes. Suddenly the look can be expressed in a ton of different ways. Want to look like a European rock star? A mysterious bohemian rich man’s mistress? I’ve got a silver and white cardigan kind of like the maroon Converse by John Varvatos one pictured above right, and throwing that thing on instead of some pilly three-button number can turn it into a whole different day.
Many of these items are sale items, because so many full-price baubles with this kind of detail work are commonly well into the hundreds if not thousands. I tried to go easy.
(Oh, and for JCrew’s three THOUSAND dollar take on this look, you must click here.)
Top left, Sequin Clutch in sawgrass, $25, available here at Shop Intuition. I may buy one of these immediately. They come is three super bright colors.
Top middle, Rampage Harmony at Piperlime, originally $45, on sale for $17.97, available here.
Top right, Converse by John Varvatos Sequin Stretch Tuille Jacket, on sale for $165 (from $395!), available here.
Bottom right, What Goes Around Comes Around Sequin Scarf, $98, Intermix, available here.
Dead center, French Connection Serpent Sequin tank, on sale for $89, available here.
Bottom left, sequin weave tote bag, Forever 21, $39.80, available here.
Left middle, Yaya Alflalo Mia Sequin Miniskirt, Shopbop, originally $363, now $108.90, available here.
Update: JCrew does make a cheaper all-sequin piece. Be warned; “cheaper” is relative to the 3k price tag of their other one. It’s $450, pictured below and available here.
