Generally speaking women on the whole don’t tend to dress up quite as much as they used to. With life being faster and most women working and sometimes not even having time to go home and change before the dinner, it sometimes has to be that you go to work with the outfit that you plan to wear for your dinner.

So you want to choose something that is acceptable for both occasions.

You could decide to opt for a dark trouser suit with a polo neck to go to work in, but take with you in your handbag a white silky blouse with some feminine drapes or frills that you could change into at the end of your work day and also have in your bag a chunky chain with a striking pendant and some large ear-rings. You will see that in about five minutes in the cloakroom of your office you can transform your work outfit into one quite suitable for a dinner out. Just touch up your make up and hair and put on some perfume and you’re ready to go.

If you are not a working lady and have plenty of time for getting dressed up then you really don’t have too much of a problem. As said before you don’t have to dress as if you were going to a gala, just something that makes you look good and elegant. If you don’t know who else is going to the dinner you don’t want to get over dressed in case others are more casual and that would make you stick out and the opposite, under-dressing, would be true as well so this is where the little black dress gets a mention. Always try and have a simple black dress with a length to just about or above the knees, with three quarter sleeves if it is winter and no sleeves if it is summer, a pair of black court shoes and a pair of ear-rings to contrast. Dressed like that you will be right for any dinner.