Outfit help please - Denim and Diamonds event

[DotAndBuzz]

I'm going to a fundraiser for a local hospital. Large event, theme is Denim and Diamonds.

H seems to think it means you either get to go super casual/western (denim), or you show up in black-tie (diamonds). Google tells me a mix of results, some involving bedazzled denim, others involving a denim jacket with a cocktail dress.

Anyone been to something like this before? Outfit suggestions welcome!

[shortstax]

It's a mix.

I went to one last year and wore an outfit like this with skinny black pants and heels.



PS - there was such a wide range of outfits that no choice you make will be wrong. Have fun!

[meli554]

I would do a mix

[foodiemom]

I don’t know how to post pictures but Pinterest has great ideas and I have been to a few. Popular choices include:

Sparkly skirt with denim shirt and sparkly jewelry
Black dress with denim jacket and sparkly jewelry


Charming Charlie’s type places are great to get the ‘bling’

[NewGirlNic]

I went to one a couple years ago and it was definitely more casual. Most women wore jeans and sparkly or sequined tops and blingy costume jewelry. Or casual dresses w/ denim jackets.

Quite a few men wore entire denim ensembles. LOL

I think where it's being held might be more of an indicator of how people will dress. The one I attended was at a fire hall rec room, hence the more casual dress. If it was at a hotel ballroom I'd probably go a bit dressier.

[cville]

Good lord, that is a ridiculous dress code.

[DotAndBuzz]

Apr 17, 2019 10:37:30 GMT -5 cville said:

Good lord, that is a ridiculous dress code.

AGREED

Just tell me black tie, cocktail, or casual.

[cville]

Apr 17, 2019 10:41:01 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

Apr 17, 2019 10:37:30 GMT -5 cville said:

Good lord, that is a ridiculous dress code.

AGREED

Just tell me black tie, cocktail, or casual.

Once I was invited to a wedding with "casual cocktail" as the dress code. NO. TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. NO. I couldn't go for other reasons. But I judged.

[lemoncupcake]

Apr 17, 2019 10:37:30 GMT -5 cville said:

Good lord, that is a ridiculous dress code.

Generally it’s more of a costume theme than a regular dress code. At least when I’ve seen it it’s been done the same vein that you’d have a 70’s theme, masquerade or character theme party.

[circa1978]

Apr 17, 2019 10:37:30 GMT -5 cville said:

Good lord, that is a ridiculous dress code.

It reminds me strongly of the latest episode of Veep, where Selina is stuck sucking up to a tech genius at like, a three-day rodeo with formal nights, LOL.

[copperboom]

[pooh8402]

It's a mix. You wear denim AND sparkles at the same time. That's how us Texans dress up.

[dexteroni]

Apr 17, 2019 8:58:51 GMT -5 meli554 said:

I would do a mix

These looks are kind of what I was thinking - either a dressy jeans outfit*, or a fun cocktail dress with a denim jacket, and add some sparkle. Agree that this is an annoying and stupid dress code.

*Except I would wear dark, non-faded denim. I think the pairs in these examples look sloppy. That might be my age talking though, lol.

[Deleted]

Apr 17, 2019 10:37:30 GMT -5 cville said:

Good lord, that is a ridiculous dress code.

It’s a good thing I’m not rich enough to get invited to themed fundraisers because themed dress codes drive me BANANAS.

[carmenere]

Apr 17, 2019 13:37:04 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

Apr 17, 2019 10:37:30 GMT -5 cville said:

Good lord, that is a ridiculous dress code.

It’s a good thing I’m not rich enough to get invited to themed fundraisers because themed dress codes drive me BANANAS.

I work in fundraising, mostly with old money rich people, and they would roll their eyes so hard at a themed dress code. 

[sent]

I think this would be a fun theme. I have lots of bling stuff and most events I felt too overdressed if I wore sparkly things.

[bugandbibs]

:whispers: dexteroni, dark denim is out and lighter washes of denim are what are cool right now.

[bugandbibs]

Apr 17, 2019 13:37:04 GMT -5 @angryharpy said:

Apr 17, 2019 10:37:30 GMT -5 cville said:

Good lord, that is a ridiculous dress code.

It’s a good thing I’m not rich enough to get invited to themed fundraisers because themed dress codes drive me BANANAS.

The last one we went to was "Adventure at Sea" and it was a hard no to matching that theme.  I wore navy, because that's nautical enough for me.

[jigsy]

Apr 17, 2019 12:12:20 GMT -5 copperboom said:

This is the only correct answer

[knx9211]

Apr 17, 2019 16:31:34 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

:whispers: dexteroni , dark denim is out and lighter washes of denim are what are cool right now.

WHAT? Like entirely? I look like an old mom wearing dark skinny jeans? 

[momin2013]

bugandbibs, you can pry my dark denim jeggings from my cold, dead, wrinkly, arthritic, hands.

[bugandbibs]

Apr 17, 2019 16:59:03 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

Apr 17, 2019 16:31:34 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

:whispers: dexteroni , dark denim is out and lighter washes of denim are what are cool right now.

WHAT? Like entirely? I look like an old mom wearing dark skinny jeans? 

I mean, my teenager would say that but the rest of us grown ups will know you look good.  Dark wash just isn't the "in" thing.  I wouldn't say dark skinny jeans are out, but it for sure isn't trendy.

[DotAndBuzz]

Apr 17, 2019 16:31:34 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

:whispers: dexteroni , dark denim is out and lighter washes of denim are what are cool right now.

The hell it is!

I'm wearing my super dark denim, and refuse, REFUSE, to buy into the foolishness of trying to bring back the 80's and 90's. I lived through that once. No thank you on a repeat of that era's denim style. 

If I look like an old suburban mom in my dark denim, well.....I AM AN OLD, SUBURBAN, MOM.

#old #notsorry

[AJL]

[DotAndBuzz]

Let it be noted, the terrible outfits posted to make fun of this theme are LIGHT denim.

#darkdenim #gavel

[dexteroni]

Apr 17, 2019 16:31:34 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

:whispers: dexteroni , dark denim is out and lighter washes of denim are what are cool right now.

See, I said I was old. lol. But seriously though, those half-faded jeans are hideous. I'll remain off-trend and look like a pulled-together adult. 

[knx9211]

Apr 17, 2019 17:40:39 GMT -5 bugandbibs said:

Apr 17, 2019 16:59:03 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

WHAT? Like entirely? I look like an old mom wearing dark skinny jeans? 

I mean, my teenager would say that but the rest of us grown ups will know you look good.  Dark wash just isn't the "in" thing.  I wouldn't say dark skinny jeans are out, but it for sure isn't trendy.

 Well that's fine. I'm pretty sure I'd look like a moron if dressed in a way considered trendy by people half my age. 

[followyourarrow]

I go to a Boots and Bling event each year. Most people mix things - a sparkly fun top with jeans, cute dress with denim jacket. The majority of men wear a suite coat over jeans. This is in rural Kansas and is a fundraiser for an agricultural organization.