Many showers also involve helping out, whether passing gifts, assisting with food, or joining in games, so a dress you can move in easily is more practical than anything restrictive
Wearing metallic to a wedding as a guest comes down to a few clear principles: choose a shade with visible warmth or saturation rather than drifting toward ivory, match the finish to the formality of the event, avoid silhouettes that read as bridal, and style the dress with accessories that emphasize evening wear rather than wedding-adjacent neutrals
I had a vague picture of a beautiful crochet dress pattern in my mind for awhile, but there have been a
Dress pants with a button-down, tie optional
We have a few holiday parties and two more winter black tie weddings, so I plan to get tons of use out of this dress