From desk to dinner

Don’t splash out on a new outfit for the office party, says Paula Burns. Make your daywear transfer easily to night-time

IT may only be mid-November, but in retail, Christmas has begun. So, I’m thinking of the many festive nights out and the dresses and outfits I will need.

Back in the Celtic Tiger, when the bells of Christmas were just the chimes of credit card machines, there was no dread, just fun-filled thoughts of how many dresses we could fill our wardrobes with each payday. Now, credit is the dirty ‘c’ word.