Sometimes you need a work dress you can throw on when you've had about three hours sleep and need to look professional. Or you're going to visit your boyfriend's mum for the first time. Or you just want to look like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman...
Well, if that's the case, can we suggest this pencil dress from ASOS?
The midi-skirted shift dress could be seen as a big dowdy, but not when it's slim fit like this one. And anyway, there are ways to bring it bang into the modern – some mussed-up hair, red lipstick and sassy strappy heels. It's the kind of dress that you know is going to come out of the wardrobe time and time again.
Pencil Dress in Spot With Waterfall Skirt, £40, ASOS
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.