We rate wedding guest outfits from New Look and a style award winning Karen Millen dress

It's occasional wear season- and to us it couldn't be more exciting for the amount of weddings,proms, wedding guest outfits we all need for the summer months.

With plenty of events to be attending, we obviously need a knockout dress/suit to get us through our busy sumemr schedules, especially when it comes to wedding guest outfits.

The high street is now laced with perfect dresses and suits which are great for on a budget, too- so we thought why not try them out and see how they do on quality, as well as affordability.

Beth Shufflebotham, our Manchester Evening News Reviews Writer has tried & tested an award winning Karen Millen Dress which immediately caught our attention.

Occasion season is fast approaching which means many of us are on the lookout for a new dress to wear to weddings, races, proms and events this summer. And since I’m still carrying some lockdown weight, I wanted to find something that made me both comfortable and confident with my new body shape.

When I spotted Donna Mulligan wearing this classy red Karen Millen dress on Ladies Day at Aintree at the start of the month, I knew it was ‘the one’.

The caped number helped the 39-year-old beat hundreds of competitors and take the coveted Style Award title at the Grand National Festival 2022, and it’s easy to see why.

Donna styled the dress with heels from Holly Willoughby favourite LK Bennett and a hat she’d brought only two days before the big event, and looked absolutely stunning in her get up.

The cost of the dress was more than covered with Donna’s £5,000 cash prize money, alongside a £500 Never Fully Dressed/£300 House of Cavani voucher, a spa break and more.

At the time, Donna told Liverpool Echo: "I didn't think there was any