Birthday dresses for your party in velvet and lurex

It’s your birthday, so you’re in every photo, and a birthday dress has to look like a party the second you walk in and still feel fine after the cake. Most of what we sew for that night is short, in velvet or lurex, with long sleeves.

The birthday girl at a long restaurant table

Most birthdays look about the same from the inside. A long table at a restaurant or a bar, toasts, maybe a club after midnight. That’s why minis lead this page. A short birthday dress is right sitting down, standing up for a toast and dancing later on. A few midi and knee-length cuts are here too, for a quieter dinner with family.

Nearly every style has long sleeves. Handy, since plenty of birthdays land in the cold months. Want more skin? Then look at the one-shoulder, off-shoulder and sleeveless ones.

The velvet wrap minis let you set the neckline yourself. Pull the wrap a bit tighter for a higher V, loosen it for a deeper one.

Red leads the colors for a birthday dress here, with black, blue, pink and emerald right behind. Purple or beige is a nice way to stand apart if all your friends show up in black. If red’s already your shade, head to our red dresses.

Lurex sparkle or velvet depth

Lurex is a knit with fine metallic thread running through it. Under candles and string lights it shimmers every time you move, so you’ll need very little jewelry. Velvet, often called velour, works the other way around. It soaks up light, and burgundy, blue or red come out deep and warm in phone photos.

A few styles are cut from soft knit jersey or angora-blend knit, and for a warm room we’ve got a red satin slip in mini length with skinny straps. Dancing till late? The velvet wrap’s the easy pick, because you tie the waist yourself and the soft pile looks just as good at two in the morning as it did at eight. We make every style here in XS to XL, and a medium is about a UK 10–12. For more shine, open sparkly dresses, or try another cut among party dresses.